ahnick

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by ahnick 15d ago
Look if we are going to raid pensions and 401Ks to prop up the valuation targets of Anthropic and OpenAI longer, then the bubble can stretch further and further, but eventually datacenters have to get built and powered. It's the power
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by ahnick 24d ago
You do understand the genesis of Firefox and Javascript, yes?
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by ahnick 1mo ago
Incorrect. It's always been a problem. Go back and look what has happened to the purchasing power of the dollar throughout the 1900s. If the dollar is losing purchasing power you can hedge that loss by buying Gold, commodities or crypt
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by ahnick 1mo ago
This is what cryptocurrencies do, but remove the need for an intermediary and codify the rules in software, so it is much harder (near impossible?) for politicians to manipulate the money supply.
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by ahnick 1mo ago
cryptocurrencies solved the double-spend problem for digital currencies. There is no ongoing search. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-spending
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by ahnick 1mo ago
It will likely be a cryptocurrency or perhaps a basket of cryptocurrencies. You essentially want a way to store wealth directly on the Internet as it is the fastest and easiest way to reassign ownership of money or collateral. The nice bene
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by ahnick 1mo ago
The US is not going to go bankrupt, but the purchasing power of the dollar will continue to go down and down and down.
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by ahnick 1mo ago
I'll tell you what is going to happen, b/c it is happening as we speak. The U.S. Government is soft-defaulting on the debt by devaluing the currency. (The debasement rate is somewhere in the 7%-8% range) There will never be a real
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by ahnick 2mo ago
This societal view that you are a powerless NPC slave to ones desires/addictions is highly toxic. It is not in fact binary for most people and people do have free will to make different choices. To absolve the individual of accountabil
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by ahnick 2mo ago
Alternatively: As a society we don't think ALL minors have sufficient executive function to make those decisions, so we let parents who do make that decision.
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by ahnick 2mo ago
The EU Council are some of the worst offenders when it comes to annoying cookie banners. All regulation and compliance do is make things more burdensome for new entrants, which inevitably allows big companies to build moats that don't
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by ahnick 2mo ago
What's very obviously unnecessary is the need for a law to police this. You can just not use things you don't like. This need to project one's own morality upon others will be the source of endless conflict.
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by ahnick 3mo ago
Been remote since 2013 and can confirm Monday afternoon shopping is the alpha. ;-)
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by ahnick 3mo ago
what do you or others use instead?
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by ahnick 4mo ago
I thought distillation meant small models don't have to compete with the big models and can always eventually achieve close parity, but it's just a matter of time to do the distillation? (i.e. how much lag do you want to live with
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by ahnick 4mo ago
The reason why you will never get software engineers (in companies) to accept the man behind the curtain is liability. If a human software engineer is still responsible for what happens when the AI developed code has a catastrophic bug or s
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by ahnick 6mo ago
For sure Freud and modern therapy as practiced today are very different. Freud influenced the language, structure, and goals of talk therapy more than the exact methods most therapists use now. Modern therapy kept many of his clinical obser
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by ahnick 6mo ago
People have been doing self-examination for a long time, but Freud's use of psychoanalysis is a fairly modern phenomenon and it's benefits are dubious. Modern therapy looks increasingly like pseudoscience. I expect biotech/AI
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by ahnick 6mo ago
Introspection is the conscious examination of one’s own mental, emotional, and cognitive processes to improve self-awareness. I think Marc's critique here is a lot of what can be learned about past mistakes is outside of an individual&
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by ahnick 6mo ago
This blog post and all the comments in response feel very tautological. I think Marc has a fairly simple point here, which is don't spend time dwelling on the past. Learn from the past, take away information about how things can be i
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by ahnick 6mo ago
The best Visa/Mastercard of crypto already exists and is called Flexa. ( https://flexa.co/payments#pricing )
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by ahnick 6mo ago
> laws are only as good as we have systems in place that are willing and ABLE to enforce them. The 'able' part is the critical insight. Laws are too often passed that really have no ability to be enforced, but end up adding bur
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by ahnick 6mo ago
Classic incentive misalignment for us plebs. The platforms want(need?) their advertising revenue.
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by ahnick 6mo ago
Okay, so what's the best solution? What's even just a better solution than Docker? I mean really truly lay out all the details here or link to a blog post that describes in excruciating detail how they shipped a web application an
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by ahnick 7mo ago
Wrongheaded strategies that net you bad results, often result in lessons and ideas that can be further pursued on their own merits.
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by ahnick 7mo ago
Yet here you are.
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by ahnick 7mo ago
We know there is a real problem, awareness is not the issue. (I've been aware of it since the mid 90's) It is ignored by large industries and governments. The incessant pounding of the useless drum of individual action continues t
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by ahnick 7mo ago
Yes, exactly my point as well. It cuts both ways.
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by ahnick 7mo ago
That is short hand. The problem exists of course, but it is improbable that it will actually occur in our lifetimes. An asteroid could slam into the earth or a gamma ray burst could sanitize the planet of all life. We could also experience
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by ahnick 7mo ago
This happens even today. If a knowledgeable person leaves a company and no KT (or more likely, poor KT) takes place, then there will be no one left to understand how certain systems work. This means the company will have to have a new devel

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