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I am no one. I have greatest respect for all Turing award winners. But one thing I am wary is that LeCun - while special and excellent - is just as many others, working at a place …

I see capitalism as a good system in the sense that it does not require any belief in anything - that's certainly a plus. What is bad is that I capital can just work and earn money…

Yes, that's fine - I'm doing that. My goal is simple: try not to make things worse.

Let me ask you, why aren't more workers "happy capitalists" and praise this way of living? Why aren't the warehouse workers more happy? Or the people soon displaced by computers an…

Yes, true - many societies are using this configuration for hundreds of years. My issue is not based on morality, but on the fact that we as humans are capable of reflecting on our…

My problem is, I'm kind of anti-capitalist, to make it short. Labor and capital and not just production factors, but they constitute a power relationship (and often a quite asymmet…

We ended up here, because a) the promise of easy to use structured data - that is inherent in data processing systems - has not been fulfilled: you have to scrape HTML to reconstru…

I smiled when I heard a hedge fund was using a "data engineering" solution that many today would consider outdated - I guess I'd invest with them.

I do not envy you.

I stopped buying from Amazon a couple of years ago - not that I was a frequent shopper before that. I feel it is the same capitalistic dilemma all over again: exploit technology an…

Germany has free schools, universities, low cost good child care, a relatively good health infrastructure, and more. Some regions do not even need debt any more to finance all this…

Source of happiness: Being able to just say no to any job since I could live quite well without one until 2040.

Whitey on the moon [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwkXZ0SmTs

Surprised that vim clocks in at only 6%.

One thing to keep in mind: With every request-response cycle for the probably upcoming paid service, you are feeding constant data points to a commercial entity. Basically your typ…

I'm all for moving forward, but Copilot just seems to be a bad idea, amplified. What I want is careful, thoughtful, knowledgeable people, who have learned and honed their skills ov…

I have to yet have people tell their most pressing need is auto-scaling. It's not, it's a straw man - and true, if you are Google or Facebook - but 90% of companies won't need that…

There are at least two aspects of cloud: 1. The developer experience. This is crucial, developers want programmable things, everywhere. You can reap the benefits of automation. 2. …

Funny that you are being played most, when you think you are in control.

Yes, the wrongness is partly associated with the direction these things come from. OpenAI leadership knows that there is just sooo much value to capture in more automation, even if…

That's why this copilot won't fly. The junior programmer will not be able to spot subtle errors but will kind-of feel "productive" by some random pastes from a giant brain, which c…