jonners00

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by jonners00 26d ago
His cognitive decline is increasingly evident, his approval rating is the lowest on record (for any president), he ran again last time because it was his best chance to stay out of jail. If he wants a peaceful dotage and doesn't want h
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by jonners00 28d ago
I remember being shocked by the carelessness of (some of) the wealthy in this regard when I first became friends with (newly) rich people in lines of work where you couldn't be too precious about ethics (finance, property, music, film,
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by jonners00 29d ago
I once bumped into a couple of very high profile VCs sitting outside a coffee shop. Somehow the conversation got round to the fact that we were potty training our 12-month-old. One of the VCs told me their two kids, 2 and 3 years old, weren
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by jonners00 29d ago
How long till binding arbitration is meditated by AI?
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by jonners00 1mo ago
Enterprise software CEO here. I'm so pissed off that I didn't think of this rule, but so, so happy to be adopting it org-wide on Monday. Fed up with what used to be short memos now being mini-whitepapers, with maddeningly low info
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by jonners00 2mo ago
If I forget to pause my VPN before going to Amazon's website, I can't log in with just username and password, I get a page telling me they've sent a code to WhatsApp (which I don't have) with a button to click if I want
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by jonners00 2mo ago
I have to use both big mobile OSs for work and have since 2009. As a result I have been able to be a bit of a gadfly and switch between phone OSs a few times for personal use. I have switched three times to iOS for a year or so, cause I lik
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by jonners00 2mo ago
Nigel Farage was subject to at least two parliamentary standards enquiries about big, undisclosed personal payments he received from crypto-bros around the time he decided to stand to be the Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton. Because he
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by jonners00 3mo ago
I wasn't expecting anything so beautiful, just some competent, twee photography. (Never mind, it's all in the training data now, will result in some competent, twee, but uncanny, slop).
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by jonners00 3mo ago
I just came here to post that I couldn't read past 'The complexity was real, but distributed'. I can get past these LLM constructions when Claude uses them in chat. They seriously undermine the credibility of comment pieces o
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by jonners00 3mo ago
I can't tell you how many times a week claude opus 4.8 high effort has to apologise for being wrong when I'm asking it about something narrow and specific that i want it to research but it blurts out broad context from its trainin
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by jonners00 3mo ago
There's a huge difference between say, weilding a hatchet on a camping trip, and trying to get the hang of a splitting axe, with a 3ft or longer handle, when you're a kid. Getting a long, sweeping arc that comes down in the right
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by jonners00 4mo ago
> Its still a bunch of instructions. No, it's not a bunch of instructions, it's a colossal array of vectors that are the outcome of many thousands of lifetimes' worth of stimuli and reinforcement - not dissimilar in (very)
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by jonners00 4mo ago
Yes, me too.
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by jonners00 4mo ago
I just meant that if I value, say, the security afforded by land that's been cleared of humans, and between them my owned AIs can deliver this as a 'surplus' outcome, just by processing resources available at low or no cost (
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by jonners00 4mo ago
You couldn't have. Mechanical machines couldn't organise themselves into human-free supply chains that are economically productive for the owners of capital. AIs could.
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by jonners00 4mo ago
In theory breakeven demand, but ecosystens are basically economies, so termites are break even demand, and that's not good news.
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by jonners00 4mo ago
And the time wasted on transfers. I used to regularly fly from airports in NY, London, SF, Singapore, LA, Sydney, etc. I would block out the opportunities to work or rest, and the reality was that only the plane time was valuable for either
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by jonners00 4mo ago
I love this book, but its authority is somewhat undermined by the infamous Steve Jobs passage...
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by jonners00 4mo ago
No one seems to care anymore, but a big issue that people were concerned about in the 2000s was the switch from 'I know more about me than the blob (corps, gov, etc) does' to, 'I need the blob to remind me where the hell I wa
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by jonners00 4mo ago
A couple of years ago Odeon turned our nearest theatre into a 'luxe' theatre (adult tickets £20), and the next nearest theatre was left as it was, but all tickets £5 each (tickets at both theatres where about £14 previously). I th
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by jonners00 4mo ago
This is a bit off topic, but I occasionally used to sleep on the sofa in our first floor office in an old Georgian building in Fitzrovia. One occasion when I did that, I woke up at about 3.30 am with intense red light flooding through all t
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by jonners00 5mo ago
This is great on this topic: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/gatekeepers-of-law-inside...
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by jonners00 5mo ago
My wife used Apple Maps for a while here in the UK and driving in Europe. The results varied between amusing and traumatic. No issues ever with Google Maps since she swapped (but I know from experience it's not perfect). Apple maps wou
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by jonners00 5mo ago
:)
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by jonners00 7mo ago
This is great, but also not well suited (in terms of visuals, name, language) to some of the audiences that need it most. A version that resonates more with middle aged men would be great. Oak or something.
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by jonners00 7mo ago
>His posts and tone have been so histrionic Er, pretty much the opposite.
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by jonners00 7mo ago
About 10 years ago I quietly parked my Aunt's car in her garage so the driver's side door was about 6 inches away from the garage wall and got out of the passenger door. Although she insisted she was cognitively okay to drive, tur
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by jonners00 7mo ago
With social media, the cost benefit analysis doesn't deliver marginal results, just less stark/concentrated results. Drink driving is self evidently bad even though 99 times out of 100(?) it does no harm, because one time out of a
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by jonners00 7mo ago
Yeah, but they don't know which specific one of Firefox's last dozen users I am.

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