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by ethbr1 4mo ago
'Yours Truly' seems banal when the main character is Hiro Protagonist. Self-debasing levity is one of the many reasons Snow Crash (1992) is a great reaction to Neuromancer (1984).
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by ethbr1 4mo ago
None of those scaled as quickly as Google in terms of revenue (read: AdSense), and Microsoft lost interest.
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by ethbr1 4mo ago
But that only would have lasted until the next search innovation and/or competitors copied Google's indexing.
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by ethbr1 4mo ago
"Google" of today is really AdSense ($102M, 2003) -> Android ($50M+?, 2005) -> YouTube ($1.6B, 2006) -> Google Docs ($50M+?, 2006) Without those prescient and lucky acquisitions, we'd be talking about a "Google&
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
> two days after you uploaded your drafter quants. So you can now redo all your quants and rerun all your benchmarks ;-) 2010s Javascript, putting down the controller: Ha, no one will ever surpass my high score for wasting programmer t
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
This is ironically a pretty solid use case for (ex VLIW research) ILP-optimizing compilers. Given knowable runtime hardware usage patterns (huge bursts of memory bandwidth saturation) and a single limited core/thread-shared resource (m
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
Under appreciated requirement for this to work in post-cloud times: open source If a vendor can SaaS a solution, then enterprise is generally happy (they don't want to have to hire folks for maintenance), and that completely locks out
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
That's a big risk for any market with first mover advantage / network effects. How'd Microsoft's mobile efforts go? Sometimes the lead quickly becomes insurmountable, so if you're sitting on a cash flow machine it&#
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
The problem is that both camps take their positions as religious righteousness, which lobotomizes their abilities to have productive, pros and cons discussions about matters at hand. The internet/apps of the last 20 years have not exac
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
Everyone is susceptible to addictions or psychosis to some degree. What matters is when the stimulus presented exceeds their resistance. Extended AI use is a highly attractive stimulus that exceeds most people's resistance, especially
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
Yes. They draw that distinction on intelligence. I was asking about autonomous weapons . >> Both companies don't mind weaponization. The difference is whether it should only be domestic. Both are ok with foreigners being bombed.
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
> in interviews, Dario appears to care little for the well-being of common folk, while Sam at least pretends At least his ghostwriters do. https://darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace https://
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
Do you have a citation for that? Because the Anthropic's presentation of their position doesn't have a domestic or foreign caveat to autonomous weapons. It's a categorical no. https://www.anthropic.com/news&#x
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
> Claude Code's biggest advantage isn't Opus, rather it's the shared knowledge the community has been building and sharing around using it effectively. This. Never underestimate the ability of a large number of power use
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
The same as Google's: use overwhelming funding drown any burgeoning product category with the potential to threaten core profit center. Turn a potential existential competition into (a) maybe I win or (b) I commoditize the market and y
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
It's nice to know they picked up their training data's penchant for racism in loans.
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
If AI eats law, then AI must also eat judgement (either judge or jury) for the bulk of cases. Could see the future being AI arguments -> AI judgement -> appeal to human judge/jury With the appeal to humans being expensive (human
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
My point about layoffs is that with widespread AI adoption and without department-targeted layoffs, a company risks their AI spend disappearing into the void. Layoffs + access to AI forces most of that AI use to make up for the layoffs. W
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
Entitled to your opinion, but this feels like an overly-complicated socio-political rationale for something that's equally explained by leadership laziness. It's not rocket science to set up a continuous leader feedback mechanism.
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
The root problem: At every company, there is always more work that could be done, but there is not always more work that would increase profits . Existing corporate command and control has optimized for people control, because people c
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
>> City valuations can often be 10% or less of the true market value > this is, at minimum, a 10% increase in ALL property taxes If they're ~10x'ing the erroneously low valuation to true them to market value, then that wo
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
* Not to forget that most $5M NYC homes could also be a larger number of less valuable homes So this is also a developer / market incentive, if it actually changes demand.
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
This is literally what most grade level school systems are doing, with good results. The teenage brain is not prepared for addiction of digital magnitude.
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
When's the last time you played DOOM on a typewriter?
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
Multiple things can be true, because the goal is to optimize in aggregate. - Some teachers are bad (and some students will have them) - Overriding teachers with policies intended to control the bad ones impairs and burns out the others Cons
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
> supporting a warring faction doesn't really qualify as "invasion" nor "taking territory" Doing so with active duty military forces absolutely does.
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
> if you're referring to the "green men" in crimea: those were the ukranian (but culturally russian) garrissoned troops If you want to believe that Russia had no military forces in Ukraine before 2022, then I have a brid
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
You can't win a war with air superiority alone, but it's tough to win one after ceding the sky. Necessary but not sufficient.
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by ethbr1 5mo ago
'The Dow is over 50,000 right now.'
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> Maybe that doesnt matter, maybe Ferrari is more angling towards the kind of buyer that wants a Ferrari but also needs something he can take the kids to school in. If Ferrari wanted to build a Cayenne, I'm sure they could have ju

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