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by api 3mo ago
That’s not the problem though. The problem is that most apps are malware.
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by api 3mo ago
Which means it doesn’t matter if the code is from AI or not. If it’s not good it’s not good.
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by api 3mo ago
This is why I avoid installing apps and don’t have a lot of them.
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by api 3mo ago
Get off social media. It’s trash. It was trash before AI and it’s trash now.
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by api 3mo ago
That predates AI and has more to do with the incentives baked into media, especially social media that’s all about “time on app” and “time on site” and therefore infinite scroll brain rot.
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by api 3mo ago
I honestly find this a little deranged. I’ve read some AI generated prose before and it’s… boring. It tends to be the mathematical average of all stories, with plots that are heavy on cliche and tropes played straight. If I read a book like
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by api 3mo ago
Quake compiled in C will run insanely fast at 8K full resolution on an M1.
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by api 3mo ago
Some aging mechanisms like telomeres are also mechanisms to prevent cancer by limiting cell division. It looks like one of the optimization edges walked by evolution is a conflict between longevity and the ability to repair and regenerate v
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by api 3mo ago
Markets are very good at a lot of important things, but the idea that’s taken hold in many places is market fundamentalism. It’s the idea that the market should run absolutely everything and if the market doesn’t do it, it has no value. It’
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by api 3mo ago
Link for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect Baumol plus zoning and NIMBY driven real estate hyperinflation basically explain the modern economic malaise among especially the young. I’ve also heard
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by api 3mo ago
Stop this race to the bottom stuff. You know what else is a luxury and always has been? HVAC, transportation, anything beyond maybe emergency medicine, Internet access, education, drinkable tap water, … The fact that the bulk of the US popu
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by api 3mo ago
It’s that wages have not risen with inflation.
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by api 3mo ago
I'm referring to this, which has aged quite poorly: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-ele...
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by api 3mo ago
Puppy cannons. Puppy carpet bombing.
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by api 3mo ago
The irony is that the people who screamed the most that Rome was on fire aggressively pushed for what you brilliantly call Moron Power. They thought we were crashing, rushed the cockpit, and pushed forward as hard as they could on the stick
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by api 3mo ago
They use what looks like an impossible computational result to back into the idea that this is indirect evidence that gravity is quantized. The controversy here is whether gravity is continuous (as classical Einstein models it) all the way
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by api 3mo ago
They cost money or take many hours of time. Many families have neither. For the record I’m not a fan of the way this stuff is being pushed. At the same time, I feel like a lot of people are totally out of touch on a lot of the reasons why s
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by api 3mo ago
After the election my very first thought was that this is the start of the Chinese century, since America has voted to step down. Seems to be playing out.
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by api 3mo ago
I’ve wondered for a while if anyone is working on very wide channel parallel (kind of like RAID 0) SSD for this purpose. Couple that with a tensor processor and that would be interesting.
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by api 3mo ago
A point I don’t often see made is: the argument that “the parents need to parent” is unintentionally classist. Wealthier people who can afford to have one parent stay home or have babysitters or nannies who will actually supervise the kid c
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by api 3mo ago
To be honest and objective, I think he at least knows enough about engineering to hire people who know what they're doing, which is how he got here. It's not all chicanery. Over time, though, I think he's drifted away from hi
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by api 3mo ago
I realized a while back that Elon Musk isn't Iron Man. His superhero (or supervillain depending on your view) persona is ZIRP Man, the master of riding successive credit expansion and speculative waves. It's sort of ironic that he
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by api 3mo ago
It’s almost like the stuff the IPv6 people and the P2P protocol people have said for 25 years was true and correct but nobody listened or cared.
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by api 3mo ago
It’s a demand spike.
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by api 3mo ago
The same thing happened around PCs, gaming, the Internet, the web, and cryptocurrency. It's a hit driven industry that loves hype.
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by api 3mo ago
Nerds are no better or worse than other people. Dump massive money and power into an industry and you will get unhinged shit like this that bubbles to the surface. Some of it is the mask falling off and some of it is people genuinely gettin
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by api 3mo ago
Programming has already become this way. Opinions about different languages and architectures are taste, or sometimes even just vibes. Few try to actually ask “can I quantify whether microservices or monoliths are better in terms of either
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by api 3mo ago
That would be a lot still. That’s a lot of money. I’d bet on extreme irresponsibility.
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by api 3mo ago
Misanthropic levels of cynicism is always the fallacy of self-exclusion. "People are idiots." Well, that means you're an idiot then.
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by api 3mo ago
This is the right answer. There's a ton of easy low hanging fruit ways to do absolutely horrible evil things with high potential body counts. I could sit here and brainstorm dozens.

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