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by jongjong 8mo ago
I'm white and got 7/18 and it said "You can't tell the difference" but I think it's because some of them I had no idea. There were a few where I was really sure and I turned out to be right. I think it's t
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Yeah, I meant 'content' in terms of the intrinsic value, the 'nutritional value' underlying the writing... The message, the story, the information content. Actually it's kind of dystopian to think of it; that the wo
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I have no issues with this. Anthropic did a great job with Claude Code. It's a little bit sleazy as a business model to try to wedge one's self between Claude and its users. OpenAI acquiring OpenClaw gives me bad vibes. How did Op
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Yeah their descendants/relatives taste delicious. It worked out for the best.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I agree with the assessment that pure writing (by a human) is over. Content is going to matter a lot more. It's going to be tough for fiction authors to break through. Sadly, I don't think the average consumer has sufficiently goo
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by jongjong 8mo ago
This is a defeatist attitude. Don't know what bubble you're in but these official revelations are driving real change in mine. It's kind of subtle at this point but it's the kind of change that cannot be undone.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Oh my. Now that X is affecting people's politics (for the better IMO), suddenly people care about the influence of algorithms over politics...
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by jongjong 8mo ago
You can never know if/when an unraveling event will occur. A problem may be real but you can't know what the resolution will be or when it will come, if ever. The problem (or feeling of doom or whatever) could disappear on its own
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Future leaders... Common, they are already grifters! It's a spectrum but the system selects for cheaters and psychopaths. Everything is highly superficial and empty. Reality has become exactly like in T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I'm so disappointed about what happened to this industry. It's worse than I could have imagined. The market is saturated with superficial solutions that look amazing at a glance but don't work at all in the medium or long ter
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I'm keen to read the book suggested by the previous commenter and have my view challenged but my current understanding is that money printing plays a major role due to incentives. People are far more willing to spend large amounts of o
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I was aware of that, but this senior role was replaced by other more generic senior roles like 'Head of Engineering' or just 'CTO'... And not one of my software engineering peers even thought about architecture. The numb
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I don't live in the US but I'm definitely feeling the negative effects of the fiat system really harshly. From my perspective, I believe that the effects would be similar regardless of which country had the superpower status. Inte
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Anything scarce really. Anything which slows down or stops the government printing of money is beneficial.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
For me it's weird because I was obsessed with software architecture. At university, I majored in software design. I was obsessed with UMl diagrams, sequence diagrams and architectural philosophies like loose coupling and high cohesion.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Or you can just abolish the fiat soft money system, let the corporations go out of business, let efficient small companies take their place and then you'd have founders who actually care about long term results in charge and they could
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by jongjong 8mo ago
That's why I alluded to the fact that this was more of an ethical matter than a legal matter. Though it should be a legal matter. It's just hard to measure, for the reasons you suggested... Doesn't mean we shouldn't try
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by jongjong 8mo ago
My current position is that AI companies should be taxed and the money should be distributed to open source developers. There is a strong legal basis for this to happen because if you read the MIT license, which is one of the most common an
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I was never a big React fan myself. As someone who has used a lot of different JavaScript frameworks over many years, I can say confidently that it's not the best JS framework; especially nowadays due to bloat. Yet it's better tha
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Ah yes 100%, doctors have legal moats too. It's kind of terrifying to think that all professions are going to have to shift away from value creation to pure politics to survive. I have a feeling that big tech companies will be legally
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Oh. I noticed in an AI music generation service I use that old pieces were severely degraded to the point that they were crackling really bad... And I remember thinking that it's a good thing I downloaded an mp3 of my favorites. I conf
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Part of me feels like LLMs will struggle to architect code properly, no matter how good they get. Software engineering is different from programming. Other kinds of engineers often ridiculed software engineers as "not real engineers&qu
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I don't see the point of testing constantly. It's just creating stress and probably most of the time, the tumor might be benign or it might be small and go away on its own. And anyway, you have to die of something so for me cancer
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by jongjong 8mo ago
The dumbing down of LLMs seems to be working in my favor so far as my platform provides guardrails for LLMs by abstracting away complexity. They could potentially dumb it down further, but if they did that, it would hurt other use cases and
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by jongjong 8mo ago
TBH, I would prefer to pay for software licenses. I think the large $100k inflation adjusted price tag of the C compiler reflected the relatively small market at the time. Nowadays I'm sure they would make more money selling it for lik
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by jongjong 8mo ago
After being an open source dev for over a decade, I've built up a kind of moral objection to certain kinds of open source. If it was truly "for everyone" then we'd be seeing many more small tech startups succeed and a mo
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I noticed once I took a ferry ride at night in a big city and one of the buildings had a company name written on it with bright blue lights and I couldn't read it; too blurry. I couldn't focus my eyes... And I have perfect vision.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
That's what you get when you have a centrally planned economy. This is just like communism. The software industry has been like this for over a decade and the effect started spreading to other industries. I've been warning of this
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I predict it's going to be a bloodbath. People who worked for Big Tech have no idea what's coming. Some of us software engineers who have been outside have been experiencing issues for almost a decade. The industry is extremely an
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I now assume everything is a scam. If I heard about it, it's a scam. Some things are not scams but I will never hear about them.

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