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by etempleton 3mo ago
I actually prefer it quite a bit these days.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
Every single time. The next model is always so infinitely powerful it is going to change everything. Said model comes out. Is marginal improvement. Changes nothing and seemingly cannot do what they purported it could do except under the ver
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by etempleton 3mo ago
I have seen this more and more and I don’t understand it.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
Same. It is really annoying to write something and have someone say, “just so you know, em dashes makes it obvious it was written by AI.” You know how else uses em dashes? People who know how to write.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
There are maybe 1 in 10 that really truly know what they are doing.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
Shorting the market always has a greater risk even if you are fairly confident something is true. You also have to be fairly confident of the timing.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
This is absolutely the calculus. There is no moat. It is survival of the best financed. Open AI and Anthropic are in very precarious situations.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
He wrote a hell of a column. Opinions were notoriously often wrong, but always entertaining to read.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
I think their butting heads eventually got on both of their nerves. John would derail the show just to get under Leo’s skin. And Leo became increasingly ridged with the show structure. The show was losing popularity and I think some guests
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by etempleton 3mo ago
Both of them kind of lost the thread. I really enjoyed the show but they became increasingly polarized and unmoving in their opinions.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
There are almost no new vehicles in the US that still offer a V8. They exist, but make up a very small part of auto sales.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
Not so much the efficiency of the engine but the weight and size of the vehicle. Almost all new cars in the US are turbo charged 4 cylinders if not hybrids or pure electric, but US consumers do prefer larger vehicles which are less aerodyna
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by etempleton 3mo ago
Depends on the model. The example given is the most inefficient model.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
The example you gave is the Ford F150 Raptor which is an enthusiast model for off roading that is extra inefficient and I wouldn’t call the Jeep Wrangler a “big SUV” but it is an incredibly fuel inefficient one with terrible aerodynamics.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
This falls into the great American author conversation and for that I would probably have to say Mark Twain or John Steinbeck. If you want to talk about lasting influence on the large literary world it is probably Edgar Allan Poe. Tracey Ch
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by etempleton 3mo ago
Completely agree. Impressive as a tech demo, but that is pretty much where it ends. Give a talented kid an iPhone and they could create something significantly better and more interesting. And this is the bear case on AI. Sure, if the quali
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by etempleton 3mo ago
Some people, many people, recognize him as a serial liar/exaggerator, but think he will make them rich too. Eventually that probably stops being true.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
Yes, but Larry Sanger of 20 years ago wouldn’t believe who he has become either. I don’t say that with prejudice, just that he has a very different set of guiding principles now than he had at the time and that influences his perspective on
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by etempleton 3mo ago
They are cutting to make short term profitability on paper go up to appease Microsoft leadership. Long term, they are destroying themselves, but that is Xbox leadership in 5 years problem.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
What a terrible long-term decision. You have a team with incredible talent that ships that you could move to something other than Doom if you wanted, but instead you are laying them off.
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by etempleton 3mo ago
Completely agree. Their problem is that corporate wants more money to funnel back into AI and it is really inconvenient that Xbox provides only a couple billion dollars per month whereas Office and Cloud provide many more billions. What a c
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by etempleton 3mo ago
They often have two tiers, a rental tier and a purchase tier. If you purchase the assumption is it will be available forever.
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by etempleton 4mo ago
Yeah, I was one of those people. Did not see this coming. The situation is truly dire out there.
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by etempleton 4mo ago
I feel like they would be very specific if it was no.1.
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by etempleton 4mo ago
The ellipses in American English is often used as an awkward pause, or to indicate trailing off, or sometimes to indicate a sarcasm or passive aggressiveness. The last one seems to be a more modern usage. I have seen older generations use
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by etempleton 4mo ago
Assuming that constant R&D is not a requirement to compete. At what point can any of these companies stop improving their models? The answer is when they have a monopoly position. And we’re nowhere near that happening.
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by etempleton 4mo ago
I miss Jobs. He was the one all these tech founders wanted to be. And Job, for all his faults always really cared about the product he made. I feel like every founder is now some kind of grifter. Bouncing from new idea to new idea on how to
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by etempleton 4mo ago
Even libraries that go to the trouble of doing this throw away probably a thousand books for every one they can sell.
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by etempleton 4mo ago
Libraries purge books from their collections continuously all the time. It has happened forever.
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by etempleton 4mo ago
I think some people are missing the point here. There is an age where it makes sense to get your kid some kind of connectivity device, but you don’t want to get them a smart phone so you either get them an over priced dumb phone or kids pho

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