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by ethbr1 8mo ago
> hence I end up with $100 worth of stock in your company and it only cost me $25. You also lost out on $75 worth of cash revenue (opportunity cost from selling the same thing to a different customer), so really you just took stock in
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
> in a far more problematic "techno-libertarian" way We should probably use a different word for Elon-style goals. "Freedom for me but not for thee" is a far stretch from libertarianism.
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
The amount of product images on Amazon these days with incorrect shadows or perspective lines... wow. If Amazon detected and banned any seller whose product images were gen AI or which didn't match user photos, it'd go a long way
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
As the husband at the time of a military critical care nurse who worked local ED in a major US city and deployed to New York -- yes, there were absolutely people who denied they had COVID even as they were being intubated. Most people tende
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
No, the post made its point pretty clearly: > Consider further that most people in society are significantly less educated or trained in epistemological functions than [knowledge workers] are - a large portion of society is defenseless
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
That's called a dead drop.
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
The root issue is epistemological. If one puts their faith in answers that come out of a black box, then one must justify the black box's omniscience, specifically by prioritizing it above human intellect and deprioritizing attempts to
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
> Once all the models become basically the same who you go with will be who you're already with (mostly OpenAI) Imho, people are undervaluing the last mile connection to the customer. The last Western megacorp to bootstrap its way
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
They win because it leverages their strategic asset: a vast labor pool. Right now they're trying to avoid the other side of that coin (low value trap) by integrating vertically.
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
Godwin's law? It seems dismissive of the holocaust to call ICE facilities concentration camps. Unless they installed gas rooms and work until death requirements recently?
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
I'm just going appreciate the irony someone comparing Chinese civil liberties with relation to internal security forces favorably with the US. Say what you want about ICE, but the reason they wear masks is that the US citizenry still h
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
Google hasn't seen its legacy ad revenue start to dent until products with built-in agents start to see mass adoption. Writing is on the wall that orders of magnitude fewer people will be going to google.com or using an interactive Goo
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Natural language and LLMs as a core corporate data repository is insane.
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Because open source has always been completely independent of unrelated corporate entities who employ people to work on it?
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Click next for the next site in our webring!
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
> not proof we’ll have firefighter robots doing parkour through burning buildings any time soon! I wonder how similar friction is across varieties of standard issue corporate carpet...
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
I think you completely missed the point of this thread: rolling ones own data model is a non-negligible cost.
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
It probably doesn't help that the creator of OpenClaw just got hired by Anthropic's competitor. This sounds like engineering, finance, and legal got together and decided they were in an untenable position if OpenAI started nudging
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
Alternative take, in light of upthread -- Salesforce, SAP, et al. are positioned to be the biggest beneficiaries of this. Because their product is actually two things: (1) a UI/app & (2) a highly curated data model. My imagined fut
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
> "enterprise OS", some kind of Salesforce / ERP-like platform where all the data about a business is kept I read this, turn it to "person", and see Google/Android (maybe Microsoft/Windows/Office
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
Same thing with Walmart and local shops. On the one hand, it brings a greater selection, at cheaper prices, delivered faster, to communities. On the other hand, it steamrolls any competing businesses and extracts money that previously circu
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
Depends on whether you think good software comes from good initial design (then yes, via the monkeys with typewriters path) or intentional feature evolution (then no, because that's a more artistic, skilled endeavor). Anyone who lived
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
There's a fundamental difference between allowing an unlimited amount of opaque money to support arbitrary political campaigns and buying a media company. The latter does business under its name, is regulated by the FCC, and if publicl
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
Non-standard racks (Meta?) started showing up on the aftermarket around the time that Meta and a few other folks were the only ones using them. Forget the details, as it's been a decade+, but everything gets junked at some point. They&
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
> If it’s temporary I can live with it. I guess this was inevitable with the absolute insane money being poured into AI. Hyperscalars refresh hardware and firesale old stock. ~2028 is going to see a lot of high power refurb supply hit
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
The implicit point here is that devtools-type standardization subscriptions are about to get juiced. Think Vercel, Supabase, et al. Because most of the time agents prefer glueing together managed services than building from scratch, unless
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
Anthropic appears to have realized before OpenAI that code gen was an important enough market to specialize in. For now though, building smarter models / general integration tooling is a better us of model companies' capital. Once
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
> What this means is that at some point Anthropic will be able to prompt Opus to clone Jira and never pay an Atlassian bill again. Opus just needs to figure out what Jira is first. It's not there yet. Bang on, and Jira is the perf
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
If you'd like, flip an email my way. We've been thinking similarly. Email in profile (deref a few times)
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by ethbr1 8mo ago
I can't think of a better rationale for the ubiquitous worsening of local search than increasing ignorance of comp sci fundamentals. There's no reason a senior at undergrad level shouldn't be able to write an efficient, fast,

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