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There have been a few recent stories about businesses finding themselves spending more on tokens than they were spending on the workers these AI Agents were supposed to have replac…

>compounds need to undergo a rigorous regiment of empiric testing before they are given to potentially millions of people Particularly when the mechanism behind most of these pepti…

>The internet will likely be far worse without ads than with ads. Ads won't go away. They'll just move from infesting websites to infesting AI chatbots.

Agree. People understand and accept firing for performance issues. People understand and accept layoffs when they're a rare event needed to save the company from bankruptcy. What's…

This is why I've started telling younger people in the industry (I'm 52) "Don't worry about giving two weeks notice or doing knowledge transfer, it's not your problem. If you accep…

Once you get outside the SV and NYC bubbles, the vast majority of kids do not have their own laptops in the US. Phones, obviously are somewhat more common, but as even you note tha…

Age verification at the OS level makes no sense to me. Most households aren't going to have a separate device for every family member and so you will end up with a tablet or comput…

This comment brought me back in time 40+ years to a Saturday morning perched in front of our TV. Thank you.

Could you imagine giving MetaClaw full access to your local file system, email, web browser, and all other applications? What could possibly go wrong.

> Nvidia's "rack scale" machines like GB200-NVL72s and GB300-NVL72s are basically a fully built rack you roll into a DC and plug into power and network. In that case, Oracle should…

> a CTO of a F100 company explicitly state that whether AI is driving efficiency or not, the capital investment, and more importantly, the promises of efficiency to investors will …

At this point it seems the entire AI Safety/Ethics debate was nothing more than a Marketing campaign to hype up the capabilities of the models - get people to think that if they're…

> the absurd overhiring that they did in 2022 and 2023 The overhiring took place from mid 2020 through mid 2022. The reversal into layoffs started in late 2022 and was in full swin…

Totally agree. And it goes beyond criminal history. Just because I choose to make a dataset publicly available doesn't mean I want some AI memorizing it and using it to generate pr…

Sure, but people will just drive to the next closest airport and fly. Quarantine makes no sense as an explanation without accompanying roadblocks.

It's shocking to me how prevalent this "who needs Salesforce when everyone can just vibe code their own CRM from scratch in a day" narrative has become in the business press. Like,…

Oracle is a perfect example of using empty AI partnership announcements to goose the stock price and also a perfect example of how unsustainable of a strategy it is.

Given that they have around 44,000 employees in total and they surely aren't firing all of their managers, it would seem they have a lot of managers. The press release indicates mo…

Specifically, exposure during fetal development, and the changes it causes are potentially life-lasting.

Information Retrieval followed by Summarization is how I view it.

>these modern social media and influencer versions of Stoicism feel like something else entirely Yes, the pop philosophy folks tend to confuse Stoicism with Spartanism, just like t…

Eating real foods (e.g., whole foods rather than highly processed foods) is good advice overall. But replacing mono and poly unsaturated fats with saturated fats is total nonsense.…

Hopefully they plan to invest in the technology and not just eliminate a competitor.

And two years prior IBM acquired Ahana (PrestoDB SaaS). Totally agree that businesses need to much more carefully assess the risks of moving to these hosted open source platforms. …