JamesBarney

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by JamesBarney 1y ago
What ngo's are the rationalists or effective altruists responseable for killing or defunding?
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by JamesBarney 1y ago
> With that said, I am seeing Claude Opus 4 (w/extended thinking) be distinctly worse at missing problems which o3-pro and Gemini find. It seems fairly consistent that Opus will be the worst out of the three (despite sometimes notic
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by JamesBarney 1y ago
I haven't tested o3-pro yet enough to have a good hierarchy of confabulation. I use AI a lot to double check my code via a code review what I've found is Gemini - really good at contextual reasoning. Doesn't confabulate bugs
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by JamesBarney 1y ago
I'm pretty sure this is just a psychological phenomenon. When a new model is released all the capabilities the new model has that the old model lacks are very salient. This makes it seem amazing. Then you get used to the model, push it
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by JamesBarney 1y ago
All companies would prefer to have 0 employees if possible. This isn't special about YC companies. Heck it's not even special about companies. If I could buy a roof that was slightly more expensive but I never had to hire a roofer
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by JamesBarney 1y ago
This is something that both impacts them and impacts you if you're a developer. This tax treatment can increase the cost of a dev by 5-15% which leads to less hiring and a looser job market. Which will impact us even if we're not
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by JamesBarney 1y ago
Interest rates are bigger motivator of the layoffs than these changes. When interest rates are high that means investors far more heavily prioritize profits today over profits tomorrow. This tax change just made it worse.
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by JamesBarney 1y ago
Even that technically falls under the crime umbrella (though I don't believe it is immoral or unethical). It's basically the getting around government imposed capital controls.
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by JamesBarney 1y ago
"Whenever the President shall find as a fact that any foreign country places any burden or disadvantage upon the commerce of the United States by any of the unequal impositions or discriminations aforesaid..." That quote is from t
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by JamesBarney 1y ago
This is 100% definitely how it works. The number of board seats the non-profit gets is not dependent on how many outstanding shares there are.
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by JamesBarney 1y ago
It looked to me like the owl was turning around to land.
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by JamesBarney 1y ago
> No mom, child, or baby dies of a preventable cause This goal might offend you but it doesn't offend me, and I don't think his motives (whether it's for legacy or personal brand) matter to me or the mother of a child who
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by JamesBarney 1y ago
It's so weird to see conservatives talk about how great the European economy is. I used to have to argue with my liberal friends about how Europe is a sclerotic economy and now I'm arguing with conservatives about it. Weird world.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
There's no guarantee they'll invest in his next startup, even if he stays until the bitter end. It's also possible that over the next two years, either he or his coworker could damage their relationships with investors. Typic
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
The ROI of investing another year or two of frustration and failure so a handful of investors might have a marginally better opinion of you is poor to say the least.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
100% this. If you guys had significant traction with your startup then it might be worth it to work really hard to try to salvage the relationship. But right now you're just wasting your life. The most valuable resource you burn throug
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Extremely expensive in what since? In that it costs $.03 instead of $.00003c? Yeah it's relatively far more expensive than other solutions, but from an absolute standpoint still very cheap for the vast majority of use cases. And it&#x2
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
A basic understand of supply/demand and how many well intended policies can have terrible effects.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Many people state how much they appreciate their degree. But when it comes down to it almost everyone who goes back from a second degree does so with the specific purpose of getting a credential for their career. No one really values the in
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
If you're arguing we should improve schools to increase rates of numeracy and literacy than I'm in 100% agreement. But I thought we were talking about liberal arts degrees.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
We look at that positively becomes it's a sunk cost, but if someone were to put the circumstances in front of us would we still be happy about it? If your job told you that you had to pay 10k to study French poetry for 6 months without
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Does liberal arts teach critical thinking? Do students who study liberal arts vs a mathematics/engineering show greater improvements on critical thinking tests? I get the idea we want a more educated population that can better make dec
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
> Even controlling for other factors, a college degree makes more productive workers I'd like to see this study. Most of the data I've seen that is pro-college still has massive confounds. Two twins graduate high school. One ge
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
> But also there's the very real problem of wealth concentration. The economy works best with flowing income. It works worst when money is at rest. With a sales tax only you end up in a situation where wealth can be endlessly horded
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
My understanding is ATCs are pretty well paid. With most making 140-150, and many making up to 200k. I could see this maybe being an issue in the bay area but outside of that area that pretty good pay.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
There was a scandal at the ATC which has culminated in a lawsuit Brigida v. Buttigieg, and from what I remember the facts look bad. They replaced a skill assessment with a completely bizarre biography test where for instance you got +15 poi
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Yeah, that game should come with a seizure warning. I've never had a seizure but my brain started to feel pretty uncomfortable during my second completionist playthrough.
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Or for people who want to make money as a trader. const lastPriceElement = document.querySelector('.last-price'); const buyButton = document.querySelector('.stock-btn.stock-buy'); const sellButton = document.querySelecto
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
Yeah I'd like to hear this too. I use both and I love community notes. People are pretending like this is some big culture war issue and a win for the right but I've seen community notes call out Elon for retweeting bullshit more
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by JamesBarney 2y ago
And a better solution for this is to not run campaigns at conventions or public games that have sexual assault.

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