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by oblio 2mo ago
Cute story. How could they stop this timeline, even if they were true believers?
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by oblio 2mo ago
I think HN believes in AGI. HN probably doesn't believe LLMs will lead to AGI. Also lots of tech people, HN included, are waking up to technology not only including penicillin (net positive for humanity) but also dynamite (best case: n
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by oblio 2mo ago
Google will be considered "the new IBM" in 20 years.
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by oblio 2mo ago
As in, $HOME? Version controlling it needs to be done very carefully.
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by oblio 2mo ago
> It took the same amount of time (3 seconds) as cursor-agent and codex on my machine, which isn't particularly high-spec. A simple CLI tool should start instantly and lazily load anything that can't be loaded instantly.
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by oblio 2mo ago
Platform standards already require things to be in different locations compared to *NIX dotfiles and dotdirectories - for example Windows %APPDATA%. I find it a bit shocking that someone working on an agent harness can't be bothered to
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by oblio 2mo ago
> Self driving cars are public transportation Waymo is literally a private company. > make areas much more walkable and bikeable. How so? Autonomous car companies have every incentive to continue lobbying for car only infrastructure?
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by oblio 2mo ago
LOL. Why would you only count the first 6 years? Be intellectually honest and count the total funding so far, about $30bn.
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by oblio 2mo ago
Ok, self driving buses on fixed routes. Likely 10-1000x cheaper to implement than fully autonomous cars.
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by oblio 2mo ago
America, the place where they will try anything except for building good public transportation, walkable and bikeable neighborhoods.
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by oblio 2mo ago
> or simply pave it Please, no! At least for any kind of suburban environment or denser. Don't contribute to the heat island effect. Just plant some native perennial plants that don't really require maintenance. And for the lov
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by oblio 2mo ago
Ah, the opposite angle. Yeah.
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by oblio 2mo ago
I'm talking statistically, not what happens for a lucky few. Keynes was hoping that our workweek would be 20h/week by now, through technological advancement. Instead places like the US are thinking about adopting 9/9/6 a
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by oblio 2mo ago
Drugs, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, vaping, ultra processed foods, social media, luxury goods/conspicuous consumption, etc. A lot of humans are incredibly bad at allocating money.
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by oblio 2mo ago
1. Do frontier lab LLMs make your rent cheaper? Groceries? Healthcare? 2. Do LLMs reduce the loneliness epidemic? 3. Do they reduce population aging in almost all counties around the world? 4. Do they reduce political polarization? 5. Do th
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by oblio 2mo ago
The big example predates LLMs as a unified tech and it's protein folding, from Google DeepMind. OpenAI and Anthropic are too greedy for cash to do anything of the sort. I don't expect this current economic cycle to bring anything
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by oblio 2mo ago
I remember asking a Japanese chef in Japan, in 2019, and the answer I got was that sushi is much less popular in Japan than believed outside of Japan, and a lot more people eat rice and chicken, pork, etc., than salmon.
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by oblio 2mo ago
We're on the newsite of a Silicon Valley venture capital fund.
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by oblio 2mo ago
Why do you need feet to measure anything? I've never in my life measured anything using feet. Paces, that's a different story, but those are closer to 1m, anyway.
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by oblio 2mo ago
That's due to outsized British and American influence, but even that is waning. Nobody will change legacy sizes such as football goals, but every sport invented outside of those countries will use metric sizes. As the US wanes in influ
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by oblio 3mo ago
This part is obviously their fault and they need to use their tools better: > others dumping their raw AI output at me Sheesh.
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by oblio 3mo ago
Wind + storage, geothermal.
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by oblio 3mo ago
https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/
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by oblio 3mo ago
Because their leaked financials point that way.
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by oblio 3mo ago
No, it won't. Unless we AGI, which we won't with LLMs.
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by oblio 3mo ago
> Arguably because of state intervention in the economy. More than that. It's the closest thing we have to a successful economic experiment replicated multiple times in real life. It's the Japanese model. Meiji Japan, post-WW2
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by oblio 3mo ago
One is the UX, which they don't care about because people use their models anyway. The second would be hardware savings on the order of tens of billions of dollars if they were stupid not do try all possible optimizations. Spot the dif
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by oblio 3mo ago
Fairly sure last year was the first year of US population decline in a long time.
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by oblio 3mo ago
Didn't the US administration just pay Total $1bn to NOT build an offshore wind farm?
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by oblio 3mo ago
Not for long. 1-2 economic cycles and oil and gas will probably be 20-40% of what they are now. Useful to keep in mind when choosing a new career.

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