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by saimiam 3mo ago
How is the existence of a PR/spin industry, the fact that many Americans live way beyond their means, or the proliferation of influencers whose job is to show a specific story not evidence of a society that values appearances and will
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by saimiam 3mo ago
The demand for Internet was an economic event where the efficiencies it afforded - quick, low cost communication, scale etc - made it attractive. Other countries had invented the Internet (France, I believe) but it went nowhere. Other comms
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by saimiam 3mo ago
Nowhere did I say that economics = greed is good capitalism. Economics is fundamentally a study of how human and human society processes self interest. It tries to find broad patterns in how we process self interest and then supports or sub
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by saimiam 3mo ago
> obsolete sci-fi Well, living in an AGI world was sci-fi until arguably, we found ourselves in one post 2022.
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by saimiam 3mo ago
If it were all BS, how do you explain success stories like the Internet and the notion that countries on Dell’s supply chain won’t go to war with each other? Fundamentally, economics is the belief that humans have self-interests and act on
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by saimiam 3mo ago
7 - what if bots want to fcuk humans? You’re probably right that many jobs can eventually be done by AI but not on day 1. Between Day 1 of the brave new AI world and Day N, humans will be in the loop doing stuff that other humans will try t
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by saimiam 3mo ago
1. AI weights managers - people whose job is to optimize model weights to yield highly specific outcomes 2. Agentic tourism - maybe you’ll be able to send your AI agent/robot to visit a place before you decide if it worth your time and
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by saimiam 3mo ago
On the iPhone at least, following your instructions, I got anything from ‘feel’ to ‘fell’ to ‘grok’ to ‘felt’. Is it possible that your keyboard’s particular dictionary knows the words you’re more likely to use and adjusts for it? Edit - Al
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by saimiam 3mo ago
fine. Place a log on your own property - equivalent of posting a prompt on your own blog - then leave the gate open (equivalent of posting on the internet) only to have someone drive over that log uninvited and blame you for it. Is writing
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by saimiam 3mo ago
Shouldn’t that extra population in a limited amount of land lead to more demand and better outcomes for rail and roads?
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by saimiam 3mo ago
Say I loosen the bolts of your car tires which causes a crash, that’s malware. Say I lay a log on a road which you can clearly see and avoid but choose to drive over and crash your car, that’s prompt injection. One is way worse than the oth
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by saimiam 4mo ago
> won’t work A datacenter (earthbound or space) itself is a fantastical idea until a mix of events and inventions made it feasible to build them to sell compute.
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by saimiam 4mo ago
Sounds to some extent like advertising and marketing in a market like India which is still predominantly offline and driven by visibility.
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by saimiam 4mo ago
Not just undergrads. Even folks who believe in astrology or numerology depend on finding patterns in unrelated events to explain human behaviours.
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by saimiam 4mo ago
The comment you were replying to was about school kids, not foreign students in post secondary programs looking for work/immigrant visas. Also, foreign students enrolling in American colleges are (a) here as a result of decades of cons
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by saimiam 4mo ago
What would this new system look like that doesn’t involve the trade offs between having cabs on demand if you need them and having a walkable city if you don’t that the person you replied to spoke about? Uber and friends have indeed democra
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by saimiam 4mo ago
I blame apps and products like WhatsApp and Nextdoor. We've created these online means of connection (and conflict) which allows us to communicate without having to actually meet anyone in person. Absent these forced meetings, parents
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by saimiam 4mo ago
FD - I pay Insta to advertise a product for parents. The results of above mentioned advertising have been great. I get inbound enquiries, parents get their curiosity about the usefulness of what I offer whetted. I don’t understand how the a
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by saimiam 5mo ago
> other parts of the stack As a web developer, you’re the like the guy standing with a clipboard outside a fancy club checking if people requesting entry are allowed or not. Basically, level 1 security. If someone is not on the list, you
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by saimiam 5mo ago
If you’re good at something, never do it for free…or something. Let OP make his “hire me and I’ll tell you why your AI first approach is bunk” market.
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by saimiam 5mo ago
After reading your comment, I was reminded of my first and last visit to a zen meditation center where we had to meditate by staring at a wall sitting on some sort special cushion designed for this sort of meditation. I think your parallel
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by saimiam 6mo ago
It’s such a shock to the system to realise that “unprincipled enemy” referenced here is the US.
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by saimiam 7mo ago
The trouble is that no one has a cogent definition of creativity. Without that, how would you even know whether you are being creative or not? Or is it like "I'll know it when it see it" smut?
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by saimiam 7mo ago
> Now if agents do get so good that no human review is required, you wouldn’t bother with the library in the first place. The comment you responded to is (presumably) talking about the transition phase where LLMs can help implement but n
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by saimiam 8mo ago
> certainly found elsewhere I agree that if someone discovered the artist elsewhere, Apple has weaker standing in claiming a huge commission. But if they found an artist elsewhere, they would also know that they can support that artist e
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by saimiam 8mo ago
If a user almost exclusively uses the Patreon ios app to consume the artist’s content and likes to live inside the ios ecosystem for frictionless payments using the card on file/privacy/UX/whatever, then I feel apple should g
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by saimiam 8mo ago
Looks like they took Peter Thiel’s animosity towards competition too literally by blocking BYD from the US market. Without competition, they had no incentive to innovate since they were selling into the wealthiest market in the world for th
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by saimiam 8mo ago
I can think of birthdays when even the most diehard asker turns into a guesser - they would never go out of their way and ask to be coddled on their birthday but still don't mind bit of a fuss being made on their behalf.
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by saimiam 8mo ago
I made an email mailbox using S3 object versioning. Every email address was an s3 object so every new email sent to that email address was saved as a new object version. Presenting that email as an mailbox was just a matter of reading all t
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by saimiam 8mo ago
Is it true that people are working harder because they consume more? For me, the chain of events was like this. I had disposable income > i had no social network or things to do > so i went out and joined a running group and made frie

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