Ouman

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by Ouman 12d ago
Yeah, that was an oddly useful little feedback loop. You'd see some bizarrely specific query bringing people in and realize there was an entire question people were asking that you'd never thought to write about.
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by Ouman 12d ago
I think the interesting failure mode is when a company sees unexpected users as a branding problem instead of a product signal
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by Ouman 13d ago
Graham says the constraint is that becoming more powerful has to make things better for the customer, but several of the strategies he recommends are exactly how companies eventually acquire the ability to stop caring quite so much about cu
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by Ouman 25d ago
Yeah, the bird use case is charming, but it's also a pretty good demonstration of how much information is sitting there waiting to be extracted from sensors that were installed for some completely different purpose.
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by Ouman 25d ago
The e-ink display with woodcut birds sounds like the perfect final form of this project
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by Ouman 25d ago
Security cameras becoming a 24/7 backyard biodiversity monitor is already great. The fact that the same system eventually detected a neighbor farting in the driveway somehow makes it perfect.
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by Ouman 1mo ago
Execution units are cheap if you can't keep them fed, so the huge cache seems like the other half of the story
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by Ouman 1mo ago
A career probably shouldn't choose the destination for you. The danger is that it gives such clear feedback about progress that it's easy to let it do exactly that by default
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by Ouman 1mo ago
A lot of careers have very effective feedback loops for telling you that you're progressing, while being almost completely silent on whether the destination is one you actually want
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by Ouman 2mo ago
A lot of the tension around generative AI comes from the fact that the abstraction layer is often presented as interchangeable with the underlying craft
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by Ouman 2mo ago
Apple still has to prove the allegations and show that they justify an injunction against the product itself
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by Ouman 2mo ago
There may be real misconduct here, but "some employees mishandled confidential information" and "OpenAI must stop developing AI hardware" are very different claims
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by Ouman 3mo ago
They can look altruistic at the individual level while still being completely aligned with self-preservation at the group level
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by Ouman 3mo ago
So the colony's "medical staff" are basically the people between jobs who happen to know everyone
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by Ouman 3mo ago
Age verification is the visible, easy-to-sell layer. Device attestation is the more structural one...
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by Ouman 3mo ago
I am not sure the hard part of direct democracy was ever only the logistics of voting
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by Ouman 3mo ago
I agree that it is not always mass public demand for authoritarianism. Often it is more like institutional persistence plus vague moral framing
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by Ouman 3mo ago
A lot of bad tech policy seems to come from judging a proposal only by its stated intent
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by Ouman 3mo ago
The scary part is not "age checks today, secret police tomorrow". It is that once there is a convenient identity-verification layer for normal internet use, it will be very hard to keep it limited to the original purpose... Every
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by Ouman 4mo ago
The question is not whether the ingredients are original. They almost never are. The question is whether the synthesis is any good
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by Ouman 4mo ago
Most small games are recombinations of existing mechanics anyway
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by Ouman 4mo ago
The "world's most dangerous AI" framing is funny here because the result is basically the least dystopian use case imaginable