falcor84

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by falcor84 11mo ago
I don't think there's any redefinition here, and it's exactly this dichotomy that makes this a big issue. Vulnerability is indeed not "a good thing", but the issue is that the struggle to constantly keep yourself in
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by falcor84 11mo ago
And there's a problem in the other direction too - I don't expect people who really can leave for a few months without their absence being noticable to have much job security.
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by falcor84 11mo ago
What do you mean? The interaction described in the article is just of the small cell stealing nutrients from the host's pouch. That seems like enough of a "point" for the parasitic cell, while giving it zero incentive to adve
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Following with my own hot take, AI SWE agents, while very flawed, allow people to quickly iterate on possible approaches to change those processes. I think that once people have had more time to explore this capability, we'll see massi
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by falcor84 11mo ago
It's almost the same as saying that the off-ramp for a cat to get off a tree is to apply a=g until h=0. It's technically correct, but I don't think it would help the cat to be aware of this.
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by falcor84 11mo ago
I don't know if that's what you were already referring to, but for me, the shout-outs for "Double Kill, Multi Kill, Ultra Kill, MONSTER KILL!!!" account at this stage for probably a majority of the nostalgia for the orig
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by falcor84 11mo ago
I saw it become a thing more than a decade ago
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Only if it has a mechanism to send signals into the host and cell. For the CEO metaphor to hold, I'll accept that these signals can be entirely ignored, but they need to be transmitted.
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by falcor84 11mo ago
That's exactly what Claude Skills do [0], and while this tool search appears to be distinct, I do think that they're on the way to integrating MCP and Skills. [0] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Good point, but in this case I'm arguing for the exact opposite: I'm suggesting that (natural) people are the ones owning IP, and companies only lease it. I was just making the case that a lease is not "worthless".
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by falcor84 11mo ago
For me the game is mostly about the mechanics and I don't think I'd have any issue playing it with an entirely different visual and auditory design, assuming it can be made to be self-consistent.
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by falcor84 11mo ago
> To get the game to start you need one file from the original settlers 1 game because graphics and sounds are read from there. Leaving aside the moral aspect of compensation for the artists who created the original graphics and sounds (
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by falcor84 11mo ago
That's what we have courts and juries for. If a jury unanimously agrees that a typical person in a reasonable situation and with full understanding of the conditions would not be willing to sign such a contract because it would strongl
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by falcor84 11mo ago
What? Car leasing is a massive market, and a large percentage of people and companies are very happy to pay to access cars and trucks without owning the title. Same goes for companies happily building on top of leasehold properties whenever
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by falcor84 11mo ago
A major factor in what makes places more desirable is access to jobs. In the case of full UBI, it will be easier to: stay unemployed, negotiate a remote work contract or launch a new venture from anywhere, so I expect that we'll see pe
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by falcor84 11mo ago
> promised a yearly headcount increase of exactly 0 That's the silly thing that seems to cause so much trouble. The conversation should be about budget rather than headcount, and the department heads given flexibility on how to mana
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by falcor84 11mo ago
I don't think that this Kantian argument is relevant in tech. We've had LTS versions of software for decades and it's not like every single person in the industry is just waiting for code to hit LTS before trying it. There ar
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by falcor84 11mo ago
The legality does break the analogy, but my point was just that a suitcase with ten thousand $100 bills has a non-zero value on its own, but that proving its provenance would significantly increase its value, despite the suitcase staying th
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Let's say that I gift you a suitcase with ten thousand $100 bills that seem legit, but you're not sure. How much would you be willing to pay for a proof that they are indeed legit?
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by falcor84 11mo ago
What do you mean? What is over? Do you mean the dominion of Homo Sapiens over the earth? If so, would that necessarily be bad? The way you phrased it reminded me of some old Confederate writings I had read, saying that the question of wheth
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by falcor84 11mo ago
Following up on Anthropic's Project Vend [0] and given the rising popularity of Vending-Bench[1], it's actually quite likely that by the time an AI is deemed to possess consciousness, it will have already been tested in a vending
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by falcor84 11mo ago
In the case of consulting companies like McKinsey, there's another very rational factor: a top performer with a strong ability to climb the corporate ladder might actually be worth less as a consultant than as a director at an external
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by falcor84 1y ago
> But with Microsoft literally becoming an AI company in the last year ... "literally"?! What does that mean? That they offloaded all decision-making to AI?
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by falcor84 1y ago
From what I'm seeing, it's become more and more difficult for fresh grads to get hired over the last year. If anything, I see that the preference for experienced devs is now even stronger. If you have any evidence to the contrary,
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by falcor84 1y ago
> the exploitation of data workers and the environment unacceptable If that were true, the last 200 years of civilization would not have happened.
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by falcor84 1y ago
But that just proves the point - if no one in this thread can remember even one example, then (however unfortunate it might be for the users) the easy answer is "no, a security breach is very unlikely to break a company"
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by falcor84 1y ago
> If an llm is fed on losing / scammy rubbish, how could it possibly produce a return? Rather than just relying on pretraining, you'd use RL on the trade outcomes.
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by falcor84 1y ago
Indeed, or in the words of Upton Sinclair: > It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
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by falcor84 1y ago
Ok, I'll take it. It definitely wasn't a business call at the level of Microsoft saying that everyone should be using it, but it was an actual service offered under the Microsoft umbrella and used by many sites in the wild, e.g. v
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by falcor84 1y ago
"To serve the Emperor. To protect His domains. To judge and stand guard over His subjects. To carry the Emperor's law to all worlds under His blessed protection. To pursue and punish those who trespassed against His word."

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