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by echelon 8mo ago
Nothing can be done about that. We need to focus on ways to boost class mobility at a young age.
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by echelon 8mo ago
- Theatrical releases are how movies make most of their money, not giving them away for free on streaming. Box office margins are huge, but renting licenses to streamers is limited and fungible with all the other mountains of content they l
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by echelon 8mo ago
Young people are going to prefer content that caters to their cultural zeitgeist and worldview. This is why new media is continually made and we don't all just listen to Mozart. Everything changes and evolves. Fashion, music, games, yo
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by echelon 8mo ago
College and school are super suboptimal at dispensing education. We keep smart kids co-mingled with disruptive kids and bullies. We need to do what Asian countries do - entrance exams at every level. We don't let kids excel at their in
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by echelon 8mo ago
> Open models are, at worst, a few months behind SOTA closed models. What open models are "a few months behind" Claude Code Opus, Google Nano Banana Pro, or ByteDance Seedance 2.0? Another big problem with the open models is th
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by echelon 8mo ago
I feel like we're dancing on the razor's edge. On the one hand: high inflation, tariffs, layoffs, unemployment, high interest rate, energy crisis. Tons of economic red flags flashing. On the other hand: AI is showing signs of bein
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by echelon 8mo ago
I'm getting so much more done with AI, it's wild. The AI boom has only just begun. This is literally the next industrial revolution. And it's only now starting to take off.
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by echelon 8mo ago
We are. I'm writing a metric ton of Rust code with Claude Code.
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by echelon 8mo ago
Creator is a fine word to use in place of YouTuber. And vice versa. But what do you call their output? What do you call an illustrator's output? A photographer? What about when all of that shows up on your feed collectively? Content is
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by echelon 8mo ago
Power is power. The US has due process, judicial transparency, and free speech. There are still rich people that operate above the system, but they're largely still accountable and the free press can crucify them. Authoritarian regimes
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by echelon 8mo ago
The word "content" is gross. "Creator", on the other hand, is beautiful. It means you don't have to pick a lane. Anything can be creative. Documentary filmmaking, stop motion, dance, costume work, historical reenact
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by echelon 8mo ago
Why did Tesla work initially? Because they were first to market and people were willing to overlook flaws? When did it start falling apart? Why hasn't the same happened to SpaceX? (Gov contracts, too big to fail, national defense, no c
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by echelon 8mo ago
Shouldn't we prioritize large scale open weights and open source cloud infra? An OpenRunPod with decent usage might encourage more non-leading labs to dump foundation models into the commons. We just need infra to run it. Distilling th
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by echelon 8mo ago
What factors are there for the lunar launch window? It can't be weather, here, right? That's too far ahead. Is it perigee? If this window is missed, when is the next one?
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by echelon 8mo ago
Should archive team get on this? On the one hand, this absolutely is a time capsule. It's hard to get something this real and authentic. It is a legitimate snapshot of 2009 - 2012 and probably has no like anywhere else in the world. O
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by echelon 8mo ago
Cure cancer? It doesn't have to cure cancer for it to make billions. All it has to do is put price pressure on your salary. (And it is already doing that.)
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by echelon 8mo ago
> I think if you’re legitimately providing value to the company, you aren’t disposable. Businesses want worker fungibility and to reduce bus favor from having single point of failures. That usually, but not always, flies in the face of i
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by echelon 8mo ago
You have to understand the strategy of all the other players: Build attention-grabbing, monetizable models that subsidize (at least in part) the run up to AGI. Nobody is trying to one-shot AGI. They're grinding and leveling up while (1
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by echelon 8mo ago
High tech hell is reversing the light cone, pulling everyone who ever lived throughout history back into consciousness by simulating them at the neurotransmitter level, and then forcing them into actual hell / torture simulators with n
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by echelon 8mo ago
> it's creepy. It's awesome. People's ick around bodies, which are machines , have always held us back. It wasn't until we started cutting them open that modern medicine was developed. We might have brain uploads alr
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by echelon 8mo ago
Child mortality saw steep improvements in the 1900s - 1940s all over the world . I didn't think I had to clear myself of this argument. "Helicopter parents", the desire to call CPS for unattended children - these are new and
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by echelon 8mo ago
> The average person can't afford to raise a kid Yes they can, they just choose not to. I think the reason people aren't having kids is that they're on their phone all the time. I'm serious. Phone use is a dopamine si
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by echelon 8mo ago
Kids should have jobs in high school. It's a fantastic way to learn budgeting, work ethic, entrepreneurship, and gives them a drive to study harder. For kids without two stable parents, it soaks up their time and keeps them out of trou
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by echelon 8mo ago
Modern American middle class norms are that babies cost a fortune. The best nutrition, daycare, early childhood learning, classes, tuition, etc. Extreme expenses. All throughout history, children have been cheap, and if you look back far en
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by echelon 8mo ago
Can't people decide for themselves what matters? Life is a short few trips around the sun, then eternal annihilation. If you really want to ascribe "value" to it: prosperity tends to create chill attitudes. You see this in in
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by echelon 8mo ago
I don't have time for that mysticism. I just know.
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by echelon 8mo ago
Don't you have anything better to do with your time? I told you people back in 2019 that these models would replace Hollywood and you and others have been calling me all kinds of names, and every step of the way calling me an idiot. I&
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by echelon 8mo ago
Did you prompt it step by step or let it do its thing for a bit?
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by echelon 8mo ago
Claude Code has killed my ADHD and turned me into an always-on hyper-focused machine. I am getting 20x done. This is a literal superpower. I am not using it in agentic mode yet. I am telling it everything I want it to do. I will tell it whe
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by echelon 8mo ago
By focusing on AI, you missed the point. Slack is monopolizing data access and not giving companies access to their own data. Companies want to hook up their chat BI to LLMs so it can be instantly and richly queried. Slack search sucks, and

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