FloorEgg

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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
I've been building startups for 15 years now and through a lot of pain, reflection and study have learned: - markets are patterns in what people are trying to get done (importance / satisfaction) - having an objective to validate
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
Do you mind expanding on "society-destabalizing"?
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
I'm not the best person to make that case as I can only speculate (land cost, permitting, latency, etc). /Shrug In all the conversations I've seen play out on hacker news about compute in space, what comes up every time is &q
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
Has SpaceX figured something out related to photonic chips that dramatically reduces waste heat generation of compute?
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
Setting aside the possibility it's window dressing for a financial bailout, there would be two ways compute in space makes sense: 1) new technology improves vacuum heat radiation efficiency 2) new technology reduces waste heat generati
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
Are you sure it's class warfare? It may result in class warfare but I am skeptical that's the root cause. My guess is it has more to do with the education system, monetary policy and fiscal policy.
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
The first half of your comment doesn't quite click for me. I appreciate the elaboration in the second half. That sounds a lot more constructive than "attack", but now I understand you meant it in the "attack the problem&
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
> Also, can we just STFU about AI and jobs already? Phew, yes I'm with you... > We've long since passed the point where there was a meaningful amount of work to be done for every adult. Have we? It feels like a lot of stuff
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
I've also heard this referred to as jevons paradox. I use AI to build AI systems that are being used and paid for by real users. I'm in the trenches doing customer discovery, designing UX and producing product. Everything I do in
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
That's not what legitster said at all. You just completely misrepresented their point.
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
AI does have an incredibly powerful influence on learning. It can absolutely be used as a detriment, but it can also be just as powerful of a learning tool. It all comes down to keeping the student in the zone of proximal development. If AI
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
I really want to switch from Windows to Linux but it's not an easy transition. For one, I am in a season of heavy workload and little free time. So I need to wait for my next period of reduced workload. Second, I am not desperate for a
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
I agree with you about ecosystems and many systems for that matter. Diversity in diet leads to diversity in gut microbiome leads to diversity in methods to absorb nutrients leads to longevity and health. Lots more example I could list. Howe
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
My intuition is that the costs involved to train and run LLMs will keep dropping. They will become more and more accessible, so long as our economies keep chugging along. I could be wrong, time will tell. I just wouldn't base my argume
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
I swear teachers said something extremely similar about calculators when I was in grade school. "What are you going to do when you don't have access to a calculator? You won't ways have one with you!" Calculators have ne
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
Thank you for this response. Of those that replied to me, yours seems the most balanced and scientific, and I learned the most from. I wish more often people engaged on HN like you have here. Given your expertise in this, I'm curious w
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
> It is absolutely possible for the side effects to be hard to detect, widespread, hard to mitigate once detected, and for us nevertheless to be otherwise dependent upon continuing to produce those effects. Oh I completely agree that it&
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
> Wow gee wiz, it’s almost like my original comment was: go do some reading. My understanding is that the whole purpose of HN is to discuss interesting topics with intellectual curiosity. "Go do some reading" type statements ar
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
Same. Also no expert. My intuition is that if we carefully reverse what we have been doing it's a lot less scary to me than rolling dice on adding something new. the geoengineeing strategies that make sense to me are ecosystem restorat
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
I'm no expert in this subject and I don't have any strong opinions on it. The point of this comment isn't to debate one side or the other. That said, your comment stands out to me to be self-contradictory and unscientific (by
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
The more broad and general the claim of value the heavier burden there is on trust. It's the same for products. Products with very narrow niche value props are immediately attractive to the few people with those specific needs. When yo
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
That's only a problem for people who want to find a spouse and have kids. You're going one step further down the "how" chain. My point had more to do with the fact that a lot of people are either undecided about kids or
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
Having kids (with the right partner and good intentions as a parent) is a great way to avoid feeling lonely. The kid(s) are tremendous source of connection. You may trade for a feeling of exhaustion, overwhelming responsibility, etc. but a
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
As someone who has been pondering this very question since 2015, I'm starting to think we have been: - underestimating how much range humans have in their intelligence and how important it is to productivity. - overestimating how close
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
Hattmall said it well with this: > The usefulness is a function of how quickly the consequences from poor coding arrive and how meaningful they are to the organization. I would just add that these hypothetical senior devs we are talking
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
There is some truth to your point but you might want to consider that often seniors concerned with code quality aren't being pedantic about artisanal craft they are worried about the consequences of bad code... - it becomes brittle and
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by FloorEgg 9mo ago
I have been doing the same since GPT-3. I remember a time, probably around 4o when it started to get useful for some things like small React projects but was useless for other things like firestore rules. I think that surface is still jagge
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
It has a really good balance of engineering constraints. High enough that atmospheric drag doesn't require constant propulsion to maintain orbit. Low enough to get some radiation shielding. Lower orbits better for communication latency
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
After my first startup failed (didn't get PM fit) I got a bit obsessed with how to do good market research for innovation. Discovery interviews, JTBD, etc. During my journey I took a beat and pointed my new skills at VCs. I interviewed
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
It's great when the terrain is unfamiliar to the user but extremely familiar to the LLM. And it's useless in the opposite. The best programmers are going to be extremely familiar with terrains that are unfamiliar to the LLMs, whic

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