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François Chollet made an interesting geometric analogy on Twitter. We tend to view Intelligence as something unbounded, like the height of a pole. But it could be something closer …

I also recoiled a bit when I say that Lutke was on the investors list.

It was going in the water anyway, but yeah, it touched visibly faster than it should have.

I fully agree with that. Past experience has shown what while Turing complete config is powerful, it is also a double edged sword and I would be wary of using it.

I admit I was a little bit curious about DOGE and its outcome, as a software guy I've seen huge amount of bureaucratic inefficiencies, sometimes wondering how some companies could …

Zuckerberg was barely adult when he started Facebook. And he probably bumped into a few older guys who thought they knew better than him, and history proved them wrong. He likely d…

It is the same reasoning as with the regular Decimation. It is all about disciplining their employees. And it works. We're not saying many ex or current Meta employees talking abou…

He is one of the well known netcode guy. But from the few interactions I had with him I would say he is quite abrasive, stubborn and probably somewhat on the spectrum. But there is…

The trajectory of id software is interesting. The company was successful, had one of the most prestigious brand in the game industry, was early enough to capitalize on the rise of …

I think the rationale is that they are already using typical car factory automation, but they see a huge potential market for general purpose robotics in the coming decades, they d…

I am not one of them but quite a few programmers prefer not having to use the mouse at all when working. The terminal is an old but astonishingly powerful user interface that is st…

It can be used for many things. But the main use is reverse engineering.

I tried it a few times and was not convinced by the autocomplete. I found it less effective than free copilot autocomplete on vanilla VSCode.

If you think about it states are not much different than corporations. Taxes is human labor dedicated to the maintenance of state. I think it is naive to think that once humans are…

If you own a factory, what you see is a big box with input and output, human labor is just an annoying variable, removing it won't turn the entire thing "free". The owner will stil…

You missed the point entirely. What fuels the economy, for now, is human work. Being a consumer simply means that you are heavily incentivised to take part (by working). If machine…

Otherwise you could say that humans are working for free as well, as they can cultivate their own food and even build themselves by making babies.

Of course, but none of them is working for free, each consume energy and materials.

It is never really “for free”. It appears free because machines, like perfect slaves, don’t ask to be paid for work. They still need to be fed though, energy, iron, etc. No matter …

I genuinely have no idea how that transition would happen. And I agree that it would pose many unforeseen challenges. This is why the transition is the interesting part, not the sc…

No, you don’t feed machines with bitcoins or any kind of currency, you feed them with Joules, Iron, Copper, rare earths etc.

Yes, the transition is unlikely to be linear and without conflict, if this was ever possible. But I am sure that some would be happy to control armies of bots and very few humans.

I have not, but I am curious. I think the end-state is not that interesting, but the transition could not happen overnight and seems both difficult technically and would be unlikel…

The idea of a consumer based economy has always appeared dumb to me. The reason why the masses should consume is to motivate them to work. And the reason why having a large amount …