SirensOfTitan

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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
So because of his economic realities he should be pragmatic enough to drop his values? Can't you see what a slippery slope that is? And in fact, how dangerous that level of economic despair is for a functioning democracy? It's al
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
I totally agree actually, and I think that having ownership over one's labor is extremely important. Without that self-determinism, people do not have the agency to define their lives, and their political actions become limited by the
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This system can go fuck itself and burn in hell(shawnfromportland.substack.com)
98 points by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago|81 comments
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
A heartbreaking story about a man's attempt to break out of generational poverty that feels relevant as we consider how AI changes labor and who it empowers. A lot of us are excited about AI, but economic displacement can cause generat
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
I deleted my OpenAI account months ago. If LLMs and adjacent technology are truly a paradigm shift, I can’t think of many worse than Sam Altman to shepard us through that. He is a pure opportunist who has already shown how little he believe
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
LLM-assisted development feels a lot like trend-driven development. When dealing with technique and heterogenous prompts and goals, it’s easy to gain somewhat of a gambler’s fallacy with respect to a particular technique. Spec-driven develo
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
LLMs are obviously a transformative technology, but I think as tech people we have to be deeply thoughtful about how we ensure humans can apply meaning through their work. A lot of my peers not in tech are worried about their capacity to wo
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
LLMs are literally communication and comprehension tools. An offshore team with AI assistance can produce clearer English documentation, parse ambiguous product requirements more effectively, and ultimately close the feedback loop faster. T
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
It's the combination of factors. AI augmentation makes offshoring much more viable.
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
Christopher Lasch in Culture of Narcissism: > Our growing dependence on technologies no one seems to understand or control has given rise to feelings of powerlessness and victimization. We find it more and more difficult to achieve a sen
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
You might absolutely be correct, but there is a bias within our field to overly focus on the technology at the expense of everything else. You are speaking about well-off engineers as a fairly famous top 1% engineer. You need to consider y
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
This meme is just cope at this point, and it’s frustrating to watch engineers pretend that it was actually the architecture that was hard or whatever. No author, this isn’t the same as SPAs and CI/CD. This isn’t just happy tools helpin
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
What an interesting week to drop the safety pledge. This is how all of these companies work. They’ll follow some ethical code or register as a PBC until that undermined profits. These companies are clearly aiming at cheapening the value of
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
I mean like: being alive isn't leverage, but controlling the economic output that has made elites rich is. Mass economic displacement often doesn't produce solidarity, it produces fragmentation, scapegoating, and strongmen. People
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
How will AI affect the price of real goods and their inputs: lumber, food, electricity, textiles and the like? And will companies pass on the service-based savings to consumers?
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
Right. So then when is the best time for labor to act to ensure those mechanisms are put in place? Before or after AI has eliminated its leverage? Like I totally realize we're agreed in some sense, but some form of socialism now in t
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
You're assuming that the gains from productivity improvements distribute themselves broadly. The last 50 years have clearly shown that this is certainly not the case unless there is political intervention. The elites and the politica
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
I think the clear point of this piece is that we have the space and opportunity now to ask ourselves as a group: what are we doing? Who actually stands to benefit from the massive devaluation of services in an economy that is buoyed by ser
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
Yeah, Anthropic is inarguably in a better position, but I don’t see how they justify their fundraising unless they find some entrenched position that is difficult for competitors to replicate. Enterprise switching costs aren’t 0, but they’r
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
Regardless of the promise of the underlying technology, I do wonder about the long-term viability of companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Not only are they quite beholden to companies like Nvidia or Google for hardware, but LLM tech as it
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
I consider almost all news to be entertainment unless I need its perspective to make a decision (which is almost never). It is a lot safer to remain uninformed on a subject as it settles than to constantly attempt to be informed. Informatio
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
To me, tech entrepreneurship looks more like some form of "lemon socialism." It feels more centrally planned than ever, and a company's success has much more to do with your relationships with capital than anything else. It&
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
This sounds awfully like an LLM generated comment. I suppose it was just a matter of time before this kind of slop started taking over HN.
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
I miss the era of Internet forums. They didn’t need to be federated, just simple deployments of MyBB, vBulletin, PHP, Xenforo and so on. I made a lot of friends on those communities growing up, and it inspired me to go into software because
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
A lot of tech's current trends have a lot to do with its inability to see beyond the first order, like: - How layoff culture backfires: companies that lean into this culture tend to underperform compared to those that do not. - The del
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by SirensOfTitan 8mo ago
I started exploring Christianity from an archetypal or psychological lens last year, and have found it really rewarding. I've put in thousands of hours of westernized Buddhist oriented meditation (I think "Pragmatic Dharma"
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by SirensOfTitan 9mo ago
Yeah, and I think that avoidance is the cardinal sin of the modern world. You can’t avoid the dissonance between how a person acts and what they say or want to be. This is especially true within yourself: you can’t ignore what James Hillman
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by SirensOfTitan 9mo ago
> It struck me recently how few of the most successful people I know are mean. There are exceptions, but remarkably few. *mean to Paul Graham. I’ve worked with a lot of mean people in important positions in my career, and they all have a
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by SirensOfTitan 9mo ago
I'm frankly exhausted from AI takes from both pessimists and optimists--people are applying a vast variety of mental models to predict the future during what could be a paradigm shift. A lot of the content I see on here is often only
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by SirensOfTitan 9mo ago
We need to define terms precisely first and the industry seems allergic to that, likely because precise terms would undermine hype marketing necessary for companies like Anthropic to justify their valuations. We need clear definitions and c

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