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Same though here. I use Claude opus via api billing for tasks not that hard to implement but for which CC takes much less time than I would. However: * a small PR costs 5-16 usd (I…

Just in case it wasn’t clear: I’m agreeing with you

From the article: > And never forget that the post-American internet will be good for Americans. Because, in a K-shaped, bifurcated, unequal America, the trillions that American co…

I think his main point, and what can’t be overcome without a cultural shift is on these paragraphs: > For those in the 3D printing crowd who weren't big into playing, just painting…

Don’t tell my boss but I am producing code much faster than before. I just use most of the extra time for myself

I mean, this was already heading to be the case pre llm. The internet was already becoming ad farms. This is the final blow and now the internet as we knew it will die. I’m not tha…

I don't have interest in having kids. But I guess that if I was facing immortality or the prospect of reaching twice my age I would be even less interested on having kids. I imagin…

It would be great to have a game like Eve where there's a "race" that consists of an AI controlling NPC bots scattered throughout the galaxy. Either an "evil" AI or a "benevolent d…

I know I don't need it. The problem is it is hard to avoid it. You need a lot of planning, specially if you are going on a trip (at least in my country, avoiding flour while travel…

The problem is the cost of those techniques. Will it be low enough so that it has an impact on the average (or even better, the median) life expectancy?

I hardly eat sugar or preprocessed food. But the biggest improvement in lifestyle was cutting wheat flour as much as possible. The first change I noticed was the weight loss, but I…

I don't know why people keep thinking there's something special about the way we humans do calculations vs what could be achieved with a complex enough computer

I think that's basically the plot of Asimov's The Life and Times of Multivac