curuinor

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by curuinor 9d ago
There's cowardice and there's weakness. Because of the reduced enrollment nationally and the successful attacks on grants, universities have to compete for students now and it will be more difficult to take stands, just as us soft
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by curuinor 10d ago
Joining to another crater-low birth rate society will not make anything better on that front. No pro-natalist policy I am aware of has actually worked, and I'm regrettably aware of quite a few.
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by curuinor 10d ago
My whisper network has talked about cutting junior hires in computer-touching 60, 70, 80%
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by curuinor 11d ago
They guaranteed 11 9's durability, didn't they? e: Yep https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/
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by curuinor 11d ago
We don't care about the computers, humans are what society is for
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by curuinor 11d ago
Near the beginning of my career, I talked to a greybeard who harrumphed at me discussing something-or-other and said "computer security is an oxymoron". I thought he was being too pessimistic, nowadays I realize he was right.
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by curuinor 14d ago
Feudalism is about the right to violence. Do any of these organizations have private armies? No private armies (I suppose in modern times, also private air forces, tank battalions, nuclear warheads and nuclear triads, drone divisions...), n
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by curuinor 14d ago
They define "frontier lab" in terms of cost-effectiveness, but LLM stuff is going down in price for a given model with a robust software-sized growth curve. It's just that there's a model size war going on. So any cost-e
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by curuinor 17d ago
If someone tells you up, down and sideways that they follow an idealpolitik view of the world, they really are usually doing realpolitik. If someone tells you up, down and sideways that they follow a realpolitik view of the world, they usua
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by curuinor 22d ago
All sovereign bond demand will decrease generally, because of the failure of defined benefit pensions everywhere. Basically nobody new with any sense in the private sector does them, they're being phased out in the public sector, and t
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by curuinor 24d ago
You pay $2 million to some ambitious someone and you get a serious chance (1-3%, still counts as a serious chance) to have some ostensible societal benefit. Get a factory made or some software written or something else done. You pay $2 mill
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by curuinor 26d ago
Any serious career programmer knows in their bones that it's a miracle that anything works at all. Now the general public is getting to learn that fact, by everything systematically breaking. Or getting hacked, in this case.
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by curuinor 26d ago
The business-building is not zero sum, but the trading is zero-sum, and the societal purpose of the thing is to provide liquidity
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by curuinor 26d ago
Workaday copywriting is dead (was moribund, now has been shot in the head). Prestige literary writing is zero-sum and therefore eternal, in the same way that equities trading (not formation and not business-building) is zero-sum and therefo
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by curuinor 26d ago
LLM can't have legitimacy in doing things to human beings, because it's impossible for LLM to have political legitimacy. Political legitimacy in modern societies is already a vicious zero-sum game with a tiny elite having any in t
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by curuinor 29d ago
Being a high-performing sort of peep is radically contingent on situation, context and the fit of the peep and the environment. So saying, ontologically, that someone is a 10x or in this case an even more foolish 100x engineer is not a cohe
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by curuinor 29d ago
Is it not just the climate movement, full stop? This stuff is using rather a lot of power...
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by curuinor 29d ago
As Nassim Taleb puts it, you often get gluts that aren’t followed by shortages, but it’s very rare to get a shortage that’s not followed by a glut. (from the article) I think this is also politically contingent upon the general world gran
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by curuinor 29d ago
https://archive.is/LdagP
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by curuinor 1mo ago
It's like the progression from manual labor as a society to mass automation of everything physical. Even construction workers have to go to the gym. You'll have to do gym things with the mind, too, now. But gym things are not actu
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by curuinor 1mo ago
"Reactionary" is your vocab word, therefore
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by curuinor 1mo ago
They can all do that, peep
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by curuinor 1mo ago
Probably need to schlep to a real gallery to reliably avoid such things, anyhow
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by curuinor 1mo ago
I work at CodeRabbit, although I am posting in a personal capacity, but can say that a great swathe of it will be in cash, not just product credit, and it's not going to be just 5%. Although there will be product credit. Previous donat
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by curuinor 1mo ago
You cannot separate that ideology (like any ideology) from the practitioners, and the biggest practitioner was unquestionably Sam Bankman-Fried. I'm not a fan.
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by curuinor 1mo ago
I am from the wrong continent to be inculcated in country music from an early age, but I read books distributed from her program every week to the niece. So that's probably her more durable contribution to society, I think.
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by curuinor 1mo ago
Look. Zitron always gets shit on in HN because he's wrong a lot about scope and scale and stuff and gets fixated on stuff that basically doesn't matter like ARR being ARR. I don't think fans care. It's that he fights the
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by curuinor 1mo ago
Murder is always systematically kind of a dramatic act. We are definitely going to get a prediction market murder in <5 years, I think.
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by curuinor 1mo ago
Look. This is a new golden age of cocaine, because of the big cuts in everything in the US took away the cocaine busting operations in Colombia and Bolivia, because the revolutionaries that previously kept control of it stood down and becam
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by curuinor 1mo ago
DJI, BYD, Anker have serious moats. China is not an unindividuated mass

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