truelson

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by truelson 15d ago
He is a bit more of a PR person rage-farming disguised as a futurist. He's not optimizing for correct predictions. That's really hard and not his incentive. Look at his incentives. It makes more sense.
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by truelson 4mo ago
Not always planned obsolescence. Good ol' "only the cheapest survive" plays a role, too.
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by truelson 5mo ago
You're wiring up a number of critical systems... and prompt injection here could be really bad. I worry about such systems with a single point of contact
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by truelson 5mo ago
Just going to say it... no mention of handling the security aspects of this. Scary. This is cool, I should say, but I would be really worried about the security aspects. Prompt injection here could be really painful.
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by truelson 5mo ago
Really liked this. Made me laugh even if not intentionally funny. Also, given how markets and news cycles are moved with words not actions these days, I really like this site. There are still so many misaligned interests; this is a much tou
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by truelson 7mo ago
Anyone use fly.io sprites for this yet?
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by truelson 7mo ago
Uh... i think Graphite (yay, stacking!) uses the API pretty heavily.
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by truelson 7mo ago
My wife is my favorite editor. She's usually not available. LLM editor is fine. Write it first, quick self edit, then have an LLM edit. Then I edit again. It's most definitely my voice, and I love it.
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by truelson 7mo ago
Certainly possible, but this is all possible and ABSOLUTELY worth having alignment discussions. Right. Now.
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by truelson 7mo ago
Are we going to end up with an army of Deckards hunting rogue agents down?
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by truelson 7mo ago
You may indeed have a licensing issue... but how is that going to be enforced? Given the shear amount of AI generated code coming down the pipes, how?
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by truelson 7mo ago
Regardless of the technical details of the weighting issue, this is an alignment problem we need to address. Otherwise, paperclip machine.
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by truelson 8mo ago
I'm going to channel a little bit of @patio11 . First, worth reading this on how he deals with credit agencies and debt collectors: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r... . There
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by truelson 9mo ago
Wired was such a great magazine to read as a teen in the 90s. I remember just itching for the next issue.
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by truelson 9mo ago
Snowballing. Sometimes it's ok to pick something easy, especially for a team, to get a small win first. If you're in debt, pay off the smallest amount first. Get the easy win. Build to the next. And remember, you win by showing up
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by truelson 9mo ago
If someone in the coming years ran on taking down regulatory capture and returning that as social safety net funding, public goods, and lower taxes, and had the chops to actually deliver, they'd do well. Though best to start local gove
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by truelson 9mo ago
"Evidence-based" stats tracking is the only somewhat scientific method i know of that can give you a good range of estimates. But it takes effort. Thus why many don't do it. But accurate estimate ranges are a super-power for
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by truelson 9mo ago
I preffered: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch... 20-25 years later, this is still where we are at :)
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by truelson 10mo ago
AT&T was able offload a bunch of debt on to them, and cash out at about what they paid in 2016. Not shabby.
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by truelson 10mo ago
It’s still “new tech” to our monkey brains and it takes a long time, and probably a lot of destruction, before our we develop better cultural norms for dealing with it. Our cultural immune system has only just started to kick in.
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by truelson 10mo ago
sooooo agreed. Just like George Lucas needed the original cast of Star Wars telling him no.
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by truelson 10mo ago
Java no barter
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by truelson 10mo ago
The ectoplasm name makes me want to make a "Don't cross the fs.createWriteStream()s" joke.
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by truelson 10mo ago
But I did like how it started with Watson joining him to get a hit of adrenaline and not deal with his soldiering past. Was a great scene. Also, re: Dr. Who, Moffat gonna Moffat
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by truelson 10mo ago
A friend of mine does this as English as second language and his tone was always misconstrued. I'd bug him about his slop, but he'll take that over getting his tone misconstrued. I get it
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by truelson 10mo ago
It's still an editor I can turn to in a pinch when my favorite humans aren't around. It makes better analogies sometimes. I like going back and forth with it, and if it doesn't sound like me, I rewrite it. Don't look at
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by truelson 10mo ago
Dave Barry having a substack was such a bonus find here
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by truelson 10mo ago
Operating margins are also holding up the economy in a different way than you think (the cyclical economy). Wrote about it here: https://writings.alethia.news/the-biggest-piece-of-the-reces...
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by truelson 11mo ago
The 4 minute mile comes to mind
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by truelson 11mo ago
The ending is in praise of dads. Wonderful. I lost my dad when I was 8. I still miss him every day. It’s hard to know beforehand how cool it is to watch your kids grow and change. I hope I get to see how cool my kids are in their old age. H

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