curuinor

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by curuinor 4d ago
Feudalism is about the right to violence. Do any of these organizations have private armies? No private armies (I suppose in modern times, also private air forces, tank battalions, nuclear warheads and nuclear triads, drone divisions...), n
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by curuinor 4d ago
They define "frontier lab" in terms of cost-effectiveness, but LLM stuff is going down in price for a given model with a robust software-sized growth curve. It's just that there's a model size war going on. So any cost-e
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by curuinor 7d ago
If someone tells you up, down and sideways that they follow an idealpolitik view of the world, they really are usually doing realpolitik. If someone tells you up, down and sideways that they follow a realpolitik view of the world, they usua
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by curuinor 12d ago
All sovereign bond demand will decrease generally, because of the failure of defined benefit pensions everywhere. Basically nobody new with any sense in the private sector does them, they're being phased out in the public sector, and t
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by curuinor 15d ago
You pay $2 million to some ambitious someone and you get a serious chance (1-3%, still counts as a serious chance) to have some ostensible societal benefit. Get a factory made or some software written or something else done. You pay $2 mill
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by curuinor 16d ago
Any serious career programmer knows in their bones that it's a miracle that anything works at all. Now the general public is getting to learn that fact, by everything systematically breaking. Or getting hacked, in this case.
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by curuinor 16d ago
The business-building is not zero sum, but the trading is zero-sum, and the societal purpose of the thing is to provide liquidity
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by curuinor 16d ago
Workaday copywriting is dead (was moribund, now has been shot in the head). Prestige literary writing is zero-sum and therefore eternal, in the same way that equities trading (not formation and not business-building) is zero-sum and therefo
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by curuinor 16d ago
LLM can't have legitimacy in doing things to human beings, because it's impossible for LLM to have political legitimacy. Political legitimacy in modern societies is already a vicious zero-sum game with a tiny elite having any in t
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by curuinor 19d ago
Being a high-performing sort of peep is radically contingent on situation, context and the fit of the peep and the environment. So saying, ontologically, that someone is a 10x or in this case an even more foolish 100x engineer is not a cohe
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by curuinor 19d ago
Is it not just the climate movement, full stop? This stuff is using rather a lot of power...
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by curuinor 19d ago
As Nassim Taleb puts it, you often get gluts that aren’t followed by shortages, but it’s very rare to get a shortage that’s not followed by a glut. (from the article) I think this is also politically contingent upon the general world gran
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by curuinor 19d ago
https://archive.is/LdagP
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by curuinor 20d ago
It's like the progression from manual labor as a society to mass automation of everything physical. Even construction workers have to go to the gym. You'll have to do gym things with the mind, too, now. But gym things are not actu
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by curuinor 20d ago
"Reactionary" is your vocab word, therefore
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by curuinor 20d ago
They can all do that, peep
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by curuinor 21d ago
Probably need to schlep to a real gallery to reliably avoid such things, anyhow
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by curuinor 21d ago
I work at CodeRabbit, although I am posting in a personal capacity, but can say that a great swathe of it will be in cash, not just product credit, and it's not going to be just 5%. Although there will be product credit. Previous donat
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by curuinor 22d ago
You cannot separate that ideology (like any ideology) from the practitioners, and the biggest practitioner was unquestionably Sam Bankman-Fried. I'm not a fan.
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by curuinor 22d ago
I am from the wrong continent to be inculcated in country music from an early age, but I read books distributed from her program every week to the niece. So that's probably her more durable contribution to society, I think.
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by curuinor 22d ago
Look. Zitron always gets shit on in HN because he's wrong a lot about scope and scale and stuff and gets fixated on stuff that basically doesn't matter like ARR being ARR. I don't think fans care. It's that he fights the
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by curuinor 22d ago
Murder is always systematically kind of a dramatic act. We are definitely going to get a prediction market murder in <5 years, I think.
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by curuinor 22d ago
Look. This is a new golden age of cocaine, because of the big cuts in everything in the US took away the cocaine busting operations in Colombia and Bolivia, because the revolutionaries that previously kept control of it stood down and becam
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by curuinor 23d ago
DJI, BYD, Anker have serious moats. China is not an unindividuated mass
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by curuinor 23d ago
I sometimes say "in the style of Ciechanowski" to LLM presentations I make to myself to learn things, and it creates great JS visualizations. Is this plagiarism (... whatever it is) of the style of "in the style of ..."
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by curuinor 23d ago
probably not their actual name. if you need a search term, qiao乔于yu is better than qiao yu. better read chinese. they've long deleted the actual video, of course
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Use prime numbers to schedule repeating tasks(howonlee.github.io)
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by curuinor 1mo ago
"weakening" and "strengthening" often confuses lay peeps really hard on this subject, as a plain source of confusion. "cheaper" and "more expensive" are frankly better words
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by curuinor 1mo ago
It's like 6-7 CNY to USD right now. If that goes to 1 or 2 (if the CNY rises dramatically in price wrt the USD), then everything imported from China to the US explodes in price. Explosion in price, the imports reduce dramatically. So C
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by curuinor 1mo ago
CNY displacing USD would entail allowing people outside China to buy really significant quantities of CNY-denominated financial products. This would entail CNY/USD changing so CNY is more expensive, because the default currency for fin

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