alun

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by alun 9d ago
The Cornucopia looks like the cybertruck of urinals.
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by alun 9d ago
Not to advocate for the diamond cartels, but your logic that equal diamond quality implies equal price feels wrong. Otherwise, a perfect replica of the Mona Lisa would cost the same as the original.
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by alun 20d ago
How ironic
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by alun 21d ago
It would have been cool if they had made the bird resemble a phoenix.
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by alun 21d ago
I think his idea of taxing AI tokens would do more harm than good. It would only make AI more expensive, which would create the exact inequality effect that he is trying to prevent.
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by alun 22d ago
I had the same thought as PG (although I'm considerably older than 17). The playing field in software development has been leveled by AI, which led me to wonder how you can get ahead of the curve. My current answer is to understand bot
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by alun 22d ago
Very fun read. Thanks for posting it!
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by alun 27d ago
Obviously a lot of depression is genetic or due to some unfortunate life circumstance. It's got nothing to do with intelligence. But what I've also noticed is that a lot of people with unbalanced lifestyles end up becoming depress
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by alun 1mo ago
One thing I've been thinking about recently is whether being open source is good or bad for security. Open source obviously makes software more auditable, but in an age of LLMs whose intelligence is increasing at an exponential rate, i
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by alun 1mo ago
Agreed. It's not just a reduction in size, but a reduction in general quality. For example, my preferred NIVEA roll-on deodorant used to come in a glass bottle and now it comes in a plastic one. I suspect shrinkflation has a lot to do
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by alun 1mo ago
The author misses one potential future of AI software where people use use their own subscriptions / API keys for their AI usage. In this scenario the user would either sign into the platform via their Anthropic / OpenAI / Ge
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by alun 2mo ago
Maybe it's just me, but I don't actually feel any discomfort while sitting for 3 minutes doing nothing. Do most people actually struggle with that like the article says?
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by alun 2mo ago
I love the author's attitude. In my writing, I'll probably consider using en dashes ("-") in place of em dashes ("—") in the way he describes. While it technically won't be grammatically correct, it'l
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by alun 2mo ago
I disagree. It's a high signal article that can create great discussions on what people on HN have reverse-engineered with AI. For example, just yesterday I reverse engineered the internal API of a SAAS tool we use and it allowed me to
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by alun 3mo ago
Fun. I could see myself playing this while on the train, etc.
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by alun 3mo ago
Aside from the fact that they're judging you based on who you were as a minor, it's interesting how it was a startup that asked for this and not a large corporation, given that modern US public schooling is more optimized toward
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by alun 3mo ago
I kind of like how it breaks the layout, since it's such a ridiculous word
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by alun 3mo ago
Nice! Some feedback: The score it shows doesn't really mean anything to me. I think it would be more interesting for the user to know how they rank (perhaps in percentile terms) relative to the overall english-speaking population and&#
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by alun 3mo ago
Anecdotally, when it comes to talking to strangers I've often felt it's easier to converse with older people than those my own age. For example, the conversations feel more genuine and less "forced" on both sides, and ov
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by alun 4mo ago
Sending AI-generated messages can also be disrespectful to the recipient. Personally, I often just don't bother responding when I receive low-effort messages that are clearly AI-generated.
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by alun 4mo ago
Yeah this one definitely seems like the wrong approach. I prefer the approach of the other professor who makes her students write the code by hand (with the analogy of how grade schoolers learn basic algebra by hand before they are allowed
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by alun 4mo ago
Seems reasonable to build a cryptocurrency around this. The network could pay the cryptocurrency out to users dedicating resources. Have you thought about that?
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by alun 4mo ago
Very interesting. Beyond ideological motivation, I’m curious what the long-term incentive is for someone to run a peer. For example, if Freenet were to reach scale, it could eventually need some kind of economic primitive around it. Somethi
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by alun 4mo ago
Sounds like it did
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by alun 5mo ago
It's interesting how Anthropic haven't shipped their own IDE for more vertical integration. All it would take is implementing their own forked version of VSCode (like Cursor did) and making Claude the default choice. Obviously I&#
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by alun 6mo ago
A lot of people become "stuck in their ways" as they get older. Marc saying this about introspection might be an example of it starting to happen to him. By definition, "being stuck in your own ways" is having a lack of
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by alun 6mo ago
It feels like these weight-loss drugs distract from the underlying issue which is that obesity is mostly caused by an unhealthy lifestyle. It amazes me that we live in a world where people need an injection just to appear healthy. Most of t
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by alun 7mo ago
Yeah I think where we fundamentally disagree is what prediction markets should be optimizing for. If the goal is to produce the most accurate forecast possible, then informed traders (especially asymmetrically informed traders) are a featur
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by alun 7mo ago
The actual economic theory behind prediction markets (if you read Robin Hanson's work, efficient market hypothesis, etc.) is that these markets work precisely because informed traders bring private information into the price. That&#x27
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by alun 7mo ago
This may be an unpopular opinion, but calling it insider trading misses the entire point of what prediction markets are built for. The goal of a prediction market is to be able to forecast the future as accurately as possible. Restricting i

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