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by csallen 7mo ago
So why not bus drivers? Supposedly because their routes are fixed?
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by csallen 7mo ago
To the extent that you care about deriving money from your art, you aren't just an artist, you're a business. And that's fine. I love businesses and the people who start them. But, sadly, art isn't an easy business. Ther
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by csallen 7mo ago
What's the exemption? To me it seems like we're trying to do the opposite, make the laws even more stringent for AI than we do for people. Imagine a genius person went out, trained himself by studying all the great art, and in doi
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by csallen 7mo ago
There's a huge difference between fake content and fake authors.
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by csallen 7mo ago
> The company is profiting off of other people's work! That's not right. What's wrong with it? We live in an interconnected world. Every company or individual who profits off anything does so, in very large part, thanks
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by csallen 7mo ago
> Greenfield and then leaving is too easy, you don’t learn the actually valuable lessons. You learn a ton of valuable lessons going from 0 to v1. And a ton of value is created. I guess I'm unclear how you're defining "ac
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by csallen 8mo ago
> The reason we have at will employment so prevalent is because it undermines unions. Its not because its the best and most equitable arrangement between employers and employees At-will employment came about in the 1870s and predates t
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by csallen 8mo ago
Sure, we're all in agreement that one should not be able to buy a judge, or violate human rights. But that's not what we're talking about. What no_wizard and others in this thread are upset about is the owner/leadership
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by csallen 8mo ago
The number of famous CEOs who've hopped around from company to company despite being terrible at their job is probably in the dozens. The number of founders/CEOs whose companies have died is demonstrably in the millions. Also, the
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by csallen 8mo ago
To me what you're upset about basically sounds like, "People who have more money/power/etc have it easier than those who don't." Yes, yes, they do. So what? All else being equal, greater wealth generally brings
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by csallen 8mo ago
If you make bad enough decisions, your customers leave, your company dies, and/or you are fired by the board. CEOs get fired all the time, and companies die all the time. It's part of life, and so are layoffs. There's no need
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by csallen 8mo ago
No one communicates that way. It's not practical. Almost all expressions can be uncharitably interpreted by a listener who doesn't like you, and thus has a motive to quote your sentences and disingenuously pretend you're sayi
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by csallen 8mo ago
The meaning of a message is what is intended + communicated, assuming those intentions were communicated clearly. Willfully interpreting otherwise (especially uncharitably so) is the very definition of being disingenuous, which is pretendin
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by csallen 8mo ago
This is a super disingenuous take. He was very obviously making a specific point, not try express a perspective on the value of humanity.
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by csallen 8mo ago
If you're an engineer in tech, you can generally afford to fail. I'm speaking from experience. I didn't grow up rich or anything close to it. I became a founder because "well I can always get a job" was a good fallb
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by csallen 8mo ago
Their own coding agent and models, marketing, tons of UI customizations, etc.
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by csallen 8mo ago
It's not theft, it's copying. Two different words, with two different meanings, and different legality, for very good reason. You can only steal things that can be taken away, which is why theft is bad, because it deprives the ori
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by csallen 8mo ago
> The question is whether we are comfortable with an economic model where creative and technical labour consistently produces outsized returns captured by capital, not by the people who actually built the thing. You have two mistakes i
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by csallen 8mo ago
How could this ever have been done safely? Either you are pushing the envelope in order to remain a relevant top player, in which case your models aren't safe. Or you aren't, in which case you aren't relevant.
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by csallen 8mo ago
> prior to reforming society into one that does not predicate survival on continued employment and wages There's no way that'll happen. The entire history of humanity is 99% reacting to things rather than proactively preventi
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by csallen 8mo ago
> Modern humans live in what would have been historically viewed as a Utopia. I think about this all the time, and how tragic (comedic?) it is that humanity finally created a Utopian age but most of its inhabitants are ignorant of that
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by csallen 8mo ago
> Imagine taking a picture on autoshot mode and refusing to look at it. If the client doesn’t like it because it’s too bright, tweak the settings and shoot again, but never look at the output. The output of code isn't just the cod
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by csallen 8mo ago
Do they talk about money that much? 99.99% of the people I see talking about money (especially other people's money and what they should be doing with it) are non-billionaires.
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by csallen 8mo ago
> All of them suffer from thinking their money makes them somehow better. Let's assume they think they're better than others. What makes you think that they think it's because of their money, as opposed to, say, becaus
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by csallen 9mo ago
The entire point of comparison is to be able to point out similarities between two different things. If you ignore the specific similarities being pointed out (learning and training work similar in different mammals), and you instead focus
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by csallen 9mo ago
> "Gastown as the future of engineering" Note the word "future" not "present". People are making a prediction of where things will go. I haven't seen a single person saying that Gas Town as it exists
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by csallen 9mo ago
These are some very tortured interpretations you're making. - "what's next" does not mean "production quality" and is in no way mutually exclusive with "experimental". It means exactly what it says,
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by csallen 9mo ago
Totally reasonable take, thanks for going in depth.
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by csallen 9mo ago
Yeah I agree, I don't think anyone is a fan of this fluff
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by csallen 9mo ago
If "reasonable person" means "someone with literally zero experience reading any business or acquisition news whatsoever" then I agree with you. Hell, the OP literally begins the announcement with, "As expected.&quo

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