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Personal Computer by Perplexity
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Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> Harvard, MIT > people are being paid too much to spend all day emailing each other Hmm, this does not sound exactly right. Also, does anybody seriously think that communication is not work, or is not important? A number of really impactful things started from people emailing each other. (Hell, Linux kernel development is still much about people emailing patches each other.)
The problem with human labor is that, as an organization scales, the amount of work any individual in the system can do shrinks due to the coordination problem. Coordination consumes a larger and larger amount of employee time to the point that, in the absolute largest organizations, the vast majority of employee time is internal coordination vs. actual improvement/selling of the customer offering. So if you go from…
Yep, I call this the "Conway Overhead": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270142
Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity
#93Perplexity.ai 's main login-less search/chatbot is my personal favorite online LLM.
I would be willing to try this new product of theirs, but definitely on a secondary computer (i.e. not main system).
Do I have to sign up to install their version of an OS/openclaw?
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ohhh so it’s just openclaw. Innovative.
OpenClaw as an appliance, ready to use, sold to non-techies? May as well be profitable.
Does openclaw have a killer use yet? Ive not opted to use it yet becauase - while very impressive hype and capability - seems like a lot of risk/credits for not an insane gain.
Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could it just be a new trend? There are just two options in this case (serifs or no), so I’d expect it to flip back and forth sometimes. The broader trend is pulling back a bit on “minimalism,” right? I think we hit peak (or valley?) minimalism already so I guess there’s only one way to go.
I do agree with you, there is a reverse in the minimalism trends (which I am incredibly happy to see). However, in my opinion this specific typeface and aesthetic is been taken up by AI companies to harken back to the likes of the 1984 Macintosh ads and such...in an attempt to try and convey that "$(AI_PRODUCT) is just as revolutionary as the first desktop PCs".
It does seem especially similar to old Mac ad fonts
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#97> In a study of over 16,000 queries, measured against institutional benchmarks from McKinsey, Harvard, MIT, BCG, and others, we determined Perplexity Computer saved our internal teams $1.6M in labor costs and performed 3.25 years of work in only four weeks. And now we’re extending those same capabilities to other teams. This is a wild statement that does not seem to be supported by any actual data. What does it mean?…
> What does it mean? Does clicking on a link counts as labor. I think we might be seeing what happens when people are being paid too much to spend all day emailing each other and jockeying excel/gantt charts/org charts. Yeah for some definition of "work" I guarantee that a LLM could perform 3.25 years worth in four weeks.
The amazing thing is that soon (actually already) we will be seeing people being paid way too much to prompt a LLM to email other people or respond to other peoples emails. And then turn these emails into presentations which will be turned into meeting transcripts again followed by emails.
The lingering question is if the intermediate LLM translation steps will actually make our communication more efficient - or just amplify the already inefficient parts.
Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't you think AI itself is something that adds coordination overhead? A 1000 strong team with AI agents will feel like 5000-person company where more than 30% are not even at exception level - i.e. they need to be pulled along. This is why having less people and more agents actually makes sense but the coordination problem remains either way. And you cannot escape it because it is simply mathematical.
The coordination problem absolutely can be escaped with technology, hence why productivity gains exist and why the economy grows and isn't a fixed pie over time. Here's an easy non-AI example: In the past, a 'computer' was literally a person [1]. If you needed to synthesize large amounts of data, you needed to split the task among a team of people writing things down and then a team of people to check their work afte…
Look up Amdahl's Law and Universal Scalability Law.
The math doesn't care whether the nodes are people, CPUs or language models. If agent A's next action depends on what agent B decided, you've introduced a sequential dependency.
Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
The coordination problem absolutely can be escaped with technology, hence why productivity gains exist and why the economy grows and isn't a fixed pie over time. Here's an easy non-AI example: In the past, a 'computer' was literally a person [1]. If you needed to synthesize large amounts of data, you needed to split the task among a team of people writing things down and then a team of people to check their work afte…
Look up Amdahl's Law and Universal Scalability Law. The math doesn't care whether the nodes are people, CPUs or language models. If agent A's next action depends on what agent B decided, you've introduced a sequential dependency.
The point is that we don't need an equivalent number of nodes (agents) as we needed people.
The computer flattened the coordination dependencies of that room full of people by doing all the calculations by itself. As they get smarter, you can theoretically assume 1 agent could eventually run the entire US federal government.
In the historical [human] computer example; if 15,000 calculations needed to be done, a CPU doesn't need to wait on Bob to come back from lunch to do the next 20 calculations...and doesn't need to wait on Alice to combine his work with the 20 calculations done by Jane...and doesn't need Bill to wait for everybody to be done to double check Jane's work.
The CPU does all 15,000 calculations instantly, by itself. This will be similar with AI agents.
Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
OpenClaw as an appliance, ready to use, sold to non-techies? May as well be profitable.
Does openclaw have a killer use yet? Ive not opted to use it yet becauase - while very impressive hype and capability - seems like a lot of risk/credits for not an insane gain.
Does any fashion thing always offer a lot of gain? But it's selling well because it's hot fashion, a talking piece, a sign of belonging to a particular social circle, etc. Perplexity caught the moment very reasonably: a fad should be monetized very quickly, because it's often as quick to fizz out.