MegaButts

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by MegaButts 1y ago
> VCs are not betting that the company will be asymptotically good, just good enough to make an exit. This is a misunderstanding of VC investment. Any competent VC expects most of their investments to go to zero. They're hoping a
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> I was a 3-4x programmer before. Now I’m a 9-15x programmer What the fuck does this mean?
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by MegaButts 1y ago
You are weirdly defensive about this.
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> Google at least used to provide a decent service to the end users in exchange for all the data, but they've gone completely off the rails the last few years. Ever since Google fucked up social media by requiring verification with
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> And the millennial expectation that "OF COURSE the monopolistic corps should know everything", is by far the most disturbing part of all. Your experiences are very different from my own. I struggle to remember meeting anyone
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> What's weird is when people like you involve themselves for no reason at all though. They made it so much better with a witty reply. I was just thinking this is one of my favorite HN threads I've seen in a long time. And no
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> when they were given $500B You're off by an order of magnitude here.
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by MegaButts 1y ago
If you can't learn to read sheet music in a million years then you are not generally intelligent.
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by MegaButts 1y ago
The same options the average citizen of any country has - protest followed by rebellion. America was founded by rebelling against the tyranny of unfair taxes. Until Americans understand that this isn't going to end without violence (o
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> if they have the mentality to improve upon themselves There's the rub. In my experience, and I understand anecdata is only so useful, people that really want to keep learning more than they have to are quite rare. I doubt that g
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by MegaButts 1y ago
Trump has announced plans to change that (this is news from today). https://archive.is/2eLzj > The Trump administration plans to rescind Biden-era AI chip curbs as part of a broader effort to revise semiconductor trade r
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> It would be absurd to expect to change anyone's core beliefs with a couple of HN posts. I 100% agree. > I'm satisfied just letting you know there is a case for free markets. I'm a believer in free markets. You just c
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> That doesn't all mean they are "holding" money. Money is not the same thing as wealth. Personally, I don't have any money other than pocket change. I'm using money and wealth interchangeably here because there
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by MegaButts 1y ago
You are replying to every single comment - you seem really upset about this. I never said anything was stolen from me. I said wealth inequality is the result of rich people holding money, because by definition there can be no wealth inequ
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> I get what you say -- hoarded wealth is essentially idle. I'm not talking at all about wealth being idle in my previous comment. My point is entirely that the more money the rich have, the less money the poor have. What you&#x2
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by MegaButts 1y ago
You don't even need to think about money as power, you can just think about money as money. There's a far simpler way to think about wealth inequality. If you believe it's a problem, by definition the people holding the wea
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by MegaButts 1y ago
Ah, now I see your point. I suspect the culture will change with the times assuming people want to give any credibility to universities moving forward. I remember how rampant cheating was where I went (decades ago) that I already put very
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by MegaButts 1y ago
I still don't understand why taking an in-person exam is considered some difficult ordeal that we cannot expect younger people to endure. I have no idea what culture you come from that this is even a talking point, let alone a debate.
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> Medical schools don’t take in 18 year olds in North America. They can have more in depth entrance exams since the people come in are more mature. Why do you need to be more mature to take an exam? We're not talking about toddlers
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by MegaButts 1y ago
JFC if someone asks you multiple times for a source then provide a fucking source, instead of continuing to be an obnoxious holier-than-thou "do your own research you ignoramus" asshole. You are so completely incompetent when it c
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by MegaButts 1y ago
Turbocharged cars have been reliable for a while now. There was a time when people said the same thing about fuel injection - because it is objectively more complicated than carbureted engines. But as time went on and they became more rel
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> both shittier and more expensive > Some examples: turbochargers I disagree that turbochargers are shittier. For most people, hell even for a large subset of people that only want to race their cars on a track, turbochargers provide
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> reduced weight in other parts of an aircraft The bigger problem is that the overall weight increases. Rearranging the COG doesn't really matter when most of your energy is spent literally fighting gravity. This is the first thing
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by MegaButts 1y ago
There are times it just generates complete nonsense that has nothing to do with what I said, but it's certainly not most of the time. I do not know how often, but I'd say it's definitely under 10% and almost certainly under
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by MegaButts 1y ago
I vehemently disagree. If I ask a question with an objective answer, and it simply makes something up and is very confident the answer is correct, what the fuck has it understood other than how to piss me off? It clearly doesn't under
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by MegaButts 1y ago
Fact checking is paranoia?
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by MegaButts 1y ago
An ability to answer questions with a train of thought showing how the answer was derived, or the self-awareness to recognize you do not have the ability to answer the question and declare as much. More than half the time I've used LL
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by MegaButts 1y ago
I've always been amazed by this. I have never not been frustrated with the profound stupidity of LLMs. Obviously I must be using it differently because I've never been able to trust it with anything and more than half the time I
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by MegaButts 1y ago
It's the first time I've ever used that phrase on HN. Anyway, what phrase do you think works better than 'stochastic parrot' to describe how LLMs function?
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by MegaButts 1y ago
> LLMs aren't good at being search engines, they're good at understanding things. LLMs are literally fundamentally incapable of understanding things. They are stochastic parrots and you've been fooled.

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