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And a whole universe of random tests got baked into the AI’s training data. Websites of antelopes driving trains and hammerhead sharks swinging in a tyre swing were created. It was…

The AI labs have been subsidising. When they try turn a profit, people will move to the fast followers. The only people that won’t are those that compete on leveraging the very lat…

If the US companies need trillions to barely beat Chinese companies spending billions, despite a multi year head start...

If I had to summarise Google’s effort it would be: stay close but let the others burn themselves out. Position for the long game until you see something worth betting the company o…

I made something to ping an AWS service to tell me the uptime of my internet connection. The idea was to sprinkle them around our area, connected to various home WiFi’s, and get a …

Sean Carroll’s Mindscape for me

How much do you think it’s holding them back? Market share seems to be surviving the lack of quality vs the other players. Or possibly: they’re focusing where it matters?

I think Google just needs to keep its foot in the door and let the other two spend their way into oblivion, channeling “AGI or die trying”.

The benefits were in communication and relationship arbitrage? Surely both of those can be automated over time. This is just one aspect but it’s still useful. Many people want to s…

There’s probably a massive Chinese bot net scraping models from within the US already. If not there soon will be. Anthropic: your next ad writes itself. Nobody else is worth restri…

I generally accuse LLM’s of having no sense of value. The machine will make a complicated plan but entirely lose sight of eg the fact that response time matters to humans. Not alwa…

I assume the bet is that as you swap humans for machines, this pays for itself. Swap entire devs and teams and frankly, managers, and you make up a lot of 5%’s fast. If it works. A…

Hard problem. I find myself adding in filler to stop the thing from jabbering. I also think it spends most of its iq on sounding good rather than thinking about the problem. “Yeah …

Not sure if you remember this chess game. 1 man vs 50000. Quite an amazing outcome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World

> The easiest way would be a straight tax on AI usage, and using that tax to pay a universal basic income Problem for jobs is that there are 200 countries and all the earnings will…

That’s how I do side projects.

The cost between an A500 and a VGA-enabled PC in 1987 ($699 vs $3500-ish?) would have put them in such different categories and customer segments that they would rarely interact. I…

I’m moving away from Claude for anything complicated. It’s got such nice DX but I can’t take the confident flaky results. Finding Codex on the high plan more thorough, and for any …

I did ~this in the 200X’s for a C# todo list, not nearly as polished but it was still So Much Work. Filed under things that should just work already.

Daniel is a very impressive guy. Well within the realm of “fund the people not the idea” that YC seems to do. Got a few bucks from them and probably earning from collaborations etc…

I have this as a skill Claude created to run the rest. It mentions each skill in turn, see below. It’s not deterministic but it definitely runs each skill and it’s raised a bunch o…

$200, over December it was doubled. I tried my best in between family time and friends to burn a hole in it. Never got near doing so.

I found that when I have “infinite” tokens my behaviour changed. 3-5 tabs so I’m not waiting, free side quests, huge review skills over whole codebase, skills that wrap 10 other sk…

“In December, Gemini traffic increased by 28.4% month-over-month, while ChatGPT traffic decreased by 5.6%” https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatgpt-vs-gemini-web... "What's y…

And China is likely to do to Tesla robots what they’ve done to the cars. I assume the bans will be incoming, because the US can’t have millions of Chinese kung fu robots sitting ab…