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by baxtr 9mo ago
First of all, usually "and" denotes at least two separate things. Second mismanagement is a super broad term showing failure on all levels of the state. It’s definitely not monocausal but the effect many years of utter betrayal of
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by baxtr 9mo ago
Absolutely. But the problems are on different time scales and spheres of influence. Iran can’t do anything on their own against climate change. But they can decide to fund water projects instead of bombs. It’s a bit like saying: I went to t
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by baxtr 9mo ago
But the drought was not caused by climate change, but by mismanagement ie complete neglect of the problem.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
I noticed that these long form articles are trending on X. Not sure why. I guess it’s a new feature that is being pushed so people piggyback on that.
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AI Psychosis, AI Apotheosis(oblomovka.com)
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by baxtr 10mo ago
I checked 2-3 trails and have to agree. Take for example the OODA loop. How are the connections made here of any use? Seems like the words are semantically related but the concept are not. And even if they are, so what? I am missing the so
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Richard Rumelt has a nice article about this: > The strength of a chain depends on the strength of its weakest link. When activities have chain-link logic, the strength of the weakest, or least efficient, part limits the performance of
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by baxtr 10mo ago
This is one way to look at it. The other way is to argue that LLMs democratize access to knowledge. Anyone has access to all ever written by humanity. Crazy impressive if you ask me.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
That would be unfortunate. I’d love to see some space sharks!
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by baxtr 10mo ago
I think there is a theory that we’re not seeing any aliens simply because life on Earth started so early.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
This. In my experience you have to call out people and tell them politely that you expect them to be on time. Otherwise, people will simply come 10 minutes past if you start 5 minutes past.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
No but your USD return gap should in theory be eaten away by inflation.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
I get your point. Spain would fail miserably. But you’re not taken into account how many men Russia is losing to maintain that level of aggression. It’s compensating its small GDP with humans. Spain would never do that and thus fail.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Still not helpful if you need to pay your bills in EUR?
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Oh yes sorry, I forgot that Russia is super successful in Ukraine and Europe is on the brink of collapse because it ran out of energy!
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Similarly it’s a choice to ignore all those KPIs that are confounded. Being pedantic about how we measure progress might create the impression that it’s not about the progress but instead about being right.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
I think it’s not perfect but probably the best we have. People forgot or simply don’t realize how much worse life was just a couple of decades ago (in terms of nutrition, access to knowledge, clean water, material wealth).
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by baxtr 10mo ago
I noticed this as well. I haven’t found a good cure for this other than diversifying globally.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Yet another hot take: we won’t see any of that. Instead users will simply get used to waiting.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
That traffic is down can have at least two separate AI related causes: 1) Lower amount of impressions on the google search pages due to the AI answers 2) Lower amount of searches since people are using code generators I wonder which one it
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by baxtr 10mo ago
For people with iPhones I recommend an "Apple Arcade" subscription, especially if you have kids. All games included in Arcade are ad free. They have a big enough collection.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Slight modification: replace AI agents with "Computer programs" and everything starts making sense again.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
The value I get from negative comments is usually higher. My usual journey: I visit the comment section and then look for the first top comment that criticizes the core thesis of the article.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
I think OODA is fundamentally different to Auftragstaktik. Auftragstaktik describes a clear purpose / intent. Like: capture the bridge (but: we don’t care how you do it since we can’t foresee specific circumstances) OODA describes a
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by baxtr 10mo ago
There is a good book on that subject by Stephen Bungay called "The Art of Action". He explains the concept of Auftragstaktik . Great book, although a bit hard to read.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
For those like me who didn’t know: Astroturfing is the practice of creating a fake "grassroots" movement to make it look like a cause, product, or candidate has widespread public support when they actually do not.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Which if you think about it makes a lot of sense. We’ve trained it so far on the outputs of our weird thinking process only.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Interesting to see John Gruber complaining about HN. He thinks DF is blacklisted. I wasn’t aware of this beef.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Iraq worked out quite ok after 20 years if my contacts there are to believed. Afghanistan failed miserably.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Which country is that if I may ask?

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