unknownfuture

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by unknownfuture 12d ago
It is deeply funny to me that my asking a rhetorical question and using a little italics triggered you while "So, you can scream fake news all you want, but..." earned not a single complaint. Perhaps I just struck a nerve.
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by unknownfuture 12d ago
Peel an orange? Crack an egg? Thread a needle? (Heh, drive a car...) There's a huge range of tasks that a non-specialized, general purpose robot simply cannot do yet. I'd be easier to enumerate the things they can do than the th
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by unknownfuture 12d ago
Sure. Those should be addressed, too. The difference is they already exist while the datacenters don't. And its a lot easier, in a democracy, to stop a thing from being built in the first place than to tear it down after the fact, what
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by unknownfuture 12d ago
Yeah but it's all Chinese propaganda so it doesn't count this time. /s
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by unknownfuture 12d ago
Hard disagree. The problem is sensors. There are simply no technologies today that can replicate the density, precision, and versatility of human touch sensors. Until then, there is simply no way to create generally capable robots that can
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by unknownfuture 13d ago
Except the data doesn't support the claim. Sarbanes-Oxley passed in 2002 and the number if IPOs climbed between then, in the wake of the dot-com crash, and the GFC six year later, while the median age didn't change much: https:&#
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by unknownfuture 13d ago
It's an observation about prevailing libertarian values in the HN community that tend to attract upvotes while going unchallenged. If you consider that part of a "culture war", then it seems that term has lost all meaning. Mi
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by unknownfuture 13d ago
I think you're being oversensitive or just looking for a fight if you detect even a hint of "culture war talking points" in my comment.
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by unknownfuture 13d ago
And further, if the goal is to eliminate regulatory frictions in public markets that keep companies staying private, then you're effectively advocating for eliminating public markets. The entire damn deal we make when a company goes pu
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by unknownfuture 13d ago
> The increase in regulations, post GFC, made it impractical/impossible for small companies to go public. Care to be more specific? "Regulations bad" is a pretty common platitude around here but you've stated your mai
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by unknownfuture 15d ago
Maybe first define "participating" and then perhaps I'll respond. Because if this a case of "well you use a computer so you're part of the system, man" then I probably won't waste my time. Cynical fatalism
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by unknownfuture 15d ago
Sure. Who doesn't love 10 episode seasons every three years that are regularly and unceremoniously cancelled whenever the algorithm says so. I know folks in the industry absolutely love the total lack of job security...
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by unknownfuture 15d ago
Who's we? You're certainly not speaking for me. Making things previously impossible possible? That's the business I joined. Destroying people's livelihoods without care for the consequences while pursuing monopolies, cap
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by unknownfuture 15d ago
And yet Apple succesfully destroyed the grey box clone market in their space. Clearly it was indeed possible: https://www.wired.com/1997/09/apple-kills-clone-market/
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by unknownfuture 15d ago
Survivorship bias. My own experience is that the jerks self-select out because no one wants to work for them. That said, in the entrepreneurial space it's less clear to me this is true. In a team setting? Sure. But the C-suite of a bus
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by unknownfuture 15d ago
It's downvoted because it reads as though IBM made a mistake the commenter thinks they should've never made, as opposed to a mistake from IBMs perspective given their business strategy at the time. That is, it appears to tacitly a
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by unknownfuture 19d ago
Yeah you're still missing the point. A more appropriate analogy for what you just described might be writing vs ghost writing. But it's certainly not handwriting vs typewriter. Note: there's no implied value judgement here. M
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by unknownfuture 20d ago
I wouldn't characterize that as sloppy or buggy in any way (though certainly that is also true for some games). Exploiting hardware in new and novel ways was an essential part of developing for older consoles. This is something someone
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by unknownfuture 20d ago
Yup, fair point, totally valid criticism.
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by unknownfuture 20d ago
Weird, I don't think any of my comments express outrage Bafflement? Certainly. Maybe a little sadness at the lack of understanding of, or appreciation for, the creative process? Sure. Outrage? Nah.
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by unknownfuture 20d ago
You still don't get it. Think about the act of writing with a pen. Now think about what a typewriter does in that context. Now think about what an LLM does in that context. Can you reason about how those are vastly different tools wi
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by unknownfuture 20d ago
Because byte-for-byte identical output is far easier to measure than trying to test for functional equivalence. This is also partly a preservation activity so (as best we can create it) identical code generating identical output is a big pa
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by unknownfuture 20d ago
If you can't see why your analogy is deeply broken I honestly don't know what to do for you.
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by unknownfuture 20d ago
Yes and no. The problem is if you can't get the home cooled off, then heat that does build up can't escape. In western Canada until recently we got away with very good insulation coupled with opening windows at night as daytime-vs
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by unknownfuture 21d ago
Eh, I use Opus professionally and DS v4 Flash for personal work. I honestly don't notice the difference too often other than Flash being twice as quick and an order of magnitude cheaper. The reality is most work people do doesn't
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by unknownfuture 22d ago
Yeah you're right. Sci-fi has never included social commentary. Purely a modern "culture war" phenomenon...
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by unknownfuture 22d ago
There is no one "mastodon culture". The server I'm on (indieweb.social) absolutely is not blocking Threads.
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by unknownfuture 23d ago
I don't agree. Chess is a perfect information game with objective, easily measurable outcomes. Show me a software business that looks like that and I'll agree with your hypothesis. Otherwise I don't believe your metaphor prov
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by unknownfuture 23d ago
> as long as the ilities you're enforcing result in a codebase that is sustainably secure and maintainable over the long term. Perfect example of begging the question. Vibe coding works great as long as vibe coding works great. Pers
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by unknownfuture 26d ago
I don't think we have evidence that inference itself is subsidized, but I think we can assume the margins on inference are so low that the foundation model providers have absolutely no chance of recouping training costs and the whole

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