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by sonink 7mo ago
From the article: "You can see that in the recent iterations of ChatGPT. It has become such a sycophant, and creates answers and options, that you end up engaging with it. That’s juicing growth. Facebook style." This is something
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by sonink 7mo ago
If your VLM based pipeline is really that good for OCR - and no reason to believe it cant be - why dont you just launch that as a product. The way I see it is that these are two separate products - VLM based OCR for messy documents, and aut
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Strategic Forgetting: A Cognitive Architecture for Long Horizon Autonomy(blog.nishantsoni.com)
4 points by sonink 7mo ago|0 comments
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by sonink 7mo ago
Agree. MCP isn't really required. Skills/CLI/API is good enough. At the AI startup I work on, we never bothered building MCP's - it just never made sense. And we were using skills before Claude started calling them skill
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by sonink 2y ago
> I suppose it would be interesting to have an online space to discuss where things are headed on a logical level, without emotion and ideals and the ridiculous idea that humanity must persevere. Absolutely. Happy to be part of it if you
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by sonink 2y ago
> If so, then sensory inputs and interaction with the physical through them were absolutely a crucial part of how minds evolved, so I find your approach a priori very unlikely to have a chance at success. If that was the case, people who
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by sonink 2y ago
> If people succeed in making that truly lifelike and humanlike, it will actually out-compete us for resource control. And will no longer be a tool we can use. I believe it is almost certain that we will make something like this and that
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by sonink 2y ago
The model is interesting. This is similar in parts to what we are building at nonbios. So for example sensory inputs are not required to simulate a model of a mind. If a human cannot see, the human mind is still clearly human.
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by sonink 9y ago
> What frightens me is the scenario of human thought being overwhelmed and left in the dust. Not being aided or abetted by computers, but being completely overwhelmed, and we are to computers as cockroaches or fleas are to us. That would
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by sonink 9y ago
It was a bit shocking to me when I first walked into an American super market to see tomatoes all the same big size and shining red color. This is in sharp contrast to what we get in India - they come in all sizes and different shades of or
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by sonink 9y ago
Everything that you mentioned is most likely a shortcoming of the current version of Bitcoin. That being said, it is not a big leap of faith that each of these will be rectified in due course. If not with updates to Bitcoin, then with anoth
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by sonink 9y ago
Fundamentally, Bitcoin is software eating the Fed-Bank-Retail ecosystem. The Fed governance is replaced by code. The banking utility is replaced by miners. I think the march of bitcoin is actually a better example of how AI is taking over t
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by sonink 9y ago
The author might be missing the woods for the trees. ICO's are at heart a rethink on the angel-vc-ipo funding cycle. ICO's offer very clear advantages in terms of increasing distribution, decreasing friction, aligning investors to
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by sonink 9y ago
Very interesting. I immediately liked the product when I read this, but giving it a few minutes of thought and it doesnt seem too exciting anymore. The fundamental problem I see is that it kind-of 'corrupts' gratification. When I
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by sonink 9y ago
It is complicated for sure, and it took me some time to get my head around it. But it seems to me that the complications arose because of compromises needed to be done to get this passed. Also, the current dispensation is to make it simpler
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by sonink 9y ago
Absolutely. Pre-GST business could get by without computer/online. GST works online ONLY. This will result in short term pain and cost but bulldoze all these guys online. Companies like ClearTax (YC) will make a killing.
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by sonink 9y ago
Considering the impact of this reform, and the historical messiness of doing something of this scale in India, it is surprising that the govt. even pulled it off. On the ground in Bangalore, the clock stuck 12 and every retail shop started
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by sonink 9y ago
I guess, the complexity of the billing system in the US is the outcome of an insurance driven market which has kept a status quo due to vested interests. India also has a complicated insurance system, but it is kept in check by a parallel f
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by sonink 9y ago
I might not know too much about the topic, but imo American healthcare system has a lot of learn from the Indian healthcare system. My guess is that America should simply copy-paste India's model and it should be good to go. For the re
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by sonink 9y ago
There is a lot of good advice here on perspective and going ahead one step at a time. The only thing I would like to add to it is that you will feel better in due course even if you dont do anything much. Time will fix burnout by itself, an
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by sonink 9y ago
Auto-rickshaws are already ALL electric in some cities. Haridwar for one.
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by sonink 9y ago
India. Because it will go from 100mn internet users to 1200 mn, enabled by a massive 4G/fiber deployment currently underway.
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by sonink 9y ago
I know a friend who did something similar in a 'crowded' SaaS market. He thought it will take him 6 months to make a hundred grands an year - it took him 3 years, but he kept at it. Now it makes a few hundred grands an year to pay
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by sonink 9y ago
Wow, thats a lot of money - I am guessing for a lot of Americans too ? What you guys think about getting therapists over skype from India ? It would be a lot cheaper for sure, if it works.
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by sonink 9y ago
Very cool idea. Is $165/session competitive with what one would pay outside of Kip ? Seems too high to me, though I don't stay in US.
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by sonink 10y ago
Would love to know any details about the last point to multi-point part segment. Do customers need to install wifi receivers on their roof tops ? Can you go inside flats ? Do you need line of sight to the towers from homes ? How far can a h
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by sonink 10y ago
Now cut that hungry human's arm and legs, and it can at best only shout for food and wait for another human to 'plug' it in. On the other hand, a Rhoomba can seek out power to stay alive, probably better than a 2 year old.
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by sonink 10y ago
'If we program them correctly, helping us will be their only goal' - I think this is too optimistic a view of the future. I suspect that it is also a bit simplistic. Even if we assume that we have a way to 'program' them
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by sonink 10y ago
We don't. But maybe only because we havent asked this question enough. And maybe because the answer might yield a future without a role for humans in it. And perhaps we don't have the means to account for such a fate. The human fo
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by sonink 10y ago
Not too sure. All programs have a very explicit goal - a lot more specific than most humans do. You will have to try very hard to write a program to not have a goal. Your laptop has a need of battery life. It lets you know of the same when

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