ecocentrik

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by ecocentrik 19d ago
Politics is frequently a game of semantic drift. The application of labels with unclear meaning to further dilute meaning or extend it for the purpose of engagement, legal reclassification... it's not engineering and you can't exp
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by ecocentrik 23d ago
You don't see how those conditions amplify each other?
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by ecocentrik 26d ago
Most major industrialized nations have gone through something like this and it usually takes much longer than 10 years to escape and correct.
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by ecocentrik 1mo ago
It isn't. It's about convicting generational groups, particularly the younger ones that don't know any better, that they have specific preferences.
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by ecocentrik 1mo ago
Why should open weights correlate with cost? Cost correlates with the expense of running the model more than it does to the expense of developing the model.
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by ecocentrik 2mo ago
Social media in it's current form is already dying to the explosion in synthetic interaction but the internet could survive and reshape itself.
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by ecocentrik 2mo ago
It would be so simple if businesses could choose their competition or simplify disallow modes of competition they found inconvenient. I can't imagine any amount of regulation would make that possible in today's competitive landsca
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by ecocentrik 2mo ago
That was a typo... thanks. I wasn't suggesting that he or anyone else is 100% altruistic but he seems like he genuinely thrives on collaboration.
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by ecocentrik 2mo ago
This news is a month old.
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by ecocentrik 2mo ago
You should really look into who Jack Conte is and why he created Patreon. He's a smart guy who relies heavily on maintaining a positive social image and is more emotionally aware and stable than most tech founders. I imagine from his p
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by ecocentrik 2mo ago
Even founders that don't naturally empathize with employees they need to cut encounter a process that is emotionally taxing. It's just not an easy thing to do. If you handle layoffs badly it can impact your earnings potential, you
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by ecocentrik 2mo ago
The first time I saw a giant floating tv billboard at the beach was the first time I felt the urge to sink a vessel. I found it offensive but everyone else seemed to just accept it as normal.
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by ecocentrik 2mo ago
His organization is The Linux Foundation.
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by ecocentrik 2mo ago
That sounds dangerously like your organization has overcommitted to AI, is hemorrhaging money and is squeezing their human engineers to make up the difference.
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by ecocentrik 3mo ago
AI was always going to be geo-politically fragmentary. As soon as we started talking about it like a utility it was clear that every country was going to be strongly limited to the resources it could develop and the infrastructure it could
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by ecocentrik 3mo ago
The developers of Prince of Persia still talking about the game more than 30 years later seems very bizarre to me. I remember a game called Flashback having very a similar graphical sprite animation innovation around the time PoP was releas
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by ecocentrik 3mo ago
Reading the first few paragraphs of what he calls "the most sophisticated academic social science paper I have yet seen from an AI" does not impress as much as I hoped. "Posterior beliefs about market demand are purely refere
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by ecocentrik 3mo ago
Gold bars are his top preference.
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by ecocentrik 4mo ago
Now you're arguing against your own analogy? Hunter was ubiquitous position in human society prior to the domestication of animals. 50% of the workforce in hunter-gather societies. Today, 12 millennia after the domestication of wildlif
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by ecocentrik 4mo ago
We don't need as many hunters because we've domesticated sources of meat. We still need ranchers, butchers... an entire supply chain to get meat to consumers. We didn't remove humans from the loop, we just created specializat
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by ecocentrik 4mo ago
Languages have been reporting compile and runtime errors for decades. Additionally very few senior developers don't already have their minds wired to spot typos the way copy editors spot bad punctuation. Typos were only really a proble
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by ecocentrik 4mo ago
The capacity of the person prompting it to understand is the threshold they won't cross. They can squeeze the gap as much as possible by dumbing down answers or slowly ramping up information complexity but there is a limit to comprehen
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by ecocentrik 4mo ago
Glib is called for. The amount of information asymmetry that's still on the table as vibe coders and vibe engineers and vibe doctors emerge is staggering. Professional experience is still incredibly valuable. Most software developers m
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by ecocentrik 5mo ago
The idea that anything can still be buried in a filling is equally ridiculous
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by ecocentrik 5mo ago
Try loading the models up in a coding harness like Claude Code. There's a few docx skills listed on Vercel's skill index. https://skills.sh/tfriedel/claude-office-skills/docx
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by ecocentrik 5mo ago
When was the last time you used Qwen models? Their 3.5 and 3.6 models are excellent with tool calling.
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by ecocentrik 5mo ago
Good homogenous experience is the hallmark of good design. There are no surprises with good design. It just works the way you expect it to work. Good design should not generally challenge your expectations.
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by ecocentrik 5mo ago
They are clearly straining under new demand and everyone is being served highly quantized models without notice.
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by ecocentrik 5mo ago
Oil producers that weren't disrupted over the last few weeks.
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by ecocentrik 6mo ago
Tests for correctness, self similarity, duplication of concerns, contradictory statutes, edge case detection, cruft or outdated laws that muddy the waters... If the full compliment of software development practices were applied to legislati

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