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Human race is indeed fascinating. We kill millions of cows for food while doing the following in the same breath.

A bronze sculpture unveiled in March 2026 in Almaty, Kazakhstan (near the Europe/Asia border region), honors strangers who formed a human chain to save a dog from the Sayran Reservoir in 2016. The statue, located along the canal embankment, symbolizes unity and collective action after the 2016 viral rescue.

On the efficiency side, why do we need 10 companies doing the same thing. "Don't Repeat Yourself" principle would agree with your proposal.

I can't run my business without electricity. Yet we don't fear of its access being revoked. Sam makes the comparison of intelligence to electricity a lot. So we are on the path to these systems becoming utilities.

Layoff Thinking 3 months ago

Yes. It is similar to the military saying that, "cemetry is full of indespensible people." We think the company won't thrive without us, but flow of life finds a way to do without it. This realization can be good or bad depending on your outlook.

The Day I Realized Work Was Stealing My Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yw6tBaT0X4

One great opportunity is for expert-developers to push the boundary of better algorithms or libraries. No one rolls out their own cryptographic library, majority problems faced in our systems are common. If that common problem is solved once and packaged into a library to be used by anyone, no one else needs to bother looking at it. Most of modern software dev is all about plumbing. The harder parts need to solved once and that solution becomes available to everyone immediately.

Another question is would a future world require so much code that we turn code generation into a service itself. Perhaps an analogy will help. e.g. do we use our lawnmowers 24x7? I understand we will have far more code in future but current capacity (devs working on code on laptops) should be sufficient.

I hope AI will make automated translation of such legacy codebases into any favourite langauge possible in future. Fingers crossed.

Nothing wrong in that. But in research we have a thing called survey the already existing literature on the problem and checking what worked or didn't. If you want to learn by doing mistakes of your own, be my guest. Just know that it is expensive. Also if you aren't thinking that hard about your startup ideas, then most probably the VCs aren't either which means you get some free money to play around with and make mistakes as long as the music last. That is also a thing.

Yes it could just simply be a syntactic sugar for a complex operation taking in 4 numbers. But this reminds me of Mirror Symmetry between two theories in String Theory where complex calculations in one theory gets mapped to simple calculation in another theory. Similarly we might have translation dictionary between standard arithmetic and non-standard arithmetic where complex calculation in standard arithmetic becomes easy calculation in non-standard arithmetic.

This is like blaming a knife as being a killer weapon. Social media is inherently good if owners of the platforms allow for good interactions to take place. But given the mismatch between incentives alignment, we don't have nice things.

If you think you have found the right idea to devote your next 5-10 years of life, then normatively thinking you should be able to create a 500-1000 pages PPT to document all the strengths and shortcomings of your idea/product and it's possible evolution path for next 5 years. If you think this exercise is not worthwhile enough, then know that you are not serious and are just chasing the hype. This exercise is much easier now due to AI but you still need to ask right questions.

Nowhere Is Safe 3 months ago

Even biology doesn't cross check that much. Cells are happy to copy virus materials.