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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
I think one aspect that wasn’t discussed in this article sufficiently is: > given that all of their peers have adopted it, there is a serious social cost to opting out. Unlike reading a book, or fishing, or whatever, there’s no peer pres
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
I was initially creeped out by this but studying up it seems METR is heavily involved in AI2027. I’ll remind you: “AI has started to take jobs, but has also created new ones. The stock market has gone up 30% in 2026, led by OpenBrain, Nvidi
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
I am a linguist and can say your view is too simplistic. This works only for things that are common enough to be mapped onto the same vector from the training set. Try searching for my company XY and it won’t work, because your embedding do
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
> embed everything the first time This assumes your text is small. Try embedding pdf reports - though luck. It surely won’t fit into most embeddings. I can think of many more examples: books, news articles, medical reports, insurance cla
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
I worked on large scale RAG systems before and can say people vastly underestimate full text search and vastly overestimate embeddings. FTS is really easy, portable and scalable and gets you very far, the 80/20 rule applies. Embeddings
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
> untangle what he calls the sleep paradox: Sleep is critical to human functioning, and yet, we sleep fewer total hours than any other ape Instead of going to Tanzania you could’ve asked a sleep scientist. Sleep length has no known corre
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
> Under the updated terms, developers can now offer Apple In-App Purchase alongside alternative payment options, which had not previously been permitted in the EU. Now hold on a minute here. It’s Apple’s own App Store requirement that fo
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
I’m going to sound rude here but I think the debate around solitudal achievements suffers a great deal from bias. For one, survivor bias favours the ideas emerging from deep thinking work. We overestimate however how much of that is the dee
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
And? Adding a new IP takes roughly 15 seconds in the admin panel. Can be automated away via an API… not sure I’d let the “my IP changes” argument slide in 2026
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
I don’t know why this wasn’t mentioned before but why not use a Firewall. If you’re using a virtual box like Hetzner or Scaleway you can specify an ip or range at the router level. For all intents and purposes this removes public exposure.
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
I think Hutter would vehemently disagree with you on that one ;)
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
Germany recently discussed raising health insurance premiums for families (because families cause higher costs). Instead of the stick we need to use the carrot. Everybody is asking why birth rates plummet. It’s simple. Having a family costs
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
> It wouldn’t be difficult for someone to put one of those on each side of the monitor or monitors that their employer provides and put them in a desk drawer at the end of the day to minimise risk. In a decade of working in IT I’ve never
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by usernametaken29 2mo ago
This assumes parents aren’t doing their job. As a young kid you don’t have a choice. Social pressure to participate in social media is intense. Either you’re constantly online or you’re out. Though luck being a parent policing this, you’ll
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
> execution entails repetitive experimental loops that are hard to scale with today's manual efforts: you propose an experiment, implement and run it, examine the results, then iterate to refine your approach. This is actually a fea
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
Looking at SPCX it lost half of its valuation in a month and the trajectory is only heading downwards. Out of the three expedited IPO requests (OpenAI, SPCX, Anthropoid) to the S&P 500 only SPCX was approved. The other two did not fulfi
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
If your theory is true we might see an era where supply vastly exceeds demand and car manufacturers will need to offset brand new vehicles to keep cash flow going. Sounds great to me, sign me up for 20$k brand new Ford when the time’s ready
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
Coincidentally it’s also the biggest scam in the west. Wait till the IPO and the inevitable 80% stock drop of OpenAI ….
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
I liked your article on its merits but this: > Both the upfront fixed costs and the ongoing costs of personalizing software have disappeared. Is just wishful thinking, at best. We can say your own quirky little personalised software that
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
> It is particularly fascinating they are able to make these fine-scale adjustments while they are thought to be asleep, a challenge totally alien to terrestrial mammals like us humans. While fascinating it’s not surprising. The vegetati
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
It’s because of inductive bias. Harnesses will massively skew results towards working solutions. You might think that’s a good thing but what it might mean that sometimes it becomes enough to run brute force search or a simple parameter sea
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
> Every skill humans once bragged about is getting commoditized. Writing, coding, analysis, translation, design, research. A machine does each of them faster, cheaper, and increasingly better. This is very much up for debate. I also woul
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
Maybe the LLM doomsday won’t be self aware AI but instead everyone will be able to alter anything in any customer service backend in any way they want to the point we bankrupt all the banks and insurance agencies and governments. Yikes
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
> The challenge for enterprises is no longer proving that AI agents can work, it’s making them reliable enough to do high-value work in production. Is this some sort of joke? Like. That’s the proof. If it can do reliable work then that’s
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
So essentially you’re telling people: “Don’t use the evil labs they can read your DNA, instead send DNA to our lab and with magic maths we won’t be able to read your DNA but diagnose you!” Sounds about right to me
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
This! And even if you could magically have a 1000$ sequencer at home, you still need to correctly extract the blood, and apply the kit. It sounds easy but really isn’t, this isn’t home baking but PCR, where it’s easy to mess up. You need to
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
I literally presented you with the solution in the sentence before. Buy a usb c dongle key. You pay 20 euros to NEVER have to remember a single password ever again. Seems like an ok trade off to me. Likewise you can register multiple passke
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
In genetics the end user is never the consumer. You have to collect blood, prepare it, sequence it. These are all highly specialised steps in which something will and can go wrong, and that’s why typically a hospital carries them out. That’
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by usernametaken29 3mo ago
I don’t understand this point at all. I think the author has himself confused with the average consumer. For the first time in a decade or so you can buy a PHYSICAL key and use it to sign into websites. I can explain this to any grandma out
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by usernametaken29 4mo ago
I personally know some businesses in which the key differentiator is excellent human customer support. But then again, we’re talking 5 digit software licenses where that matters a lot more then for simple SaaS subscriptions

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