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Your site has a bunch of marketing copy, trademark symbols, and a link to pay you $2k/mo, but zero technical detail and is broken on mobile. It gives vibe coded.

The benchmark of 2m black-scholes evals/sec is meaningless without additional context. Also seems a couple orders of magnitude slower than what I’d expect even for a single core. What exact transformations are being done, and what’s the throughput in GB/sec? Is it multi threaded? Benchmark against the equivalent query in kdb+ and ClickHouse?

And proving my point:

https://github.com/ChristofferGreen/PrimeStruct/blob/d4f1a8e...

Sounds like they did the ol “grok please make this secure” and it slopped out this plausible-if-you-squint nonsense.

Rendering untrusted model output, ooh scary! Of course we want full audit surface!

Such a spec would never survive contact with reality. Maybe a human could stumble their way through iterating on it with the help of an LLM, but with current models you’re going to end up with nothing but a steaming pile of garbage. Not Zig.

Not really, in such large companies there's enormous selection pressure favoring career politicians. Maybe some of the survivors did some engineering at one point, but expertise fades fast when you stop getting your hands dirty. Most are empty suits.

Yup look at the rest of their comments

I think it’s the opposite. The _distrust itself_ was pushed by those looking to stir up outrage, generate engagement, and turn it into votes.

Case in point: look at all the people who’ve now built their entire political identities atop this unfalsifiable distrust. They’d even distrust “stand further apart” if the wrong person said it.

I do not know how this trust can be rebuilt but definitely not by publishing more reviews.

This is the crux. Outrage spreads way faster than the boring truth.

Please no. The author would be advised to write their own original thoughts.

What positions did you hear and conclude were baseless?

I don’t disagree. It’s dehumanizing, and they have a legitimate complaint. In almost any other context I’d be on the side of the workers here. I just have a hard time seeing Meta employees as innocent or helpless bystanders.

It’s a bit hard to feel sympathetic here. Those signing this petition actively enable and profit from one of the most pervasive surveillance networks ever built.

Funny how much easier it is to tolerate something when it only affects other people.

Classic. So tell me how I can just not deal with the credit bureaus? Or tax filing companies? Or any site that sells my data to adtech, without totally secluding myself from the modern web? Where’s the supposed competition?

What you’re saying is functionally equivalent to “just deal with it,” since ultimately people will choose to have their privacy violated over the lifelong Sisyphean task of trying to avoid all of that. That doesn’t mean people don’t care about privacy, it’s just the current equilibrium in our broken system.

I think we have been stuck in this way of life so long we can't imagine an alternative.

I agree.

they'll find a way to verify age by themselves.

Yeah, by outsourcing it to some shady company that sells all your private info to the lowest bidder. See Discord for example.

Antitrust enforcement.

Look at the macro data. The overall median wage for all American workers combined has also drastically lagged behind economic productivity since the 70s.

Clearly that's not a good proxy either then... even the article itself says:

Ultimately, concerns over inequality should focus on differences within labor compensation rather than the split between labor and capital.

The main issues I can see are:

- This "labor share" includes multi-million dollar executive pay packages, so it's heavily skewed towards the 1%

- It also completely ignores unrealized capital gains and loans against them, which is how the ultra-wealthy actually fund their lifestyles tax-free, with a tiny income on paper

'Security' is clearly a pretense, as otherwise the demand would not have been restricted to 'foreign nationals'.

Given everything else this administration has done, you now decide to accept their stated intentions at face value?

Elon is singular in his understanding of engineering and construction and large systems and marshaling resources;

Ahahaha. Just like when he marshaled resources to buy Twitter?

More like he just cracked the whip, and the actual smart people worked day and night to figure it out, or else they’re fired.

O-S-T-MUS-TIS-NT!!

Even the LLM bot accounts are struggling to find something interesting about this.

From a functionalist perspective, there is no “you” sitting in one body or another.

The experience of “you” is just your specific memories and world model, continuously updated with sensory input.

If another body “runs” the same exact pattern, that is you. Theres no link and nothing was transferred; the pattern of thoughts and memories is all “you” ever was.

Same as playing the same song on two different speakers. Nobody asks what links the song across them; it’s the same song wherever it’s played. You’re just a far more complicated pattern on a far more complicated speaker.

You might ask, “but why am I this pattern?” Because this is the specific pattern modeling itself from the inside in asking that question.

Definitely vibed microslop, the giveaway is the broken header and scrolling on mobile.

Good faith? All you’ve done in this thread is vaguepost and talk down to people who opened up about something they’re struggling with.

You said tech can’t fix human problems. I gave you examples. You dodged with something cryptic about mental health. al_borland said they’re helping a friend off these platforms and you told them “good luck fixing your own problem.” gf263 said they’ve been trying for ten years, and you said they’re “resistant to positive change, and that’s dangerous to me.” Here’s what you’re actually doing: reframing an ordinary struggle as a pathology someone’s in denial about, which puts you above them and turns their disagreement into “resistance.” It’s unfalsifiable. Any tool that works didn’t fix the real problem; anyone who pushes back isn’t ready yet. You’ve built a position where you can’t be wrong and everyone else needs help.

Do you actually want people to solve their problems, or do you just want to talk down to them and feel bigger? Ask yourself who really has the problem here.

Yes, please state your point if you have one.

You can’t fix human problems with technology.

Yes you can.

Screen time limiters, nicotine patches, putting the cookies out of sight, all of these things empirically work better than willpower alone.

No condescension - and if you’ve been trying for ten years, there’s clearly a misunderstanding.

Oh please. “Why are you depressed? Just be happy or you must not be ready for a change. No condescension btw.”

A study obviously can’t prove that people need jobs to be happy.

If you can so much as imagine a society organized around some other source of happiness, there’s your evidence by counterexample.

Indeed, I’m not sure what compels people to compare real regulatory systems from now or history to some imaginary free market where producers always act in their long-term interest and consumers always have perfect information.

Every functioning society on earth regulates food drugs and infrastructure. We lived through the unregulated version for centuries, and it took mountains of dead children and poisoned workers to win the rules we have now; tearing them down just means ordinary people will pay the price all over again.

Capture is a failure mode of every institution humans have ever built, including the courts we presumably still want. The answer is to design better institutions, not to get rid of them and hope things work out.

More like his mouth goes wherever the money is.

Obvious to the grads he’s yet another “visionary” corporate hack waxing to them about how they’d better not miss the AI rocket ship.

a single phrase in an obscure three year old mailing list post

I stand by every word I said in that thread

Attestation isn't against being able to do whatever you want with your own device.

“Prison isn’t against being able to go wherever you want.”

There are many changes that are possible which do not harm the integrity of applications.

“Well there’s a lot of places you can go in prison, you just can’t leave.”

Uh-huh.

In the same way the user can't make their device have the Microsoft Word app send them $1 million from Microsoft's bank account.

This is completely incoherent. You and I both know that a bank refusing to give away someone else’s money has nothing to do with being able to run whatever code and operating systems we want to on our own devices.

Obviously the decision happens on some remote server which would require a username and password to authorize. It doesn’t matter one bit what piece of code sent it over.