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I find exactly the same for legal analysis. Great at ideation and proofreading but frequently misunderstands concepts and hallucinates conclusions from faulty premises.

I've been following this guy on youtube since he started - cool to see him posted here

I don't understand how PE manages to get debt financing for LBOs? Seems like a big risk for the creditors? If I buy a corp at 10% net margin for 5x ebidta on 80% leverage, i’ve rea…

I love how obsessed HN is with civilization. I put over 1000 hours into Civ 5 alone and was proud to beat diety (and then consistently beat diety). It's funny how many founders are…

that's not true - it's also common in Canada and Japan

status-seeking isn't inherently bad or good, depends who's appreciation you are seeking

I think it just sounds like a fun game to be honest. By a goofy little overengineered piece of jewellery. Buy a bunch of them and join the club. Compare to your friends. Reminds me…

ah the classic "most people are mere sheep, unlike us Great Minds"

So what? We want to be the strongest. The principle is not 'dont spy', the principle is 'dont spy on ME'.

Because it's useful... I do wonder if all this extra user data will be of much use. I suppose it could make commerce frictionless, recommending the exact product/service to you at …

we need to start a paywalled private HN forum

Bit melodramatic. The US still has the most talent, most capital, and best property protections of anywhere in the world. Name a country that (1) doesn't have any quid-pro-quo syst…

This was poorly worded but indeed rockefeller was the richest man ever by selling a commodity. But he did it by merging with all his competitors. Not sure Altman could pull that of…

*entire curve to-date (I should have clarified). Yes it will get better for a long time, but where we are on the curve is harder to say. Lots of metrics to choose from, like "well …

the AI has gotten good enough that click-thru-rate on informational searches has fallen off a cliff. I have some blog posts for SEO, their CTR is like 0.1% now.

google search definitely has a moat. people build their websites to optimize for google's algorithm, therefore google users see better results -> google gets more users -> websites…

you're looking at nearly the entire curve of the tech's development. that's like saying lightbulbs became 99% more energy efficient and therefore will become another 99% more energ…

Seems like anthropic is the only company that really believes in AGI still, considering their neglect of the consumer market and continued worries about AI ethics

sammy boy needs to pull a rockefeller and buy up all the competitors. Maybe that's what all these backroom deals about datacentre investment will amount to...

I love the hex system - adds a lot of tactical depth. Choice of naval vs air vs land focus often comes down to who you're fighting and where. Then you turn around to fight someone …

civ 5 is now the most popular among hardcore civ fans. still in the top 100 games on steam. more than 2x the player count of its sequel

bragging about billing $400 an hour LOL

Good lessons!