polnoner

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by polnoner 15d ago
I think you are too close to the trees though to see the forest. I have made digital art for 30 years and this all just sounds like what people use to say about digital art in general. The main problem I see with generative art is not that
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by polnoner 15d ago
If you actually look at the statistics the income distribution is not much different than the US. The well off narrative makes it an interesting news story. There is no news story about how burning man has the same income distribution as th
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by polnoner 16d ago
It is certainly not sustainable but that is exactly why I want to use $400-$800 of resources a month for $20 while the deal last. It is really a once in a lifetime deal. Once the deal is over the local models will be better than what I am u
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by polnoner 17d ago
You were probably exposed to a wide range of art, music, culture and ideas growing up. I think there is a whole generation of people who were so culturally starved during their formative years they can only see a blank canvas as a useless w
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by polnoner 20d ago
I think there has always been a gate keeping minority that liked the dysfunction. Or more specifically, they liked that they could figure out how to correct the dysfunction while others struggled. That really obnoxious, insecure, computer n
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by polnoner 20d ago
Exactly. I have forgot at this point how things use to be with how well everything just works. I am typing this on a gaming laptop with a Nvidia card that probably would have been a nightmare trying to use linux not too long ago but instead
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by polnoner 20d ago
There is really a more fundamental problem related to housing/real estate. You can't arbitrage the real estate market to add to your UBI savings by living on the street. Maybe a tougher problem is any solution here would have to c
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by polnoner 20d ago
There is a brand and that brand is really a type of call option that is very hard to price. If you are doing the valuation using the tools of Ben Graham it is not really going to work. Damodaran's the Dark Side of Valuation is the tex
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by polnoner 20d ago
Exactly. Adam Neumann figured this out with WeWork Labs. It sounds cool because people in our age are almost obsessed with scientistic performance. At least AI labs are actually doing experiments.
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by polnoner 21d ago
We are really good at figuring out how to make toys that are in short supply so you have to invest all this time in acquiring the toys, for nothing more than the social signal involved that comes from the circular reason that the toys are h
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by polnoner 21d ago
It is really a deeper problem that "productivity" works in a factory producing widgets as output per labor-hour of widgets. The Principles of Scientific Management was just wrong that these ideas extend universally but we are stil
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by polnoner 21d ago
I am Claude fanboy but don't work in IT. For my job and basically everyone I know outside of programming, the productivity from AI is literally zero. I think what this says is the productivity is in specific silos and why the experienc
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by polnoner 22d ago
Current Opus and Fable simply don't do this. You post is stupid.
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by polnoner 22d ago
This is nonsense. Modern art is modern art because by the early 20th century, it was hard to do anything original in something resembling a traditional style. It is the same reason for serial/12 tone music. Arnold Schoenberg wasn'
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by polnoner 23d ago
Stanford CS336 is up on youtube from Spring 2026.
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by polnoner 23d ago
It seems obvious to me that no matter what your age right now, you should want to be as broadly educated and intellectually curious as possible. You should want to train a LLM from scratch as an intellectual curiosity itch that needs to be
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by polnoner 24d ago
Opus 5 one shot an access virus B synth clone for me as a single page index.html that is more impressive than anything I have seen as a VST synth. That is also because I have been obsessed with this synth for almost 30 years. I built clones
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by polnoner 24d ago
I think it is because we haven't had a real recession now in a generation. There is all this accumulated, inefficient structure we are maintaining. The next recession will have a strong amount of economic autophagy because of the amoun
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by polnoner 24d ago
It is obviously too early for any of this. Technologist have a highly distorted view of the overall economy. Most things just don't move that fast outside of information technology. I routinely talk to people at my current non-tech job