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by csallen 1y ago
Lots of models could explain this. For example, let's say it's not just one program, but thousand of programs running in your body, trying to get you to age or die. The chances that all of them bug out would be astronomically low.
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by csallen 1y ago
No free speech => those in power can choose what speech to outlaw => they eventually outlaw speech critical of them => they can no longer be challenged by political rivals => authoritarian government where the people have no pow
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by csallen 1y ago
1. Don't ask for cash or an exit package imo. This isn't a mature, profitable company. It's a startup. You took a shot, you missed, and you're quitting. I think it's fair for there to just be a clean break there. Ei
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by csallen 1y ago
Ironically, you're proving the person you're responding to right: The problem is trying to get a holistic view by focusing on one metric in isolation. You need to consider multiple metrics. Any one metric by itself is going to h
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by csallen 1y ago
This is like telling a soccer player that no change in practice or technique is fundamentally different than another, because ultimately people are non-deterministic machines.
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by csallen 1y ago
Which is why it perplexes me that so many people are focused on trying to tear down the good thing we have, instead of fixing the broken thing.
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by csallen 1y ago
> * I in no way championed rent seeking laws * You're simply saying "laws should be followed", and my retort is that different laws are different. You aren't really acknowledging that point, or any other points I made
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by csallen 1y ago
I think the problem is your mindset. While you're coming up with reasons why you can't succeed, I know hundreds of people who are actually building things that are successful. I mean TypingMind.com is literally just a GPT wrapper
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by csallen 1y ago
You can believe in disruption and innovation and a stronger social safety net at the same time. These aren't opposing ideas. In fact, they're complementary ideas, because countries with competitive and innovative markets have a hi
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by csallen 1y ago
I agree with you that we should help people who fall on hard times, and I agree with you that stifling innovation isn't the right way to do so. I'm glad we have high ceilings as a country, but I think we're a rich enough soci
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by csallen 1y ago
1. Capitalism I think you are misunderstanding a fundamental part of capitalism and markets, which is leading you to incorrect conclusions. You seem to be assuming that there are a limited number of business models out there, and that they
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by csallen 1y ago
I'm just as curious as you about what the future holds. But while we're living in the present, we shouldn't be throwing out what's working.
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by csallen 1y ago
The vast majority of people who are starving to death every day live in high conflict countries and/or places without functioning capitalist market economies. Percentage wise, it's almost certain that fewer people are starving to
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by csallen 1y ago
Literally the entire narrative right now among online business owners, big and small (influencers, creators, indie hackers, startup founders, etc.) is that this is a golden age for aspirational new entrants and entrepreneurs.
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by csallen 1y ago
Hilariously, half of the examples you cite are laws created/influenced/strengthened by incumbent businesses of the past with the explicit goal of reducing competition and making it difficult for new entrants to compete. Let's
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by csallen 1y ago
> Apples to oranges. No amount of studying Rembrandt paintings would permit a human to paint 9 of them every minute. That's an arbitrary and irrelevant difference. Proof: if a future society upgraded human brains to have the same
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by csallen 1y ago
I think this had <1% of the effect compared to what the parent stated. The web has led to 10x more content being published in the past 30 years than was published in all of human kind's history before. And that's not including
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by csallen 1y ago
Competition in the free market is not colonialism. The capitalistic marketplace is meant to involve disruption. That's the entire point: new companies come along and out-compete and out-innovate older companies and business models. The
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by csallen 1y ago
I'll be the voice of dissent. I don't think it's unfair. 1. I don't believe that training LLMs on publicly-available content is morally bad. Nor do I believe that it should be prosecutable as copyright infringement, any
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by csallen 1y ago
Yes, because you won't go out of business if you don't offer gambling, whereas you will if you don't offer alcohol.
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by csallen 1y ago
This applies to AI, too, albeit in different ways: 1. You can iteratively improve the rules and prompts you give to the AI when coding. I do this a lot. My process is constantly improving, and the AI makes fewer mistakes as a result. 2. AI
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by csallen 1y ago
I think they meant client
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by csallen 1y ago
I believe these are all "background" agents that, by default, are meant to write code and issue pull requests without you watching/babysitting/guiding the process. I haven't used Claude Code in a while, but from wha
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by csallen 1y ago
I think what you're leaving is that what you're applying to people also applies to LLMs. There are many people you can trust to do certain things but can't trust to do others. Learning those ropes requires working with those
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by csallen 1y ago
> The only way for me to tell whether the output is legit is to do exactly what the LLM was supposed to do; search for a bunch of papers, read them and conclude on what the aggregate is telling me. And it's almost never obvious fro
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by csallen 1y ago
It takes like 2-6 minutes to do that, depending on the scope of the project
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by csallen 1y ago
It takes very little time or brainpower to circumvent AI hallucinations in your daily work, if you're a frequent user of LLMs. This is especially true of coding using an app like Cursor, where you can @-tag files and even URLs to manag
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by csallen 1y ago
I turned 38 a few months ago, same thing here. I would love to go back in time 5 years and tell myself about what's to come. 33yo me wouldn't have believed it.
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by csallen 1y ago
Can you direct me somewhere with superior counterarguments? I'm quite curious
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by csallen 1y ago
It's mind blowing. At least 1-2x/week I find myself shocked that this is the reality we live in

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