BobbyJo

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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
That's a perfectly valid approach if you can balance capex and revenue. Why stop and try to be profitable when the economy is giving you the liquidity to push that down the road? Models are already super useful, but if you can make the
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
Is it actually being sold at a steep discount? Anthropic CEO has stated they have high margins on inference, so training is the big cost center.
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
As a young adult in 2007, what cliff were we close to? The GFC was a big recession, but I never thought society was near collapse.
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
Exactly. Most people just don't know how much data is being collected on them, and probably can't know at this point. I say can't because the reality sounds so much like a conspiracy theory that a majority of people would
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by BobbyJo 8mo ago
> In a way it shows how poorly we have done over the years in general as programmers in making solved problems easily accessible instead of constantly reinventing the wheel. I just don't think there was a great way to make solved pr
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
Optimistic views of the future see those as problems that can be solved, which helps the consumer engage with the story. Pessimistic views see those as insurmountable problems that shouldn't be bothered with, making the stories seem mo
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
There has always been a tension between "take the time to build something you know will work" and "prioritize speed over all else and hope you get lucky and it doesn't fall over too fast" in software. AI is making t
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
Its not really a matter of some great shift. Millennials are the most educated generation by a wide margin, yet their wealth by middle age is trailing prior generations. The ladder is being pulled up inch by inch and I don't see AI doi
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
It can be, but there are lots of reasons to believe it will not be. Knowledge work was the ladder between lower and upper classes. If that goes away, it doesn't really matter if electricians make 50% more.
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
> I think you have it backwards. I don't understand how your argument here goes against mine. If anything you're arguing that I am correct, but things are changing.
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
I don't believe so. I don't think foreign equity and real estate purchases are counted in trade balance. Those assets never leave the US as exports.
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
> So if this time is different, I’m not seeing it yet Compare those numbers to 5 years ago. Remember, this is the timescale of a country, not a beagle. America has run on the strength of the dollar for decades, and the symptoms of that c
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
> It's mostly in forms of treasuries purchased in USD that pay in USD - this means the indebtedness creates a huge amount of dollars abroad that foreigners have to then spend on US services, driving demand. Strangely enough, this is
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
The bad ones tend not to be information funnels.
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
Pretty sure that event was all over the western web as a gross "wtf" moment. I don't remember anyone, or any organization, that talked about it being called a troll.
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
Not sure I follow how you arrived at the conclusion that parent doesn't know the origin of the CCPs distaste of Taiwan.
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
It is weird right? I don't remember any other time in my career where I've been measured based on how I'm doing the work . In my experience, "good management" meant striving to isolate measurements as much as possi
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
I am not an academic, so correct me if I am wrong, but in your example, the actual writing would probably only represent a small fraction of the time spent. Is it even worth using AI for anything other than spelling and grammar correction a
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
What does it mean to cross the median human paper mark? How os that measured? It seems to me like most of the LLM benchmarks wind up being gamed. So, even if there were a good benchmark there, which I do not believe there is, the validity o
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by BobbyJo 9mo ago
> Nobody I know in real life, personally or at work, has expressed this belief. TBF, most people in real life don't even know how AI works to any degree, so using that as an argument that parent's opinion is extreme is kind of
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by BobbyJo 10mo ago
The point of competition is efficiency , of which, margin is only a component. Most successful businesses have relatively high margins (which is why we call them successful) because they achieve efficiency in other ways. I wouldn't ca
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by BobbyJo 10mo ago
It isn't just a source, it is also a storage mechanism, both in the liver and in muscle tissue.
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by BobbyJo 10mo ago
I think its pretty easy to separate investment properties from primary residences when it comes to transparency requirements.
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by BobbyJo 10mo ago
Your entire argument here applies in the other direction as well. You do not need dietary saturated fats, and sugar has all sorts of uses biologically.
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by BobbyJo 10mo ago
> Does the corner bakery need a moat to be a business? Yes, actually. Its hard to open a competing bakery due to location availability, permitting, capex, and the difficulty of converting customers. To add to that, food establishments ge
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by BobbyJo 10mo ago
Up until now, no business has been built on tools and technology that no one understands. I expect that will continue. Given that, I expect that, even if AI is writing all of the code, we will still need people around who understand it. If
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by BobbyJo 10mo ago
Median net worth at 40 years old in the US is less than 150k. Most Americans benefit very little from share prices rising, at least directly.
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by BobbyJo 10mo ago
No one is claiming that humans should be at war with, or rely on violence to assert authority over, one another.
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by BobbyJo 10mo ago
I would love to live in a world where every government was democratically elected by an informed populace and never tried to assert authority outside it's borders. > not how this works When you say this , what exactly are you refer
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by BobbyJo 10mo ago
Well, in this case, yes. This is the trouble with growing executive power, they can indeed give themselves permission.

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