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by kiba 5mo ago
We do all what we can as individuals, but it's not enough. The obesity crisis is going unabated except GLP-1 drugs to clean up the mess.
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by kiba 5mo ago
Can AI make developers lazy in new ways? Of course! Why wouldn’t it? I don’t write things in ASM because I can be “lazy” and write 50x more useful instructions with a few lines of a modern language. I doubt I’d be able to write working ASM
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by kiba 5mo ago
The industry optimize toward whatever metric is legible. A company that optimize toward an illegible metric will endure.
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by kiba 5mo ago
This is ignoring the people who capture the rent. If technological innovation is to liberate us from poverty then it should be a celebration that everytime that a job is automated. Since that is not happening, it implies something deeply wr
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by kiba 5mo ago
I use LLM, extensively in fact. I just don't see the value in using the LLMs the way people are using it right now.
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by kiba 5mo ago
Why not the developer write the code, then the AI review the code, and then finally a signoff from another human? Far too often people think productivity is the point. Maybe the point is developer's understanding of the product IS the
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by kiba 5mo ago
Wake me up when LLMs help me write better code and let me understand the codebase, and not before. Not faster, not more productive, but a more comprehensible codebase that I can reason in my own head. Otherwise, if they write so much better
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by kiba 5mo ago
Everyone talks about productivity as if that is the only metric that matters in the business. The MCP has now automated away all of the drudgery of programming, from summarizing emails, to generating confluence documentation, to generating
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by kiba 5mo ago
People are building bots to do the most legible thing possible which is feature in X amount of time. But it doesn't matter if the bottleneck is human thinking time required to output quality code rather than X amount of code written.
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by kiba 5mo ago
Seems like they will do that too.
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by kiba 6mo ago
People who made use of LLM responsibly to create high quality output doesn't look like they're using AI. For example, using AI as an editor. It doesn't write anything for you and you try and avoid suggestions unless you'
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by kiba 6mo ago
I use LLM as a tutor. It tailor their answers exactly to the situation I am in, even if it hallucinate. I can correct them on the fly and that also serves as training. I try not copy and paste and type every line of code by hand. That doesn
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by kiba 6mo ago
Institutional design needs legibility to track people's reputation at scale. The problem is that these metrics are often poor substitutes. The difficulty is that nobody knows how to. My guess is that if you want good signaling, you&#x2
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by kiba 6mo ago
Just because America is doing bad things doesn't mean China is good, or vice versa.
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by kiba 6mo ago
These capabilities don't stick around for free. A corporation isn't going to keep around design staff doing nothing. Even if you move the design staff to the military stuff, you still need to give them work or their skills atrophy
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by kiba 6mo ago
I care more about attribution than copyright infringement.
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by kiba 6mo ago
The US is the country that originated Georgism.
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by kiba 6mo ago
You are so focused on productivity that you missed the boat on the shape of the problem. Vibe coded app are just throwaway codes that you don't understand and can't maintain. Most of our technology isn't creating new things b
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by kiba 7mo ago
I used AI to do a lot of stress testing and to see what patterns fall out of the setting rule I wrote. Helped a lot with grammar checking and general editing. Brainstorming too. When you write enough materials, the AI generated output start
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by kiba 7mo ago
It doesn't really help the United States create good law. You could argue that it worsen the quality of laws by forcing kludges to be built on top of kludges. A sortition panel collecting random people from all walks of life to give fe
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by kiba 7mo ago
People younger than me are not even adults. I grew up during the dial up era and then the transition to broadband. I don't think software is indeterminate.
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by kiba 7mo ago
Copyright is a special privilege that usually monopolizes certain information. It has been recognized by early Georgists as monopolistic and thus problematic. That's why you see rent seeking behaviors and abuses. It's not new.
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by kiba 8mo ago
3d printing matured. My makerspacr's 3d printing room is now more busy than it ever been. But the real magic happens in CAD while printers are good enough that it gets out of your way.
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by kiba 8mo ago
What is a preseed round? You guys don't "make" money when the ROI is primarily about funding long term maintenance of open source projects.
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by kiba 8mo ago
They have a monopoly and no meaningful alternatives and they're not the only monopoly.
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by kiba 8mo ago
Jevon's paradox means this is untrue because it means more work not less.
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by kiba 8mo ago
A much more useful tool is a technology that check for our blind spots and bugs. For example fact checking a news article and making sure what's get reported line up with base reality. I once fact check a virology lecture and found out
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by kiba 8mo ago
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Because it is politicaly unpalatable to tax landowners, we tax economic activity instead. The result is that return on effort are reduced. That mean labor, entrepreneurs, and capital bear the burd
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by kiba 8mo ago
It is the only tax without deadweight loss. Speculators are detrimental in this case because they make land more expensive without increasing supply and are loathe to make efficient use of the land.
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by kiba 8mo ago
The irony of not treating land as a communal resource and letting private actors such as non-profits privatize the gains.

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