echelon

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by echelon 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Google_Making_Us_Stupid%3F https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/when-educators-mo... New decade, same old argument. It's not > "Claude, think fo
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by echelon 5mo ago
This is the way. I'm not Googling much of anything anymore. 9/10 times the information is awful, it's hard to parse out of whatever other spam it's surrounded by. Meanwhile, Claude will just do the thing one-shot or with
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by echelon 5mo ago
https://youtu.be/SXmv8quf_xM What's up YouTube, it's NextGenHacker101 and today I'll be teaching you guys how to see other people's IP addresses. You can see what their connection speed is and what site
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by echelon 5mo ago
I've got 200,000 miles on my Toyota and it's only ever had oil changes, brake pads, and new tires. It'll probably make it another decade. Or two.
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by echelon 5mo ago
It is not as good as Opus. I've tried to write Rust with it (and Codex for that matter), and it's awful.
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by echelon 5mo ago
These coding agent models only started getting useful in January. Before that they were difficult to control autocomplete, and not very smart. January was an inflection point, and no open weights model has crossed over that same threshold.
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by echelon 5mo ago
> This is the PSOTU’s message, which states clearly and plainly: stop thinking about creating software for a specific piece of hardware. Design software to be adaptable across a range of screen sizes and aspect ratios. I remember so many
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by echelon 5mo ago
If conscious machines are even 80% as smart as us and 1) never die and 2) can replicate memories, why would anyone have children again? I'd imagine we'd desperately try to build brain uploads or be intolerably jealous of our etern
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by echelon 5mo ago
Don't shoot the messenger. The whole of society is opting for this. I'm not telling people how to live their lives.
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by echelon 5mo ago
The wealthy demographics aren't having kids either, and the decline correlates with each inflection point in the rise of pleasure and mental stimulation technology. Sub-Saharan birthrates are starting to decline just as they're ga
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by echelon 5mo ago
"I'm so worried I can't have children, I think I'll go watch a movie or do something online instead" is so obviously wrong on cause and effect. People get hooked on this stuff before they even have biological urges
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by echelon 5mo ago
You're right, but it's a fun phrase. So what we have now is the vast majority of humans being self-selected out of the gene pool by smartphones. It would be ironic if this was the great filter.
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by echelon 5mo ago
Exactly. We've been replacing biological imparatives with strange forms of nonbiological entertainment. And it's increased now to the point that it's in endless supply and constantly attached to us.
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by echelon 5mo ago
This has nothing to do with economic security. Everyone is now dopamine maxxing on smartphones and internet. There's no desire to have kids because kids were a pre-internet and pre-modernity phenomena. Now that we're fully enterta
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by echelon 5mo ago
Every economic bracket got smartphones and internet. The men are playing Fortnite. The women are on TikTok and Instagram. Babies went off trend so we could collectively do dopamine maxxing as a species. Evolution didn't anticipate this
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by echelon 5mo ago
Don't be so dismissive. Just because you don't like the hypothesis doesn't mean it doesn't have merit. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6749621 https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14758 ht
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by echelon 5mo ago
The economic argument is oversold. Poor people have kids more than any other demographic. Smartphones are why we don't have kids. Unlimited dopamine is why we don't have kids. The internet is why we don't have kids. Wom
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by echelon 5mo ago
Seems like someone could use Claude to port rsync to Rust and the whole enterprise would be safer from things like this. Start with unsafe then gradually convert into idiomatic Rust.
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by echelon 5mo ago
Would the designers want us to know? If they're powerful enough to build a universe simulation, theoretically they can blur the edges so we can't discover them. They might even be able to construct and limit the systems of maths a
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by echelon 5mo ago
High availability and abstraction complexity are orthogonal. Redis is a low-level concurrency primitive, and it made certain choices in dealing with CAP. It might be single-threaded, but it can easily absorb 100,000+ requests per second. I&
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by echelon 5mo ago
> it's still lacking in two areas This is entirely different than what Redis is and tries to solve. Sqlite is embedded. It's not a distributed SQL. Redis is a distributed data structure store and concurrency primitive. These ar
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by echelon 5mo ago
Is any of this experimentally testable in the real world? Would gravity or spacetime under these definitions behave differently and yield something we can observe? Or is this fancy math modeling that looks nice on paper, but that we won&#x2
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by echelon 5mo ago
There's a lot of ire for string theory. It's non-testable and wound up attracting lots of minds, funding, and resources. It hasn't seemingly led to any tangible results. Many scientists express anger about it and claim entire
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by echelon 5mo ago
It's unfair to compare the US, which is incredibly and wildly diverse in race and culture, against monocultural Europe. I grew up in the South. You'll have to kill these people to take away their sweet tea and fried chicken. And t
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by echelon 5mo ago
> So live A/V is just dead now? I'm an indie filmmaker and I do community theater. We use gaussian splats for 3D filmmaking, and we're already using AI for background plates and VFX shots. Where this is going - your local
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by echelon 5mo ago
> I don’t think they’ll see a decline in cinema camera sales due to AI soon. Happy to bet on this! Expensive glass and all of the processes around it takes more time, money, and resources than Seedance 2.0. And these models are only a fe
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by echelon 5mo ago
1. Google is dumping on the market to weaken OpenAI and Anthropic. 2. Every time you search for Claude or ChatGPT, you get presented with an AdWords bidding war. 3. Google is deploying its models in Search, Docs/Drive/Office, YouT
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by echelon 5mo ago
It's saying most art will be created with AI. Like saying most pictures will be made with digital cameras. Like saying most music will be captured and edited digitally. You guys have an anti-AI bug and it's eating you alive and bl
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by echelon 5mo ago
Google needs an anti-trust breakup about 10 years ago. They need one more than ever now. This is ridiculously anti-competitive.

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