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by api 3mo ago
They're not all the same. I'm not saying they're all great. In a democracy, especially when you face only a few options, it's always a lesser of two evils choice. I've never voted for someone I thought was great.
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by api 3mo ago
Better metrics are transistors/mm^2, performance/watt, and raw performance, since at this point "nm" is fluff and easily game-able. Different companies measure it differently too. This was a while ago, but I remember rea
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by api 3mo ago
I think "AI is replacing art" is a category error. If I read a book or look at a piece of art or listen to music, the whole point is to receive the thoughts, feelings, and lived experience of a human being. But yes, AI is supplant
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by api 3mo ago
One of my 2024 predictions was that Trump would push through the biggest tax increase in history, and that his anti-tax base would cheer it. (Deficit spending doesn't exist and tax increases aren't tax increases if a Republican is
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by api 3mo ago
The hard-core heavy-duty hate is all economic. People are angry about economic issues like low wages and unaffordable real estate but we've been beaten into learned helplessness on those things. Nothing can be done. Both parties are ba
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by api 3mo ago
Much like self-driving cars being better than drunk, incompetent, or texting human drivers, AI software is generally better than the garbage churned out by code monkeys who don't care or cheap lowest bidder outsourcers. It's nowhe
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by api 3mo ago
AI is awesome tech but it’s also to some extent mass piracy. The models are trained on huge amounts of material with dubious or non existent rights. I have a hard time being concerned about “you pirated my piracy.” I hold the view that many
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by api 3mo ago
It's great for testing and QA automation for UIs. It's also possibly good for the vision impaired.
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by api 3mo ago
I just had an LLM synthesize a complete app UI from spec. It did a decent job.
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by api 3mo ago
You’re comparing crypto and LLMs?
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by api 3mo ago
That would give us efficient desktop apps that don’t need a JavaScript runtime.
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by api 3mo ago
Death and suffering are “natural.” These people are all delusional ideologues. If reality does not match the ideology, reality must be wrong.
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by api 3mo ago
This is true but also false. It’s true that things could be slow on those old machines, especially when it had to hit disk. It’s true that things were often single threaded and would stall. But what’s also true is that this old code was ord
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by api 3mo ago
I’ve wondered if this belongs on the Fermi paradox pile. Many biospheres may be more massive planets that are so hard to get off that a space enterprise never starts. Meanwhile lighter planets might have trouble holding onto atmospheres.
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by api 3mo ago
Did anyone ever say Chernobyl was the safest reactor? It didn’t even have a containment building. I recall reading that the Soviet designs were regarded as poor at the time. I don’t totally disagree though. You can reduce it to economics. N
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by api 3mo ago
That’s not the problem though. The problem is that most apps are malware.
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by api 3mo ago
Which means it doesn’t matter if the code is from AI or not. If it’s not good it’s not good.
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by api 3mo ago
This is why I avoid installing apps and don’t have a lot of them.
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by api 3mo ago
Get off social media. It’s trash. It was trash before AI and it’s trash now.
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by api 3mo ago
That predates AI and has more to do with the incentives baked into media, especially social media that’s all about “time on app” and “time on site” and therefore infinite scroll brain rot.
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by api 3mo ago
I honestly find this a little deranged. I’ve read some AI generated prose before and it’s… boring. It tends to be the mathematical average of all stories, with plots that are heavy on cliche and tropes played straight. If I read a book like
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by api 3mo ago
Quake compiled in C will run insanely fast at 8K full resolution on an M1.
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by api 3mo ago
Some aging mechanisms like telomeres are also mechanisms to prevent cancer by limiting cell division. It looks like one of the optimization edges walked by evolution is a conflict between longevity and the ability to repair and regenerate v
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by api 3mo ago
Markets are very good at a lot of important things, but the idea that’s taken hold in many places is market fundamentalism. It’s the idea that the market should run absolutely everything and if the market doesn’t do it, it has no value. It’
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by api 3mo ago
Link for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect Baumol plus zoning and NIMBY driven real estate hyperinflation basically explain the modern economic malaise among especially the young. I’ve also heard
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by api 3mo ago
Stop this race to the bottom stuff. You know what else is a luxury and always has been? HVAC, transportation, anything beyond maybe emergency medicine, Internet access, education, drinkable tap water, … The fact that the bulk of the US popu
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by api 3mo ago
It’s that wages have not risen with inflation.
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by api 3mo ago
I'm referring to this, which has aged quite poorly: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-ele...
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by api 3mo ago
Puppy cannons. Puppy carpet bombing.
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by api 3mo ago
The irony is that the people who screamed the most that Rome was on fire aggressively pushed for what you brilliantly call Moron Power. They thought we were crashing, rushed the cockpit, and pushed forward as hard as they could on the stick

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