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| ▲ | luplex an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | No, Thiel is talking about the UN and global minimum taxes when he talks about the Antichrist. | |
| ▲ | hallgrim 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If you follow the ideology of the Silicon Valley billionaire types, based around Ayn Rand (eg “Atlas Shrugged”) and Curtis Yarvin, as well as what Thiel himself has said over the years, the Antichrist is governmental institutions, seen as the inhibitors of progress. I am not joking btw. | | |
| ▲ | vlyan 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | to be fair, there is no plausible explanation for Mistral's fall into irrelevance other than having to deal with regulatory burden. US and CN labs get to feed their models all the data in the world while Mistral has to comply with Let's-Smother-The-AI-Baby-In-The-Crib-To-Maybe-Prevent-It-From-Maybe-Becoming-A-Criminal Act that EU nepo babies had expedited as soon as AI became the current thing. Mistral had open-weights SOTA when Chinese labs had no noteworthy LLMs at all, and now even its closed-weights offerings are behind half a hundred Chinese models -- most of them from labs with way less funding -- despite having had unhindered access to Nvidia hardware all this time. | | |
| ▲ | vintagedave 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Other than investment, such as this news? I know AI has more regulations here in the EU, but what I don't see clearly explained is what impact that has on pure research: creating new comparable models. So I'm suspicious that it's really impactful. On market deployment, maybe - that's where regulations lie. On internal company research? | |
| ▲ | wongarsu 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Most things in the EU AI Act are entirely reasonable. On its own it's a pretty sensible piece of legislation. But the US and China are incredibly lenient on enforcing even existing laws against their AI companies. In the US the standard seems to be "no instructions to make bombs or drugs, and the ability to make porn of living people has to be restricted to paid users". Laws around cyber security and copyright that used to be heavily enforced are seemingly suspended for AI companies, or settled out of court. No company that tries to actually follow the law can compete with that | | |
| ▲ | pembrook an hour ago | parent [-] | | On its own, all regulations usually look reasonable. It’s when you stack over 100,000 regulations (this is literally the number the EU has created) on top of each other and then combine them with country level regs that you create a system that’s impossible to grow in. |
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| ▲ | __alexs 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Regulation might have something to do with it but your example doesn't show that imo. Multiple US labs were taken to court over copyright infringment for their training data. Mistral did the same data mining, but actually the copyright situation is weaker here so it's harder to build a case against them. I think the capital situation in EU is just worse. A lot of is tied up in more conservative businesses that are reluctant to bet the house on some shiny new thing. |
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| ▲ | ghurtado 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Ok, so once again South Park sounds completely deranged when they let reality do the writing. I miss when "reality is stranger than fiction" was a cool phrase because it didn't happen all the time. | |
| ▲ | Hikikomori an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Their brains were broken because the government still has the ability to say no to them in some cases. | |
| ▲ | shrubby 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | https://techwontsave.us/episode/342_tech_fascism_has_come_fo... Here's a nice summary. Haven't read the book yet though it's on my list. |
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| ▲ | bayarearefugee 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think you're confused here. a16z is Humpty Dumpty and Temu Lex Luthor. The antichrist is Greta Thunberg. | | |
| ▲ | speedgoose 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I’m no expert in religion, but wouldn’t Jesus speech be more on the Greta side if he came back to earth today? By like a very very wide margin? | | |
| ▲ | bayarearefugee 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Well, sure, but on the other hand Peter Thiel thinks she might be the antichrist, and he has an awful lot of money which means he is an expert on everything. | | |
| ▲ | andsoitis 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | He says she’s the Antichrist because she’s against progress and threatens the continued thriving of our civilization. Being antichrist is an archetype. | | |
| ▲ | georgemcbay an hour ago | parent [-] | | > she’s against progress and threatens the continued thriving of our civilization. How exactly does she threaten the continued thriving of our civilization? It is fine for people to disagree with her worldviews, but labeling her a threat to civilization is an absurd claim. A civilization that can be threatened by a single person's acts of peaceful protest might be doing something, but it sure isn't thriving. |
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| ▲ | graemep 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Given what Jesus had to say about the rich, yes, definitely. Thiel called one of his companies Palantir which is weird too. | |
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| ▲ | ReptileMan 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | He throwed the moneychangers out of the temple - so I guess he had a short temper for stupid frauds. | | |
| ▲ | phtrivier 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The whole "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” also hints at _something_. But, I guess some very religious people did not got all the subtleties of "Thou shall not kill" yet, do, let's give everyone another 2000 years to process the idea. (Also, maybe it's hard for a camel, but easier in ocaml ? I'll have to try marketing "Static typing as a way to reach heaven") | |
| ▲ | andsoitis 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > He throwed the moneychangers out of the temple - so I guess he had a short temper for stupid frauds. He also expelled demons from a man and conceded to their request to be installed in 2,000 pigs. That led to them drowning, causing substantial destruction of somebody else’s property for no obvious practical necessity. The local people become frightened and ask Jesus to leave their region. |
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