Timothy B. Lee @binarybits
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@Derek_Econ @TrevorScottReal I appreciate it! What specifically do you think is going to happen with Tesla?
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@Derek_Econ @TrevorScottReal So they've achieved Waymo 2020 levels of performance? Good for them!
Company accidentally spent $5M on tokens in a month -> Wow the CTO must have gotten an earful Company accidentally spent $50M -> Holy cow there must have been an incredible series of management screwups Company accidentally spent $500M -> lol ok bro
I don't believe any company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude in a month. The number is an order of magnitude too large to be plausible.
@yourlyingeyes @razibkhan I'm not incredulous about the allowed-to-drive part.
Wait so in California a 17-year-old can drive a car but can't be a passenger in a Waymo by herself?
Also to jump from some reasonable number to $500 million in a month, you'd need tens of thousands of engineers to suddenly go from barely using Claude to spending thousands of dollars per month. Technology doesn't diffuse that fast in any big organization.
This is equivalent to the salaries of like 20,000 engineers. No one at a big company has the authority to spend that much money by accident.
I don't believe any company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude in a month. The number is an order of magnitude too large to be plausible.
@noahheller @john_malone Not that much.
I get along best with people whose politics are most similar than mine, and I think this is significantly more true than it was 5 or 10 years ago. It sucks.
@batterystaple42 I am usually happy to do that but a lot of people don't seem to.
@TheZvi That's fair. It's much worse than 10 years ago. Maybe not worse than 2021.
@robertwrighter I don't think our politics are that different! But also you are unusually chill about this kind of thing.
@DJZ3 It's entirely possible to care about something but not be put off by other people not caring. I care a lot about patent reform but if someone tells me they don't care about it it's not going to damage our friendship.
@john_malone I like hanging out with center-right people here in DC because they have to have a sense of humor to survive.
@john_malone But yes in general people should be mindful of their bubbles and try to transcend them.
@john_malone Fortunately that's not a problem I need to worry about. I'm surrounded by leftists here in DC.
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