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by mvkel 11mo ago
Countless examples of a lack of profit not spelling the doom of a company (uber, amazon, tesla). Countless examples of companies that strive for profit too early, only to die
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by mvkel 11mo ago
There is no example of a leading company that ships a world-changing product, yet somehow runs out of cash. Maybe they lose relevance. Maybe they miss the breakthrough. That becomes the reason. So perplexity? Sure. Anthropic, even? Yep. Goo
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All the frontier houses know this too. They also know it will be extremely difficult to raise more capital if their pitch is "we need to go back to research, which might return nothing at all." Ilya did also acknowledge that these
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by mvkel 11mo ago
Whatever speed advancements we make on earth, they pale in comparison to sling shotting off of a planet. to make an engine that can go significantly faster, we would need the energy of a planet.
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by mvkel 11mo ago
The Voyager project itself has long ended and it's just cute to keep monitoring it and getting data from it. If nothing else, it serves well as a perpetual PR vehicle for NASA. The core of the project I would not say represents long-te
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by mvkel 11mo ago
This seems... completely reasonable?
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That god helmet article seems to thoroughly debunk it as snake oil quackery, which is indeed deeply disturbing
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by mvkel 11mo ago
It's not a new model; it's a router + many, many chains of optimized system prompts. Note the terminology they use to describe it. > We are introducing GPT‑5, our best AI system yet > GPT‑5 is a unified system with a smart,
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by mvkel 11mo ago
Do you want to be right, or do you want to make money? You'll be correct in 5-10 years. Do you wait and do nothing until then?
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by mvkel 11mo ago
Wait til you hear what GPT 5 is
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by mvkel 11mo ago
Perfectly said. The safety industry is such a grift, propped up by ignorant VCs who don't want to miss their rocket ship
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by mvkel 11mo ago
If people only fixate on your emdashes, they're just lazy. The bigger AI smell to me is the "it's not X — it's Y," of which the emdash is a part.
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All it needed was the emdash
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You seem to have your mind thoroughly made up, which should raise a flag that you might be suffering from a bad case of Dunning-Kruger, and need to re-ask questions you think you already know the answers to.
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by mvkel 11mo ago
There's a whole book on this called "Hold On To Your Kids." It feels a little hand-wavy, categorically dismissing all social media as evil, but the core message feels right: don't stop being a parent.
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by mvkel 11mo ago
This is huge. Very curious how this affects wait times. If you're in SF and 10% of the fleet is in Marin, are you waiting longer?
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by mvkel 11mo ago
Very well said, and an important reminder of the recursion of oppression
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by mvkel 11mo ago
Sure, but in any case you're going to cherry-pick inaccuracies, wouldn't it be fair to balance them with the "remarkably accurate recreations," according to historians[0]? Especially since it's couched as a historic
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by mvkel 11mo ago
> Legasov commended the swiftness and efficiency of the government response at all levels Sure, but in those times, he would be compelled to say such things. That doesn't mean he believed it. It seems the main faults that OP finds i
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by mvkel 11mo ago
There's a reason most SLAs say "you shall not establish your own monitoring of our systems."
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It's because if you automate it, something could/would happen to the little script that defines "uptime," and if that goes down, suddenly you're in violation of your SLA and all of your customers start demanding ref
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by mvkel 11mo ago
This was always the case. There was always a "us-east" in some capacity, under Equinix, etc. Except it used to be the only "zone," which is why the internet is still so brittle despite having multiple zones. People need
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by mvkel 11mo ago
The ends do not justify the means
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by mvkel 11mo ago
It's from a video interview with him in 1980: “I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species… The condor came in at the top. Humans came in about a third of the way down. But when a human rides a bicycle
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by mvkel 11mo ago
That's a pretty massive fumble. He was effectively trying to convert Microsoft into a hardware company; Satya marked the return to pure software, and Microsoft is now the biggest SaaS company in the world.
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by mvkel 11mo ago
I assumed he was a product guy until I heard him on Dwarkesh's podcast. He does seem to really only get fired up about numbers going up, and customers are a vehicle for that.
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by mvkel 11mo ago
Be careful what you wish for. Satya Nadella is by most accounts the best person to lead Microsoft, currently the largest software company in the world. "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste," said Steve Jobs.
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Anthropic was very excited to post this, as it serves them well in slowly crawling away from their mission to "solve alignment." They know it can't be done (alignment in one value/state/religion is oppression in ano
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What if it's positioned as a "thought partner" for CEOs, and eventually the board asks "hey, do we really need the human?"
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by mvkel 11mo ago
Yes. AI is actually perfectly suited for the CEO role, as it's a big generalizer. The biggest generalist in a company is the CEO. I have no idea why so many companies are focusing on replacing entry level work with AI; the real alpha i

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