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jzl commented on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss   techinasia.com/news/opena... · Posted by u/breadsniffer
DetroitThrow · 2 months ago
>was probably not exaggerated by 10x.

"The people spreading obvious lies must have a reasonable basis in their lying"?

jzl · 2 months ago
I don’t think any of these are “obvious” lies. Maybe meta offered someone a $75M package and it got reported as $100M. So they can say with a straight face that the reporting is “false”, yet they never countered with any details.

You’re ignoring my point about the legitimate reason people might be getting offers in this stratosphere. No one has debunked or refuted the general reporting, at least not that I’ve seen. If you have a source, show it please.

jzl commented on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss   techinasia.com/news/opena... · Posted by u/breadsniffer
toephu2 · 2 months ago
Zuck isn't throwing 100M comps at many people (maybe 1 or 2 at most?), that's a myth that was debunked.
jzl · 2 months ago
It’s debatable that it was debunked. There was squirrelly wording about some specific claims. One person was reported to have been offered a package worth a billion dollars, which even if exaggerated was probably not exaggerated by 10x. The numbers line up when you consider that AI startup founders and early employees stand to potentially make well into 9 figures if not higher, and Meta is trying to cut them off at the pass. Obviously these kinds of offers, whatever they really look like, include significant conditions and performance requirements.
jzl commented on New interpretations suggest the "heat death" hypothesis might not hold (2023)   noemamag.com/life-need-no... · Posted by u/hhs
hungmung · 4 months ago
Slightly tangential, but does anyone know of a good layman's book on thermodynamics? I'm interested in the science and the history of it, but I'm not really trying to do a deep dive into the math -- I wasn't bad in stats or calc but that was decades ago now and I haven't really used them since...
jzl · 4 months ago
“From Eternity To Here” by Sean Carroll has some nice discussions of it. He can be a bit much at times and could stand to have better editing (the book is 25% too long), but he does have some of the most approachable modern writing on physics out there. Lots of videos on YouTube as well.
jzl commented on New interpretations suggest the "heat death" hypothesis might not hold (2023)   noemamag.com/life-need-no... · Posted by u/hhs
crazygringo · 4 months ago
Honestly, this is the type of stuff ChatGPT is really good at. Explaining overviews of a field, avoiding math if you want, focusing on concepts and explaining different schools of thought.

As long as you're sticking to the well-established stuff, it tends to be quite factually accurate. I think it's really underrated as a resource for good high-level overviews of fields where those overviews otherwise don't exist at all, are overly technical, or the existing overviews have a lot of author bias.

jzl · 4 months ago
Ugh, I couldn’t disagree more. Sure, LLMs can generate some really nice introductory summaries of topics. But, so far at least, they can’t even hold a candle to brilliantly written books and long form articles. Consider the classic book Cosmos. There is more insight into the universe in any few pages of that book than could be gathered by reading even a thousand ChatGPT results.
jzl commented on uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension   old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOr... · Posted by u/extesy
jzl · a year ago
Minor quibble with the linked complaint: the GPL doesn’t require you to post source code, it just requires that you have to provide it when asked, and only to people using your software. (But you’re not allowed to restrict anything they do, like repost it.) Just follow the whole Redhat / CentOS drama for exhibit A in this behavior.
jzl commented on Title drops in movies   titledrops.net/... · Posted by u/gaws
chrisallick · a year ago
https://youtu.be/OiqPmsBYieA?feature=shared i had the titular line in star wars...
jzl · a year ago
Yay, someone posted it before I had to. This skit is 25 years old now!
jzl commented on Why Is Light So Fast?   profmattstrassler.com/202... · Posted by u/paulpauper
tasty_freeze · a year ago
No thanks. Every time I hear the argument brought up, the person putting it forward says it like it is a mic drop moment and they never discuss the counter arguments. It is effective for people who haven't heard the argument before or haven't thought it through.

Here is an example. The charge of an electron is exactly the opposite of the charge of a proton, to within measurement error (like ten digits). This is simply something which has been measured, but physics has no explanation for why they are the same. Getting to the point, what is more likely: that a God created it that way in order to achieve His goals, or that there is some reason connecting the two charges such that they must be of exactly the same magnitude but we just haven't figured it out?

I'm putting my money on the latter. If there is an all-powerful creator, there is no reason to have fine tuning at all -- He could just force the desired behavior and outcome.

jzl · a year ago
Fine tuning is a pretty broad concept and is mostly orthogonal to religious beliefs.
jzl commented on Why Is Light So Fast?   profmattstrassler.com/202... · Posted by u/paulpauper
AndrewOMartin · a year ago
This article mentions that the speed of light seems fast to humans living daily lives, but is not so fast on an astronomical scale.

The best demonstration of this I've ever seen is on "If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system" [1].

If you've not seen it before, I recommend opening it, using your mouse wheel to scroll from the beginning (near the Sun) to Earth. It should take about a minute, but there's some commentary on the way. Then, to save your mouse and your finger some work, try clicking the icon in the bottom right hand corner to auto-scroll the map at the speed of light.

[1] https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....

jzl · a year ago
On the topic of perfectly crafted depictions of scale in the Universe, I love this one: https://youtu.be/vcJHHU9upyE
jzl commented on Why Is Light So Fast?   profmattstrassler.com/202... · Posted by u/paulpauper
verzali · a year ago
The question seems to me not why there is a speed of causality, but why the speed has this particular number. And it's not clear we know why that is, any more than we know why the proton mass is about 1836 times greater than the electron mass.
jzl · a year ago
Search YouTube for “universe fine tuning.” Then come back here in a few years when you’ve gotten through everything. :)
jzl commented on Why Is Light So Fast?   profmattstrassler.com/202... · Posted by u/paulpauper
JdeBP · a year ago
It's not just Arvin Ash. That's actually fairly common terminology amongst physics educators nowadays. For starters: You'll find a lot of physics YouTube channels that say "speed of causality". It has even started to make its way into the astrophysics and physics textbooks in the last couple of years.
jzl · a year ago
Interesting thanks. I hadn’t seen it elsewhere myself but I could see how it’s taken off. OP’s article almost gets there, but never says that specifically. Rather it says “c is not a property of light, it’s a property of the universe.”

u/jzl

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