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    Comment #36952376

    It seems like Einstein was saying "there's no such thing as a theory-free fact," specifically in his case that observation itself is influenced by some pre-existing theory. Some de…

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    Comment #36935106

    I said something similar in my response. I think your first point depends on how much reliance on LLM's determines things like quality of writing and general creativity. For now, c…

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    Comment #36935076

    LLM's need to be trained on something, and the more the 'market' for text is flooded with ChatGPT output, the more relatively scarce human-written text will be. However, if in the …

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    Comment #36935026

    The complexity exists because it creates demand for products that eventually become entrenched over time (Terraform, Kubernetes, DevOps products, SCRUM/Agile etc.). I don't think t…

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    Comment #36767476

    These articles make me question what "success" means in the AI space. Is "success" just making a lot of money or raising a giant funding round or achieving a valuation? If so, then…

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    Comment #36765233

    Sorry for the late reply. I've never heard of the Al Roth book, but seems interesting. I'll check it out. I mostly became familiar with Mechanism Design when I took the first year …

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    Comment #36758980

    For #2 - I'm not a PE insider, but I'm pretty aware of a lot of corporate dynamics in big tech, which increasingly seems like it's indistinguishable from any other corporate sector…

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    Comment #36580789

    I know aligning incentives is usually something that falls under the broad category of "management" or people skills in a company, but there's a subfield of economics that studies …

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    Comment #36469376

    I've been reading this book. I’m not actually done with it, but I’ve gotten through a pretty substantial portion of it. The author clearly has a bias, having worked as the DOJ as a…