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by nonameiguess 7d ago
I think the core of this issue that makes discussion so difficult is people are not talking about "value" in the same sense here. Anything you can sell has value to the sellers, and by basic economic theory assuming mostly rationa
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by nonameiguess 12d ago
Humans are next state of their local world predictors, given all previous states they are aware of. That's an entirely fair analogy. The reverse analogy for calling a human a bag of chemicals would be calling an LLM a sequence of bytes
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by nonameiguess 12d ago
I often wish these kinds of things didn't get posted here. This is meant for a technical audience, and "technical" here means you know something about studies like this, not you understand computing technology. I've got
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by nonameiguess 12d ago
That's entirely fair. It is an overstatement. What I meant was, when deployed or during an exercise , any radio communications you make, letters you write, television shows you watch, can be intercepted and read. It's not the cas
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by nonameiguess 12d ago
These things need to include more details. What is the report that ads were used to target deployed troops? What is the device use policy as of today? FOBs and semi-permanent installations are not secret locations. They're extremely ob
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by nonameiguess 12d ago
There's a bigger problem I hope you become aware as you read more here. First, very smart people are not smart about everything. Second, nearly nobody is smart when it comes to understanding the limits of human understanding. We'r
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by nonameiguess 13d ago
The site was registered a month ago. If it ever actually gets and stays popular, see if it has no ads then. The economics of personal interest sites didn't change in the sense that they're any harder to make now compared to the mi
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by nonameiguess 13d ago
It makes me think of my college girlfriend. Her dad owned a bar, only one, that he eventually expanded to several, but even with only one, they had a home address on a canal on a small island south of Long Beach, vacationed all over the wor
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by nonameiguess 13d ago
The idea of a software factory long predates LLMs or any other form of automated full-program generation. The idea was to take full CI/CD pipelines that allow for rapid deployment of new components into a running system a la popular Sa
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by nonameiguess 15d ago
Didn't see it even after updating, then read https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios : > This feature is experimental and is being introduced to the Firefox user base through a progressiv
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by nonameiguess 20d ago
23 em-dashes in the span of a single README. I gotta hand it to Anthropic. They seriously managed to find a completely legal way to sell crack to crack addicts using other crack addicts as their unpaid sales force.
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by nonameiguess 22d ago
Piling on to the other responses, I don't really want to see anything at all from you. What I want to see to believe that any meaningful number of people out there are generating 10x the value they used to is a visibly more valuable wo
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by nonameiguess 23d ago
For model training, maybe, but the concern of this article is web search, including AI summaries and search as an assistant tool to agents, gets infected with this. You can see it searching virtually any technical troubleshooting topic thes
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by nonameiguess 26d ago
I've worked in classified tech much of my career and largely specialize at this point in installing and running infrastructure and platform orchestration technologies in airgaps. With all respect, your conjecture here is wrong. You can
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by nonameiguess 26d ago
I'm not sure why this is remarkable. San Francisco is still the overall #1 thanks to whatever this report means by "quality" of talent. It seems some larger city was bound to overtake San Francisco in total quantity eventuall
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by nonameiguess 26d ago
> Steven A. Cohen Owner of the New York Mets now, by the way, which maybe non-sports following readers will be happy to hear remain a boondoggle. He tried very hard to spend his way to glory, leading the league in payroll at the beginnin
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by nonameiguess 26d ago
I don't know about the framing, won't speculate on causes, but the phenomenon being described is real. I have no idea how far it goes back, at least to Woody Guthrie if we're just describing people who history and artistic ou
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by nonameiguess 27d ago
The first comment on the blog has it. Subjectively, personally, we can all decide for ourselves what purpose we live for, but the purpose of life as a phenomenon in the world is not to enjoy itself. It's to perpetuate itself. Stay aliv
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by nonameiguess 28d ago
I benefit tremendously from the exercise example specifically, but I still agree with 0xf8 that this isn't something you can just will yourself into. I identity as an athlete because I am. I've played sports of some sort and exerc
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by nonameiguess 28d ago
Do you actually object to countries having standing armies with ranged area weaponry? This isn't what the article is talking about at all. It never says don't build military technology. It says don't build things like a datab
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by nonameiguess 28d ago
Interesting to choose Hacker News as an example. I'm sure they measure every metric that can be measured, but it'd be interesting to see what measures they actually care about doing well on. The stated goal of the site is pretty e
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by nonameiguess 28d ago
No, it isn't. Nobody evaluates a drill on how long a worker spends using it. If you can get the same job done faster, you'll go with that. Even in entertainment, not all products optimize for time of use. Nobody intentionally make
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by nonameiguess 28d ago
I think this sentiment deserves its own serious discussion. It probably won't happen for another few years when the emotions and defensiveness settle, but there's a separate problem happening from quality. Quantity is its own prob
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by nonameiguess 29d ago
With all respect, I just downvoted you because you're becoming recognizable. Your account is scarcely a year old with almost no karma, and checking your profile right now, the first page of comments is all but one you posting a link to
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by nonameiguess 29d ago
So were children who grew up under sugar rationing actually eating less sugar in the first 1000 days of life? As the article points out, I don't remember being 2 years old, but I have sisters young enough that I remember them being 2 y
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by nonameiguess 1mo ago
There's a reasonably high floor here it seems you can't realistically do anything to drop below. Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_app... Nixon was 24% when he resigned, which is
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by nonameiguess 1mo ago
Google's workspace features are almost hilariously transparent in how they do this. I have to use it for work and have chosen to do so on a single device also for personal use because I don't want two devices. I don't have Ch
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by nonameiguess 1mo ago
Why should we care what Airbnb has to say? I get they're a YC darling, a poster child for making money, but how much of a role does software play in this? Do propery owners and travelers really care that much about the app? The Platoni
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by nonameiguess 1mo ago
I feel like there's a common theme in business advice like this, the bullshit jobs thesis, general alienation of workers, that individuals have a lot of tunnel vision and don't understand the place of a firm in capitalism. The rea
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by nonameiguess 1mo ago
I have no special insider knowledge here, but I'm reasonably sure McDonald's relative drop in the hierarchy of global made-to-order food providers is a combination of increased competition, more health conscious and eco conscious

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