SirensOfTitan

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by SirensOfTitan 5mo ago
According to Crunchbase, Massdrop raised ~92 MM through their series C, and then another ~40 MM in debt over the last couple years. There is no way that MassDrop was ever going to justify that kind of capital investment. VC is such an inef
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
I really don't think AI is undermining your competitiveness if you have a unique perspective that other people value. You don't have to build a product that drives a company to IPO, you can just build software that other people v
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
I think calling it inflated is to play to a narrative that labor was overvalued broadly in tech. Salaries across industries in the US have remained flat since the 1970s. Calling the one sector that can provide access a middle class lifesty
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
This is a classic HN mistaking the map for the territory. R&D and capex absolutely figure into de-facto profitability and sustainability for AI labs, despite their separate treatment in accounting. > well most of us here on HN have
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
I don't quite remember the details, but there's a fascinating section in Julian Jaynes's "Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" where he talks about how metaphors condense down into more co
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
I think executives are excited about AI because it confirms their worldview: that the work is a commodity and the real value lies in orchestration and strategy. It doesn't help that the west has a clear bias wherein moving "up&quo
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
The problem is that Iran can defend the strait against the world's most advanced military with drones built with commercial hardware for 30-50K per drone. And that doesn't even take into account escalation, as if the US escalates
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
Oh I'm sorry, that was actually my mistake, I should have been much more specific, and I will update the comment if I still can. My intention was to emphasize that Taiwan may have to start limiting electricity to its industrial sector
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
Scanning some of the early comments here, and acting as-if the oil and LNG disruptions is just a question of renewable investment is naive. This is the worst energy crisis in modern history, and little of the western world has really starte
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
If they were being honest they would ask explicitly for permission instead of advertising opt-out. Now you might ask: who will explicitly give Microsoft permission to train on their private works? No one will -- and that's the point:
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
Right, but it shouldn't be opt-out only to begin with. It's a dishonest pattern that relies on people not noticing. Honest use of data is a "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion" moment for me -- if this is how y
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
I honestly think it's a bad term. I constantly chuckle from Tyler Cowen's post from last April calling o3 AGI: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/04/o3... Commercial labs rely o
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
AGI is a marketing term used to encourage continued investment in an industry that is not even close to breaking even commensurate with its investment. Even so, this is a false dichotomy: scaling is clearly not a path on its own to superin
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
Most of this discourse feels like some kind of religious ritual built on the foundation of authority bias. Where is the evidence that skills improves performance over any other methodology outside of the fact of its nascent popularity? I d
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't work at a firm that requires vibe-coding. The hype train in tech is honestly nauseating, and the so-called productivity boost neither shows up in the data nor in qualitative elements (like shovelware
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
I think the OP's comment is entirely fair. Karpathy and others come across to me as people putting a hose into itself: they work with LLMs to produce output that is related to LLMs. I might reframe the comment as: are you actually usi
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
Your response reads much more like a strawman than my original comment. I’d challenge you to identify where in my post I said I wouldn’t use software that employs automation? It is pretty clear I am not talking about running CI for automate
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
I don't really think this is at all at the quality bar for posts here. This is obviously AI-slop -- why should I invest more time reading your slop than you took to write it? Even so, at what point do we consider the LLM-ification of
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
I totally agree. I've written about this topic a lot on this site, probably most recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47115597 The US is built on-top of a high value service economy. And what we'r
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
In my mind, AI is making a lot of engineers, including Carmack, seem fairly thoughtless. At the other moments in recent history where technology has displaced workers, labor has either had to fight some very bloody battles or had stronger l
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
This reads as incredibly damning to me. PR throughput should be a metric that is very supportive of the AI productivity narrative, but the effect is marginal. Before everyone gets at me: smoking cigarettes increases your risk of lung cance
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
The generic elevator music used for the demo video is highly representative of this whole concept: generic and derivative. Seriously though, Perplexity, like most of the AI wrapper companies, seems unable to innovate much beyond the query-r
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
As soon as you accept "we need to survive to do good," survival becomes the priority and the good becomes negotiable. And so every compromise reduces their ethical position a little more. Living in accordance with an ethical fram
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
You're being downvoted, but if Anthropic is going to deploy Claude for decision making in target prosecution it is clearly a "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion" moment. Association with is guilt unless proven otherw
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
Even if you don't care about the needless human suffering the US has caused from this operation, this conflict threatens global stability because of oil supply disruptions, and if the US keeps this up it could get quite bad very quickl
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by SirensOfTitan 6mo ago
I don’t see this reality in the style of interview being performed at all. Everyone has seemingly adopted the FAANG playbook for interviewing that doesn’t really select for people who like getting their hands dirty and building. These kinds
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by SirensOfTitan 7mo ago
Right. But this is about Anthropic -- a company frames itself as a responsible and ethical steward of LLM technology. They can't pretend that OpenAI is somehow morally bankrupt here while continuing to deal with companies that underm
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by SirensOfTitan 7mo ago
That's true. With the risks of LLMs applied to surveillance though, I think it's a "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion" moment. Association is guilt unless proven otherwise.
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by SirensOfTitan 7mo ago
Their data integration and sale allows for the government to surveil citizens without probable cause or warrants.
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by SirensOfTitan 7mo ago
Like others have already mentioned: I think Anthropic's relationship with Palantir undermines Amodei's narrative here. It actually feels like Dario is playing Sam's game better than Sam is. Those who know better please corre

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