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carlitossway

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    Comment #36973365

    wish you'd have expressed this better. Your argument is sound but your sarcasm gave a pretext to those not wanting to hear. Now you are dismissed out of hand on shallow grounds.

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    Comment #36950114

    Interesting. Were you inspired by the Delphi decision algorithm , or did you happen to rediscover it? I agree it could provide a moat, though not a very wide one. All it takes is f…

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    Comment #36341646

    I'd do it, if I expected to charge $18 billion for information that the thing I just purchased used to offer for free.

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    Comment #36249112

    Why not? Everybody thinks it is God, anyways...

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    Comment #36116389

    No, they cannot. LLMs are LANGUAGE models, not KNOWLDEGE models. They do not "know" what algorithms mean any more than they know what everything else they "talk about" mean. What t…

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    Comment #35897097

    Yes, I am glad we have computers. I am also glad that I can code a median function that can efficiently go through a billion numbers; no need to ask the artificial averaged embodim…

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    Comment #35870017

    And in turn, I cannot agree with you. I can do math myself, thank you very much. If I take the effort to pull out a math calculating machine, the calculation is important enough th…

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    Comment #35586203

    One thing is to prevent the market to decide prices, and a very different thing is to let bad-faith actors to continue going around unchecked. The first scenario allows us to colle…

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    Comment #35586129

    You've just conflated having low performance with low bargaining power, which is weakly correlated at best. So... 1) Why pay less productive employees the same as more productive e…

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    Comment #35541044

    The toggle on and off switch would be very unApplely, yes. That does not mean you have to stop thinking, it means you need industrial designers on board. USB-condoms are a thing yo…

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    Comment #35437356

    The perfect is the enemy of the good. The way to Hell is paved in good intentions. Just two obvious thoughts that may be relevant in this case.

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    Comment #35437324

    It might be unfashionable to say these days, but... "the masses who explore the Talmud" have a much higher bar to jump than "the Masses".

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    Comment #35149704

    What about demanding a salary no less than 50% of the value you add to the company? How many industries would stop being viable if their whole workforce would demand to be compensa…

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    Comment #35149615

    It is disingenuous, at best, to equate collapse to "going back to the cave age". If your house's roof collapses you do not end up in a cave. You either pay a small fortune to have …

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    Comment #33807485

    Leaving aside other factors, you're redefining "overstays" as "not leaving the premises fast enough when told to leave before the original deadline". And no, that's not treating th…