netcan

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by netcan 24d ago
Most. But, that isn't the point. Either way, this isn't really advice for 17 year olds. Pg is thinking out loud about the pathways for founders.
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by netcan 1mo ago
IDK. This can be a banal point. Product, technology, implementation, police department, policing method, workflow. These aren't discreet. Incidents involve all of them. Responsibility is on people.Technologies cannot be "found gui
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by netcan 1mo ago
I think a lot of this is "accelerating trends." That is, the www was "being killed" already in a lot of ways. "Democratization" and suchlike open ideals had already been receding for a long time. In part, this
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by netcan 1mo ago
The idea of designing incentives far less useful social scientists and policy wonks we're hoping circa 2010. I agree with and enjoy the overall sentiment of this piece. Incentive are fit losers. BYO incentives is the way to go. That
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by netcan 2mo ago
When "ai slop" became a concept, it mostly came into spaces where "human slop" had already been firmly established. Obvious ones like content scroll fodder. But also, there's slop everywhere. Even things like longfo
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by netcan 2mo ago
This is not a complaint. I think your assessment of this result being as expected... but this is about the LLM equivalent of SEO becoming an area of interest
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by netcan 2mo ago
Is this cognitive dissonance, or is this just people being normal? You pursue business strategies as a profit maximizing business person concerned with outcomes for your company and investors. You comment on the regulatory/political ma
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by netcan 3mo ago
≥jet engines have a market structure that's uniquely terrible for traditional free market societies. A lot of the theoretical concepts behind this... They need updating to account for the last generation of experience. For the most par
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by netcan 3mo ago
Apologies for the meta: I feel that our understanding of trust and antitrust, along with the legal and regulatory premises... Just isn't very useful in the 21st century. I understand the motivation, and justification for employing anti
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by netcan 3mo ago
I'm not sure that is the modern idea of education. As you can see in the linked example, it's there 200 years ago at the sunrise of universal and education. I'm sure it was there when Aristotle taught Alexander. I think we
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by netcan 3mo ago
There have been many wonderful ideas and concepts for education systems over the centuries. They have/had different, sometimes contradictory philosophies. Most fall short of their values and ambitions, regardless of what these are. IMO
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by netcan 3mo ago
To me this feels like analogue for sentience, consciousness & intelligence. Our attempts at dissecting the mind. Which is the "true" us? Knowledge? Wisdom? The humanity of our experience? It's fascinating that technology
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by netcan 3mo ago
This is a very interesting discovery. I'm fascinated by ancient economics. But... >The full apparatus of commercial civilization, operating without a theorist in sight. I don't get this framing. Who thinks that markets are a pr
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by netcan 3mo ago
Hypocrisy is a form of corruption. Anthropic's IP was created by harvesting and "distilling" other people's IP. Copyrighted materials, and the commons... which they have essentially privatized. The commercial goal is to
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by netcan 3mo ago
The copyright questions are unanswerable in my opinion. That is, they cannot be answered by looking for an essential "truth." Reasoning by analogy in this case is not abstraction. It's just shifting the determination to choic
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by netcan 4mo ago
A lot of the applications of Ai are going to have to go through "normal" innovation routes. Eg low-end disruption. I have already seen "Ai lawyer" at play here. A colleague of mine is involved in a long class action agai
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by netcan 4mo ago
It's kind of worth reading. Not to learn about AI. But... it is an interesting/historic intersection of religion and technology. Side note: (a) This new pope is very good at "political rhetoric" and (dare I say) polemic
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by netcan 4mo ago
...you could also swap out with "rich people" or "all people," "governments." In fact, reading these sentences with ad-lib on the subject tends to give these sentences interestingly different connotations.
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by netcan 4mo ago
I think we have so many hangups about this subject that we ended up leaving it unexplored and misunderstood. Talent, drive, inherent traits interacting with learnable traits, learning curves, etc. What you are good at. What you are good at
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by netcan 4mo ago
This is a good approach. That said... It's hard to deny the romanticization and projection point above. Beer goggles can be a mind expanding POV, but you need to be aware of it or you just end up being wrong for silly reasons. A sobe
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by netcan 4mo ago
No. Not if the valuations and downstream effects of valuations are formulaic, which they often are.
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by netcan 4mo ago
Google might be jumping the gun here... and making an innovators dilemma type mistake. LLMs are an alternative to search engines, which endangers google's whole ad business. "AI mode" search is a sort of bridge. It gets Gemin
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by netcan 4mo ago
Coding goodness is just "unevenly distributed." Irl, (a) different people's ways of working with ai are a million little islands and (b) bottlenecks vary enormously by coder and codebase/task. Also... I think our era has
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by netcan 4mo ago
>What people typically don’t do is look at why this is taking so long, and even more importantly: long duration does not automatically mean the problem originates there. To some extent, we tell as many lies as we can get away with. Some
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by netcan 4mo ago
Good point. Precise motives are hard to work out as a general rule. Ultimately, it often comes down to a decision that decision makers like or don't like for a confluence of reasons.
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by netcan 4mo ago
Writing did exist in the americas. String writing certainly. More conventional forms also, to some degrees and in some times and places. Many of the ancient people's of Mesopotamia leave little or no trace of their languages. Hebrew, a
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by netcan 4mo ago
So... zero evidence doesn't mean zero existence. Often it just means lower density. Elamite, Sumerian, Akkadian and other languages of that region were written on clay... which lends very well to mass production and extremely well to
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by netcan 4mo ago
So... The "big idea" would be "a writing system that fully represents a language." Everything else can develop gradually. But... gradually doesn't necessarily mean generations. It can be one person expirementing
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by netcan 4mo ago
This is true.... but considering the timeline, I would call all this part of the process of. inventing. Logograms and ideagrams were ideas that he tried out. An MVP before pivoting to a better one. That's how invention works, through e
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by netcan 4mo ago
I agree. It's just hard to say anything with certainty (or even clarity) about these "mentality" components. A culture's mythology. It's "concept of concepts." It's so vague and abstract that we can&#

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