JamisonM (u/JamisonM)

JamisonM commented on How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured 404media.co/how-a-2-000-m... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

raincom · 5 months ago

Most of the demand (in terms of dollars/euros) is confined to the developed world. What happens when both US and EU want to bring back operations back to the home countries? Then these companies are left with serving less of the global demand.

JamisonM · 5 months ago

The Europeans seem to have become more free trade curious after recent events so this doesn't seem like it will hold up as a "what if". And I expect that the coming months of US-only inflation are just going to confirm that position for them even i they face a mild recession due to US market access/demand collapse issues.

JamisonM commented on How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured 404media.co/how-a-2-000-m... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

ahmeneeroe-v2 · 5 months ago

This ignores the reality of power in the US. Presidents can't implement multi-decade initiatives.

>If you change your policy multiple times

you're missing the forest for the trees. the policy has not changed: bring manufacturing back to the US.

JamisonM · 5 months ago

> This ignores the reality of power in the US. Presidents can't implement multi-decade initiatives.

Which is why if anyone wanted to actually bring manufacturing "back" to the US they would work with congress and pass laws that curtailed the tariff powers in a way that ensured that in the areas where you wanted long term investment the president would not have the power to change policy unilaterally. At which point the typical congressional gridlock would serve to ensure stability going forward and allow businesses to invest.

JamisonM commented on Why I don't discuss politics with friends shwin.co/blog/why-i-dont-... · Posted by u/shw1n

JamisonM · 5 months ago

Is this an American thing? No one has ever in my life asked me "Who did you vote for?"

I have had plenty of people behave in a way that made it clear they assumed I agreed with them on political matters/issues that would have us voting the same way (sometimes correctly, sometimes incorrectly) but I have never been asked this question. Is it common or is it a contrivance in service of the article?

JamisonM commented on The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide apnews.com/article/us-air... · Posted by u/geox

jandrewrogers · 6 months ago

Almost all global sensing data published by the US receives a lot of negative pushback from other countries around the world. I don’t think most people are aware of this.

The reasons are myriad. It makes it harder for other governments to control narratives in their own countries. It undermines efforts of governments to develop their own capacity; the US gives it away for free but those countries are not the customer and it does not serve them per se. It sets a much higher bar for domestic implementation than they have the capacity to implement. There is a sense the US exploits this data for their own ends. It doesn’t just irritate China, it irritates everyone.

Making the issue more political, the US edits and censors the data it publishes for its own purposes. This isn’t a secret but it taints the perception of US neutrality when making this data available.

The geopolitics and realpolitik of international sensing data is not clean.

JamisonM · 6 months ago

> Making the issue more political, the US edits and censors the data it publishes for its own purposes. This isn’t a secret but it taints the perception of US neutrality when making this data available.

First I have heard of this, what's the source for the US editing & censoring global sensing data?

JamisonM commented on The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-w... · Posted by u/bonyt

hbn · a year ago

The unusual internet setup is pretty important information to bury a few paragraphs in. Once that was explained it seemed like they should have started by checking nothing was blocking the antenna before tediously running around plugging the laptop into things and following cables and checking power supplies on the networking equipment?

Hindsight is 20/20 but I correctly guessed the ending as soon as that information was added.

JamisonM · a year ago

As soon as he described the physical setup I was screaming "Tree!" internally.

JamisonM commented on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf] courthousenews.com/wp-con... · Posted by u/modeless

paulddraper · 2 years ago

What would make it applicable?

JamisonM · 2 years ago

That's the thing, the governance of the org decides what to do based on these guidelines, so the management & board decides when it is applicable.

JamisonM commented on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf] courthousenews.com/wp-con... · Posted by u/modeless

stubish · 2 years ago

I don't think the problem is with having a for-profit wing. The problem is that only the for-profit wing got to use the technology developed by the non-profit, when the non-profit was explicitly tasked with releasing the technology to the public, allowing competition.

JamisonM · 2 years ago

I would say you are using the words "explicitly tasked" when the articles of incorporation use the words "seek to" and "when applicable". (And also the "allowing competition" part I don't think is actually in the mix, is there a citation for that?)

""The Founding Agreement was also memorialized, among other places, in OpenAI, Inc.’s December 8, 2015 Certificate of Incorporation, which affirmed that its “resulting technology will benefit the public and the corporation will seek to open source technology for the public benefit when applicable. The corporation is not organized for the private gain of any person.”""

That said, I was only commenting on the idea that creating a for-profit wing was adding to the unusual corporate structure of OpenAI and saying that it really didn't.

JamisonM commented on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf] courthousenews.com/wp-con... · Posted by u/modeless

nojvek · 2 years ago

This is going to be an interesting trial.

Elon has a good case that OpenAI has long diverged from his founding principles.

Sam and his friends can side with Microsoft to build a ClosedAI system like Google/Deepmind and Apple.

There is a place for open research. StabilityAI and Mistral seem to be carrying that torch.

I don’t think SamA is the right leader for OpenAI.

JamisonM · 2 years ago

Why do you think he has a good case?

To me OpenAI's response is simply, "It is our honestly held belief that given our available resources private partnership was the only viable way to ensure that we are in control of the most advanced AGI when it is developed. And it is our honest belief opening up what we are developing without a lot of log term due diligence would not be in the best interests of humanity and the best interests of humanity is the metric by which we decide how quickly to open source our progress."

To me you can't win a lawsuit like this that is essentially about a small difference in opinions about strategy, but I am not a lawyer.

JamisonM commented on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf] courthousenews.com/wp-con... · Posted by u/modeless

cljacoby · 2 years ago

Similar to the firing-unfiring of Sam Altman, so much of this seems to be boil down to OpenAI's puzzle-box organizational structure.

It seems like the whole "capped for-profit within a non-profit" is not going to to work long term.

JamisonM · 2 years ago

A non-profit with a for-profit subsidiary is actually pretty common and it is probably one of the more "normal" things OpenAI has done.

https://www.marcumllp.com/insights/creating-a-for-profit-sub...

My personal opinion is that not creating a for-profit wing would have made a even bigger mess.

(But then I also think this suit is very obviously without merit and the complaint is written in a way that it sounds like lawyers sucking up to Musk to take his money - but people seem to be taking it very seriously!)

JamisonM commented on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US businessinsider.com/elect... · Posted by u/NN88

iknowstuff · 2 years ago

Dumbass "journalists" with the usual clickbait.

Explicitly MORE people are buying EVs:

> Sure, sales of EVs keep going up — a record 300,000 cars sold in the US in the third quarter of 2023 were electric

The only thing they're seeing is "but the pace of adoption has markedly slowed" -- no shit, have you seen the interest rates and price diffs?

And which manufacturer grew the most? Oh that's right the only all-EV one. Just so happens Tesla dropped prices to keep monthly payments roughly the same.

JamisonM · 2 years ago

Running the headline "Fewer people are buying electric cars" and then conceding that EV sales are rising at the start of the 3rd paragraph is embarrassing for the author Paris Marx and I hope he feels ashamed.