jonahbenton

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by jonahbenton 27d ago
Sympathetic to other strategies but that writeup is wholly unconvincing. It comes across as astroturf.
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by jonahbenton 2mo ago
Long ago I ordered an indoor algae system from a couple of CMU PhDs. It is very cool, it looks cool and has a nice water flow backgroundy sound, the algae grows quickly, allegedly doing the co2 consumption equivalent of 20 houseplants. Spac
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
Junk. The plain language of the executive order differs from what this piece claims. There is no conflict with BIS work.
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
The permanence and effectiveness of every policy Trump declares is mediated by his attention span, its inherent legality, and his opportunity to profit from gatekeeping. I would be very surprised if this particular whim impacts model develo
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
Advise you to listen to a recent Odd Lots podcast with Anjney Midha. It will be educational. The compute will be commoditized. Nobody has a monopoly on data. There are a zillion specialities of knowledge work to differentiate. https:/
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
With what process, spec driven? Having AI produce all the code is pretty common. An agentic workflow operating at a higher level of abstraction especially for brown field is not.
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
OpenCode is a "harness" that manages conversations/interactions with LLMs. It does not run a model itself. An extended interaction can include- many turns of conversation, providing files for the LLM to process, having the LL
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
Run llama.cpp on your machine and point opencode to it
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
Way to put the work in!
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
Tyler is an academic economist. He is accustomed to thinking about the magic of the markets. No consciousness there. Sure. But the "market" is a human invention around which there also exists governance / regulation / ac
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
Any formulation of consciousness requires learned/stored distillations/compressions of reality, some form of object constancy, so, yes.
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
I thought this reference was to skill files, which do rapidly become technical debt- so what was the rotting inventory metaphor? But no this is in reference to human skill acquisition around each of the different agentic platforms.
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
(2024)
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
That does not sound like an accurate description. Sounds like Slack in a TUI.
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by jonahbenton 3mo ago
Offered at its absolute peak of value.
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
All (or most) of them are second order effects following ending of dollar convertibility to gold. Not an argument to go back on but the game changed.
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
Go Florida. Never thought I would say that.
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
Social factors, not a skill issue.
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
Money is a lie. But money and credit lies are what every economy works on, even pre-human economies. Hard money has economically failed in every use.
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
This misunderstands the power of monetization, or mistakes "dollars" having some kind of fixed "value." They do not. Whether one agrees with that or not, thinking of this as a "debt" problem where a hypothetica
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
This is not an HN worthy post but since it is here I really hope he executes on this plan, thus ensuring the instantiation of the "Markwayne Mullin effect" in the chronicles of pop culture. What exactly that will be- can only spec
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
This is like a one shot prompt to build a space station, using 2 or 3 generations old exemplars. No offense but this is not something you should promise someone you can build ("production-tested stacks only") on your own if this t
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
You have problems younggato. And JE did not know sh t about f ck.
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
Never had it, the concept of "God" always ridiculous and authoritarian to me. I really like the narrative in the book Sapiens, identifying the "Cognitive Revolution" as the main distinguishing characteristic of this part
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
(Lenovo) Thinkpads, specifically many of the X, T and P products, are best in class. All the Linux things just work at this point, and have for the last 5-10 years. Some products ship with Fedora or Ubuntu. Those lines have the highest end
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
Yeah...pay opex to Anthropic or your capex to NVidia- whose Blackwell gen prices are now up 25% from launch, with more increases to come.
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
There are many markets. Qwen 3.6 27b at a high enough quant is good enough for many use cases. But enterprise-consumed tokens come with legal/data protection agreements. They have just gotten comfortable with BYOD- there is no BYOD equ
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
The desperation is strong in this one
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
No, not this story. This story is that of Netflix' Chaos Monkey attacking the state most rhetorically aligned/proud of The Rule Of Law and showing in myriad ways how absolutely hollow that pride was and how vulnerable The Law is.
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by jonahbenton 4mo ago
Can't believe this is flagged. As a USer, it is the letter I would advise anyone outside the US to write. It is the only rational response. THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR.

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