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made me sad reading this as a picture of the state of the world

I think if nothing else the technical facing value proposition should be human written. Communicating is hard but that’s the point, takes a lot of effort to close the gap between a…

You must not drink or like beer. Brewing something until it ferments into alcohol is the most basic thing ever. There is the very simple problem of taste that is the issue.

tangential but Google finance (stocks) turned unusable for me: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/CART:NASDAQ I can't for the life of me understand how to use it, especially…

There was always bad code. Extend that to the general challenge of a bad hire doing net-negative things for the company. AI is a new problem because it 1000x a bad hire's blast rad…

lol - I guess, if I heard that in an interview that would be grounds not to continue. "enhance" fwiw codex is very good. arguably better than the sonnet equivalent (value-wise). I …

human level is much more manageable. at that scale, we’ve seen just how much steering AIs need. And AIs have no will. That’s been my best response on the philosophical end. Without…

> … and assign them to create and scale production chains that go from natural resources to finished war machines… so yes, you think claude’s gonna get a skill any day now to code …

This is all broadly covered in Sapiens. That book is great as it is unsettling. Its hard to deny. in any case, how is one country/power with winning on their mind getting infinite …

Claude’s gonna code up some nukes? Ok yes robot killer dogs from black mirror are terrifying and possible - they’re gonna enrich uranium from gpus and assemble nukes at the local t…

as opposed to the meaning of absolute reality? oh boy you’ve got so much reading and movie watching ahead that you’ll enjoy very much.

it’s crazy to see right there in writing the prompt go out of its way to avoid the bootstrap effect with homogeneous templated results and then proceeds to produce fully homogeneou…

Yeah there’s a need for the distilled learnings of all past hard earned insights. But i think much of the value is in the distillation. in my experience, even within a single proje…

Implementation specifics aside, I increasingly think life and death cycles are preferable. The opposite of omnipotent context, I want cycles of clean slates so that baggage - of al…

I just watched The Odyssey this evening. Loved it! These stories were passed down in song over thousands of years. Humanity scale type stuff. Thousands of years of spoken and writt…

I agree with you. There would be no X without Y person. Undeniably. The scope of the project matters seems clear though. I think it should be clear and obvious what one means when …

Typically the builder crowd absolutely agrees that leadership did not in fact make the things that bear their name. Like Musk didn't make Tesla, neither the company nor the cars no…

> But that’s just arguing about the meaning of the word “make” now. This is what communication is. Words are representations for whatever it is that we're talking about. There is n…

Plenty of comments already. "I made this" is a reserved concept for one's hands being in the clay. It's different. It is its own experience. And it is different from any other appr…

features with theoretical use incur cost up front and yield no value. tech debt is only part of the cost, the other is opportunity cost of writing the OPTION. There’s really no goo…

ooh I like your site: https://webb.page false equating that author's AI hate is hating SF tech-bros? Oh I think I am being misunderstood, that makes me feel better about the insta-…

damn, you all hate SF that much?

Your SF hate isn't a good look. There are many things to be critical about but shoehorning an entire metro into the echo-chamber you're supposedly beyond yet can't help but orient …

The moving of money across time is 100% central to money's value. Passing digital money around to cook the books is moving money... fraudulently. So yeah, they're not the same unle…

self-evident quality