kaashif

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by kaashif 5mo ago
Something interesting: for me, that comment was the 6th Google result for "medior". Interesting term.
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by kaashif 5mo ago
It's not, but token peddlers will say it is. It's good to interact with everything through buying tokens.
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by kaashif 5mo ago
The primary way to increase reliability is to automate. Instead of humans producing some output manually, humans producing machines which produce that output. I've seen a disturbing trend where a process that could've been a scrip
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by kaashif 5mo ago
If you are saying that what we had previously was actually as easy as literally writing "make me a web app for arranging seats at a wedding and put it on Vercel" then you are very divorced from reality. I know how to do all of the
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by kaashif 5mo ago
One would be completely wrong. AI is a tool that may make copyright violations more likely, but whether the output violates copyright is a property of the output, not how it was produced. If you copy and paste leaked closed source code or i
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by kaashif 5mo ago
Workers are necessary but not sufficient for most businesses. You also need capital. This can be provided by the workers and is for many worker owners businesses, but when the business is very capital intensive that's just not feasible
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by kaashif 6mo ago
This can be the mindset now with a lot of things. If you want a certain app with a feature and the app isn't open source, then you may as well just clone the app and add the feature. Claude Code and Codex (and other tools) have compute
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by kaashif 6mo ago
Maybe they mean you can be not employed and build products yourself? Technically true, but that's like running your own surgeries or something, you're still doing surgery.
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by kaashif 6mo ago
Somehow despite travelling a lot for work, I've never had this happen. I just do personal stuff on my phone.
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by kaashif 6mo ago
Yeah, memorization is very underrated. Memorization increases the size of the building blocks you can use. Mathematics is where I see this most clearly. Why memorize hundreds of theorems? Because then you can just cite them on the fly when
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by kaashif 6mo ago
I write because I just find it hard to form long, coherent thoughts without writing. When trying to think on the fly, I often say something jumbled and nonsensical, then make another attempt after thinking for a second. I need that editing
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by kaashif 6mo ago
I'm not American or in America, but I wouldn't use a work laptop for anything personal. I mean I have my own laptop and phone, why would I use a work device for that stuff?
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by kaashif 6mo ago
Lucely absolutely does not catch the hard c. Surely there is no word in the English language where "ce" has a hard c, only loanwords like celt.
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by kaashif 6mo ago
Massive selection bias - only the good quality ones remain standing, the low quality ones are not. You have to get a representative sample, that's the tricky part. So there's that!
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by kaashif 6mo ago
I'm interested in how one would prove that one way or another. It seems to me that in the past there probably was lots of shoddy workmanship and just no-one paid attention to it. But I have no proof of that.
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by kaashif 6mo ago
As long as it doesn't cost me anything, I'd like to see it play out in court and know for sure. But that is very unlikely even if everyone adopted it, which they won't.
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by kaashif 6mo ago
Those things are all still signals. If taken from a snapshot of the Internet pre-AI.
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by kaashif 6mo ago
I think the classic one is pedophiles and protecting children. If someone uses ChatGPT to create child porn or worse, to get help tracking down and meeting children, there is NO way in hell the public will accept "don't punish the
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by kaashif 6mo ago
No. But you can easily make and post content that is not easily detectable as generated. You only notice plastic surgery when it's bad, but that doesn't mean all plastic surgery looks bad...
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by kaashif 6mo ago
If the cartels attack American civilian infrastructure with drones, the American public will support a full on land invasion and annexation of Mexico if they're told that will make it stop.
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by kaashif 6mo ago
Rent seeking refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
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by kaashif 6mo ago
That seems non-financial.
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by kaashif 6mo ago
Plenty of things are made fast, at high quality, and cheaply. Some things just aren't very hard to make.
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by kaashif 6mo ago
I don't pay my employees based on inputs like how hard they work, I pay based on outputs. Any other system of incentives would be insane. Things are different if you're e.g. a lawyer and have billable hours.
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by kaashif 6mo ago
A burger flipper cannot flip 20x the burgers. There isn't really any way to produce more output flipping burgers. Even if you could, if there isn't a queue of people waiting to collect their orders, there isn't any point in p
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by kaashif 6mo ago
> In reality, it feels like we are financially better off than we were before. Are you financially better off or does it only feel that way? If you were actually better off, why mention feelings?
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by kaashif 6mo ago
Yes, I just described the difference. It is clearly different because in one case you are not guilty of fraud. Being guilty of a crime plus fraud is obviously worse than just being guilty of the crime. Breaking the law by stealing a loaf of
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by kaashif 6mo ago
The thing is, some people don't view "maintaining networks" as work, and it's something that not only comes naturally when they do it, but they actually do it naturally, automatically. These people have a real advantage.
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by kaashif 6mo ago
The ultimate connecting up of the dots would be brain implants that just give you knowledge with zero effort. I don't know if I'd ever be comfortable with that, hopefully I'll just be retired or dead when that takes off.
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by kaashif 6mo ago
Managing complexity, modularity, separation of concerns, were already critical for ensuring humans could still hold enough of the system in their brains to do something useful. People who do not understand that will continue to not understa

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