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If the I in AIPAC stood for Italian they would call it a Mafia organisation.

The new cold war is weird.

Burning through $7m in 9 months? That's an impressive amount of avocado toast.

$7m actually isn't a whole lot, especially if they hired a (larger) engineering team. Assuming their cali based, that's easily 150-200k per engineer, a team of 20 easily eats through that. Idk the specifics, but I don't the organization was fradulent, it could also be that they're going commercial and no longer want to maintain their oss stack

150-200k is also just the employee’s salary, the actual cost to the company is significantly higher, you need to multiply that by something like 1.5 to get the fully loaded cost, people are expensive!

20 engineers would be incredibly aggressive growth for such a young company with that amount of capital, no?

The real number is probably closer to ~13 engineers, because it costs a company the worker's salary _again_ for benefits, payroll taxes, etc., etc.

Our team was much smaller. We didn't spend all the capital.

Tokenmaxxing makes startups even leakier if they don't find token traction.

if you hire 20 engineers with your seed round you are either very confident you'll be able to use them to justify another raise soon

or you're incompetent


> very confident you'll be able to use them to justify another raise soon

That is indeed how the VC funding game is played. If you don't raise another round, you are dead anyway, so you spend down your seed round to try and justify that following round...


I thought ai was writing all the code. What do they need engineers for?

We raised in 2024 and only burned through ~$3m of it, mostly on salaries to support a small team.

And AI tokens

That would be a lot still. That’s a lot of money.

I’d bet on extreme irresponsibility.


And poached eggs.

Don’t forget the candles

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Please don't bring Reddit brain here...

Those Claude tokens are not cheap you know /s

> On the contrary, the existence of a mismanaged organization nominally dedicated to a given purpose often prevents its nominal goal from being achieved

This gives rise to another type of person within an organisation. Someone opposed to the goals of the organisation, and who understands this all too well.


It's amazing how Trump and Bibi manage to embody the absolute worst stereotypes of their respective cultures. There's something almost Jungian about it.

It's all Zionists. Israel has been like this since it's very inception. Every Zionist president in the US has abetted them.

Don't say that he's hypocritical

Say rather that he's apolitical

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun


Some have harsh words for this man of renown

But some think our attitude

Should be one of gratitude

Like the widows and cripples in old London town

Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.


This is fantastic. This is what I'm going to say next time I work on military tech.

It's from the old Tom Lehrer song, "Wernher von Braun."

I've never seen someone take it as a suggestion before.

It's really hard for me to feel sorry for Disney here. Is it possible for both sides to lose a lawsuit?

It's not about feeling bad for Disney. Disney is tremendously powerful, so if the federal government can coerce them to do whatever the federal government wants, that has massive widespread effects for everyone. It creates an environment in which powerful corporations are expected to act as political enforcers, creating a monoculture of ideas and suppressing dissent.

What entitles you to use force to stop me creating a copy of something?

Not me, the state. That is significantly different.

The reason is damaging someone's livelihood in the cases I mentioned. Or large scale economic damage in case you're copying money.


The comparison with money is interesting but not equivalent to copyright infringement. The closest valid application of the concept of counterfeit to songs, for example, would involve using them to make media and its packaging look like any original packaging, and also try to sell it as the original. If you're not doing this there's no counterfeiture.

The fact that you use the state as a proxy changes little.

Should it be illegal to use a general purpose computing device because it damages Tim Cook's livelihood?

Nope, foreign lobbyists in the guise of AIPAC spent record amounts to primary Thomas Massie.

OP is talking about American's here. AIPAC is made of and paid for AIPAC, like other political packs or other American groups. AIPAC is just Americans, doing the American political thing.

The bottleneck right now isn't making hardware more powerful, it's manufacturing it fast enough. Hardware right now is expensive because of scarcity, and those with a monopoly on it have no incentive to change that.

The Chinese would love to produce AI hardware much cheaper, but are blocked from doing so because US sanctions stop a Dutch company from selling them the machines capable of doing so. Coincidentally the companies with a monopoly happen to be in the US.


To be fair, the Dutch company is built on technology that was developed by the US Government, hence why there are restrictions.

[1]https://www.eetimes.com/u-s-gives-ok-to-asml-on-euv-effort/


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