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by shalmanese 5mo ago
The paradox is that we love reading our own AI generated writing and hate reading anyone else's AI generated writing. On a recent weeklong trip to the Philippines, I generated over a 500 page novel's worth of content from AI aroun
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by shalmanese 5mo ago
The entire "blame" paradigm is unproductive. Does Lyft "blame" Uber for it's lowered market share? The entire system (including nurses and technicians) are just agents making semi-rational decisions in their own sel
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by shalmanese 5mo ago
Americans when describing their ideal car interior: "Imagine a burger ordering button".
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by shalmanese 5mo ago
> But, for scientists, I find that these tools address the problem of the exploding complexity barrier in the frontier. Every day, it grows harder and harder to contain a mental map of recent relevant progress by simple virtue of the amo
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by shalmanese 5mo ago
That’s not an analyst, that’s a pundit. An analyst can have a clear point of view that is different from yours and, very far off the consensus in any direction. But the value of an analyst is they have a consistent point of view that they a
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by shalmanese 5mo ago
I fully support the government reading my odometer during every single emissions check of my EV ;).
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by shalmanese 5mo ago
This is the wrong level of analysis. Disney owns ABC, ABC owned 538. The relevant decisions were made by ABC’s leadership. And the firing of the staff happened years ago and people broadly understood even if they did not agree with it. The
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by shalmanese 5mo ago
Apple's problem might be they were right too early which is sometimes worse than being wrong. The original vision of Siri was substantively correct in how AI would supercharge our phones but huge parts of the vision got forgotten when
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by shalmanese 5mo ago
> I think when LLMs first came out people thought they could just say something like, "Make a Facebook clone". But now we're realizing we need to be more exact with our requirements and define things better. That has alway
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by shalmanese 5mo ago
This is all substantially correct and gives us hints as to where to focus for AI to make the processes go faster. Eg: I had a product manager say to me that he envisions a future where any meeting with stakeholders that does not result in
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by shalmanese 5mo ago
FYI: the author of this piece is the eugenicist Cremieux who was responsible for using hacked data to attack Zohran Mamdani for checking Black and Asian on his college application. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_L
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by shalmanese 5mo ago
No, you’re thinking of .NET. Or maybe 365. Or perhaps you’re thinking of Live. Or maybe it was ActiveX.
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by shalmanese 6mo ago
Not streets but an outsider to the Bay Area might be confused that a trip from Richmond to Inner Richmond is like an hour’s drive.
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by shalmanese 6mo ago
Do you know that Adobe has an entire martech side of the business that is 25% of revenues and growing? I feel highly skeptical of any analysis that try’s to translate their personal experience into a prognosis of business prospects. There a
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by shalmanese 6mo ago
Only for commodity goods does the cost of production impact the price. As substitutionality lessens, the price more and more approaches the value delivered.
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by shalmanese 6mo ago
But if you wanted to buy an OSX machine with up to 1.5TB of memory, you only had a brief window between when the new Mac Pro was announced and the old Mac Pro was discontinued to snag one before that option went away forever. The M-series M
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by shalmanese 6mo ago
San Francisco is one of the most brutally hard places to run a business, as evidenced by how competitive the landscape is. What would have been actually interesting about this publicity stunt is if it demonstrated if/how AI could have
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by shalmanese 6mo ago
> Even basic email has more lock-in than any of the model provider. History has proven the average person has very little ability to discern which products have lock-in. Everyone was confidently predicting Uber would dominate over all th
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by shalmanese 6mo ago
This is the classic tech person trying to sound smart in a domain outside of their expertise. Fixed civilian infrastructure has never been safe. The way you protect it is diplomatically, by having that region not be attacked in the first
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by shalmanese 6mo ago
I thought Signal didn’t show message previews by default and you had to go in and enable it? I’ve never had message previews in my Signal and I don’t remember changing anything. Maybe when they introduced the feature, you could pick but the
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by shalmanese 6mo ago
Did you know Back had an interest in Japan? A rare and unusual trait within the cypherpunk community! /s
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by shalmanese 7mo ago
You can mark a video as not to influence your recommendations or delete it from your YouTube history.
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by shalmanese 7mo ago
This is $19 Polishing Cloth slander!
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by shalmanese 7mo ago
> for example the V2 was technically a hypersonic missile. The V2 was not a hypersonic missile, it was a ballistic missile that had a predetermined flight path that was easy to predict. The distinguishing factor of hypersonic missiles i
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by shalmanese 7mo ago
Almost nobody uses websites in China. You're expected to interact with them via WeChat Mini-app where the experience is generally fine.
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by shalmanese 7mo ago
That hasn't stopped them from periodic stalinist redesigns in an attempt to purge other ports from their machines. But the audio jack always survives.
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by shalmanese 7mo ago
tbf, that was because a lot of people abused it by being permanently outside of the US and relying exclusively on the roaming for all their data. I know because I was one of those people for 6 years.
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by shalmanese 7mo ago
What's interesting is that Apple was the one responsible for removing the jack from their phones but they've stubbornly kept them on all their computers. The only port in common between a 2015 Intel Macbook Pro and a 2026 Macbook
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by shalmanese 7mo ago
Typically, Kiwis would leave after graduating university or in their mid-20s. That Kiwis 30 - 50 are leaving now is a relatively recent phenomena (18 -> 43K in 4 years).
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by shalmanese 8mo ago
Did you really name your breakaway republic Sealand'); DROP TABLE Countries;--?

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