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by didibus 10mo ago
It is basically a big game of hot potato. If you are OK with that, fine, but you are still just gambling on a party game chip. There is a little bit of real value in having a rail that is hard to block, so you can move money across borders
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by didibus 10mo ago
I think the missing piece is that "more expressive" languages do not automatically create more value at the team or company level. Languages like Lisp, Clojure, Rust, Haskell, Erlang give strong engineers room to build powerful ab
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by didibus 10mo ago
I always felt simplifying all this, it would probably be possible to consolidate and offer proper health care, and a real welfare, along with a supplemental program for those inapt to work, with it all costing less than the mountain of pile
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by didibus 10mo ago
I don't think the article argues for superior solutions, but I understand how it can feel as such. I think it's just trying to say there's another dimension, the meta-level enabled by macros and Lisp's syntax that opens
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by didibus 10mo ago
I don't think you should use eLisp as your point of reference. It's the worst Lisp by far. Lisps are a continuum, and I still think there's room for new ones that are even better.
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by didibus 10mo ago
I take Lisp more like artisanal work. It actually requires more skill and attention to use, but in good hands it can let someone really deliver a lot quickly. That said, like in anything else, this kind of craftsmanship doesn't transla
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by didibus 10mo ago
Also known as "The Golden Age Fallacy". It's a very common one nowadays as we've all romanticized the past in media and our subconscious.
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by didibus 11mo ago
The incentive suggested in the article is to block other competitors from scaling training, which is immensely RAM hungry. Amongst other things. Even Nvidia could feel the pressure, since their GPUs need RAM. It could be a good bargaining c
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by didibus 11mo ago
What they mean is that they bought 40% of all RAM production, they managed to do that by simultaneously making two big deals at the same time. It's buying up 40% of all RAM production with the intention to have most of it idle in wareh
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by didibus 11mo ago
Thing is, it's hard to predict what can be done and what breakthrough or minor tweak can suddenly open up an avenue for a profitable use-case. The cost of missing that opportunity is why they're heavily investing in AI, they don&#
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by didibus 11mo ago
Are you sure it refers to that? Why would it later say: > now believes she's both unqualified for AI work Why would she believe to be unqualified for AI work if the "Engineers don't try" wasn't about her trying t
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by didibus 11mo ago
> You were a therapy session for her. Her negativity was about the layoffs. I think there is no "her", the article ends with saying: > My former coworker—the composite of three people for anonymity—now believes she's [.
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by didibus 11mo ago
> It'd actually be quite convenient if AI's capabilities stayed exactly where they are now That's what Im' crossing my fingers at, makes our job easier, but doesn't degrade our worth. It's the best possible
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by didibus 11mo ago
> I mean, they've made all of the progress up to now in essentially the last 5 years I have to challenge this one, the research on natural language generation and machine learning dates back to the 50s, it just it only recently came
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by didibus 11mo ago
The article seems full of made up things. The "coworker" isn't a real person, some kind of "composite of people", I'm then curious if the "she" is simply used as "a random made up person". T
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by didibus 11mo ago
Interesting, is that still the case? And how is the decision to take those high risk investments made for things like pensions and such?
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by didibus 11mo ago
For VC don't you need a lot of capital and people with too much money? Isn't that then a chicken and egg?
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by didibus 11mo ago
Pain actually has a lot of objective parts to it. There are real chemical and mechanical processes involved. You could even argue the subjective part might be smaller than people think. Mindset can change the experience, but different peopl
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by didibus 11mo ago
A lot of people formed their view of remote work during Covid, but that wasn’t real remote work. Companies had no idea what they were doing, everyone scrambled, nothing in the culture or processes actually changed. And it wasn’t just workin
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by didibus 11mo ago
I think the issue is that the OP wasn’t giving an opinion. They stated things as facts. When you say “x is y” you’re making a truth claim, and people are going to challenge it if it sounds wrong or depends on context. A lot of folks flip to
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by didibus 11mo ago
Not just that, but death treath, stalking, parasocial obsession, blackmail, scams, catfish, foreign propaganda, and so on, putting yourself out there on the internet brings so many risks nowadays.
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by didibus 11mo ago
The justification is that they sold you a copy of the software with a lifetime license to use that copy. Not a lifetime license to download the installer from them. It's not customer friendly, but it doesn't seem like it's go
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by didibus 11mo ago
I admit it's a bit shitty, but I can also understand. You could have saved the installer, put it on disk, you could find a copy of it elsewhere, etc. I don't think it makes the idea of the license void, but it's for sure not
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by didibus 11mo ago
Joke aside, I do think think someone should work on a legitimate agent for financial and business decision, management, and so on. Especially "decision making". I find it's one of the things that are tricky, making the AI age
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by didibus 11mo ago
It's too soon to really know the downsides. Statins for example only recently are better understood and there's a lot more downsides we know about now. It's likely going to be true for GLP-1 as well.
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by didibus 11mo ago
GDP doesn't measure the consumption side, it's just measuring production. That's why in my 1 person country example, GDP still goes up, nobody has to buy the cars.
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by didibus 11mo ago
GDP does not require that the goods or services were sold for money. GDP measures the market value adjusted to constant quality of all final goods and services produced. GDP can grow even with fewer workers, fewer hours, fewer buyers, and f
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by didibus 11mo ago
Personally, what I would want, is for the model to predict the most likely outcome of any political choice or policy, based on the vast training set and learning it encoded. Where I think the AI should remain neutral is when deciding what o
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by didibus 11mo ago
I'm not exactly disagreeing, its just that I don't think that's a criticism of MCP for tool calls. You need a way to expose tools to LLM, even for what you're talking about. The LLM can't write code without access t
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by didibus 11mo ago
But none of the criticisms here is specific to MCP, just to tool calls in general, it wouldn't matter if the agent used a custom tool protocol, plain OpenAPIs, etc. These issues would still exist.

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