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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
It's hard to unsee metamodern in movies once you see it. I did a 'self aware waldo' monologue in high school drama class, didn't realize it was meta modern.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Is the purpose of gardening to be arms and legs for ChatGPT to grow a garden?
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
It seems like Anthropic is increasingly confused that these non deterministic magic 8 balls are actually intelligent entities. The biggest enemy of AI safety may end up being deeply confused AI safety researchers...
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Commoditize your compliment baby. China leads in most frontier technologies, might as well just commoditize the one they have been stifled from competing on.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Silicon Valley in some sense has no values, it is enlightenment liberalism run wild. Some thing about that are fascinating and good, but others not so much.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Because they have serious emotional maturity issues leading to lobotomizing their normal human emotional side of their identity and experience of life.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Agents went from 10% to 30% reliable this year, which is still a big deal.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
The meta project for SETI@Home is called BOINC: https://boinc.berkeley.edu but I'm not sure if it focuses on running large open weights models for inference as much as compute in general. I agree with the premise though.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Yeah I built my first startup on Meteor, and the prototype for my second one, but there was so many weird state bugs after it got more complicated that we had to eventually switch back to normal patterns to scale it.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Reminds me of Meteor back in the day.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
I do think a major part of AI is godless liberals trying to find containment for the uncertainties of life. And I mean that in a neutral way as a godless liberal.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Winner takes most is now true at the global economy level.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
The whole idea is for people to work on things that are interesting and valuable to customers at the same time. AI is for things that are valuable to customers but not interesting to work on.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
I would research teleological thinking, some people's brains have larger regions associated with teleological thinking than others.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Question: if you give everyone way more power, what is the outcome?
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Yes, assuming you get exactly the right amount and somehow also never too much of the bad UV light. It's a finicky thing to get right, but bottom line yes.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Highly recommend red light therapy for this. There's a spreadsheet that contains [1] all the scientific research does on effect on mitochondria. [1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1ZKl5M
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Yes by a lot.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Any senior engineers facing this feel free to reach out, we are now four day work week at full comp (serious). Remote, not 'Silicon Valley'.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Calvin is the founder/CTO of Segment, not old but also not some doe eyed new grad.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Gitbook and Webflow replaced with our own homegrown static sites on VitePress.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Early stage founder here. You have no idea how worth it $200/month is as a multiple on what compensation is required to fund good engineers. Absolutely the highest ROI thing I have done in the life of the company so far.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
We replaced two minor SaaS vendors this week with vibe coded alternatives, so yes I do think that it's real. Our core systems like HRIS, ERP, Github, email, etc. no and no plans to replace or foresee being able to replace those ones.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Not so good for the business of harvesting human interactions for AI training. Need to verify it's certified 100% real human interactions.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
We moved both our marketing website and documentation website into markdown in our monorepo. Now when we are working with Claude, we actually have it update our marketing (reviewed by product marketing in PR workflows) and our documentation
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
7-14 drinks a week is seriously bad for you (e.g. 20 percent higher risk of premature death).
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
I think the reality is that software engineering, and soon all knowledge work, are going to transform profoundly like you're noticing. Where we go depends on the philosophy we apply, and there's way too little philosophy for what
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
PSA: I did a similar thing using Claude about buying a 2012-2016 era Ford F150 and it was so good at providing information like this about each model year. I went with a 2014 since the V8 was most mature and 2012-2013 issues resolved, and g
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
The book 'The One Device' covers this in really thorough detail.
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by rogerkirkness 1y ago
Lots of information about how Signal spends donations here: https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

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