janalsncm

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by janalsncm 2mo ago
And to extend the analogy, before there were house cleaning machines the people who enjoyed cleaning were lumped in with the people who like having a clean house. I will say that there are a lot of parts of programming I enjoy, but I used
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
By your own math, doing this would have required SpaceX stock to go up $200B just to break even, and then Google would have to liquidate it.
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
$12B/year is nothing to a company that makes 11x as much in profit. The question is whether that $12B can be turned into more profit.
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
What would that even look like? Paid search engines exist and they are niche products.
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
I mean in the previous paragraph it says they’re creating a company. And is Twitter even hiring anymore?
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
Can you be more specific?
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
Probably both. Due to zoning in almost all American cities it is now illegal to build houses that are as small as in the post war period.
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
Median income of household was $3300 table A https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1952/demo/p60-00... Median house $7300 https://better.com/content/how-much-home-prices-have-r
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
It’s not hard to do. A lot of them are for sale today and will sell over asking, no contingencies.
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
“Upper middle class” has nothing to do with it. In 1950, the median household could buy a house with 2 years of income. That is, 50% of households could do this. Today, the median house costs $400k. Only the top 12-14% of households make 20
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
1) Based on your numbers, 65% of women were not working at that time. 2) That 35% number was likely even lower for married women. 3) Racism was still a systemic problem and was bad. Black men were excluded from the GI bill for example. 4) I
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
Corey Doctorow talks about the role of technology in society as not pre-determined, and I think this is mostly right. Trends are not inevitable. At the same time, technology makes it easier to do one thing or another. And I think that’s the
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
> working conditions and wages have pretty consistently improved over the past 200 years Really depends on the group of people you are including. In the US the middle class has been eviscerated to the point where raising a family on a si
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
> We are bold, we take risks, and we do things that haven’t been done before. This is a very annoying line. Risk for the sake of risk is self-destructive. The risk-reward profile is what matters, and people respect risk taking with large
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
I’d go a step further and say your first point is a consequence of the second. Because “intelligence” is poorly defined, anyone can slap “AI” on their product, so it becomes a nebulous moving target.
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
The issue is that “intelligence” is doing a lot of work, and people do not agree on how to define it. You can take a look at the definitions section here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
The specific terms I gave as examples weren’t created by marketers. They were created by researchers. It’s just that “attention” is a lot easier to say than “similarity-weighted representation mixing”.
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
There is a long history of bad naming conventions in the field of AI, including “artificial intelligence” itself imo. (What is “intelligence” here? It’s more like “automation” or “automated problem solving”.) What really happens is that we
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
Kimi’s lab is very close to that.
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
It is self-evident. But now if someone questions it in the future, this is a data point that distilling from Deepseek isn’t going to turn your finance bot into a communist. Also, sometimes things which seem self-evident turn out to be surpr
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
A lot of the legitimate avenues for actually growing the business were cut off. It would have been more interesting if this wasn’t just an anti-bot check. At least in the vending machine Claude experiment there bot was allowed to actually t
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by janalsncm 2mo ago
Ah, yes it appears to be.
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by janalsncm 3mo ago
To put this into game theory lingo, I think this is because the “branching factor” for any kind of research or exploit is extremely large. So looking backwards it doesn’t seem complicated, but looking forwards there are an enormous number o
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by janalsncm 3mo ago
Some companies are sharing their research. Mostly not the American ones Example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24653 Exceptions to some like Deepmind, Nvidia, and Thinking Machines
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by janalsncm 3mo ago
Two separate axes here: whether the research is in a blog, and whether it’s peer reviewed. On the first, I mostly don’t care. On the second, that’s mostly unavoidable if they want to keep their IP.
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by janalsncm 3mo ago
Note that when the government declared Fable was too dangerous for Anthropic to control, Dario was against that too.
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by janalsncm 3mo ago
The point of this thread is that you cannot replace search engines with an LLM. If your example is an LLM using a search engine as a tool call, you have not replaced the search engine. It’s still there.
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by janalsncm 3mo ago
> Index is just a part of the model I can assure you that it is not. If you download any model off of huggingface, it does not also include an index of the internet. That screenshot shows the model making a tool call to an external searc
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by janalsncm 3mo ago
> relevant pages If you want to know what the relevant pages are, you need a search index.

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