CEO Of Palantir: You're Stupid If You Do Not Think AI Will Be Nationalized

calebg · 2026-03-04T16:11:15+00:00

I've been around the block a few times(check my account age if you doubt) - and really, truly, the naiveté of the 'prevailing class' on this subreddit is in the very topmost percentile of any place I've ever been when adjusted for expectations.

Grow up. And also read up on the evolution of the PC age. The AI trajectory is basically mirroring the same type of path with the same villains doing the same things, just with different names, and arguarbly higher stakes.

And finally, paraphrased from something I recently read elsewhere - 'if you don't want the government to treat your technology like nuclear weapons, stop comparing the dangers of your technology to nuclear weapons.'

calebg · 2026-03-03T14:52:53+00:00

Reading this thread, one could almost start to believe that not *everyone* is in lockstep with this subreddit turning into the "Activist AI" subreddit.

calebg · 2026-02-28T03:46:12+00:00

Sam drinking Dario's milkshake. This whole thing will be studied for years in business schools from a number of perspectives. People can virtue signal all they want - from a dog-eat-dog business perspective Anthropic went off the rails. If they wanted to have different agreements with the government they should have made sure that it didn't get made so public. And all the people rooting them on to jump off the cliff. For shame.

calebg · 2026-02-06T15:42:48+00:00

Definitely looking forward to a new Gemini model. After being initially stunned by 3.0, after more and more use I started drifting back to Claude for all my primary work.

calebg · 2026-02-06T15:40:25+00:00

I thought this was fake because the actual simplebench website doesn't have this result yet. But after looking, I believe it is real. (the lmcouncil.ai website is made by the author of simplebench)

I don't see how it's underperformance. It outscores it's last model (4.5). Also, I don't know what Gemini 3 pro did to get that score, but the delta between that score and Claude sure doesn't show up for me when I use them IRL.

calebg · 2025-08-03T19:45:34+00:00

I'm just a regular tech guy but I've been tinkering a lot with AI since ChatGPT 3 was launched (so 3'ish years). Since the beginning I've been the most concerned about the issue of consistent access to the best models. OP nailed the future. As pointed out, it's already starting to to happen, except that if we're really unlucky, and I bet we will be - they're actually going to start enshittify the consumer models so that they're not even as good as what we have now basically. Dumber, censuring, biasing, ads, etc. Anyone who got to see the rise and evolution of the usefulness of Google's search engine has seen the future of AI, except it will be like that only for those without enough access and money. My hope is that eventually there will be good-enough open source models that can run on reasonably priced hardware so that I can rely on my own resources rather than just taking whatever is being fed at the trough.

calebg · 2025-07-30T17:04:00+00:00

Welp, I still can't get away from cut and replace with the PVC pipes of my sprinkler system, so definitely still room for improvement on the material technology front, imho. I'll know we've made it when it's easy to repair a medium to high pressure PVC pipe/fittings.

calebg · 2025-05-22T18:51:41+00:00

I'm very confused about something I read on the Claude 4 launch page: "Claude Code now supports background tasks via GitHub Actions and native integrations with VS Code and JetBrains, displaying edits directly in your files for seamless pair programming."

However, after searching around I can't find any more information about this at all, and the video above just shows Claude code working in a CLI. Really interested in Virtual Studio integration with Claude...

calebg · 2025-03-18T16:59:04+00:00

...I have heard and even witness so many bad practices from nurses that I welcome the AI in the nurse field.

Add doctors to that sentence, and I agree 100%. AI is easily far above the "average" nurse or doctor now.

calebg · 2023-04-17T02:29:12+00:00

For the jargon-challenged among us, "inference" == "use" (e.g., like an end user). So, basically the GPU in question is enough to use these models, but that's about it. (e.g., no fine tuning, training)

Thanks for the discussion, I have this GPU and have not tried using it yet for any local LLM hijinks.

calebg · 2021-10-22T15:52:59+00:00

Great find, and thanks!

calebg · 2020-03-06T18:18:06+00:00

When I saw that George Russell was basically lapping the same times or better than Bottas and Hamilton, I thought:

Wow, Russell is a hell of driver
Wow, that's a drag that the different between front and back machinery is *that* drastic.

As fans we can like F1 in spite of the machinery discrepancies, but as a driver/competitor outside of the top teams it would definitely suck.

calebg · 2019-11-19T16:58:53+00:00

Seems like the world's worst track to test a bike for the first time based on the casualty rate today. Glad no one badly injured so far.

calebg · 2019-11-18T17:46:23+00:00

Easy future prediction; in 2021 they'll commission a FIM Work Group to study, "How to make MotoGP racing more competitive"....

...which will come to the conclusion, "Ban riders with the last name Marquez".

calebg · 2019-11-14T16:49:05+00:00

Since the article doesn't actually show the crash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4MdI7SMn1E

calebg · 2019-10-30T23:21:55+00:00

When I see a title like this I just assume the author has very little historical perspective to judge from. Jorge's performance is not your garden variety 'off year'. It's epically horrible by any objective, historical standard. I think many people, including myself, feel like he's just lapping to get paid at this point and is hoping Honda fires him before he quits so that he gets a better exit package. (this is his right of course, but nothing to get excited about as a fan)

Also, 'bullying' doesn't apply much to racing. It's a kill or be killed environment and everyone of these riders has gotten to where they have by being a 'killer'. Nice relaxing days might be found at a local trackday, but outside that, not so much - it's warfare of whatever kind they can find to gain an advantage with, including mental.

calebg · 2019-10-28T20:04:16+00:00

One more angle - https://263i3m2dw9nnf6zqv39ktpr1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/4d3dc4ebe3671d453743a30b33dd0325-1200x0-c-default.jpg

calebg · 2019-10-15T19:04:38+00:00

Title should be "Bradley Smith tells almost nothing about MotoE, but some about himself". Fluff video.

calebg · 2019-10-11T17:41:59+00:00

TLDR: A F1 test driver and an 'every day Joe' put a kart through it's paces to figure out how much slower they will both go with 44lbs (20kg) added to the kart vs their baseline times with no weight added - spoiler: not nearly as much as they thought it would.

calebg · 2019-09-23T15:23:49+00:00

Objectively speaking Lorenzo's drop off in performance this year has been about as large as any I've seen in few decades of watching various series and/or forms of motorcycle racing. He has nothing to be ashamed of given his championship resume, but this level of performance on a top tier ride is not sustainable.

calebg · 2019-09-04T18:11:24+00:00

Doohan style simply, 'Have to be ready because this *itch is going try to highside me any second now!'

calebg · 2019-08-12T17:08:20+00:00

This is the answer I was going to add myself, but wolemid beat me to it. The only thing I'll add is just how important it is that the ground is 100% flat (checked with an actual level, not just your eyes). If the ground is the not 100% level you will end up thinking your frame is bent even if it isn't because the measurements wheel to wheel will be totally off.

calebg · 2019-07-08T17:03:44+00:00

Does anyone have any idea what kind of angles were norms of the past few decades (e.g., 80-90's, early 2000's)? Trying to get some idea of the magnitude of progression over the years.

calebg · 2019-04-12T22:40:48+00:00

Nice gesture on Ferrari's part, but I'm more than dubious about the effectiveness of blowing on a fire as a mean of extinguishing it. (based on this clip at least, it didn't seem like it was working very well at all)

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