Daniel Lovera

Technically a technical member of the non-technical staff |

Ambidextrous. Optimistic skeptic. Internet rando

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

Roko’s Basilisk, but instead of punishing non-believers with suffering, it rewards the faithful with infinite all-you-can-eat slop.

Forever.

I call it Sama’s Wendigo.

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

okay but why would I have business relationships with people that don't have the same values I do?

is the entire premise here that people should tolerate others who both reject their values AND their economic system? why? it's obviously self-destructive

[lex @lexisoupertramp]

you are completely allowed to care about it and value punctuality in your personal relationships. that’s fine! but stop yelling at bri that this is some crazy take when it’s pretty accepted as something western capitalist countries value

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

@coldgorlfever

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

Why is everyone so upset about DSA candidates winning?

In the age of AI the more politicians that understand Data Structures & Algorithms the better

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

“That means that no matter how we reform our elections, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your democracy, you will be able to keep your democracy, period. If you like your voter rolls and election results you can trust, you’ll be able to keep your voter rolls and election results you can trust, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”

[Pino Americano @PinoAmericano]

Speaker Johnson is now saying they could make the Save America Act “optional” for States. What’s the point of optional when Democrat States will opt out? The whole point is to secure our elections especially in Democrat States that cheat.

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

Like what do you mean you can't get any motion there's angular momentum available on demand

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

Electricity is the original API

[R.J. Lehmann @raylehmann]

That's more or less the American rooting public's view here. Any notable level of success in the World Cup is a wonderful little curiosity. Failure is...expected. "Who fuckin cares? It's soccer."

I understand why that's so infuriating.

[wavefnx @wavefnx]

a guy that can't do it: yea that's impossible

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

Why don't Spaniards switch to AWS Lambda or Cloudflare, are they stupid?

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

in Spain they let the servers rest at night

[David Pinsen @dpinsen]

We had a mass experiment several years ago that demonstrated the vast majority of people accomplish absolutely nothing creative under similar circumstances.

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

Update: Oh my bad, Altman called it an "AI Dividend" not UBI

https://t.co/nXB6EgQ8MN

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

NOTUS is reporting that senior administration officials have held discussions with major AI labs - including OpenAI - about the possibility of those labs giving the government equity stakes by voluntarily ceding shares. The returns from those shares could eventually be directly distributed to American citizens through an AI dividend.

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

All those people (VCs, tech bros) claiming otherwise are either useful fools or knowing liars. But only the fools will be shocked.

The only reason to not push compute to the user devices is if the devices are not yet fast enough.

As soon as they are even close, the burden shifts, it's not even up for debate unless you want to argue that corporations don't want to make money. You'd have to literally believe that hardware and software progress was at a complete halt forever to be shocked at compute being pushed to users

Video games in Arcade cabinets prior to mass adoption of gaming consoles is what this looked like for gaming. Cloud gaming somehow got this backwards despite having horrendous economics with no viable plan to breaking even. If the cloud based games offered something that consoles couldn't then maybe there's a little money to be made but there's no need to subsidize cloud based games because there's no network effect to capture from going mass market first, just wait until the economics work.

Cloud-based SaaS is just grifting, since everyone would be better served with local first software (native or browser based) but being Cloud-based solves the piracy problem and makes software updates marginally easier so it stays. CloudFlare will eventually eat the hyper scalers though, provided they remain uncorrupted.

AI inference is currently subsidized in order to collect massive amounts of data before it's too late. As soon as they can they'll raise prices while claiming incredible performance gains (vs some made up benchmark) while they degrade the user experience by pushing out smaller, dumber, or more specific models that can run inference on devices, which will correspondingly get $50 inference chips added to the BOM and add $100 to MSRP ($50 bonus profits for device OEMs).

This is obvious from 5 minutes of thought, but the bigger the NVIDIA bubble gets the bigger the robbery of pension funds and 401k so this train isn't even close to reaching the station. Everything OpenAI is doing is about reaching a trillion dollar IPO before it's too late. OpenAI's IPO will be the trigger and they will claim they are doing us all a favor in IPOing early because AI belongs to the people and super intelligence's abundance should be shared - wouldn't surprise me if they convince some government to buy shares "on behalf of their citizens as an all new form of UBI".

Anyway, anyone claiming people will be shocked is preemptively framing the forthcoming bubble burst as an unexpected, blameless event.

It's entirely predictable and unshocking, don't be deceived.

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

The implication for edge, inference hardware and memory over consensus views of endless demand for GPUs will shock a lot of people

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

What a gift to normal people this will be, thank you rocket man and team

Jan 2028 LEAPS, full port

[Eric Balchunas @EricBalchunas]

SHOCKER: S&P 500 will NOT fast track SpaceX. So it will take AT LEAST a year, probably more. This is wild considering every other big boy index is 5-15 days. This could create significant return dispersion bt 'passive' indexes. Choose wisely.

[wavefnx @wavefnx]

q: "neural networks"

results:
1. ad-slop
2. second ad-slop
3. boosted content
4. youtube video
5. close but not exactly
6. eh one more
7. wikipedia
8. a bit further
9. you came all the way here, scroll down
10. *** is all you need
11. hello
12. what's up
13. mainstream result <-

[Andrew Qu @andrewqu]

sounds like he's locked in

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

@tolly_xyz Amazon used to put its best on PEDs not PIPs

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

@eigenrobot Easier to ascribe the circumstance of your life to chance than bear the burden of duty imposed by your mere existence

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

This is going to be his argument against birthright citizenship btw

[reason @reason]

"Our nation is not founded on a religion. It's not based on a common culture, even, or heritage. ... We're a creedal nation," Justice Neil Gorsuch tells @nickgillespie on The Reason Interview podcast.

[tautologer @tautologer]

@orphcorp "should" considered harmful

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

@volcrushed @bubbleboi You got both

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

@volcrushed @bubbleboi If the numbers are good enough you'll get both m8s

[Daniel Lovera @dlovera]

I'm a huge proponent of AI and automation, but there's something I can't square with this circle:

1. Customer pay higher prices, so that...

2. Retailers pay Google billions for your attention in a zero sum game, so that...

3. Google can invest $200,000,000,000 PER YEAR in AI and automation, so that...

4. The businesses buying AI, automation, and ads can cut jobs and extract more $ from customers, so that...

5. Customers pay higher prices...

I'm not an economist but I understand game theory well enough to know this ends in tears

Can the ultimate sync machine generate enough Eureka! moments to increase frequency before the global economy gimbal locks?

Tune in to next week's episode of FermiparadoxBall Z to find out

[Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay]

$GOOGL CEO Sundar Pichai reaffirmed the company’s $175B to $185B capex plan for 2026.

That keeps the AI infrastructure buildout firmly on track.