edgyquant

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by edgyquant 3d ago
China has succeeded so much by moving away from a planned economy when they were fully planned they were one of the poorest nations in the world. Most successful nations are mixed economies and yes, this is a settled question.
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by edgyquant 3d ago
Is Anthropic turning a profit? I thought that was only when considering discounted compute from spaceX
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by edgyquant 5d ago
How is that like a normal job?
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by edgyquant 6d ago
World War 2 did not demonstrate that, the USSR (and arguably the US) proved the exact opposite by conquering entire continents. What kind of narrative even is this?
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by edgyquant 6d ago
Defense was an Orwellian spin on the greatest warfighting organization in the history of the world. This quote does nothing to change anything but is some weird appeal to authority when no authority is needed
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by edgyquant 6d ago
It absolutely could be the case a person in a manic episode lays off a bunch of people that wouldn’t be out of the question at all
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by edgyquant 6d ago
I don’t know I think it’s really rich to see people who’ve spent a generation hooking the world on dopamine machines and making society full of hate suddenly act like those who work in the MIC are “going to far.” People working at big tech
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by edgyquant 7d ago
Making bad financial decisions is a symptom of mania though
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by edgyquant 7d ago
I always love the “paranoid fantasy” one because all electrics are spy devices and they are spying on you
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by edgyquant 8d ago
It tells an agent what tools are available and the scenarios when they should be called. This does a ton of work when working with agents
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by edgyquant 8d ago
Everyone calls it chat. I am technical and even I’ve come around to calling it that because that is what everyone, including very technical people, call the product.
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by edgyquant 9d ago
Just this this weekend got a cabin on the Mississippi and went totally no phones or tv. Wife and I spent the weekend reading, doing yoga and playing checkers.
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by edgyquant 12d ago
Mcp just wraps the existing calls with a description of when to use them. Why would you write a cli for something like this? And clis generally have a help call but that doesn’t say when to use a tool just what it does
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by edgyquant 12d ago
You first authenticate via the phone (you can run an initial api call on phone start,) save session credentials in state on 11labs side and can then pass them back to future tool calls. You can then authenticate via a passcode if you wish
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by edgyquant 12d ago
Even with a cli it doesn’t have a nice list of all commands and a nice description of when to call such a tool
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by edgyquant 12d ago
MCP is not just a rest api its a layer on top
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by edgyquant 14d ago
Can you give an example of what you’re saying here? Companies spin up and vanish?
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by edgyquant 14d ago
It’s quite literally not analogous as breaking up companies has happened a bunch but no one has ever unscrambled an omelet
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by edgyquant 15d ago
Sure but I mean the community as a whole. Why has there been allowed to be a reproducibility problem at all? Why has the consensus not always been that without provably reproducible results it’s not to be taken seriously?
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by edgyquant 15d ago
There are two possibilities. One is that half the country are total idiots and the people leading them, and leading the country, are also total idiots who only got into power because half the country are, again, complete idiots below avera
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by edgyquant 15d ago
Looking for freelance ops, preferably with early/seed stage startups. I'm located in Madison, WI, happy to work with remote founders or if you're close enough meet in person. Have been a 2x founding engineer TrustedFor (YC19)
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by edgyquant 15d ago
Another annoyance is the “genres” in your liked songs. They change seemingly at random and when you select a genre eg country it has the most ass backwards way of grouping songs so I’ll get rap songs playing despite having selected folk or
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by edgyquant 15d ago
That’s different as I don’t think anyone needs science to feel the benefits of yoga or breathwork but lots of people want to enact policies based social studies that are not able to be reproduced.
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by edgyquant 16d ago
Why do we even accept anything as true without replication by default?
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by edgyquant 16d ago
No it isn’t? There is no database and no querying for specific words. An llm reads a big ass block of text and determines if any of those lines are applicable, that is nothing like a database being queried
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by edgyquant 16d ago
How does it sound like rag exactly? Rag queries a database and injects the results memory doesn’t do this
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by edgyquant 16d ago
Memory isn’t the same thing as rag it’s usually just a text based index of past events and the llm reads it and decides what’s important rather than querying a db
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by edgyquant 18d ago
Only according the far left, in reality this is not true and shouldn’t even be entertained except to a laugh at people trying this hard to shift the Overton window in their favor
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by edgyquant 19d ago
Where does consciousness appear in biology? It’s a philosophical/metaphysical concept so far as I can tell
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by edgyquant 19d ago
Appealing to credentials is irrelevant and bad faith, the fact is your ability to make a good living purely in services is irrelevant to the fact that nations have real national defense to consider and the last 80 years of global trade has

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