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by arw0n 3mo ago
What is invalid about the claims, and how is the fine not appropriate given the legal framework Google agreed to work in within the EU?
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by arw0n 4mo ago
I suspect that Grok has been ironically lobotomized by pressures to correct its political views. Similarly, I could imagine the Gemini folks working in a significantly more complex corporate climate, with different parts of Google pushing f
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by arw0n 4mo ago
I would argue a different case: When AI is noticeable, it is obvious the person doesn't care enough to bother with you. I'm a heavy user of AI, but it has not changed the amount of time I invest in certain things, rather, I think
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by arw0n 4mo ago
> In my long career I've noticed a strong correlation between SAT scores and academic performance as well as job performance On average. However, I've also had the experience that some of the most competent people I've kno
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by arw0n 4mo ago
And the soccer WC went the opposite direction, by encouraging scalping, giving it an official avenue, and taking a cut of the profits. Now only rich people get to enjoy a sport meant for the masses, yay.
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by arw0n 4mo ago
Reddit was already heavily astroturfed before AI. There's no space on the internet where you can get as much bang for a buck with an influence campaign due to its centralized frontpage. The most obvious example is /r/worldnew
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by arw0n 4mo ago
History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Drawing these comparisons to the Dotcom bubble is only of limited utility. I think there's good reason to believe that recursive self-improvement is a bust, and LLM models will become a co
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by arw0n 4mo ago
I mean if we're getting really serious about ai-first development, we might be able to get away with a ton of micro services written with clear, simple apis to communicate all in a giant mono-repo managed by an army of agents. That way
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by arw0n 4mo ago
There's a difference in thought here so fundamental that it is hard to argue about details without addressing it first: You believe the individual comes first, what it produces is taxes hy the external construct of the state, which tak
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by arw0n 4mo ago
I love their product and use them myself. But where's the value proposition for investors? Unless they get purchased by one of the large cloud providers, they will get pushed out of the market sooner or later. What's the value pro
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by arw0n 5mo ago
The fairest and easiest to realize wealth tax is on inheritance. It is great to want to give your kids a headstart in the world, it is terrible for them and the people around them to set them up for life.
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by arw0n 5mo ago
The article itself isn't great, but it speaks to one of my greatest concerns about AI. People who engage heavily with it are falling in the behavioral billionaire trap: It is deeply unhealthy to be constantly affirmed in your behaviors
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by arw0n 5mo ago
With the rise of agentic coding, this has become a sign of quality for me in my own PRs and reviews: New features implemented in less than a thousand lines of productive code. When I'm working on code that was heavily vibecoded, most o
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by arw0n 5mo ago
Could you maybe in brought strokes explain what you are working on? I think it is very plausible that the disconnect is between people writing front ends/rest apis vs people solving things like graphics.
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by arw0n 5mo ago
I tend to agree. Taking shortcuts are one thing, not daring to refactor along the way another. I would only do this in low stress situations due to the risk of producing new bugs or issues, and just lacking the time to properly update tests
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by arw0n 5mo ago
Also there are still considerations like domain, team expertise, org ecosystem etc. to consider. I love to use Rust for most things, but now I'm working with an org that primarily has expertise in Java, and I'm not going to rock t
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by arw0n 5mo ago
There is labor that is necessary for our societies to function, but a direct threat to the people doing the work. Someone has to do it, and it should be seen as a great service to society and rewarded accordingly. In a just world, we woul
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by arw0n 6mo ago
> How does that add up? He's been saying whatever is good for Nvidia for years now without any regard for truth or reason. He's one of the least trustworthy voices in the space.
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by arw0n 6mo ago
I'm on the 20 USD tier, and it works quite well for me. Basically I send one very carefully crafted task to the LLM per 4h limit, do a couple of minor questions, and the rest of the time I'm thinking/exploring/coding. I
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by arw0n 6mo ago
Networking effects are significantly strengthened by necessary user buy in. VC is hard, and every tool demands its users to spend a non-significant amount of time learning it. I would guess the time to move from black magic to understanding
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by arw0n 6mo ago
This is moral relativism at its finest, and just plain wrong. I'm not willing to go so far as to call Anthropic a good player, but they are surprisingly often willing to put their money where their mouth is. Obviously everything can
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by arw0n 6mo ago
And what is malicious about that ideology? I think EAs tend to like the smell of their farts way too much, but their views on AI safety don't seem so bad. I think their thoughts on hypothetical super intelligence or AGI are too focused
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by arw0n 6mo ago
Just to be clear, the smartest person is still a minister in Idiocracy, and the whole premise hinges on the idea that the elite still recognizes intelligence as something desirable.
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by arw0n 6mo ago
I think they are implying that people with lower intelligence are more likely to be in jail. There's at least three reasons why I would consider this very plausible: 1. Intelligence is associated with higher impulse control. 2. Intelli
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by arw0n 6mo ago
> There are national outlets like ZDF, Tagesschau, Deutschlandradio and regional ones like Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Bayerischer Rundfunk. Each design and present their own programmes. Well yes, but calling them politically independent
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by arw0n 6mo ago
> "This is the future" Yeah, that's silly, it is already the present! Some interesting conversation one can have with coworkers specifically: 1. How should code review and responsibility for code be updated to a) increase
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by arw0n 7mo ago
See also the new Deepseek paper on engram transformers for some progress in this area: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.07372v1 They observe significant gains in factual knowledge retrieval capabilities, but reasoning bare
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by arw0n 7mo ago
Mathematics is a language. Everything we can express mathematically, we can also express in natural language. The real interesting, underlying question is: Is there anything worth knowing that cannot be expressed by language? - That'
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by arw0n 7mo ago
> People will go out of their way to help you, and to support you. Over time this could very well boost your ego to also become more confident and decisive. This was my first thought about why the move to online works for men but not wom
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by arw0n 7mo ago
Nuclear is significantly more expensive on average. It is in no way an either/or question, you could have both. With 35% of energy being renewables, the country is still very much reliant on global energy markets, and it should indeed

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