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by mbesto 4d ago
Do people seriously trust what this guy says anymore?
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by mbesto 4d ago
> if we transcribe your brain into a simulation and give it a tickrate, you will be just autocomplete too. Might be one of the worst takes I've ever read.
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by mbesto 4d ago
He can both believe that AND be the slime mold chief. His rationale doesn't excuse it - and worse this all degrades into a "trust me bro" situation.
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by mbesto 6d ago
You can build good stuff, care, and be very opinionated...you can also be all of those things and still be an asshole.
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by mbesto 6d ago
Did anyone say you said anything untruthful? No, they just called you an asshole. You can both be an asshole and be right. PS - Just some advice that I learned in sales 101 early in my career...focusing on shit talking the competition gener
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by mbesto 11d ago
> I told you how to check for yourself if you actually cared about veracity. Which means nothing. You still dont get my point. > Also this is just a conversation, not an academic debate It can be both.
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by mbesto 12d ago
> healthy profit margin (as near as we can tell from the outside) Ugh we still don't know if this is true and it's nearly impossible to calculate without a full understanding of the real CAPEX cycle. Stop spreading these rumors
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by mbesto 12d ago
> but they're very frequent. Yet you state their frequency as some sort of statistical fact. Your anecdotal experience doesn't make it any more or less true.
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by mbesto 13d ago
> For the many people who resist the AGI label possibly ever being achieved, I'd be curious to hear takes on what would make you think Astra is yet to be AGI, and what would still need to be achieved for this to effectively be AGI f
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by mbesto 14d ago
I use perplexity simply to avoid underlying vendor lock in.
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by mbesto 15d ago
> his strategy for manipulating human attention has been correct. "Correct" is not the word you're looking for here. More like "very effective". His strategy for manipulating human attention is very effective, bu
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by mbesto 19d ago
If the Opus/Fable harness is superior and it's written using Opus/Fable then it will cease to be a moat. Otherwise the premise for coding using LLMs is essentially untrue.
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by mbesto 27d ago
> AGENTS.md does very little, agents will consistently violate the communication preferences, especially as the session drags on. Non-determinism at its finest.
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by mbesto 28d ago
> It seems that trust in OSS is eroding and big SaaS might win here because they have the reputation. Yes because everyone trusts what SalesForce is doing with their data..
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by mbesto 29d ago
(1) Because they can. Implied (2) If you're WD, Seagate, etc. you may shift all your fabs to higher growth areas which means you create less supply for less demand products (spinning disks)
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by mbesto 29d ago
>I've slowly shifted all my consumer purchases from Amazon to local shops and other online platforms, including Etsy. This is why I'm so bullish on Shopify. It increasingly is getting network effects (Shop.app) and people are s
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by mbesto 29d ago
Isn't it funny that marketers are usually the first people to complain about paying for marketing? FWIW - I agree with the premise of the article, but I have to say - the reason these types of practices are acceptable in American cultu
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by mbesto 1mo ago
You can argue the semantics all you want and ignore the original premise of my comment - which is romanticising people who have perceived "foresight" is super weird.
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by mbesto 1mo ago
> This fund is not closing and not on a loss. > Getting margin called and closed this way is not the same as going bankrupt. Technically we don't actually know the details here since no one here is privy to the specific fund stru
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by mbesto 1mo ago
It did. It's not part of the strategy or operating agreement of a GP/LP structure to sell a specific fund to another investment firm at a discount. The fund may buy and sell assets to create returns for LPs but selling the fund it
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by mbesto 1mo ago
He sold the fund to another buyer - it folded by every definition of the term.
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by mbesto 1mo ago
> generational foresight not available to 99.999999999999999999% of 25 year olds. I want to get ahead of the default cynicism and "oh it's just dumb luck woe is me" aspect of HN. And I want to get ahead of this absurd roma
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by mbesto 1mo ago
> It’s much easier to say someone else’s job is going to be fully replaceable by AI when you don’t actually know what they do. This exactly. As someone who once lived in Silicon Valley and then ended up interviewing 700+ CxO's of pr
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by mbesto 1mo ago
The entire premise of the article is that we're being promised that an entire workforce is going to be eliminated overnight. The people who are promising this, do not care about what happens to the working class. This is clearly causin
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by mbesto 1mo ago
Also, two other characteristics of the fall of roman empire: 1. It struggled to remain "solvent" because it lost taxable provinces relative to the costs of wars, administration, etc. 2. It took years for it to eventually "fal
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by mbesto 2mo ago
This is basically the entire argument by Richard Sutton happening in real time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21EYKqUsPfg Right now, we keep creating new models with larger and larger weights and throwing hardware at it.
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by mbesto 2mo ago
> Visa or MasterCard is making the bulk of the commission They are not. Payment facilitators (like Stripe) are. https://images.prismic.io/sacra/30d7bd58-8149-461e-a3c2-8a4a...
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by mbesto 2mo ago
You can't unilaterally say all AI blogs are low quality. That's bullshit. > would spend more time writing than I would have to spend reading To your point however, the reason people don't like AI generated blogs is because
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by mbesto 3mo ago
> The proprietary models are better because of proprietary data Source? Otherwise this is pure speculation.
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by mbesto 3mo ago
https://app.opencve.io/cve/?q=vendor%3Acisco What about Cisco?

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