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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
They’d roll in their graves if they knew the party eventually turned into monarchists.
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
Communism with American Characteristics
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
It seems like the guy believed he was just doing his job for Google, not moonlighting? He released the project on Google’s own GitHub. It seems more like he misunderstood the necessary steps before making that release.
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
The rent in Austin is 22% lower than it was 3 years ago.
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
Public housing isn’t actually free in the countries you listed. It’s subsidized, but the people who live there still have to pay. The affordable housing units in New York are also subsidized. The question is what do we do if people stop pay
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
You’ve convinced me. I hope on the next iPhone, they make it so you have to put the MagSafe puck on the front where the screen is instead of that back where it is now.
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
I feel like I have to read this backwards to perhaps understand it. Is 2.9x the multiplier of Swiss GDP/capita vs the Western Europe average in 1940?
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
> Of the 369,000 jobs the Labor Department says were created since the start of Trump's second term, nearly all — 348,000 of them — went to women, with only 21,000 going to men. That's nearly 17 times as many jobs filled by wom
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
Forget white collar. Figure out a career that makes use of your hands. Or make enough money to retire in the next couple years.
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
If you use fat pipes that go a decent distance from shore, diluting your brine with ocean water, you’ll have a negligible impact on the ocean. The problem is if you dump lots of brine in shallow waters. Old designs did have that flaw, but i
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
My previous comment came off as disagreement that I didn’t intend. Most countries in the world are both socialist and capitalist. I don’t intend to defend the “socialism bad” argument. There are several countries (many in Europe) that have
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
US military spending is 3% of GDP. This has me wondering, do people think the military is 1/3 of the US economy? That would explain a lot of discourse.
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
US has a higher government spending as a % of GDP than China.
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
Pretty much every remotely developed country is capitalist. The wealthiest country with a non-capitalist economy is Cuba or Turkmenistan, depending on where you draw the line.
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
This generalizes to “good news is bad news because things must be bad by default for good things to be news”
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by ashdksnndck 4mo ago
Why is this sad? I’m having a hard time understanding the thought you are communicating. It seems cool that a CTO had fun and that motivated him to enable ADB for everyone?
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
Recursive self-improvement would be the model helping with the model research program. Coming up with hypotheses for training and architecture improvements, running experiments, interpreting the results, figuring out how to incorporate the
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
You ought to include a canary string if you are going to disclose your evals like that!
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
There are many known cases of it saving lives. Also, they have done a good job shutting down the psychotic behavior you could get from 4o era models. If there are remaining issues like that they ought to fix them too.
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1 This is a beta feature where Claude code draws the interface on the terminal’s alternate screen buffer like vim or htop. I believe it’s not the default because there are some potential compatibility issues deepening
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
Sure it’s possible for anyone to build a harness if they had the inclination, but most people don’t have the inclination to do that. And even if you did… I spent months refining AI workflows that were just obsoleted by ultracode.
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
Can you believe that the barrier to entry on a $20 Claude subscription is lower than emailing a guy to hire a team for a project you haven’t even thought of yet? Regular people who are using AI to assist with their daily work will find the
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
The unlocked economic activity won’t come from a Google competitor writing code faster. A lot of it will come from “boring” businesses who could benefit from custom software but haven’t had the means to create it themselves. In some cases t
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
Companies whose main core competency is writing code were already making up a big chunk of the economy before AI. Also, less wealthy companies were constrained in their use of software by the inability to afford the salaries of talented pro
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
Why don’t you part them out? The market for the parts will be more liquid. You might sell faster and at a higher price. You could try doing it once and see how it goes.
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
Index inclusion rules have changed repeatedly over the years. The current rules are not some fundamental law of nature.
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
Same is probably true of humans. In a conversation, we often respond from instinct, then work backwards to a rationalization only when asked. For more considered thoughts, if we’re lucky, we can remember our “reasoning traces” but that’s as
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
I think unions in industries where their workers are at risk of eventually getting replaced by AI are pretty universally against it, because protecting the jobs of members is the whole purpose of a union. It’s like how the teamsters are aga
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
My predictions: 1) If the AI companies do end up running half the economy, we will have discussion for the rest of the human history about how the public got scammed by not being able buy in earlier at a lower price and how the late IPOs se
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by ashdksnndck 5mo ago
For a moment step into the theory of mind of the AI believer. That’s the common mindset in finance today. You believe that AI is displacing white collar work, and soon with robots it will displace physical work. Your personal job is to help

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