*Globally, 45% of us now live in cities, with 36% of people living in towns and the remaining 19% living in rural communities* Tokyo overtaken as world's biggest city | World News | Sky News
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Tokyo overtaken as world
A UN report reveals which cities will likely boast the largest populations in 2050 and predicts London's population will soar.
*Finitude reflects design and implies completion. ... Scarcity enters only when we live as though the boundary were a curse rather than a gift.* View quoted note β†’
*when you only have one reference client, there is no consensus* View quoted note β†’
*AI systems being egregiously resource intensive is not a side effect β€” it’s the point. Craft, expression and skilled labor is what produces value, and that gives us control over ourselves. In order to further centralize power, craft and expression need to be destroyed. And they sure are trying.* View quoted note β†’
*China’s push to release open models comes in stark contrast to the β€œclosed” approach of most of the biggest US tech companies. OpenAI, Google and Anthropic have preferred to maintain full control of their most advanced technology, profiting from them through customer subscriptions or enterprise deals. By contrast, Chinese groups β€” which have been cut off from advanced AI chips made by Nvidia β€” have been encouraged by Beijing officials to offer wider access to their models.* FT
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates FT
*financialization is also the phenomenon whereby firms artificially change their capital structures (i.e. their mixture of debt and equity) in response to fiscal, monetary, tax, and regulatory policies. In other words, financialization also occurs when corporate managers spend more time worrying about government and financial markets than their own business or industry*
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Against Bitcoin Financialization (Monetary Metals, Jeff Deist) \ stacker news ~econ
Oh, heeeeere's a banger, the creation of which I had a little something to do with. Jeff Deist, of Ron Paul and Mises Institute fame, is giving the...
*equating better text prediction with better thinking confuses the medium (language) with the underlying computation that produces insight, plans, and causal models of the world* https://www.perplexity.ai/search/https-www-theverge-com-ai-arti-x8GoxrX5TdGXHtodEE.Dlg
*The good asker is ... too disruptive for conservatives who defend existing structures, but too undisciplined for revolutionaries who’ve already decided which questions matter* View quoted note β†’
*we think mostly about the ability of tools to implement our will, rather than the conditions that arise from the presence of those tools* View quoted note β†’