iambateman

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by iambateman 10mo ago
It’s never occurred to me that someone could become more or less autistic…could you say more about what that has been like for you?
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by iambateman 10mo ago
I pay $100/mo for CC and have functionally unlimited tokens. I find it irreplaceable.
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by iambateman 10mo ago
I’m with you on the Claude Code example —- it matches my experience. But I do think the important thing to look forward to is AI work which is totally detached from human intervention.
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by iambateman 10mo ago
My claim is that there will exist some company which pharma is willing to trust for AI research…they presumably trust Microsoft with their email today. But my bigger claim is that ~half the Fortune 500 will be able to profitably deploy AI w
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by iambateman 10mo ago
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-anthropic-profitability-e... Anthropic expects to break even in 2028. They’re all unprofitable now.
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by iambateman 10mo ago
Sam Altman says that he thinks scientific research is a huge opportunity for AI to contribute as it more fully develops and I think he’s right. Since I’m not a scientific researcher, I have no idea if he’s just blowing smoke but I think it’
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by iambateman 10mo ago
The thing that makes AI investment hard to reason about for individuals is that our expectations are mostly driven by a single person’s usage, just like many of the numbers reported in the article. But the AI providers are betting, correctl
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by iambateman 10mo ago
This is a distinction without a difference.
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by iambateman 11mo ago
Some of that makes sense but the article itself mentions Mini Cooper at 3% major-defect and the Tesla at 17%…which is obviously a tremendous difference. If that’s true, those manufacturers are in entirely different leagues of reliability. I
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by iambateman 11mo ago
I’m confused from the report about how Volkswagen and Mercedes beat Toyota in reliability when my perception is that it’s not even close. Are the Germans biasing toward their companies? Or am I underrating VW’s quality?
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by iambateman 11mo ago
The fact that these very-smart people did not include ranges is absurd. They know that 11.7% is WAY too precise to report. The truth is it's probably somewhere between 5-15% over the next 20 years and nobody has any idea which side of
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Thank You, HN
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by iambateman 11mo ago
That’s what I came here to say! Oh my goodness it’s a huge difference. The “partially eaten” part of the prompt is interesting…everyone knows what a half-eaten burrito looks like but clearly the computers struggle.
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by iambateman 11mo ago
Next time I’m at the zoo, I’ll run this by the zebras to see what they think. :) I’m being sarcastic but it seems self evident to me that human cognition is a unique treasure on this planet and—while it’s true that ants and octopus and othe
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by iambateman 11mo ago
I don’t know, it was just something she mentioned at 3am while we’re trying to put the baby back to sleep But I think it could be!
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by iambateman 11mo ago
One of the most beautiful, amazing things about parenting a child is thinking about “where would this child be at this age if it were another animal.” A three day old horse can walk. A three year old tiger is often a MOTHER to her own cubs
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by iambateman 11mo ago
According to my wife, who is an OT, children are born with a reflex that straightens their legs and which sounds similar to what you saw. She said they lose the reflex during their first year, and then develop the actual skill of standing s
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by iambateman 11mo ago
They didn’t find any effect of fathers on attachment style and I’m confused…I’ve heard countless stories about how it’s hard for people to connect as adults because of how their dad was toward them.
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by iambateman 11mo ago
I think that’s right… I wish there was another word other than homeschooling for “the parents who are trying to hide the fact that their teenager can’t read.” Because it’s a real group but yea we are in a co-op that’s a wonderful balance be
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by iambateman 11mo ago
When a social failure happens at a public school - a child fails a class, drugs are found, a teenager gets pregnant, there’s a fight - most people don't question the public school system itself. But when a social failure happens to a h
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by iambateman 11mo ago
I was homeschooled and my son is homeschooled. I disagree with your premise that homeschooling pushes kids out of group human contact. People who attend public school often assume that kids who attend homeschool literally sit at home all da
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by iambateman 11mo ago
Thanks for sharing this. I can’t legally help you either but your story was meaningful for me. I have a ton of respect for Iranian folks and I hope the relations between our two countries can get better. Best of luck to you.
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by iambateman 11mo ago
$9.99 is for a single user. Extra users cost $14.99 each sold in packs of 5 with a three year minimum contract.
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by iambateman 11mo ago
This article gives a window into both how oppressive social media can be for high-profile folks and how confused a LOT of people are basically all the time. It also helps me remember that there’s a lot of people out there who are pretty ang
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by iambateman 11mo ago
We can absolutely require that AI's not give advice that encourages self-harm or the people involved will go to jail. Restricting harmless activity is an acceptable outcome of trying our best to prevent vulnerable people in society fro
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by iambateman 11mo ago
It's the wrong question. If an unlicensed therapist verifiably encourages someone to kill themselves...we don't entertain the counterfactual and wonder if the person was bound to do it anyway. Instead, we put the unlicensed therap
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by iambateman 11mo ago
If we have licensed therapists, we should have licensed AI agents giving therapeutic advice like this. For right now, there AI’s are not licensed, and this should be just as illegal as it would be if I set up a shop and offered therapy to w
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by iambateman 11mo ago
Just for a fun data point on this…Charleston SC was the fifth largest city in the US in 1800, with 18,000 people. It’s wild how different the numbers were.
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by iambateman 11mo ago
This pullback is good for everyone, including the AI companies, long term. We have licensed professionals for a reason, and someday I hope we have licensed AI agents too. But today, we don’t.
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by iambateman 11mo ago
Update: I requested review in search console and was approved. The approval happened silently so I had to manually check. All good

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