RigelKentaurus

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by RigelKentaurus 8d ago
Not true. The company deploying or using the AI (not the frontier AI lab building it) needs to make sure that the AI works. Just like anything else. Not sure why this is complicated.
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by RigelKentaurus 8d ago
Not to say that I don't agree with you to an extent, but you should see AI-delivered healthcare numbers to human-delivered and make it a fair comparison. From Google: "Annual Deaths: Over 250,000 people die each year in the U.S. d
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by RigelKentaurus 29d ago
This article makes me super angry. Ours is an Indian-American family from the SF bay area. 3 years ago, my son graduated from one of the top high schools in the bay area with a 4.0+ GPA and 1600 SAT, getting all 5's in his 9 STEM AP cl
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by RigelKentaurus 1mo ago
I'm saying that people can't discern between human- and AI-built apps, because the vast majority of human-built apps are not any better than AI-built ones.
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by RigelKentaurus 1mo ago
Thought-provoking article, makes sense on some levels but it cuts too broadly. For physical goods (clothes, purses,..) most buyers can discern high quality goods from bulk manufacturing with cheap materials. When it comes to digital goods,
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by RigelKentaurus 1mo ago
I'm not sure I follow this argument. >>But that is not the case for AI. In AI, profit margins are higher the further you get from the end user, see chart below. This doesn't necessarily mean that the following is true: >&
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by RigelKentaurus 1mo ago
Hi, I am not a user of mechanical keyboards, but I did want to say nice work on the website. The fonts, the colors, the layout -- I loved it all! Good luck, hope you sell a lot of keyboards.
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by RigelKentaurus 1mo ago
My (semi-educated) guess: it's about the quality, not quantity, of that revenue. If I opened their books, I expect to see lots of SMB customers with low deal sizes and non-trivial churn, non-sticky product usage, not many large enterpr
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by RigelKentaurus 2mo ago
>>I say all of this b/c at some point, most people don't care if the movie was hand painted cels, CGI done by humans or fully AI generated with human text prompting. If the feeling is strong, people will have a "bigger&
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by RigelKentaurus 3mo ago
Very useful, thank you for building it and sharing it.
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by RigelKentaurus 3mo ago
Both sides should take a deep breath and stay away from predictions.
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by RigelKentaurus 3mo ago
The most glaring gap in this "analysis" is that it's too early to tell. I don't understand how people can be certain in both extreme viewpoints.
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by RigelKentaurus 3mo ago
Congratulations on shipping! Not sure what the process is for US-based public libraries to buy new books, but you should look into it. Where I live (Cupertino, California), the new books section gets read (a lot!)
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by RigelKentaurus 3mo ago
Heartfelt and poignant. Thank you for sharing.
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by RigelKentaurus 3mo ago
The handwringing tone of the article is off-putting. Ed is confused between whether AI is useful, and whether the current level of funding and valuations are sustainable. The following statements can both be true: 1. AI is already quite use
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by RigelKentaurus 4mo ago
> That's an interesting observation. Though, there are many simple animals. How do you define consciousness here? Is it automatically conscious because it is an animal? What, then, is an animal defined by you? Imagine consciousness
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by RigelKentaurus 4mo ago
We don't have a rigorous definition of consciousness, and there are so many questions. Is consciousness a thing that can exist independently on its own? Or is it a quality (like hardness or color) that can only be associated with some
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by RigelKentaurus 4mo ago
I can't empathize with this mindset at all. I'm in the polar opposite camp. I don't want a list of search articles; just a direct answer to the information I was looking for. I see the problems pointed out by OP but they are
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by RigelKentaurus 4mo ago
Makes sense to me. When I use Google, I am interested in getting the information quickly and in the right length and format, and am not interested in navigating to particular page(s) and looking up that info myself. Perhaps this will impact
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by RigelKentaurus 4mo ago
It's not necessarily bad, but in tech, not actively growing is tantamount to shrinking. Organic customer churn and attrition means that you're just a few years away from irrelevance. If DBX wants to stay a stable tech company, it
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by RigelKentaurus 4mo ago
They had a terrific product that worked well in ~2013, but they haven't innovated since then (TBH, not sure what "innovation" means in the file-sync space.) Although Y-o-Y revenue is mostly flat, I'm a little surprised t
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by RigelKentaurus 4mo ago
On our last couple of Japan trips, we would walk into 7/11s for an inexpensive coffee, an egg or fruit sandwich, and also do some treasure-hunting for co-branded items with Muji/Uniqlo or others. It became a short and meaningful p
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by RigelKentaurus 4mo ago
I'm tired of people who, when they don't like an article, comment that it was "obviously written by AI" instead of arguing its merits. As for your points, global wealth is not a fixed pie, so it's not "impossib
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by RigelKentaurus 4mo ago
The same is true in India. I live in the US, and when I visit relatives in India, they are nonplussed that I can afford a fancier car but choose to drive a Toyota. Clothes, watches, my phone brand - everything is under constant analysis and
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by RigelKentaurus 5mo ago
A poorly thought, as a result, a poorly-written article. Almost everyone wants to automate away the boring parts of their work and life. The author created a strawman, but that is not what AI is ("Not everything about our lives can be
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by RigelKentaurus 5mo ago
If every single image on their blog was generated by Images 2.0 (I've no reason to believe that's not the case), then wow, I'm seriously impressed. The fidelity to text, the photorealism, the ability to show the same characte
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by RigelKentaurus 5mo ago
Why can't it replace Figma? Seems like Figma is a thin UI layer on top of Claude Design.
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by RigelKentaurus 5mo ago
I think the distribution of intelligence is extremely unfair in nature, leading to extremely unequal outcomes in society. I volunteer with an organization that gets ex-cons back on their feet and reintegrate into society by treating them fo
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by RigelKentaurus 6mo ago
IMHO, the majority of companies have run out of high-value ideas to achieve growth. Having nowhere else to turn, executive leadership is clutching at straws and mandating RTO and similar "initiatives". These leaders think it'
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by RigelKentaurus 7mo ago
For the U.S. economy, productivity is defined as (output measured in $)/(input measured in $). Typically, new technologies (computers, internet, AI) reduce input costs, and due to competition in the market, companies are required to re

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