Buttons840

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by Buttons840 5d ago
In general, preventing consumers from having fully featured AIs (especially local ones) will be worth about 10 trillion dollars to companies. That's my prediction. Amazon is one example. If my basement AI drives my browser and never cl
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by Buttons840 5d ago
I think it's more likely AI will cause disruption by ruthlessly optimizing on behalf of individuals. Private Equity can afford to have people sitting around all day figuring out tricks and optimizations to save a buck here and there, a
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by Buttons840 7d ago
Is secret corruption or open corruption worse? It's an interesting question; each has unique cons. I will say that open corruption is only better if people recognize it as corruption. The people in my life do not know about the things
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by Buttons840 7d ago
That's fair to say, but lacks details. Most of Trump's public statements are done through a company that he owns. That same company charges a modest $100,000 per month for early access to his posts; just straight up facilitating i
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by Buttons840 8d ago
I have always liked the saying "sometimes you can be right, or get what you want, but not both". I've thought about it or repeated it to others as advice throughout my life, and have thus realized how many times it applies. Y
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by Buttons840 8d ago
I want to take a step back and observe that you're saying expensive specialists will continue to be required if two parties want to make an agreement. That seems like something worth fixing rather than just accepting.
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by Buttons840 10d ago
How about the same thing we do when companies leak half-the-nation's personal data twice a month. Nothing. When companies get hacked and millions lose their personal data, nobody cares. When individuals get hacked, it's a major is
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by Buttons840 10d ago
China reducing their oil imports was a huge boon to the entire world. China basically said "look everyone, we're strong, we'll reduce oil imports to help the rest of the world, and that will benefit all of us together, and al
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by Buttons840 10d ago
It was widely reported starting around August 3, 2026. I just Googled it. https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/us-military-iran-war...
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by Buttons840 10d ago
The world moving away from oil weakens America too. It's not like the US is a leading producer of solar panels or EVs.
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by Buttons840 10d ago
This is the might our 20 trillion dollars spent on military has bought us. A month or two ago they sent out an email asking common military members for ideas to deal with Iran. We've paid think tanks millions of dollars for plans like
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by Buttons840 11d ago
What about the end game where my own computer running my own code controls the experience? There's a 10 trillion dollar incentive to never allow that reality.
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by Buttons840 11d ago
Yeah. We are definitely headed to a world where, more than ever, success is determined simply by whether or not you're allowed through the closed door.
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by Buttons840 13d ago
All the worst outcomes involve taking this technology away from the public.
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by Buttons840 14d ago
People seem to expect a sudden shift with "self-improvement", but don't AIs already improve themselves via training? What is there to improve?
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by Buttons840 15d ago
I could have after the AI explained it all to me, but at that point the AI knew what aspects I valued and wanted to emphasize to make it readable, so it just wrote it for me. By that point, the AI was just typing for me.
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by Buttons840 15d ago
Have you tried identifying exactly what is unreadable about it and telling it to make it more readable? I had GTP-5.6 write some shader code recently and it wasn't very clear to me. I spent about an hour chatting with the until I under
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by Buttons840 17d ago
I'm not familiar with how Rust's async works. What if Rust used the function argument approach, how would that work? Would people pass around a reference to an async executor as arguments (or similar)?
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by Buttons840 18d ago
It's a theme? Does it change more than just appearance?
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by Buttons840 18d ago
Use the YouTube AI summary. I like it. It will include timestamps you can use to find interesting parts, and you can ask it questions.
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by Buttons840 22d ago
Marissa Mayer has plenty of career options if she's willing to work for only 3 or 4x the median wage.
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by Buttons840 22d ago
I drew a man who lived to 80 in 47,000 BCE. Beat that!
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by Buttons840 22d ago
The tone of the marketing video is a bit irritating to me as someone who has been laid off and feels cheated and fearful of AI. It shows people who seem to have very full and rich lives, and the reason they do is because they use ChatGPT. T
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
I think my computer should display information the way I want it to, and that's okay! I do pay for the energy that powers my monitor and CPU after all.
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
Yes, you're technically correct (the best kind of correct). I guess if you consider enough attributes or "dimensions" then any programming languages will be the furthest in some direction, including Go.
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
I'd argue Go is not on a "Pareto frontier" and that no matter how you value the various attributes of programming languages, a fair assessment will never select Go. A simple example is: if you highly value language popularity
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
Counterpoint: I find Rust easier to read.
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
It seems to me the intrusiveness of age verification will continue to grow. They want the OS to report the user's age. People will use this to claim whatever age they want. For instance, if companies cannot advertise to children, they
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
Can someone who knows the law explain to me how someone who lives in California, and hooks his computer in California, to a wire in California, from a company in California... At what point do they become subject to Illinois law? And can Il
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by Buttons840 2mo ago
I think this is a bad thing overall, but if the OS is responsible for reporting my age, that means I get to pick my own age... I'll take what I can get. Some states will pass laws that companies cannot show advertisements to minors. So

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