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by 827a 1y ago
We don't even need good sci-fi to explore that idea. We brush against it every day with ChatGPT.
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by 827a 1y ago
Also, FTL technology existing would naturally abate the prospects of interstellar war under the Dark Forest theory, because it means FTL communication is possible; and factions that can communicate with each other quickly are far less likel
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by 827a 1y ago
I think its totally fair to be aggressive in pushing back against abstracts like "and hypothesize that this object could be technological, and possibly hostile as would be expected from the ’Dark Forest’ resolution to the ’Fermi Parado
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by 827a 1y ago
Not possible. The least-baddest option I've seen proposed is the Juno probe around Jupiter, but it doesn't have the fuel onboard to achieve the needed velocity, and apparently also had some engine trouble during a previous burn th
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by 827a 1y ago
Oh, so as part of your concern that it shouldn't be "improper" to think about, discuss, or enjoy Loeb's ideas, you suggest that the author of that video should "feel bad" about criticizing it? Nice, that's
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by 827a 1y ago
True, but most companies are also average, so it ends up cancelling out.
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by 827a 1y ago
Many companies exist in a state of this reality. Very few people at these companies genuinely want it. There are some companies that are clearly and intentionally designed to want this, but they're very rare (oftentimes in consulting,
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by 827a 1y ago
Right; AI interviews select-out candidates who aren't desperate; who tend to be the highest quality candidates. Great job, Braintrust. Some companies genuinely don't care though; they're a meatgrinder that just need to get wa
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by 827a 1y ago
IMO: 30 years isn't relevant to look at, because its ancient history (I'm calling both of us ancient here). It pushes back too far beyond 2008 & the GFC to capture data that isn't relevant to the modern global economy. Ev
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by 827a 1y ago
> “The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune. The fatalism in tech right now is an actual cancer. Very few
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by 827a 1y ago
CAD/USD is down ~5.3% over the past 20 years.
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by 827a 1y ago
Agreed, that would be interesting to see if the methodology were sound. The problem is naturally that measuring "confidence in the courts" is almost inherently a methodologically difficult thing to do. Additionally: shortage of co
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by 827a 1y ago
But, but, if I say "it'll happen slowly and then all at once" it must be true, because its a pithy, fun phrase that sounds smart!
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by 827a 1y ago
People read FUD articles like this then start ignoring any common sense, including even their own senses, because apparently the world must be ending and we're all going to die. There's no pain. What pain is anyone (except a cou
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by 827a 1y ago
That depends on what kind of media you consume. Feeling isn't really a good indication of reality.
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by 827a 1y ago
Even better: Imagine a world where you could just host your public keys on e.g. mydomain.com/.well-known/jwks.json, you register with a service provider with me@mydomain.com, then the service automatically pulls public keys from t
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by 827a 1y ago
I wonder if the next phase for leveraging LLMs against large sets of contextual, proprietary data (code repositories & knowledge bases come to mind) is going to look more like smaller models highly (and regularly) trained/fine-tune
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by 827a 1y ago
IMO: Context engineering is a fascinating topic because it starts approaching the metaphysical abstract idea of what LLMs even are. If you believe that an LLM is a digital brain, then it follows that their limitation in capabilities today a
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by 827a 1y ago
Big, coherent context windows are key to almost all use-cases. The whole house of cards RAG implementations most platforms are using right now are pretty bad. You start asking around about how to implement RAG and you realize: No one knows,
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by 827a 1y ago
Similar complaints are happening all over reddit with the Claude Code $200/mo plan and Cursor. The companies with deep VC funding have been subsidizing usage for a year now, but we're starting to see that bleed off. I think the pr
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by 827a 1y ago
The vast majority of the most-successful people in any field, by whatever definition of "success" that field has, are people who would do it even if they weren't successful. You can't fake it. The old saying that "h
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by 827a 1y ago
Jensen Huang has mentioned something like this similarly before: (iirc) When asked if he would change anything about his life if he could do it all over again, he says something like: if I had to do this all over again knowing what I know n
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by 827a 1y ago
Its absolutely possible to solve; you're just not seeing the solution because you're blinded by technical solutions. These situations will commonly be characterized by: a hundred billion dollar company's computer systems abus
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by 827a 1y ago
Actually, the whole banking analogy is a great one, and its not over yet: JPMorgan/Jamie Dimon has started raising hell about Plaid again just this week [1]. It feels like the stage is being set for the large banks to want a more direc
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by 827a 1y ago
I'm confused by this: Presumably OpenAI should be sending a user agent header which indicates that they are, in fact, a robot. Is OpenAI not sending this header? Or is Cloudflare not checking it?
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by 827a 1y ago
Yeah and as far as I know, both Claude Code and obviously Crush here are open source. Cursor isn't, but their code is probably just sitting in javascript in the application bundle and should be reversible if it actually mattered?
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by 827a 1y ago
One thing I'm curious about: Assuming you're using the same underlying models, and putting obvious pricing differences aside: What is the functional difference between e.g. Charm and Claude Code? And Cursor, putting aside the obvi
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by 827a 1y ago
I disagree entirely, and I can convince you I'm right with one sentence: More lines of JS/TS are written by AI than lines of Rust are written at all. We don't have the data to assert this as true, but I think the vast majorit
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Here's something I assert to know about how AI and software engineering intersect in 2025: It makes certain classes of tasks 150% faster, while making other classes of tasks 300% slower. What I rarely know upfront is whether a given ta
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by 827a 1y ago
If they had to actually fund R&D and footprint expansion with customer money: Absolutely yes. But, that's exactly what VC money is for. If VC money can cover expansion while customer money can cover per-token incremental costs, eve

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