Libidinalecon

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by Libidinalecon 10mo ago
It is the delusion of the Homo Economicus religion. I think the problem is a strong tie network of inefficiency that is so vast across economic activity that it will take a long time to erode and replace. The reason it feels like it is movi
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by Libidinalecon 10mo ago
We need to stop painting with the wide brush of "capitalism" like this. This is not capitalism vs socialism. You are describing neoliberalism. A good place to start is the Wendy Brown book Undoing the Demos. The subtitle is "
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by Libidinalecon 10mo ago
I also live in an incredibly safe area and had a friend from outside the US say it is like a horror movie after walking around a few times on a beautiful summer night when they visited. Perfect summer night and there is not a person to be s
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by Libidinalecon 10mo ago
It amuses me to no end that there are groups in the US that would probably consider both Terence McKenna and Michel Foucault as "far right" conservatives if they were alive and had podcasts in 2025. Absolutely no way Timothy Leary
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
To me, it all comes down to the level of accuracy and trust. It is one thing to vibe code and deal with the errors but I think chemistry is a better subject to test this on. "Vibe chemistry" would be a better measure of how much w
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
As someone who was incredibly lazy intellectually in high school, I can't imagine what would have got me motivated beyond time and growing up. I did nothing in high school and then by 19 for fun on Saturdays I was checking out 5 non-fi
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
"Google Antigravity" makes it worse though. When I first read that I thought it was going to be some kind of quantum computing hype job. On the other hand, I was thinking the other day what a shitty band name "The Beatles&quo
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I just know how you can spend anytime with Gemini 3 and say things have peaked and progress is zero. Just totally absurd. It is really the opposite, the models are getting so good I question why I am wasting my time reading stupid comments
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I think it is an interesting thought experiment to try to visualize 2025 without the internet ever existing because we take it completely for granted that the internet has made life better. It seems pretty clear to me that culture, politics
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
It is a completely different scale. I loved MTV as a kid but it was as different to social media as can be. Half the time you would turn it on and not like the video playing then switch the channel. Even if you liked the video that was play
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
There is always much path dependence in what becomes the business requirements, making the business requirements less than optimal to start with. Then over time their is a type of entropy with all business processes. If we don't figure
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
It is a good example of neoliberalism gone completely insane and your comment is a good example of the religion of neoliberalism. It is this deluded idea that "the market is always right" so naturally to not let market forces at w
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I quit for a month, 15 years ago and I just hated how it felt like I lost my intellectual curiosity. I can completely relate with Paul Erdos on quitting stimulants "You've showed me I'm not an addict. But I didn't get an
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I use to collect baseball cards as a kid in the 80s and I can remember I would see comics at card shows. I had seen football cards take off in value and really wanted to get into comic collecting. What I remember is the big comic books were
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
This is total nonsense. There is the thermodynamics of calories in and out. Then there are micro nutrients. Everything beyond that is bullshit marketed to suckers.
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
The idea you can't eat a healthy and cheap diet is just absurd. This is exactly how I eat. Lean chicken breast is some of the cheapest protein. Eggs have come back down to be a good deal. Oatmeal, sweet potatoes and rice are cheap. Oli
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
You can vibe code in this space as an individual because practically everything you are going to write is already in the training data. The big Quant hedge funds have been using machine learning for decades. I took the coursera RL in financ
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
Exactly. This is a performance by a really bad method actor.
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
That is a huge problem. We were not pushing 40 trillion in debt at the time of the great financial crisis. The TARP was a max of 700 billion and we didn't even disburse all the funds. Trying to do a bailout of this size could easily ca
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I can't really explain why I have barely used Gemini. I think it was just timing with the way models came out. This will be the first time I will have a Gemini subscription and nothing else. This will be the first time I really see wha
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
Groceries are hysterical to me. The ultimate first world problem. It is just too much to go to the store, put what you want to eat in the cart, pay and walk out. It stresses me out too much and takes time away from wasting time on my phone.
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
Even the shoeshine boy is giving stock tips about the AI bubble and selling NVDA. I think we are in an insane LLM/compute bubble but I just put long trades on in Palantir and Nvidia the past few days. Sentiment is just so one sided rig
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I just can't understand how anyone who actually uses the tools all the time can say this.
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I just totally disagree. I want AI to be as strong as possible. I want AGI, I especially want super intelligence. I will figure out a new and better job if you give me super intelligence. The problem is not cognitive dissonance, the problem
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
Well "system that calls functions in a loop" doesn't sound like it is from a science fiction story. Obviously, that is no good if you are trying to sell science fiction fantasies to people.
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
This is all nonsense and you are just falling for marketing that you want to be true. The whole space is largely marketing at this point, intentionally conflating all these philosophical terms because we don't want to face the ugly rea
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I think you should reverse the question, why would we expect LLMs to even have the ability to do novel things? It is like expecting a DJ remixing tracks to output original music. Confusing that the DJ is not actually playing the instruments
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
It is also the way we keep score in America. Kids in America are hopelessly addicted to Tiktok but that doesn't count as a cultural export. Most the items in people's homes are made in China but that doesn't count either. Chi
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
IMO this is a Rorschach test for the politically obsessed because I can't stand politics and have no clue what you are talking about. You have just trained your brain to be so obsessed with politics you can't but help to see it ev
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
It is really no different than music. Millions of people play guitar but most are not worth listening to or deserving of an audience. Imagine if you gave everyone a free guitar and people just started posting their electric guitar noodlings

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