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by edmundsauto 5d ago
It’s an optimistic view on AI - brings power to the people by mediating all the garbage. I’ve already used it to handle customer support request calls. I see 30+ minute hold+conversation times and generally the issue gets resolved. That is
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by edmundsauto 5d ago
In theory, legislation could help. If there were a pro-consumer movement in government. Something like declaring agents as representatives of consumers and blocking them violates ADA or just shouldn’t be allowed unless they are abusive. Lac
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by edmundsauto 7d ago
Seems like the narrative reflects people understanding the company’s main incentive…
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by edmundsauto 7d ago
Only if it’s corrected, otherwise people naturally adopt a tit-for-tat and you end up quickly in a no trust society. The bigger problem is t Trump, it’s that everyone now kinda shrugs and we are all worse off.
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by edmundsauto 8d ago
Few things are. It also doesn’t require standards. “Stamp this diff” culture is everywhere even before AI. A stamp is literally easier than anything else. Whether that is useful measurement I suppose depends on the circumstances.
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by edmundsauto 8d ago
Reviewing something takes less time than producing it.
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by edmundsauto 8d ago
I’ve read a more nuanced take of payday loans that makes sense to me. The counterfactual is no loans/credit/banking, not the more legitimate banking and credit services that upper middle class Americans enjoy. “Would you rather ha
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by edmundsauto 8d ago
A rational thing for a competent person to attempt. Given the theoretical structural advantages of the idea, the 6 failures are even more embarrassing than failing at something that was actually a bad idea.
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by edmundsauto 10d ago
The steelman is that by lowering the cost, more pets can afford better food than what they currently eat. No comment about whether that is reflected in the consumer facing price or in profits.
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by edmundsauto 20d ago
I’m used to unraid for my home system. Is this an app that would run as a container across my jbod?
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by edmundsauto 22d ago
Probably more loyalists than ideologues. It’s the Project 2025 influence that has the ideologues. And the Thiel/Vance sector has the traditional influence-focused corruption, while the Trump family is more low-trust-society personal en
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by edmundsauto 22d ago
The consumer facing part of their value has largely been replaced in consumer space where 90% as good but cheaper wins. In specialized applications, especially where physics/optics are constraints and it matters to go from 90-99% for b
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by edmundsauto 1mo ago
Sorry, I don’t understand. Do you mean it’s fraudulent and just trying to find someone who rubber stamps it so they can get benefits they are not entitled to?
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by edmundsauto 1mo ago
I respectfully disagree. Should Stripe or VISA count all charges made with their network as revenue?
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by edmundsauto 1mo ago
They also have more incentive and capability to optimize right up to (and past) safety lines. And the impersonal corporate distance from the pride in quality of production matters too. With appropriate regulation and enforcement I agree wit
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by edmundsauto 1mo ago
Which is why they get paid, of course. I feel more sympathy to the recipients ts who are eligible for benefits but unable to receive them due to onerous paperwork. AI is an equalizer between the desperate amateur and the bureaucratic profes
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by edmundsauto 1mo ago
And with modern analytics it’s harder to make up the numbers like they did. Also cheaper to transmit and centralize the data, especially with some IOT type stuff. Doesn’t make it immune to human nature, but modern tech reduces the friction
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by edmundsauto 1mo ago
One goal of modern propaganda is to make it irrelevant when the truth inevitably comes out. Look at the US situation. It’s clear that Trump is a rapist - the truth has come out. It’s clear he’s corrupt. For all the “release the full Epstein
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by edmundsauto 1mo ago
Are you elderly, differently able, live in extremely hilly or hot terrain, or only willing to bike if it’s half the current effort? That plus “already has a bike” is a massive market.
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by edmundsauto 2mo ago
It’s interesting how you zero in on skin color rather than culture. Many of the other dog whistles at least try to focus on culture and religion, but you went right ahead to equate skin color as being the issue. Bravo!
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by edmundsauto 2mo ago
What people see is all there is. Mediated by their biases. If you are disappointed because people as a whole are not rational…
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by edmundsauto 2mo ago
I’m not sure the definition matters here. Either you are doing business and this regulation makes certain things now illegal; or you are not doing business and it’s unsolicited and spam.
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by edmundsauto 2mo ago
Tell the story of what’s happened in the last 15 years, not just the 2000s under Bush 2. In 2015, the JCPOA was signed to address some of these shortcomings. It especially enhanced verification and started discussions between Iran and the r
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by edmundsauto 2mo ago
Famously, America has shown to be exceptionally skilled at getting the rich to help pay for society they sit on top of.
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by edmundsauto 3mo ago
My read is that money changes transactions that are antithetical to the goals of this community. Money is such a concrete way to keep score that it warps interactions, making “winners” and “losers” apparent. It attracts people whose sole ob
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by edmundsauto 4mo ago
It also presupposes that open models will bridge that gap towards opus4.5, which was really when I drank the AI coding koolaid
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by edmundsauto 4mo ago
The second option also incentivizes the seller, who is often a local real estate magnate, to pressure local officials to issue the permits.
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by edmundsauto 4mo ago
Here’s my steel man. Wall Street hates the entitlement that they perceive from soft coders. They don’t like companies not constantly putting downward pressure on costs, which is why those other companies do it. Notice how these benefit redu
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by edmundsauto 5mo ago
Police are responsible for violations of the law, not immigration. This also requires due process. And frankly, the per capita rates for crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants is much lower than for citizens. If these violations and mu
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by edmundsauto 5mo ago
Isn’t it more dependent on how Trump is feeling? That makes it much more depressing for the leader of the country to be messing with our largest economy like this.

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