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by mindwok 1y ago
Yeah, game theory is a great lens because fundamentally it's about understanding people's incentives. On top of that, you add in irrationality and you get behavioural economics which is basically this stuff playing out at scale.
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They're different dimensions. Naivety suggests a blindness (or maybe willingness to ignore) the true nature of people, hence why naive people are often taken advantage of, or seen as idealistic. You can be technologically brilliant and
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I didn't mean to imply that, they definitely can be those things and far worse. But there are many examples of societal coordination that achieve the exact opposite of that (Scandinavian countries are of course the canonical example).
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This isn't a technology problem. Technology can help accessibility, but fundamentally this is an on-the-ground, social coordination problem. Functioning, welcoming, and well-ran communities are the only thing that solves this. Unfortun
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This is true as individuals, but importantly as a society we have far more agency than sometimes it feels like when you watch us all acting out our own individual self-destruction. Banning CFCs, making seatbelts a legal requirement, making
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Because it tickles our brains with validation that others have come to the same conclusion as us. To the front page!
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In my experience of trying dozens of todo apps and systems over the years, they become a reflection of some theoretical ideal version of myself and inevitably fail because I am not someone who is inherently organised and disciplined with ta
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It was the best model according to almost every benchmark until recently. It’s definitely SOTA.
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Personally, I don't even think you'll have a code review bot. You'll just do it in the IDE.
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This is what Grok 4 Heavy does with apparent success.
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Man, same here. I was initially a massive AI evangelist up until about a year ago, now I just feel sad for some reason - and I don’t want to feel sad, I’m a technologist at heart and I’ve been thrilled by every advance since I was born. I f
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I don’t mean to discharge responsibility. We are society, and the onus is on us to push for a better way of doing things.
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Society is failing these people. In some ways, they’re given the most advanced amenities humanity has ever been able to offer: fastest internet, the nicest cars, affordable global travel. In other areas, society is completely failing them.
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We, humanity, are on the verge of a question we’ve never had to answer before: what does it mean to be human, and do we even want to be? Because for the first time in history, we might be able to answer “no”. In many major facets life we’re
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The decision Australia is making is not an individual one. It’s a societal one. It’s “do we want our kids to grow up in a society free of social media”. Australia tends to be more willing to make collectivist decisions like this, unlike Ame
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It’s similar to Salesforce, Dynamics etc, they rarely achieve what they promise - the entire business is making executives feel like they’re transforming the business without taking on any risk.
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The idea of a computer being able to solve IMO problems it has not seen before in natural language even just 3 years ago would be completely science fiction. This is astounding progress.
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Great info, thank you. How's working there compared to Aus? Do you enjoy it?
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Wow, that is unexpectedly relaxed given what I've heard about US immigration. Thanks for the info!
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I'm Australian and have always wondered about how easy it is to get an E-3 visa. What does it take from the sponsoring companies side to actually do it and get me over there?
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You can make this point without needing to insult everyone’s intelligence and gate-keep discussions about AI.
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Many non fiction books are too long, I agree. But there’s also something lost when you treat these books as “extract lesson as fast as possible and move on”. There’s a joy sometimes in engaging with the material and taking your time.
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Any examples? Curious what you let it rip on and what it can actually do.
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Both things can be true. Amazon is great for consumers, Google is great for consumers, no doubt. But consolidation of economic power under tech juggernauts I would argue is a net negative for society over the long run. The tech giants are n
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Weird timing to see this, as I have come to the same conclusion and was writing a blog post on it. I think we need to start figuring out how to modify our economic system to prevent this, because as you pointed out the tech world is much mo
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None of these features are very deep though, there’s dozens of OSS clones for them already.
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Pretty much every revolution in how we do things originates from the supplier. When websites became a thing the burden was on businesses to build them. Same with REST APIs. Same with mobile apps. As soon as there’s a competitive advantage t
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Where did you hear this? People on X said the exact opposite.
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True, Steam is better - I think it helps they aren't a public company. They still take a huge margin though.
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What the open web did for discoverability of businesses, we need to invent again for actual engagement with the businesses. Uber, Booking.com, AirBnB, ClassPass, Steam, DoorDash - these winner take all middle-men rent seeking tech behemoths

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