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cold_tom

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About cold_tom

building tools around cold outreach and website insights

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    Comment #48152717

    Project Gutenberg feels like the opposite of modern internet design philosophy. Quiet, useful, accessible, and built to last.

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    Comment #47784226

    you can get surprisingly far with files, but the moment you care about things like concurrent writes or not losing data on crash, the whole thing changes at that point you're not c…

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    Comment #47784152

    feels like the real shift is not open vs closed, but reaction time AI attackers don’t need perfect access anymore, just enough surface and time. So the question becomes: can you de…

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    Comment #47771131

    This is one of those cases where preservation clashes with ownership. Without this, a lot of those recordings would just disappear.But at the same time, they’re not really his to s…

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    Comment #47771082

    Feels like a classic “we’re just the processor” answer But in reality you have no way to find or contact whoever actually controls the data, so it doesn’t really help. Kind of show…

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    Comment #47757455

    Feels like people are mixing two different things here-alignment in small groups (family,teams) vs alignment at scale. The first happens naturally, the second almost always needs s…

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    Comment #47733256

    What’s interesting here is not whether the model is 'self-aware', but how easily it can simulate introspection when prompted in that direction. This reads less like a window into t…

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    Comment #47733179

    Is the real issue succession-or lack of structured decision-making before succession even starts? In many family businesses, knowledge and decisions are never formalized, so transi…