ryandvm

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by ryandvm 3mo ago
I suspect nobody's legacy survives the microscope.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
I'm a huge fan of Feynman and his autobiographies - some of my favorite books. There are a number of YouTube videos that purport to be Feynman's audio lectures, but they're actually AI generated readings of his script. Agains
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
I always liked the idea of a micro-deposit that the sender puts up for each email (say $0.001). If the recipient blocks your email and it ends up in their spam folder then you lose your deposit; if they read it then you get your deposit bac
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
I think we both agree that I need to spend less time in intellectual ghettos.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Okay, and you're not wrong, but it sounds like you're filtering out most of the shit that humanity is producing and then lecturing folks that say LLMs are smarter than most people. It's kind of like you hang out in a Buddhist
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Man, I appreciate your optimism, but I don't know how you can spend even 5 minutes on Facebook looking at the absolutely bonkers shit one's own relatives and neighbors post and still come away thinking that most people are "t
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Precisely, it takes a special kind of psychopathy to have 100 million dollars and decide that you need to "keep going".
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
> on the other, whatever shady crap these guys do after it all goes ‘boom’ to save their wallets is only gonna reward people in the market Yup. That's kind of my feeling. Are we in a bubble? Obviously. But the people who have the mo
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
This gives "let's close the patent office"
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
They don't have Claude write assembly because there is no training corpus on people making CRUD apps in assembly. I'm as hateful of LLMs hollowing out the job market as the next guy, but the reality is the frontier LLMs are really
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Eh, his promises are ambitious. And the gullibility of his investors is bottomless. I too plan on increasing my revenue 100-fold by 2030.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
The human brain has 80 billion neurons and a 100 trillion synapses. I think you're underselling the processing power of that warm chunk of meat. The real message of the last 15 years has actually been the opposite: if you throw enoug
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does. It costs $30M/unit because our trillion dollar defense budget is mostly just a jobs program (25%) and wealth transfer apparatus (75%). Killing people is just a side effect.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Yup. You can either A) ban AI (good luck) and teach students to understand CS fundamentals deeply - which will of course make them totally unsuitable for an industry that is demanding tokenmaxxing from every engineer; or B) embrace AI at th
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
I hate the AI revolution timeline even more than I was hating the political timeline.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
> "Well, we were just responding to our business competition" The business knows no humanness, because it is not a human. Yup. Except, by God, we ought to make sure the business has unlimited free speech (i.e. campaign contribu
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
None of them go bankrupt. The whole thing will just get stuffed into a larger Matryoshka egg that IPOs for eleventy trillion dollars in 10 years.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Okay, let's give software engineers a break for a bit and focus on obsoleting other high-linguistic context occupations.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
To be fair, at this point in my life I think unions are a net positive and probably the most effective protection workers have from predatory management, but the 25 year old libertarian take on this is issue is based on things like unions l
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Yup. I was one of the self-taught software "engineers" from the 90s. I enjoyed making more money than I deserved for my special interest and for the duration of my career I was very much against software engineering unionization a
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
It's a fair question, but it irritates me because it suggests that we should accept the self-destruction of vast swaths of the population in the name of perfect liberty. The reality is that we have a lot of institutions that prey on co
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
I dunno. Billionaires are wont to pick up a lot of fanciful special interests like rockets or climate change or ending world hunger, but Brian Johnson deciding that he's going to devote his fortune to his own immortality is like 7 red
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Because I haven't been allowed to program for 6 months. Now I'm just an AI manager.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
I think software "engineering" is far more susceptible to fads than other engineering disciplines. Best practices in engineering evolve with respect to advances in material sciences, whereas best practices in software engineering
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
Nobody in this industry with a modicum of applicable expertise believes that orbital data centers make sense financially. Like colonizing Mars and most of Elon's pipe dreams, it's not the stated goal they believe in, it's get
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
No joke. I go to the gym a couple times a week so that I'll maintain mobility and won't injure myself as I age - unfortunately 80% of my injuries come from the gym.
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by ryandvm 3mo ago
I dunno. I would be surprised if a 30 year old telecommunications network is going to be technically competitive with a SpaceX's LEO network that is still launching satellites as we speak. How much market is there for people that just
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
because X is a dumb name
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
Nobody (with money to invest) actually believes that SpaceX or Tesla will ever catch up to their valuations. People investing in things like this only believe that somebody else believes it. This will continue to work until they run out o
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by ryandvm 4mo ago
Yeah. I love how the guy behind DOGE has benefited more from US federal largess than any other person on Earth.

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