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by api 1mo ago
I had some serious surgery a few years ago and paid attention when I went under to see if I could recall anything. Nope. You don’t exist for that time. Anesthesiologist counts down 10, 9, 8, 7, and then I was teleported to the recovery bed.
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by api 1mo ago
All cults are for-profit in some sense. Sometimes it's not money though. Sometimes it's getting the leader(s) laid or getting them their "narcissistic supply." I've heard tons of rumors about a get-laid angle to the
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by api 1mo ago
I've read some of it. It's a cult. The net effect of their recommendations is to mandate a monopoly on AI, which oh so happens to be them and their friends. That's what most cults' ideologies boil down to: reasons to giv
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by api 1mo ago
You're getting lots of hate because people assume this will only subtract, that people will use tools like this to replace their creative process. Anyone who does that isn't creative to begin with, and isn't trying to be crea
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by api 1mo ago
Not a new sentiment. This is over two thousand years old: https://www.anthologialitt.com/post/the-god-thoth-and-the-in... Every invention is a Faustian pact. It amplifies certain things and atrophies others. Personally
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by api 1mo ago
He would legitimately try this. There’s no limit to the cartoonish narcissism. It’s absurd and would fail of course.
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by api 1mo ago
I keep saying Linux can win on desktop by just sitting still while Windows sucks more and more.
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by api 1mo ago
Closely related: one of the biggest AI superpowers I've found is testing. "Please implement a comprehensive unit testing suite for this, making sure to test ..." You still have to check the work and shouldn't trust it bl
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by api 1mo ago
Chinese scale is one way RISC-V could win. If China suddenly starts reaching <5nm process nodes at scale and uses RISC-V, they'd flood the market with cheap high performance RISC-V chips and probably start using them in their domest
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by api 1mo ago
I’m giving my kidneys a participation trophy.
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by api 1mo ago
If China leapfrogs EUV, this could happen.
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by api 1mo ago
Linux is decent for its core use cases, but it is far from a solid pro-grade OS in a lot of areas... and in the areas it did get there, it took a long time to get there.
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by api 1mo ago
Eventually CPUs and GPUs converge: huge numbers of CPUs with wide vector units.
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by api 1mo ago
5% of that might get built. Maybe. We are nearing the top of a giant DC build out bubble. My guess is that there’s someone making money for getting DCs permitted. Like the paperwork done. 474 GW of capacity is silly woo woo land. I’m not su
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by api 1mo ago
X86 is the best argument that you can build a fast efficient RISC-V chip... because the X86 instruction set is a much bigger mess. It just blows my mind sometimes when designers don't learn insanely obvious lessons from the past, basic
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by api 2mo ago
Is it actually decentralized or is bluesky protocol services in the middle?
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by api 2mo ago
They're invaluable for developers to fix their code. This is definitely an area where AI decisively beats human devs in a very valuable way. It can try so much surface area so fast. If it won't attack my stuff, it won't help
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by api 2mo ago
It's dumb and feels astroturfed. My pet speculation: existing data center owners want to prevent more data center construction to boost the value of their assets. I ran some numbers on energy use a while back. In general: if you skip o
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by api 2mo ago
I challenge people to look at some numbers here. Is it possibly excessive? Yes. But this is insane hyperbole. Of course that's how you get attention, I guess. Rational discourse is ignored. To get people to pay attention you have to ma
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by api 2mo ago
If you go back in time and imagine yourself in 1950, would you have said that about computers in general? Yes their decisions are the result of pre programmed heuristics, but to the operator that can feel as opaque as AI. In fact in the ear
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by api 2mo ago
That was the joke. Will it lecture you on white replacement?
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by api 2mo ago
That is true of all tools. AI is a tool. A tool provides leverage. It does not make a bad craftsperson good.
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by api 2mo ago
Already happened: SEO, spam, all conversation moving to closed silos and social platforms. AI is maybe the last few nails in the coffin but the guy inside was already dead.
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by api 2mo ago
Indirect side effect of the fact that you can build things in Texas.
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by api 2mo ago
It does a pretty good job being put into a loop of "try to optimize for X" then "test and audit your code" then repeat.
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by api 2mo ago
This is great. The error it highlights would work for anything. The Earth is on the back of a large turtle. Prove me wrong. Most of the arguments you hear will be deeply flawed. Therefore we are on the back of a giant turtle.
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by api 2mo ago
Something that comes to mind right away is: the cloud will eliminate the complexity of managing OSes and hardware. Instead it moved it to the complexity of devops and complicated cloud APIs.
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by api 2mo ago
I wonder how this compares to other fields. Whenever you have a market like this, there's a giant incentive for fraud, and the more people cheat the stronger the incentive gets to the point that you lose if you don't cheat. That b
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by api 2mo ago
I know. I'm saying that overall I don't believe it's that overvalued. Specific things may be overvalued. I suspect data center real estate is a bubble, for instance.
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by api 2mo ago
I've been incubating a heresy for years: the free software movement was actually counterproductive. It helped kill user-focused autonomous privacy-respecting personal computing. It created a tech environment where there is no money in

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