MaybiusStrip

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by MaybiusStrip 15d ago
All in all, it's clearly the AI skeptics that have egg on their faces. Sam Altman is very flawed and you could make a strong argument for why that's why he blew an enormous lead to Anthropic. Dario's predictions in general ha
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by MaybiusStrip 1mo ago
Millions of books go in the trash every day. Should all private property come with such an asterisk that it ought to be preserved for whatever unlikely contingency you can imagine? I don't know, AI actually seems like a much more worth
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by MaybiusStrip 2mo ago
Which one of the authors of the website are you referring to?
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by MaybiusStrip 2mo ago
The current year is 2026. I think it's quite likely AI will make the top 3 by then. Putting this on my calendar.
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by MaybiusStrip 5mo ago
What do you think of people that say that about climate change? It seems you don't understand fully. This is not the time go get tired, right before this actually starts impacting jobs and people in other ways.
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by MaybiusStrip 5mo ago
I "pair" with claude-code and still write 30% by hand, with additional review with gpt-5.4, but I definitely write fewer bugs than before. I'd estimate my speedup to be 2x.
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by MaybiusStrip 7mo ago
The only people underwhelmed by AI in February 2026 are people who have formed an identity around being AI skeptics over the last couple years and are struggling to shed it. I haven't met anyone who has seriously used the new models wh
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by MaybiusStrip 7mo ago
Software jobs have been steadily outpacing other white collar jobs for the past year, but it's unlikely you will find one unless you work on your attitude and your ability to communicate respectfully.
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by MaybiusStrip 7mo ago
This is a great point, because when you ask it (Claude) if it has any questions, it often turns out it has lots of good ones! But it doesn't ask them unless you ask.
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by MaybiusStrip 8mo ago
This has nothing to do with burden of proof, it has to do with journalistic accuracy, and this is obviously a hit piece. HN prides itself on being skeptical and then eats up "skeptic slop."
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by MaybiusStrip 8mo ago
You can literally go look at some of antirez's PRs described here in this article. They're not seeing it because it's not there? Honestly, what you're describing sounds like the older models. If you are getting these sor
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by MaybiusStrip 10mo ago
"You can use AI but you are responsible for and must validate its output" is a completely reasonable and coherent policy. I'm sure they stated exactly what they intended to.
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by MaybiusStrip 10mo ago
NAND2TETRIS is fun . For an experienced programmer the difficulty is almost akin to a game. Highly recommend it to programmers who have been in high level land for too long.
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by MaybiusStrip 2y ago
What percent of the time do you have to drive your car?
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by MaybiusStrip 2y ago
I'm confused, you said earlier that you use it every day.
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by MaybiusStrip 2y ago
Spend, not lose. And it's mostly on training, not inference.
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by MaybiusStrip 2y ago
I don't think so, I think it's more about openness. I've noticed older software engineers tend to be more anti-LLM and quick to dismiss. The shortcomings are aplenty, but they don't bother me. The things it can do were
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by MaybiusStrip 6y ago
OK, I don't think that this delineation is actually as black and white as you're making it out to be, given most subjects are complex enough to require nuanced interpretations of data/facts, but I'll give you that in som
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by MaybiusStrip 6y ago
This statement doesn't even make sense, where are you acquiring this knowledge if not from experts? Are you out there doing field research and conducting your own scientific experiments on every subject you're interested in? I&#x2
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by MaybiusStrip 7y ago
You are taking my Russian roulette analogy way too literally. The "bullet" is not literally just dead people, it's also the economic impact of letting this disease run rampant, which you are clearly not accounting for. We are
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by MaybiusStrip 7y ago
Sure, I was referring to this study which shows that 20% of cases were either severe or critical: http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9... True, this is only in China. In most other cou
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by MaybiusStrip 7y ago
>And what % of patients infected actually end up in the ICU vs. just have a sniffle and a cough for a few days? This data is easily available: ~20% of people who get the virus are in life-threatening condition. Thats a 1/5 chance. &
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by MaybiusStrip 7y ago
You can't just cherry-pick South Korea's case fatality rate because it's convenient to your argument. The case fatality rate worldwide is currently 3.7%. Regardless of what the reasons for that may be and whether it will rema
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by MaybiusStrip 7y ago
I get it, some jobs are more desirable than others, and there has to be some reason for people to take the less glamorous job, but that barrier could just be skill. I support hard work when it comes to training. Hey, you want to make video
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by MaybiusStrip 8y ago
Let's say you manage to carve out 2-4 hours a day to work on your side project while remaining a decent person to your wife and kids. Leaving your job means you could spend 11-13 hours a day on it instead. That's an enormous diffe
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by MaybiusStrip 8y ago
Supply/demand is not the only thing driving the difference between the salaries of a middle-school teacher and a Google software engineer.
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by MaybiusStrip 8y ago
Before you draw conclusions about all homeless people based on the the ones hanging out in Pioneer Square, I challenge YOU to go to a homeless shelter like Mary's place and learn a bit about the people living there. My fiancee is a doc
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by MaybiusStrip 8y ago
Mindfulness and meditation have been popular for thousands of years...
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by MaybiusStrip 8y ago
"Collapsing into the downward spiral of poverty and homelessness" is not an appropriate outcome for not being frugal, and a system where this is the case is probably not very good. Again, circling back to the idea that focusing on
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by MaybiusStrip 8y ago
I would qualify: people aren't just dissatisfied because of the "unfairness" of growing inequality. The growth of the wealth gap has some very real ramifications, ie: on the distribution of power in politics.

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