seanlinehan

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The Economics of the Intelligence Frontier(worldgov.org)
3 points by seanlinehan 23d ago|0 comments
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Context switching is the new flow state(sahanacarlsen.substack.com)
6 points by seanlinehan 2mo ago|0 comments
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by seanlinehan 3mo ago
Agreed, and I think this is reasonable. There are a great many examples of people who amassed wealth in unsavory or illegal ways. And my sense is that almost nobody defends all forms of wealth acquisition as moral and good. That said, I thi
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by seanlinehan 3mo ago
> if the economy is growing at 2.5%, how do you sustain 15% over 5 years? US GDP is $31.82 trillion dollars per year. Taking the 2.5% growth rate, that's nearly $800 billion dollars per year in new GDP. The economy very obviously do
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by seanlinehan 3mo ago
I think that's fair for certain one-shot generations. For example, sending off a single prompt to an image or music generator and just accepting the output. But I think most of this stuff is iterative, multi-turn. You type a thing in,
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by seanlinehan 3mo ago
One can reason by analogy here. In a pre-LLM world, a classic software team would have PMs, designers, and engineers. Of those three, the PM wouldn't have any real role in writing code. And they would rarely contribute a ton to the des
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by seanlinehan 4mo ago
I would assume that at least one of two things are true: 1. They're costs are so so out of control that they need to impose a blanket cap immediately. Figuring out an allocation mechanism that can be deployed company wide is time consu
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by seanlinehan 4mo ago
Small models are super useful. But I'm skeptical of their use for coding in particular, which is what this model is advertised for.
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by seanlinehan 5mo ago
Also didn't say that. You're arguing phantom arguments I very clearly didn't make.
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by seanlinehan 5mo ago
The top 0.01% still pay enormous taxes. Elon one year personally paid $11B in taxes. I get that a lot of people think people's unrealized capital gains should be taxed, so maybe the argument you're making is something like: "
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by seanlinehan 5mo ago
This perception that "lower ranks" are becoming poorer is just empirically not true. On every metric, people in all income brackets are earning more on both a gross and COL-adjusted basis. It is the case that top quintile income h
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by seanlinehan 5mo ago
I didn't say any of that. Taxes are fine.
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by seanlinehan 5mo ago
The top 1% of income earners pay 40% of all the federal taxes collected. The top 25% pay 89% of taxes. Net of transfers, 60% of households receive more from government transfers than they pay in taxes. The idea that rich people don't p
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by seanlinehan 6mo ago
This is definitely the way. There are good use cases for real sandboxes (if your agent is executing arbitrary code, you better it do so in an air-gapped environment). But the idea of spinning up a whole VM to use unix IO primitives is way o
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by seanlinehan 6mo ago
Reflexivity is nodded to in the definition of complex systems in the piece! I think what you're saying is poverty is actually simple, and the solution is to stop the bad actors causing poverty? But at the same time, you are correctly r
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by seanlinehan 6mo ago
Super interesting, I've never heard of this before. Thanks for sharing!
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by seanlinehan 6mo ago
True -- I didn't mean to communicate that Santa Fe was a failure writ large. Their contribution was very important! Though I think it's fair to say that the torch was picked up and carried by others with a different set of strateg
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by seanlinehan 6mo ago
Not the intention at all. The part about mechanistic interpretability was meant to gesture at how building such systems can provide new tool kit for building further intuition and understanding.
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by seanlinehan 6mo ago
Agreed!
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by seanlinehan 6mo ago
Perhaps a failure of communication -- I was indeed attempting to say that Chomsky was wrong and his ideas were interesting, but more or less a dead end.
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Billion-Parameter Theories(worldgov.org)
109 points by seanlinehan 6mo ago|87 comments
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Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?(worldgov.org)
2 points by seanlinehan 7mo ago|0 comments
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Nvidia deal a big win for Groq employees(axios.com)
19 points by seanlinehan 9mo ago|5 comments
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LLMs Are Adaptive Data Organisms(worldgov.org)
4 points by seanlinehan 1y ago|0 comments
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Oklch.fyi: Convert, generate and explore OKLCH colors(oklch.fyi)
2 points by seanlinehan 1y ago|0 comments
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by seanlinehan 1y ago
I have this little bookmarklet in my bookmarks bar that I use constantly. It removes all fixed or sticky elements on the page and re-enabled y-overflow if it was disabled: javascript: (function () {document.querySelectorAll("body *&quo
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by seanlinehan 1y ago
Some companies do things like this, but I'd be cautious about it. There's a few things I'd consider: * If you have a bunch of reps, doing the periodic accounting to cut the right checks becomes more of a pain (though it'
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by seanlinehan 1y ago
A simple salary + percent commission is a great model. That said, this calculator was built to model/simulate the things that are super common in enterprise SaaS: 1. It takes sellers time to ramp up. Experienced sellers might be willin
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Sales Compensation Simulator(exec.com)
117 points by seanlinehan 1y ago|23 comments
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by seanlinehan 2y ago
All of this is true, yet somehow misses the entire point of the post.

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