arthurofbabylon

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by arthurofbabylon 2mo ago
It is the job given to low status men who cannot qualify for other jobs. Every society deals with its low status men in some form or another — in many US regions it is becoming a cop, in Russia it is being sent to war, historically it was b
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by arthurofbabylon 2mo ago
You — like other reactive commenters — missed the point. You are welcome to like suburbs, I don’t care. But you would be a fool to believe that the current state is optimal and that an awareness of better designs would not impact the prospe
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by arthurofbabylon 2mo ago
I believe Americans are naive to the bad deal they're currently sitting with. It is the most materially wealthy place on earth, yet with terrible distribution – this is not a technical problem, it is a cultural problem. My favorite exa
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by arthurofbabylon 2mo ago
> “ Can you think of a time in tech when a new method…” 1. Apple/Google exposure notifications during the latest pandemic. 2. The Signal Protocol. 3. Differential Privacy (DWork et al) deployed by the US Census and Apple/Goog
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by arthurofbabylon 2mo ago
It is a markup language with a corresponding input mode.
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by arthurofbabylon 2mo ago
There's considerable cynicism in these comments and I have to suspect a puritan bent in most of them. No, no one is watching you. No, these cameras are not here to catch you doing bad things. The purpose is very clear: reduce roadway m
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by arthurofbabylon 2mo ago
See also https://minimal.app/mnml-formatting.html , with code blocks recently added
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
Correction: you can judge an analysis poorly and incorrectly .
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
I'm sure the analysis could be expanded – why don't you give your try at an essay? If you write it, I'll read it. How much should the essay be expanded? Surely we don't want a 1:1 scale model of reality. We probably shou
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
The author is Swiss – your ad hominem attach fails twice. And again, I'll direct you to original point of my above comment and a point made in the essay: if you want to be effective you'll need to look past ideology to see the act
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
Look, as mentioned in the prior comment there are varying spreads of performance across geography (including in Switzerland), and while you might be experiencing one expression of that variance (good internet connection in Utah) you need to
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
I'll briefly reiterate the essay's primary point, for your convenience, which is agnostic to population size: when a natural monopoly exists, the best solution – regardless of ideology – is to make the underlying infrastructure at
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
I’m seeing a lot of misplaced cynicism in the comments, much of which fails to deal with the subject matter of the article. The US really does have a capitalism crisis with declining competition — it does not require any form of special int
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
There really is this bias — it’s crazy. Not just the name “Swiss,” but allusions to the Swiss flag, Swiss typography, other Swiss branding. It almost looks like some of the products are state run. (Also, the internet connection actually is
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
“Already lost” — Culture doesn’t move towards an end state that is homeostatic, it keeps on evolving. The web will keep on evolving, digital tech and communications will keep on evolving. And as documented in the essay, there has in the pas
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We Need a Way to Prove Online Personhood(noemamag.com)
7 points by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago|7 comments
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
I think your model of open/closed is incomplete and thus misleading. There are more states to a process than "active" and "inactive," and it is not optimal for the system to simply move processes between those two g
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
As information flows abundantly, and as information processing flows more abundantly, where will the bottlenecks in the system emerge? It surely won't be in design and production. It probably won't be in chips, infrastructure, a
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
I don’t think that comparing LLM’s to the printing press (and radio, film, TV, etc) is an apt analogy, and I don’t think that people have said the same things about the two technologies; the prior technological changes in information dealt
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
Let's imagine that Anthropic/OpenAI fail to manufacture scarcity by villainizing Open Weight models (a sincere probability). What is left for these corporations to prop up their prices, or any margin at all? I expect scaffolding a
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
Author here. I chose the biology references for two reasons. 1) I love nature 2) It seemed to provide the most distant examples of IR from what most of us are familiar with. Of course compilers are probably the most obvious example of Inter
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Architecting a Conversion Engine in Swift(blog.minimal.app)
33 points by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago|7 comments
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
> “ Written by a human.” Thank you.
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by arthurofbabylon 3mo ago
“ No part of the prose was machine-generated. You will not find machine-written prose on this blog. I consider it deeply disrespectful.” <3
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by arthurofbabylon 4mo ago
While I am ideologically aligned with the author (ie, humans matter) and agree with their proposed interventions (progressive taxation, spread the base of capital across society, aggressive antitrust enforcement) and appreciate the thrust o
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by arthurofbabylon 4mo ago
I would argue that we almost are in that exact position, except rather than “low employment” per se it is more like “low compensation” or unequal distribution. Consider for a moment our incredible material wealth. We have a surplus of nearl
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by arthurofbabylon 4mo ago
Relatedly, I'm convinced that humans cannot achieve any form of peak performance in any domain (athletics, art, business, community organizing) without consistently going for walks. We're all aware of the programmer working at a p
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by arthurofbabylon 4mo ago
The article details costs and leaves two big ones out. First, opportunity cost: lot of folks rent instead of own on the basis of keeping assets in higher-performing market sectors. Second (and perhaps actually an expression of the first), a
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by arthurofbabylon 4mo ago
The hiring brand is Ferrari. Its entire business is predicated on a Paris-Hilton-style effect, whereby it is famous for being famous. Tactics like hiring Jony Ive are a common way to keep this virtuous cycle afloat. It's not really abo
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by arthurofbabylon 4mo ago
It’s surprising just how low the revenue is for SpaceX. There are some 700+ companies with larger revenue figures, and yet just a small handful exceed SpaceX’s proposed valuation. In 2026 one gets the impression that SpaceX is a huge compan

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