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I'd like to donate to help their cause. Does anyone know if it is legal for me to do so?

The laws around the world are different. The laws within countries are different. Without giving any indication where you are from, nobody can give you any information.

There is a FAQ page https://annas-archive.gl/faq#donate which for example gives you a Monero address which would mean completely anonymous donation.


You can also donate to Archive.today which seems pretty legit to donate to because they use Liberapay. Problem is that they are frequently banned and unbanned from liberapay and other fiat payment processors.

I would recommend getting into Monero so that you can make donations without permission.

Here is a HN discussion where I explained Monero and there was some good debate about it. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841149)

https://liberapay.com/archiveis/donate


How about you buy some books from actual authors who actually wrote them?

To any lawyers in here, is there an argument to be made for the statue of limitations not to apply here

No. Once the jury made its finding of fact as to when the event giving rise to the claim occurred (and to when the SOL clock would start ticking), the appeal would have to determine that the jury could not have reasonably made such a finding. It's very, very rare for an appeals court to overturn a finding of fact.

Out interest how does it work with new evidence then? I guess in civil less likely than criminal (new DNA technology etc.)

New evidence is usually irrelevant, except in the very narrow circumstance where the statute of limitations is based on a "knew or should have known" moment instead of a "when the incident occurred" moment. (In this context, meaning the first time the plaintiff actually knew, or reasonably should have known, about the incident for which they are suing. Some torts allow for this, most don't.)

The was actually what was at issue here. The inciting incident was way past the statute of limitations on an occurrence basis (years late), but Elon was attempting to claim that there was "new evidence" to reset the start of the clock. He failed, because there was substantial evidence that he knew about the stuff he was suing over when it originally happened.

Honestly surprised he wasn't held in contempt for perjury.


What new evidence would overturn the fact that there was more than 3 years between the relevant events?

Has anyone done the math on how many jobs AI has to replace in order to justify current valuations? Would be interesting to see imo


There's no public valuation of any AI company.

But by the investment contracts OpenAI announced, if they replaced every white collar job in the world and captured all of their salary, they would have a P/E of ~1/70. (Assuming no costs at all.)

You decide what return horizon you are comfortable with and solve the linear equation for it. (But my numbers are from the end of last year, I haven't seen any more recent compilation of their contracts.)


Could I please ask what stats you used? Intuition says the valuation is too large and implies replacement, would be interesting to see something backing it up.

The 1.5T investment size was widely reported last year. AFAIK, they are required to spend all that money in the next few years if they survive for that long. Here's one place reporting it:

https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/sam-altman-open...

OpenAI also announced enough deals this year to more than double that amount. But I don't think anybody has put those announcements together and deduplicated them.


That part I get, the white collar work part is what I'm looking for.

Thanks for the response.


I think the goal is to replace workers who cost $10,000/mo with an AI agent that costs $8,000/mo


$8000/month is way too low. If you're only spending $8000/month on AI you're in drastic danger of being replaced by a more efficient AI firm.


You should replace a team of 7 costing $70,000/mo with a team of 2 costing $30,000/mo and $100,000/mo in ai tokens.


If you replace 100 then that's 800k/mo spend. Would that do?

That's a decent start, but if we're talking shop you might as well bump to at least 1.2-1.3M just to play it safe.

My back of the napkin was a floor of five to ten percent just to break even with the physical buildout + a couple of years of energy bills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that"."


I think it's meaningless anyway. A calculator doesn't multiply numbers like a human does. The important part is to develop systems that can do many human tasks


Early LLMs typically tried to do multiplication "in their head" by recall.

Now most LLMs do multiplication using a tool call to a programming language, akin to a person reaching for a calculator rather than relying on a learned table or working the problem out mentally.

The high level comparison between what LLMs do and what humans do" for this example is fairly parallel.


How long until LLMs are prompting LLMs to write a response to their user query?

Actually, this happens already in a modular way AFAIK…


This already happens with -- e.g. -- Claude Code spawnining parallel agents and then collating their results.


Humans drink water, and so do the datacenters! We’re just like AI!!!


I think we are still in the denial phase.


That is literally how future works


I have developed a Time Machine that does sixty minutes an hour.

The future is coming; the implication that its progress and good is left unstated.



IANAL but iirc DRM is governed by federal law, specifically the DMCA. A state law cant override a federal statute, so even if Montana's law were interpreted very broadly, it couldnt nullify the DMCA


I really hope bytedance doesn't bend the knee to the western media cartel. Now that they sold off tiktok, I don't believe they operate in the west and I hope china doesn't enforce western ip here


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