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by echelon 7mo ago
What's your take on WorldLabs and Apple's splat models? Are there other open source alternatives? How would editing work? Do you think these will win over video world models like Genie? Have you played with DiamondWM and other ope
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by echelon 7mo ago
It takes a lot to deliver value at velocity with a team of engineers that couldn't give a damn about the product and just want to get a paycheck, move up the ladder, etc. LinkedIn is not a fun problem. The UI, the design, the dark patt
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by echelon 7mo ago
You're going to get run over. These tools are faster and better than you when used by an expert. Literally will run circles around you. Assuming you're senior and good, someone of similar stature will get 3-5x your workload done i
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by echelon 7mo ago
Before LLMs, it was a frequent haunt of fiction writers.
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by echelon 7mo ago
Work is delivering value. Yes, we have craftsmanship, but at the end of the day everything is ephemeral and impermanent and the world continues on without remembering us. I think both the IC and executive are correct in superposition.
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by echelon 7mo ago
That's not the right perspective to have. Also, the only thing crashing down will be the economic participation of everyday people if we don't have ownership over the means of creation. Hyperscalers will be just fine.
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by echelon 7mo ago
Entire device categories, like smartphones, are locked down. That's our future. Here's my retort: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543367
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by echelon 7mo ago
Y'all aren't seeing the same future I am, I guess. - Our career is reaching the end of the line - 99.9999% of users will be using the cloud - if we don't have strong open source models, we're going to be locked into hype
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by echelon 7mo ago
Local is a dead end. Open source efforts need to give up on local AI and embrace cloud compute. We need to stop building toy models to run on RTX and instead try to compete with the hyperscalers. We need open weights models that are big and
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by echelon 7mo ago
> It is not for you to decide what one should or shouldn't do. What's the limit? Murder? Taking fentanyl? Selling fentanyl? Shitting on the sidewalk? Taking photos of kids in public? Screaming fire in a theater? Defamation? Mis
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by echelon 7mo ago
Gambling outside of equities and securities is a negative externality. (Investment in startups, goods, etc. makes the economy spin. Investing in what hoop a ball goes through does no good at all.) This puts plenty of people who shouldn&#x27
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by echelon 7mo ago
Stripe wants to own you. All of the hyperscalers do. Avoid.
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by echelon 7mo ago
This could make for fun anti-life insurance. "I bet I won't die this year." The only life insurance you get to collect on while you're alive.
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by echelon 7mo ago
We need more infra in the cloud instead of focusing on local RTX cards. We need OpenRunPods to run thick open weights models. Build in the cloud rather than bet on "at the edge" being a Renaissance.
825.
by echelon 7mo ago
The Bond villain would be the person running the betting market.
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by echelon 7mo ago
> forest fires Fire bug > earthquakes Dynamite the fault > hurricanes Crazy, but, hear me out: mirrors in space warming the Atlantic, mirrors in Africa warming the atmosphere ("solar power"), Trump wanting to nuke a hurri
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by echelon 7mo ago
Assassinations markets are what's next. eg. someone will bet $1M that Elon Musk will be assassinated in 2026. But these don't themselves even have to be legal. Second order wagers will be placed on SpaceX and Tesla stock prices, b
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by echelon 7mo ago
I wonder if there's a critical failure mode / safety feature of our species for some percentage of the population to always dislike whatever some other large percentage of the population likes. As if it's to prevent the speci
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by echelon 7mo ago
> I am wondering where to hang up my Techpriest robes in search of more elite pastures. Capital and tech improvement will beat anyone chasing that.
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by echelon 7mo ago
The aversion people like you have for AI is uncomfortable to me. I understand your entire world model is shaped by your past and that this machine is changing the fundamentals. As an outsider to music, I'm excited that I have access to
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by echelon 7mo ago
Hm, turns out they removed these last year: https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-trending-page-... Bummer. It used to be at: https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending So last year,
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by echelon 7mo ago
We can have that discussion, or we can have the more interesting discussion of just how much big corporate intellectual property, franchises, and brands have their hooks in pop culture. Big IP is strong arming OpenAI, Suno, and all the rest
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by echelon 7mo ago
> The thing that didn't make sense with this app: who would ever want to scroll only AI generated videos over a combined feed? It was legitimately fun until the IP guardrails came up and we couldn't do anything with the charact
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OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform(reuters.com)
11 points by echelon 7mo ago|1 comments
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by echelon 7mo ago
That's my exact ranking as well.
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by echelon 7mo ago
What do you use it for? The only thing I can think of this doing "usefully" for people is spamming social media. The high friction things I'd want automated are precisely the things I'd worry it would fuck up. There&#x27
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by echelon 7mo ago
You rent your broadband internet. It's not a foreign concept that we can't own all the infra. I don't know why we can't just get over the local compute thing and instead build open infra and models in the cloud. That&#x2
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by echelon 7mo ago
> No, but if I asked an intern to eat it for me, I wouldn't feel like I did anything at all. That's a poor analogy. If I asked an intern to implement a function, I know I did the instruction and that I worked through them. The
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by echelon 7mo ago
We're talking six orders of magnitude difference between 0.6t/sec and 35kt/sec. While there are problems that can be solved with 0.6t/sec, particularly offline, at the edge, in the field applications, these are currently
840.
by echelon 7mo ago
There is no assassination market to test it against. If there was, I think you'd see quite a few public figures on the list. And I think it _would_ cause folks to die. Which is why it's banned or regulated. (I'm actually not

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