jameslk

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New Colorado Library Has Camping Gear(5280.com)
1 points by jameslk 7d ago|0 comments
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by jameslk 20d ago
> This presupposes that a company's competitive advantage comes primarily from their CEO. It’s the premise of the thought experiment: to be able to make a profit, the AI executor must achieve a competitive advantage in the market. I
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by jameslk 21d ago
At what point does a company become a company if one person doesn’t make a company? What’s the threshold for non-labor where a company becomes a company?
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by jameslk 21d ago
Yes I would think that would be the endgame goal. But in practice, I’m very skeptical a purely AI-driven executor can stay competitive when the market and government supporting it and surrounding it is driven by humans
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by jameslk 21d ago
In a 1-person company, who or what generates a profit?
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by jameslk 21d ago
I get it’s a joke, and often a frequent cynical joke made here, but I actually think it’s a good thought experiment. Almost like a new Turing test The thought experiment, to be clear, is building an artificially intelligent CEO or company f
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Amazon's Zoox to begin charging for rides in Las Vegas after clearing NHTSA(cnbc.com)
1 points by jameslk 2mo ago|0 comments
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by jameslk 2mo ago
> Since it's a democracy, if it was an issue people cared about, they would have voted in someone in local/state/national level who would oppose surveillance, no? The US is a representative democracy, which means US citize
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by jameslk 2mo ago
> But a bit weird how a core American "surveillance = big no no" belief was thrown out in a few years. I can't speak for China since I'm not as familiar with that culture, but as for the US, the culture has not change
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Uncle Bob: My current strategy is to not read any of the code by my agents(twitter.com)
14 points by jameslk 2mo ago|4 comments
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by jameslk 3mo ago
That's wild. If Anthropic is willing to risk ruining the trust of their userbase for the sake of protecting their moat, it makes me wonder how strong of a moat they have to begin with
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by jameslk 3mo ago
That overall drop in share of income since 2000 is related to the "giant sucking sound" Ross Perot warned about in 1992: "It's pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can m
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by jameslk 3mo ago
The submitted title is a bit sensationalist given the article’s conclusion: > Is this decline a distinct change from the recent behavior of the labor share in the U.S.? Along the two key dimensions we investigate, our answer is no. Firs
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by jameslk 3mo ago
The great aging of working populations: China: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Populati... Japan: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e&#
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by jameslk 3mo ago
I'm highly anticipating the answer to the great question of life, the universe, and everything On a more serious note, I found this interesting from TFA: > The biggest question, though, is what sorts of rules should be put in those
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by jameslk 3mo ago
Most big companies attract rule followers. They err on the side of avoiding taking risks like this, which is why they work there (and why there’s so many in this thread talking about rules). It benefits big companies to have mostly rule fol
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by jameslk 3mo ago
I honestly can't think of a reason why you bothered say it, given that the quote from TFA addresses it
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by jameslk 3mo ago
That's the point of why they're doing it. From TFA: "Private equity investors are turning to AI-generated replicas of software to assess whether acquisition targets have a competitive advantage [...] 'We are leveraging v
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by jameslk 3mo ago
In the article, they explain the goal of vibe coding prototypes is not to rebuild software, but to test the defensibility of businesses based on their software so they can decide whether to acquire them or not
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by jameslk 3mo ago
From TFA: “We are leveraging vibecoding to show what a software company can and can’t do, to understand where it fits in the value chain and to understand whether it is the actual code that is the defensible part of the business or somethin
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Chinese AI models have overtaken US rivals in token consumption(ft.com)
4 points by jameslk 3mo ago|1 comments
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by jameslk 3mo ago
The common thread here is that it is China. Before the 2010s and earlier, the US wasn't so concerned about China, but ever since then, China has been a big US concern for it being a technology and military rival e.g. the Investigative
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by jameslk 3mo ago
> If every company uses the same AI tools to optimise the same metrics, the optimisation itself becomes commodity. Everyone has the same chatbot, the same personalisation engine, the same churn predictor. The floor rises for everyone sim
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by jameslk 3mo ago
> Rationalizing the policy is a serious error, I think. It's a political move by a group that has more power in conditions of nationalism, economic and otherwise. I think both are true and feed on each other to gain populist momentu
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by jameslk 3mo ago
Well that's kinda my point. If we could all afford yachts tomorrow because AI robot factories made it a commodity like Swiss watches of yore[0], we'd all be buying yachts. And instead of bickering about not being able to afford ya
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by jameslk 3mo ago
> You are correct that there are additional steps here, but wealth is growing increasingly concentrated, and the burden of proof is on the person claiming that trend won't continue. Whoa there internet friend! I don't think I s
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by jameslk 3mo ago
We can’t magically skip steps. It’s like South Park’s underwear gnomes. We’re missing steps in between and hand waving them away
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by jameslk 3mo ago
I’m talking about how many people lived in the past OP said they would be content with 40% less income for less work. That's fine, but I think it misses the point. On a large enough time scale, progress is so great that most wouldn&#x2
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by jameslk 3mo ago
This discussion thread is so full of slippery slope fallacies and plot holes it’s so hard to take seriously. I think it’s safe to say nobody knows for sure how AI will exactly change the economy in the long term. Humans are complex and ofte
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by jameslk 3mo ago
> They will corner finite resources and land. They need a lot of money to do that. Where do they get it all from? Not the jobless masses I presume? Investors don’t usually like to invest in companies that aren’t going to eventually earn

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