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The cost of your proposed policies to consumers, to the Americans who can create because of cheap great Chinese printers and wouldn't be able to create under your policy... is much greater than the abstract industrial policy benefit.

[dead] 1 month ago

I think the author is selecting good gifs and structuring arguments, but the prose is painfully AI generated.

AirBnBs are not responsible for the housing crisis. Voters that vote to block development at the municipal level are responsible for the housing crisis.

It's death 1 month ago

If you're a materialist and you think there is no afterlife then I don't believe there would be a void. There's no mechanism for "you" to perceive a void or perceive time.

Its the difference between:

"I see nothing when I close my eyes" (actually you 'see' darkness over time)

and...

"I see nothing through my elbow" (You really don't see anything through your elbow because the capacity for it just doesn't exist.)

Even our basic perception of time is mediated by the structure of our brains... and without that there's no difference between one second and a trillion^trillion years.

I mean the goal is that the money invested increases the value of the company so that the founder's reduced stake is worth considerably more than the founder's full stake of the counterfactual company where he didn't take VC money. VCs can be strongly positive sum.

Because LLMs are not humans, and the code they produce will have a different distribution of failure modes than human written code, so attribution is useful info while reviewing?

It's fascinating that Clojure has consistently the best performing solutions and yet at the same time such a low success rate.

Do you have an idea as to why that is?

If I had to guess, two things lowering reliability:

A) Balancing parens might be tough on an LLM one-shot.

B) LLMs generate tokens sequentially, but s-expressions mean the first forms to be evaluated in a body are usually the last to be written, so the LLM has to sequentially generate layers of evaluation backwards.

Stop Ruining It 2 months ago

Absolutely agree. Recently learning emacs with vertico/consult/orderless/embark has had me thinking constantly about how needlessly crippled most OS windowing system workflows are.

It is absolutely painful for interviewers and candidates. I used to be able to email managers & founders directly and discuss what they were looking for... today everybody is navigating a deluge of spam and the interview process is becoming dysfunctional.

There's nothing sneaky about terms & conditions. If the gov wants a service they legally need to abide by its terms, same as us, if they don't like it they should choose another product.

Anthropic doesn't want their AI used for misaligned mass surveillance scanners and killbots, there are obvious reasons they might not want that.

Google Flow Music 3 months ago

I'm sure you're right that AI augmented workflows can (& do?) produce beautiful works that I would call art... it's just that the overwhelming majority of AI 'art' I experience on the internet is slop.

There are so many basic gaps in functionality and so many underbaked & poorly designed Mac OS features that I end up papering over with paid 3rd party applications.

You're defending a government using force to prevent terminally ill people from voluntarily experimenting on themselves to find a cure and further our understanding of disease. It should not be easier for a layman to design and build a targeted mRNA vaccine then it is to navigate a regulatory maze.

The animal is terminally ill and the vaccine's slated purpose is to cure that illness. If you're rich & terminally ill these kinds of regulatory mazes are less of a burden, but if you're poor you'll likely die before you can get approval.