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by ianm218 4mo ago
Rules exist for a reason, it shouldn't take 4 years to get an answer on how to proceed in one direction or another. In NYC for example you often need to hire a "permit expediter" just to get a yes/ no/ maybe answer
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by ianm218 4mo ago
> First of all, I don't accept a discussion where humans are placed on the same level as bots or agents. Even if the cost is the same, humans MUST be the choice Sure but getting more done with less is just how productivity gains wor
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There are atleast some restrictions in localities I.e. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/12/portof... or parts of Portugal. Also at a certain point if you ban or heavily restrict en
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This is completely ridiculous you just need to let people use AC properly and it will solve most of the problem with people dying. That doesn’t mean you need to go from place to place in AC or never be out of AC, but every person in souther
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by ianm218 4mo ago
This company got valued at $250M https://polsia.com/ and is a one person startup. Lots of people think its more or less a hype job but given "ai agents" have only really existed for a year or two now it's sit
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> Can you say with certainty that this workflow has increased productivity so much that you are seeing profit increases that you wouldn't have otherwise noticed just by hiring more people? Has the bar raised so much that coding agen
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by ianm218 4mo ago
> The reality is the market is contracting and it’s doing that because the extraction and monthly financial models are hurting other businesses which are also contracting because of lower customer demand. Can you explain what you mean?
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> (they need someone who will sell stablecoins in their currency). It's pretty hard to really lock people out of stable coins really. You really just need someone to sell you some type of cryptocurrency that can be eventually exch
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> Created in 2022, TIP’s mission is to address the decades-old complaint that the agency, traditionally focused on curiosity-driven research with no obvious commercial value, needs to do more to make sure scientific discoveries eventuall
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by ianm218 4mo ago
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. From hacker news guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> By levying such a large tax on its other programs, the agency appears to be defying a congressional directive in the final FY 2026 appropriations bill that “No [NSF] directorate shall receive more than a 5 percent reduction relative to
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I find Metas work very unethical but me but I think they should have basic workers rights still. Like yes what Meta is doing is legal and it’s at will work, but this level of surveillance feels like something the law didn’t really anticipat
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> especially when we all know it’s a veneer and get cold blooded capitalism This is what I don’t really get about the AI discourse… I don’t have any reason to think this is all a veneer over capitalism. We don’t know what goes on in thei
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by ianm218 4mo ago
> While we're in the token-equivalent of ZIRP, tokens don't cost what they cost, so there's sort of arbitrage to be had Do you have a source for this? I believe “personal subscription” plans on OpenAI and Anthropic are lik
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If you think the field you are working in is more dangerous and important to the future of national security than i.e. nuclear energy and nuclear bombs you should really not just shut up and act like a cold blooded capitalist. It feels like
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I think your really anchored on anyone successfully breaking restrictions means any restriction is impossible. So your starting from the position that if it is possible for any actor in the world to get past a restriction, then the whole re
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I don't really agree with it but the government is moving towards making you ID yourself to use frontier AI - i.e. only US citizens are going to be able to use Claude Fable supposedly. In that regime the AI companies would in fact know
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Isn’t your point that AI safety is impossible to prevent 100% of bad things? It is quite hard (but not impossible) to get an the frontier AI to tell you how to build a nuke or launder money now, where jailbreaks used to be trivial “ignore a
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by ianm218 4mo ago
This was written in November 2025, Claude Code and co dramatically accelerated growth of revenue and progress on their timeline towards nationalization etc. Gary Marcus’ takes have aged really poorly over time ironically he is the “AI exper
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Do you have a source on aggregate predictions of experts being drastically wrong? I.e. the AI 2027 guys were memed for being AI lunatics on a lot here and they have been pretty on the money in terms of pace of progress accelerating/ go
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I think this is a cool angle to pursue! But your model of the world definitely has a lot of assumptions here. > RSI within a top-down, concentrated power structure creates an unstable equilibrium and will instantly devolve into an epic p
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Salesforce had ~14 billion in free cash flow last year they have tons of money.
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Both companies business case is currently on being at the frontier so this is definitely bearish. OpenAI seems likely to use this to become the preferred lab of the government and maybe have them take a stake, so maybe they will succeed wit
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by ianm218 4mo ago
> so the burden of proof is on them I was mainly responding to this I know what you mean. The reason I bring up OpenAI is because a lot of the discourse has boiled down to "both sides are the same" which I don't think is f
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Can you be more specific on what you mean - how would you prove what anyone believes about something short of reading minds and what would proof look like to you? Here is Dario writing about AI safety in 2016 [1]. Dario and others in the
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What I feel like is missing in the common discourse here is that Anthropic genuinely believes that AI poses an existential risk for humanity either in terms of literal survival or extreme mass surveillance, human disempowerment etc. So if y
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The point is just to increase housing supply not create “affordable housing”. Right now there is massively more demand than supply, so any incremental unit is still very expensive. We’ve strangled housing supply for so long that it seems li
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Isn't there a chicken and egg problem where projects need to start with 0 track record? Nginx had zero track record at one point as well
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I think your model is off. If single family homes got rezoned to allow large complexes near trains, those plots of land would be worth more and it would likely be worth it for the people living there to eventually sell to developers. This d
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Is there anything your willing to share on what went into the decision/ what you learned about trying to build this kind of product?

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