noosphr

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by noosphr 6mo ago
If you want the neoclassical version: What happens when there is an oligopoly in the supply of labor? Same answer. Nothing good for the consumers of labor.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Yes I agree with all of that. The way I let my agents interact with my code bases is through a 70s BSD Unix like interface, ed, grep, ctags, etc. using Emacs as the control plane. It is surprisingly sparing on tokens, which makes sense sinc
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Are you able to hold a hypothetical in your mind?
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by noosphr 6mo ago
They build an incredibly vibrant _market_ economy with no property rights and very little due process. Imagine if Musk was disappeared during the Biden presidency into a diversity camp and came out looking like Dr. Frank-N-Furter and instit
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by noosphr 6mo ago
>It’s more like, the guy on the assembly line had a mech suit, and now he doesn’t have a mech suit You just answered your own question there. One woman was doing what would take a dozen. Now she can't.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
>you just have to find a way to stop putting evil people in charge. Of course, why did no one think of that?
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by noosphr 6mo ago
And if that had been done the $50k code base would be a $5,000,000 code base because the context would be 10 times as large and LLMs are quadratic. If only we taught developers under 40 what x^2 meant instead of react.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
The human labor just said: "Losing access to GPT‑5.5 feels like I've had a limb amputated.” How well would an assembly line of quadriplegics work? Also this isn't a Marxist analysis. Underneath all the formulas neo-classical
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by noosphr 6mo ago
The majority are released by socialists, and by socialist I mean the People's Republic of China. Which everyone seems to forget is a socialist country working towards world communism. They are a prestige propaganda tool on par with the
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by noosphr 6mo ago
If your compiler produced working executable 20% of the time this would be an apt comparison.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
A library is deterministic. LLMs are not. That we let a generation of software developers rot their brains on js frameworks is finally coming back to bite us. We can build infinite towers of abstraction on top of computers because they alwa
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by noosphr 6mo ago
LLMs upend a few centuries of labor theory. The current market is predicated on the assumption that labor is atomic and has little bargaining power (minus unions). While capital has huge bargaining power and can effectively put whatever pri
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by noosphr 6mo ago
In that case we aren't in a steady state population case and we need to build schools, hospitals, public transport, water, power etc. Which means that we need stop importing low skill labor in the IT and services industry and move to h
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by noosphr 6mo ago
>And by the way - Canada needs to invite at least half a million people a year in order to maintain the population at a steady-state. That number is the table stakes. In 2025 total deaths in Canada were 334,699, totals births were 368,92
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Destroy your society today so it doesn't get potentially destroyed in 30 years is certainly a take. >You solve a housing shortage by... Building more housing. It's not housing. It's roads. Hospitals. Schools. Sewers. Power
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by noosphr 6mo ago
The social safety net has collapsed _today_. Hospital wait times in Canada, Australia and the UK are _years_ for elective procedures. I had a health scare three years ago and got put on the public waiting list. I still get a message every 6
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Yes, home owners: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/canada-migrati... Funny how when you hit the breaks on pupulation growth house prices also freeze.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
With good reason: https://www.cfmeuinquiry.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0... I have paid between $3,000 and $6,000 personally to organized crime so a bunch of bogans can buy American suvs to kill cyclist
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by noosphr 6mo ago
You do. It's called zoning.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Being a NIMBY I want to live in the neighbourhood I bought a house in, not the one someone who can leave with a months notice feels like turning it into.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Parts are open source. Other people can keep making them. There's franken think pads from China that use a x61 chassis made 15 years after the release. I had a soup of them before I moved to framework for my daily drivers.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
>If we knew we were feeding a yet-to-be-invented slop machine that would allow megacorps to unemploy all the creatives, most of us would not have supported that. We have multiple Communist ais that is on par with Western ai from 18 month
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Disney is all in because all their characters are entering the public domain over the next 5 years. They can't fight like it's 1998 because youtube is now worth more than they are. > In fact they were fighting for the creative
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by noosphr 6mo ago
This is what happens when a culture doesn't have robust exclusionary mechanisms for people who want to burn it down. We welcomed the vampires in and wonder why our necks hurt.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Forums, news groups and mailing lists counted towards pagerank in the early days.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
There was a time when total number of hyperlinks to a site was an amazing metric measuring its quality.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Yes, give your money to the company of breast milk thiefs.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
I wasn't expecting the next culture war to be about AI. In 20 years the thanksgiving dinner fights over AI equality are going to be wild. >I'm not a bigot I support trans rights. But clankers aren't welcome in our share ho
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Ads that are well target aren't jarring. They are just part of the magazine. I remember reading ads about a specific make of vacuum pumps next to an article with experiments which used them. Today's ads are so obtrusive because yo
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Anything but the simplest tooling is not transferable between model generations, let alone completely different families.

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