roxolotl

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by roxolotl 3mo ago
It peaked at around +60% from IPO price and swung daily around 10-15%. It’s possible it’s starting to stabilize but that first week was basically the definition of volatile.
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
> Before writing off the totalitarian world as a nightmare that can't come true, just remember that in 1925 the world of today would have seemed a nightmare that couldn't come true. Against that shifting phantasmagoric world in
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
Yea my father is looking for a new car, sedan, and will only buy American. Except American owned companies don’t really make sedans anymore. So he’s unsure what to do. I told him basically any Toyota sedan he buys would be made in the US an
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
Yea I’ll never have any sympathy for this claim given that Claude is built on theft
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
The reason it is so noteworthy is because these companies are based upon valuations which assume mostly debt free companies with giant free cash flows. If Google starts to look like Ford a lot of the assumptions around why it’s worth so muc
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
I think it's true across most of society today. There's value in removing friction up to a point but we're finding that by treating everything as an end to optimize results in loss of meaning. Most of life is lived in the in
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
Interestingly I haven’t had such a challenge in the past but regularly am accused of being AI. In my case I think it’s because I have experience writing philosophy papers which trend towards a more stilted tone. For this response I’m also
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
Just because something is doesn’t mean it ought to be. We’ve settled on this system because it seems to be generally the most effective way of valuing things. In times of extreme changes in valuation it comes off as more egregious than norm
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
Wow they are using 80% of what they raised 4 days ago to buy an IDE. Absolutely incredible.
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
This is what always confuses me about the “keep up or get left behind” crowd. Either these tools are gods in boxes and we’re all going to be replaced or they are actually something that you can gain expertise around. If you can gain experti
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
I swear the Sydney incident and the subsequent dislike of Kevin by LLMs caused Kevin to believe in Roko’s Basilisk and so he’s super pro AI now. But more likely it’s just that those who still listen to Hard Fork agree with the conclusions
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
It’s so wild to me to make a multiyear purchasing decision based upon recent events. My next car will be an EV not suggesting it’s a bad decision however I’m still blown away by statistics like this.
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
I think the comments that the tech industry was always a bit terrifying and this piece can both be accurate. It is the case that the public perception has changed significantly due to lighting trust on fire and that the trust might not have
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
A similar longer story is Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky. If you like the vibe of exploring a place which is nothing forever it nails it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_to_Aldebaran?wprov=sft...
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
i_Phone_ minis Although there might be a /s missing from your post lol
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by roxolotl 3mo ago
Some of us wish minis were still be made.
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
These companies have pivoted from being cash generation machines to being data center building companies. It’s a huge bet that might pay off but the market is starting to notice that where there used to be revenue generation there is now in
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
That representation is also old, incredibly well documented, and used to describe how to reason about chess. There are of course text guides to other games in training data but they rely upon depictions of what’s happening that aren’t purel
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
Yea it’s wild watching so many smart people convince themselves that LLMs are general purpose AIs. Don’t get me wrong they are incredibly powerful tools. However being surprised that text models cannot play video games particularly well is
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
Why aren’t those all spiritual questions? They seem like it to me. Maybe not religious questions but at the very least they are questions which, if approached honestly, force you to grapple with what it means to be you.
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
Describing the issue as “violent” is wild. Reading through a bit, it’s massive, it’s clear no one involved has the moral high ground here. The polite response is to close the issue if you believe it’s genuinely off topic. Still not quite su
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
There’s a difference between being a hater and acknowledging the reality of the technology and those building it. I want all of those things too. However I do not understand why LLMs will get them for us. Instead I see a few really powerful
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
I love that ember is still going. It’s obviously not the number one choice these days, might never have been, but it represents approaches to frontend web dev that are very different from the standard so it’s always great to see the diversi
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
There’s an old Malcom Gladwell podcast episode, I think the show was Revisionist History, where he says he’s an interview nihilist. As long as the person seems reasonably capable, and can probably do a bit of what you need, hire them. Inter
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
Coding agent harnesses strike me as similar to blog generators. They can be as simple or as complex as you’d like. Plugins help with adoption. And if you want it’s real easy to write your own that does exactly what you want.
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
So there’s one reference to happy, investor happiness. There’s 4 to meaning though. I don’t disagree with you but you’re also missing the scarier point that economic collapse will come before the meaning even is missed. This article ideally
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
What would non partisan look like at this point? The administration is actively targeting American and non American scientists who do not agree with their world view. By any moral metric I’m aware of most of the administration is fairly def
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
It’s not wholly separate from wellbeing though. Many believe that lack of freedom is a welfare problem. It’s a common theme in western culture. Huxley and Orwell are the more commonly read authors that explore it but the preference of self
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
That’s assuming you’re purely a hedonist. If you put value on things such as freedom itself then it might be the case that a free but hungry horse is better off. Brave New World does a good job describing the conflict between happy and ensl
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
Yes. From when they started talking about model welfare: > As a vegetarian I have strong opinions on this sort of thing. Everyone at Anthropic better be ethical vegans if they are claiming to give a shit about “model welfare”. It’s hard

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