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by an0malous 4mo ago
Power corrupts. It’s one of the most predictable effects throughout human history. It’s interesting because it doesn’t seem like it needs to be intrinsic to power, and yet every time someone gains it they eventually become corrupt.
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by an0malous 4mo ago
Especially because LLMs have no moat and they’re strategy is basically “we’ll figure out AGI first”
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by an0malous 4mo ago
What other package managers do this? I don’t think Ruby does
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by an0malous 4mo ago
The majority of healthcare products are not life saving treatments, nor do they require a solution here and now, and those solutions rarely happen immediately even when they do because of aforementioned horrendous service quality of the ind
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by an0malous 5mo ago
Our country is captured by the top 1% of wealthy donors who are making a killing off the healthcare industry. Americans as a population aren’t putting up with anything, they just have no control. A citizen shot a healthcare executive in the
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by an0malous 5mo ago
There are many examples of for-profit systems that don’t have this problem, it’s really the heavily regulated for-profit systems that have this “cost disease” issue. It seems to happen whenever there isn’t a transparent market, like the tui
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by an0malous 5mo ago
> Where actually went all the productivity gains of the last decades? Productivity gains by design go primarily to the investor class, the owners of corporations. There’s no mechanism for those gains to go to laborers. If a company perfo
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by an0malous 5mo ago
I wish you life from diabetes to cancel out her curse
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by an0malous 5mo ago
A related dynamic: even getting attention requires increasingly fantastical and absurd claims. You basically have to lie about what your product is capable of because your competitors are. If you're making an app to find and save recip
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by an0malous 5mo ago
> If you're not willing to pay a 20% premium for upgradability/fixability, then you don't _really_ want it. And that's fine! This is a completely sensible take, but many on this forum believe upgradability/fixabi
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by an0malous 5mo ago
“US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes” https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-anthropi...
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by an0malous 5mo ago
“US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes” https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-anthropi... It cites the WSJ but that article is paywalled so I shared this one
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by an0malous 5mo ago
They're trying to pivot to something that would inspire the retail investor they need to pass the bag to as they gear up for IPO, something out of Elon's playbook like "AI will take us to Alpha Centauri by 2030" or &quot
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by an0malous 5mo ago
That's only if these AI companies can keep improving their model performance faster than open source options can keep up. I don't think performance will keep scaling with more training data, and even if it does they've likely
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by an0malous 5mo ago
It probably can't support any because there's no moat and smaller, open source models are catching up. This is like investing $1T into mainframe computers in 1980.
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by an0malous 5mo ago
> If open source models are ~3-6 months behind SOTA, and ~opus4.6 capabilities are good-enough for product market fit, do the frontier labs have half a decade to catch up on their prior burn? They know they do not and that’s why they’re
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by an0malous 5mo ago
How is that “apropro of nothing”? Isn’t it apropro of the quote from the article you’re commenting on?
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by an0malous 5mo ago
I worked at a YC company that was doing this and left last month. I wonder where this all started from, VCs and tech execs are such a monoculture
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by an0malous 5mo ago
I’m not selling anything, you can learn any of these exercises online for free and there’s no risk. The guy in the article is the one trying to make billions of dollars selling you a pill that alters your brain chemistry and you’ll need to
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by an0malous 5mo ago
Sure, and I wouldn’t tell someone to not see an ENT, and maybe a CPAP, surgery, or this pill are the right solution for you. I’m just throwing out another option to consider with different tradeoffs.
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by an0malous 5mo ago
No but I used Snore Lab app as well as Apple’s sleep tracking app, in addition to my subjective experience of not having a sore throat and feeling more refreshed in the mornings
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by an0malous 5mo ago
> You don't have to be taught to breathe. That’s where I would disagree. Sure there’s a baseline of breathing that everyone does otherwise they’d be dead, but I think the ceiling towards skillful breathing is very high. The differen
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by an0malous 5mo ago
I’m not super familiar with them, I know some exercises focus on just your breathing rhythm and those probably won’t help with postural issues, but I think any breath exercises that involve feeling your breath in your body will help.
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by an0malous 5mo ago
Yes Jeff Bezos was famously passionate about retail and Marc Benioff would build customer relationship management solutions using paper and glue as a young lad
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by an0malous 5mo ago
This is conflated by the fact that most people start to enjoy things that give them a lot of money and prestige. Otherwise everyone would be in playing sports and making art, the things kids do before they care about money and prestige
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by an0malous 5mo ago
Thank you! I saw you mentioned mewing in your comment, they teach you that in some pranayama exercises as well and I agree it’s a great addition. It feels unnatural at first but when you get used to it, it’s almost like bracing your palate
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by an0malous 5mo ago
I went through the whole process of seeing an ENT, using the machine for the at-home sleep study so insurance would give me a CPAP, then not being able to sleep with a CPAP, and over the course of a couple years I fixed my sleep apnea by fi
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by an0malous 5mo ago
You don’t get any of the FCF or earnings for owning equity, if a stock doesn’t pay dividends it’s the same thesis that someone will pay more for it later
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by an0malous 5mo ago
I’m not a Sam Altman fan, but I think it’s debatable if he’s worse than the guy who did a sieg heil at a political rally
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by an0malous 5mo ago
> Probably the most concrete of this is "Fall; or Dodge in Hell" which involves a simulation of people's scanned brains rediscovering qualia and constructing their own simulated world from scratch. This is a great example

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