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It's not a shitty analogy. Most people completely understand what it's getting at. Inability to understand is a reflection on you, not the analogy. And being pedantic is not a posi…

This is satire right? Does the author really not get what “we don’t trade with ants” is actually getting at? Perhaps to frame it better: do humans trade with GOD?

This has been my experience as well. I cannot understand how people are saying it has given them order of magnitude speed improvements in shipping. Most code on github is by defini…

Does anyone get an unpleasant feeling from these typical "founder" types? Something always just feels deeply off about them. They all seem like carbon copies of each other too. Nic…

Changing the fee from 3%-5% total to 12.9% (17% on paypal!) total when you already have a large customer base there, meaning you'd have to painfully migrate them to another provide…

Just here to post this is another reason to get off Gumroad when you get a chance. Do NOT use Gumroad. Using Stripe directly will save you so much money. Still bitter at those expl…

I was always surprised at how AMD hasn't already thrown a bunch of money at this problem. Maybe they have and are just incompetent in this area. My prediction is AMD is already wor…

Sam Altman said it himself. He seems like a reasonable source. If you're familiar with other fields of AI, adding more and more layers to ResNet was the hotness for awhile, but the…

As mentioned, much of our discussion is rote parroting. I can usually go into any hackernews thread and roughly know what the top discussions are going to be. It's not surprising t…

>Using the current approach, we can create AIs with the ability to do any task at the level of the best humans — and some tasks much better. Achieving this requires training on lar…

Some links you may find useful https://copyconstruct.medium.com/small-functions-considered-... https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

>I get the cold sweats when I see methods longer than a few lines of code This guys code might not be as readable as he thinks. I do not want to read through your hundreds of 10 li…

Can you list one invention or idea that Sam has had that requires 99th percentile IQ?