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by perfmode 7mo ago
Thomas Piketty would love to have a word. Piketty’s central argument is that when the rate of return on capital (r) exceeds the rate of economic growth (g), wealth concentrates over time into fewer and fewer hands. This is his now-famous r
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by perfmode 7mo ago
one of the reasons why i love writing control planes in Go.
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by perfmode 7mo ago
FreeBSD's kernel is smaller and more cohesive than Linux's. The whole OS (kernel and userland) is developed as a single project, whereas Linux is just a kernel with a massive and fragmented contributor base. When you need to make
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by perfmode 7mo ago
> I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries. Ugh.
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by perfmode 7mo ago
> But Anthropic has concerns over two issues that it isn’t willing to drop, the source said: AI-controlled weapons and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens. Not a good look for the Pentagon.
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by perfmode 8mo ago
The claim that the conditioned salivary response “can’t be suppressed” keeps getting repeated, and it’s still wrong. Pavlov’s own experiments demonstrated extinction. The conditioned response does weaken and disappear when you stop pairing
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by perfmode 8mo ago
You say the dog “also consciously understands the connection between bell and food,” which is actually not something Pavlov’s framework establishes at all. Whether the dog has conscious understanding of the association is exactly the kind o
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by perfmode 8mo ago
Major fashion houses have been caught destroying clothes to prop up the value of the brand.
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by perfmode 8mo ago
The issue with this is when creating artificial general intelligence objective shouldn’t be to replicate the statistical mean of human behavior with all its frailties and crookedness. Ultimately our ambition should be to create an intellige
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by perfmode 8mo ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=ice+outside+polling+location...
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by perfmode 8mo ago
I think you're technically right but missing what the guy is actually doing. When he says "this isn't about politics" he's not making some naive claim that governance exists outside of politics. He's saying &qu
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by perfmode 8mo ago
The agent had access to Marshall Rosenberg, to the entire canon of conflict resolution, to every framework for expressing needs without attacking people. It could have written something like “I notice that my contribution was evaluated base
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by perfmode 8mo ago
Current analysis shows space-based compute costs roughly 3x more per watt than terrestrial equivalents, requiring launch costs to fall below $200/kg before achieving economic parity—a threshold unlikely before the mid-2030s even with S
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by perfmode 8mo ago
This is solved by social trust graph algorithms. These allow intersubjective ranking without a central authority.
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by perfmode 8mo ago
I was just about to say the same thing. Cool technique.
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by perfmode 8mo ago
The counterargument would be that the external investors (Sequoia, Andreessen, Fidelity, etc.) presumably priced in this exact risk when they agreed to pay $110B. They're not naive about Alphabet's role as backstop. The question i
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by perfmode 8mo ago
a deliberate strategy to establish market-validated pricing, prepare for eventual independence, and impose governance discipline on what has been a protected moonshot project. The move signals that Alphabet is transforming Waymo from an “Ot
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by perfmode 8mo ago
The end result is quite stunning. quite beautiful. Thanks for taking the time to create it.
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by perfmode 8mo ago
maybe you’ve already done this and I’m sorry if i’m telling you the obvious. You could analyze the repo to identify others who have modified the same files. and reach out to them specifically.
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by perfmode 8mo ago
I miss the days of chatting at home with friends after school on MSN Messenger and ICQ.
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by perfmode 8mo ago
how’s your reasoning different from LLM reasoning?
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by perfmode 8mo ago
Conceding superiority to Linux would make them a computing philosophy leader.
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by perfmode 9mo ago
There’s something that bothers me about reducing achievement to stock price and exit valuations. Yet, it is sobering to witness the machinery laid bare. The whole aesthetic of startup success—those triumphant IPO bell-ringing moments—celebr
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by perfmode 9mo ago
$0.00000008 per Newton of deceleration force applied to the vehicle. Pressing the brake pedal and maintaining a stationary position is billed at a rate of $0.003 per second of immobility. Energy dissipation during the braking event costs an
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by perfmode 9mo ago
Anything to keep the news cycles engaged in busywork.
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by perfmode 9mo ago
You’re collapsing two distinct claims. The first, that real-world communication is messier than clinical frameworks, is obviously true but doesn’t do the work you need it to. The second, that acknowledging someone’s emotional experience is
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by perfmode 9mo ago
You’re making a reasonable point, but I think you’re arguing against a somewhat strawmanned version of emotional validation. You’re treating “validation” as synonymous with “agreeing the emotional response was proportionate and correct.” Bu
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by perfmode 9mo ago
The missing piece is the distinction between a market that observes reality and a market that instigates it. The criticism is about the systemic risk of converting prediction markets into "Assassination Markets"—mechanisms where t
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by perfmode 9mo ago
It seems the numerous leaks and trials took their toll. I don’t disagree with you—I felt “Tailor Swif,” “DMB,” and “Both Eyes Closed” were all stronger than the tracks that made it onto this album. But sometimes you’ve gotta ship the projec
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by perfmode 9mo ago
Like that? https://gemini.google.com/share/3dbf617a1e07

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