titanomachy

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by titanomachy 4mo ago
The electricity cost per unit of machine “reasoning” is vastly less than the cost of salary for human reasoning. That’s a weak argument. You should focus on the second part… LLMs (at least today’s) don’t build simple solutions, and the com
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
Who hires “pure solution modelers”? I don’t think I’ve ever encountered someone like that.
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
I don't love the anthropomorphization of "Claude and I can build this". Using language like that shapes your thinking in exactly the direction that the AI companies are intending. "Claude" is not a person, it makes
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
Maybe, but there's tons of providers available, so you can pick one that you trust not to steal your IP (or run it yourself, if you're rich and paranoid enough).
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
I think you're right in a sense. But some of these "healthy companies serving customers and creating jobs" have taken a 50% haircut on their valuation, which puts them in a difficult position regardless of how reasonably they
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
> At no point in this pipeline does Mike's capital touch productive enterprise. This is an interesting economic/philosophical angle. What is the logical conclusion of this? What happens as a higher fraction of people deploy the
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
> A shadow dollar system, newly blessed by federal statute, is quietly migrating the savings of the global poor onto the balance sheets of a handful of opaque private companies. I'm out of the loop on this one. Is he talking about
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
It's surprising to me that the big labs haven't fixed this problem. Half the comments here are complaining that this article is egregious unreadable slop, and I agree. Surely with the trillions of investment they could at least fi
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
A million French moved to Algeria
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
> Therefore, if Meta employees can be forced to accept it, everyone will be. Meta also has a strong bargaining position. The attractiveness of the job is almost entirely money, which is pretty universal, so they can quite easily replace
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
I wouldn’t put it past meta leadership to just fire the lot of them for daring to make a “demand” of their betters. The only thing that might restrain them is employment law, but they have good lawyers and might find a way around it. And me
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
A blatant recruiting puff piece. I’m surprised WSJ is running something so lazy, there’s zero news content here except that they’re opening some headcount. But there’s probably lots of people here who would apply, so maybe it’s not even off
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
Just ask them to break into a server, their AI tool will refuse to help and you’ll get an honest representation of their abilities.
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
I thought Google interviews were kind of fun, back in the days when they were done in-person. Most of my interviewers were engaged and helpful, and seemed genuinely excited when I got on the right track. They would get up and write on the w
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
I think he worked at Facebook for a long time, which is… pretty toxic by some standards.
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
No offense but you sound like you’d be a huge pain to work with.
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
It’s notable mostly for being tiny. With a human for scale: (sorry, it’s an instagram link) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNI1TfAxyIZ/?utm_source=ig_we...
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
Reasonable enough. I kind of assume when I step out my front door that my attention will be hijacked more or less continuously by various things and people until I reach wherever I’m going.
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
> I think people have the right to comfort and focus Focus on what?
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
Americans didn’t invent the term or the concept of “expat”, colonial Europeans have been doing it in Africa and Asia for centuries.
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
This also seems more sensible than space, although I guess if you’re in international waters then no military will protect you and someone could eventually destroy it. Way more organizations have the ability to blow up a boat is compared to
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by titanomachy 4mo ago
What advantage does a mountaintop have versus a more accessible earth-based location? I suspect one of the motivations for space datacenters is to try to stay out of the reach of all jurisdictions so you Musk can start to run his companies
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by titanomachy 5mo ago
Yeah, surely this will come to an end soon. My personal email is full of AI-generated recruiter email. I still read all my email (well, not the Updates or Promotions tabs in gmail), but I 'm not in any way famous.
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by titanomachy 5mo ago
I think it’s the best explanation for crypto’s apparent massive success. Crypto isn’t especially convenient to use, and for a lot of the popular coins transaction fees are quite high. There are certainly non-criminals who care a lot about p
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by titanomachy 5mo ago
Costco in the US has, for as long as I’ve shopped there, only accepted visa or debit.
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by titanomachy 5mo ago
Yeah it’s the US credit card fees that are the real problem. No reasonable person would argue that Visa should get to be a 3% tax on all consumer financial activity.
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by titanomachy 5mo ago
You know a government is out of ideas when they declare a holiday so that all the citizens can pray for an end to the locusts. Probably psychologically helpful, anyway.
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by titanomachy 5mo ago
I wonder how it'll read in 20 years. Like all the covid references in blog posts from 2020, or vague references to "the current political situation" from any point in the last 10 years or so.
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by titanomachy 5mo ago
I watched that video a dozen times and I still don’t understand where the angular momentum came from. That guy must have been trying to throw himself, right??
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by titanomachy 5mo ago
Thanks, I enjoyed this. I don’t free dive but I do appreciate embodied practices and I think you articulated really well why they are special and worthwhile. Although, the AI section fell a little flat for me. It felt shoehorned. Maybe some

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