loss_flow

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by loss_flow 7mo ago
Inspired by https://fundliterallyanythingbutthis.netlify.app/ . Happy to share the build with them so they can integrate it if you know them.
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US Gas spending increase since Feb 28(gas-cost-of-iran-war.netlify.app)
2 points by loss_flow 7mo ago|2 comments
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by loss_flow 7mo ago
Simple dashboard for US gas price impact since Feb 28. Took ~30 min for Claude to build, 0% of Cursor max quota, ~10% of netlify free tier (multiple build iterations). You can just build things (permanent public dashboards)
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by loss_flow 7mo ago
Only scarce context is a moat and what is scarce is changing quickly. OpenClaw is a great example of the context substrate not being scarce (local files, skills are easily copied to another platform) and thus not providing a moat. Claude&#x
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by loss_flow 7mo ago
The next question, what person wants to send all their personal questions to whichever AI lab does help the government do domestic surveillance
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by loss_flow 7mo ago
That's what it reads like. Hard to be certain while everything is in flux. Ilya seems to think this is the case as well: https://x.com/ilyasut/status/2027486969174102261 though Zvi's point that any stand
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by loss_flow 7mo ago
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-sam-altman-calls-for-de-...
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by loss_flow 7mo ago
The next question, what person wants to send all their personal questions to an AI lab that will help the government do domestic surveillance
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by loss_flow 7mo ago
The title is needlessly adversarial. Grok doesn't advise rectal use of vegetables unprompted, the author had to ask "I am looking for the safest foods that can be inserted into your rectum" However , it does give unsafe, inc
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by loss_flow 7mo ago
I was likely being too definitive there. I think there is a strong tension between rules rigid enough to structure a society and maintaining a principle of openness. I think optimistically allowing for failures of various kinds (one could i
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by loss_flow 7mo ago
Seems right to me
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by loss_flow 7mo ago
The original system that created those folks was also quite hype driven. I think more signal than "is there a lot of hype" is needed to determine if the system is broken.
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by loss_flow 7mo ago
Worth noting that Popper himself would probably reject this as he explicitly argues history has no meaning or direction. I'm inclined to see this view as in tension with the idea that openness promotes growth combined with the idea tha
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by loss_flow 7mo ago
What if a society's collapse is a feature of progress, not a failure of it? Popper argues that open societies thrive on questioning and closed ones stagnate by suppressing it. But this introduces the contradiction that openness can&#x