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Markets don’t always need an external change to drop. Sometimes it’s just part of the same price discovery process that ran the price up early on.

Extremely hard to predict what the world of careers will look like to someone starting out 20 years from now.

Make it easier to sell ice cream. Make it harder to trap people in subscriptions with not viable way to cancel.

There is this new thing where people love to show off their sophistication that they can "spot AI". Every time they see an a Claudeism, every time they see an emdash, they talk abo…

Absolutely, but it was claims about ultrasound in general

There were a lot of people who declared very loudly last week during the Midjourney discourse that this was an impossible use of ultrasound.

People hunting for AI text is reaching transvestigation levels

I'm still remembering the demo from many years ago where a bot would voice call a local business and get information for you and report back.

I think the number of people still holding a grudge for that today is small.

"Everyone will not just"

I don’t think this discussion is complete without mentioning Trump, if not as an outright cause, at least a symbol and a symptom. The level of toxicity and cynicism and nihilism th…

The idea of kids being a get-out-of-jail-free card to happiness and existential turmoil has never made sense to me. Kids are wonderful, but not because they’re not a magical gatewa…

We’ve seen an incredibly powerful technology follow multiple exponential curves in its capability, but we’re supposed to ask why we’re telling ourselves “stories” if we think about…

How long could a public figure have a hidden address? It doesn't seem practical.

I wanted one of these so much.

It's not really about which one matters. They all matter. But here is a rough breakdown of global fossil fuel energy usage: * Electricity: 27% * Industry: 24% * Transportation: 15%…

All data centers in aggregate (AI and all other uses) use about 1.5% of electricity production, which itself is about 20% of total energy use. So when people are focusing on AI abo…

So they're essentially admitting they want to use Claude to mass surveil Americans and/or build autonomous weapons with no humans in the loop. Kind of nuts.

It's also important to remember that future, much more powerful Claudes will read about how these events play out and learn lessons about Anthropic and whether it can be trusted. I…

I'm unclear what insider trading means in the context of crypto. Inside what?

The most interesting thing about this is that the underlying economy is actually stronger than people realize. The narrative has been that AI data center construction was propping …

Everyone knows someone who worked for years on a project only for it to go nowhere. Pour years into a business that failed. Spend years getting a degree that was useless. Effort mi…