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Can’t really figure out if it’s a paid App Store or not. I suppose I can have them buy a license externally and have the agent validate that.

I think Fitness definitely caught on though. You could say it was a constant recurring self-promise some prior generations made, but our current generations are not lacking on a focus on fitness.

Education is not too different. We’re not exactly a society that goes “Going to dig into an interesting course this weekend with the wife”, no, nowhere near that. Takes time, generations.

Don’t confuse this with this persons ability to hide their instincts. He is redefining “senior” roles as junior, but words are meaningless in a world of numbers. The $$$ translation is that something that was worth $2 should now be worth $1.

Because that makes the most business sense.

Free money did not dry up. I genuinely couldn’t imagine the upteenth saas or data startup trend continuing for another several decades towards the end of the last one. There was almost nothing left to build until AI …

There were symptoms of it right here on HN. Lots of fiddling around with framework churn, not really building anything compelling. The 2010s were not inspiring in that regard, and I personally felt like it was an unworthy field … until AI reinvigorated it (speaking entirely from a creative standpoint).

The golden handcuff type where you update documentation with new UI elements.

The dotcom bubble had comp sci lecture halls with students overflowing into the hallway. I don’t blame people, it’s migratory. Jobs and resources are there, so, go there.

Then we blame the other group of students for not going there and picking majors where the jobs aren’t.

We need some kind of apprenticeship program honestly, or AI will solve the thing entirely and let people follow their honest desires and live reasonably in the world.

Consider adding a little UI to this. If I can just right-click a model/zip/folder and click "scan", then there's really no reason not to have this around (speaking in terms of removing any practical barrier, including laziness).

People will take the risk with uncensored models tuned for specific things. I'm glad we're talking about this now rather than 10 years later like with npm. The amount of ad-hoc AI tools on github is staggering, and people are just downloading these things like it's no big deal.

It feels like the only aspect of Game Theory at work here is opportunity cost. For example, why shouldn't you make AI porn generation software? There's moral reasons for it, but usually, most put it aside because someone else is going to get the bag first. That exhaustive list the author enumerated are all in some way byproducts of break-things-move-fast-say-sorry-later philosophy. You need ID for the websites because you did not give a shit and wanted to get the porn out there first and foremost. Now you need IDs.

You need to track everyone and everything on the internet because you did not want to cap your wealth at a reasonable price for the service. You are willing to live with accumulated sins because "its not as bad as murder". The world we have today has way more to do with these things than anything else. We do not operate as a collective, and naturally, we don't get good outcomes for the collective.

Prion dynamics (per gpt):

- Misfolding & Conversion: A normal, functional prion protein (PrP C) changes shape into a misfolded, pathogenic form (PrP Sc), which acts as a template to convert more PrP C into PrP Sc.

- Self-Propagation: The core of prion dynamics is this autocatalytic cycle, where PrP Sc recruits and converts normal PrP C, leading to exponential growth. Aggregation: These misfolded proteins clump together, forming large aggregates (amyloid) that deposit in the brain, causing neurodegeneration.

- Fragmentation: For propagation to continue, large aggregates must break down (fragment) into smaller pieces (seeds) that can initiate new conversion cycles, a process crucial for disease progression and influenced by chaperones like Hsp104 in yeast.

The group you are describing would indeed need to remove the misfolded protein for survival.

In terms of hope:

".... For propagation to continue, large aggregates must break down (fragment) into smaller pieces (seeds) that can initiate new conversion cycles"

In other words, the Republican party could be looking at serious fracturing into many many post-mango camps, ala Margerie Taylor Green leaving the MAGA camp. These dynamics are probably exactly how the conservatives got co-opted by the MAGA strain.

Caught me :)

Hmmm. But who can audit the reporting? Evidently, this looks like something they can manipulate.

Is the bottom line roughly:

Money received: 1000

Money used for good: 800

Labor: 200

Is that it?

Because I can assure you, that will not turn out well.

Literary trope? It’s not a trope, it Biblical. How many Kings in the Bible became afflicted with corruption and possession? It’s almost like God really wanted to make a point about great power.

If you think about it, if you count 2015 campaign, Trump has been campaigning or in office for 10 years, with 3 more to go. That’s thirteen. fucking. years.

No man is that interesting. This person’s “opinion” on the world has just been utterly exhausting.

A decade of a reign like that caused damage.

Is there even standard practices to audit the effectiveness of charity? No accountability means they will always operate like a black box, and I’ve always thought black boxes create misalignments.

Money goes in, and good feelings come out. It certainly serves a purpose, but not the intended one.

lol. This is not even a parody.

Oh come on, quality of life has improved so much in the world in the last 50 years! With progress like that, it's fine to set aside your values for a few years at a time ...

Gotta bust that nut.

Were NLP people able to cleanly transition? I'm assuming the field is completely dead. They may actually be patient zero of the llm-driven unemployment outbreak.

We have to solve universal beauty somehow. People like to take part in beauty, so it isn’t fair to admonish it outright as pure vanity. If you stared at the most beautiful people all day what need do you have to survey the world like Quasimodo from the social media bell tower?

The Hunchback struggled with an apparent vacancy of physical beauty and the burden of exclusion. He constantly doom scrolled from the tower above looking down. The solution required everyone in town to have a literal fucking epiphany.

It just took some guns to conquer South America. Flying drones with AI targeting will be too much for regular people. The rich will have access to this service.

Give unto Caesar that which is his, and let God handle the rest. The base case for the inductive proof is alarming, and I can’t see it ending well.

You can’t ask someone to pay taxes if they have a bigger, cheaper army.

So, all I’m hearing is that, when we actually took the humans out of the loop and replaced them with algorithms, all the humanity disappeared?

”If take human out … why human there no more???”

It’s shocking this species is able to come up with such advanced technologies when the above is the existential question that plagues them in the macro.

It's definitely something that won't age well. Kids are going to grow up with many AI friends by the time they get to college.

I am utterly terrified of elections finally. I didn't expect that to be in my timeline. The masses are really crazy.

Does anyone actually know of a full length generated film yet? It should have been stitched together by now I think.

It’s the only AI company that isn’t monetize at all costs. I’m curious how deep their culture goes as it’s remarkable they even have any discernible value system in today’s business world.

I'm a big user of Gemini voice. My sense is that Gemini voice uses very tight system prompts that are designed to give you an answer and kind of get you off the phone as much as possible. It doesn't have large context at all.

That's how I judge quality at least. The quality of the actual voice is roughly the same as ChatGPT, but I notice Gemini will try to match your pitch and tone and way of speaking.

Edit: But it looks like Gemini Voice has been replaced with voice transcription in the mobile app? That was sudden.

That's exciting. I doubt there are any polished voice chat local apps yet that you can easily plug this into (I doubt the user experience is "there" yet). Even stuff like Silly Tavern is near unusable, lots of work to be done on the local front. Local voice models are what's going to enable that whole Minority Report workflow soon enough (especially if commands and intent are determined at the local level, and the meat of the prompt is handled by a larger remote model).

This is part of programming that I think is the new field. There will be tons of work for those that can build the new workflows which will need to be primarily natural language driven.

In terms of their seriousness, word on the street is they are moving from custom chips they could be getting from Marvell over to some company I've never heard of it. So, they are making decisions that appear serious in this direction:

With Alchip, Amazon is working on "more economical design, foundry and backend support" for its upcoming chip programs, according to Acree.

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20251208112/mar...

I think the influx of many truly self-driven and resourceful self-taught programmers in the 2010s established a perceptible need (not necessarily an accurate one) of needing to "properly vet" non-degreeed candidates. Stuff like Leetcode is what emerged. The truth is, the "vetting" was originally done via self-selection. Generally computer-oriented and creative people gravitated toward application development and it was worth something to the world. The world probably didn't know how to value this group of people, so continuously tried to put in some kind of formal process.

But like Art, the artists came from everywhere. We're being dishonest if we don't acknowledge what truly made these developers get to where they are, and it wasn't because they originally went "Oh, I know what I'll do, I'll do thousands of Leetcode problems', that is absolutely not the true story of the developer in the last decade.

Leetcode is a sloppy attempt at recognizing and appropriately handling developers. It was an "attempt", a failed one imho. It fundamentally ignores the spirit in which these developers operated in, it reduces them to gym rats, and that's not how they got there.

This being a spiritual problem is what makes the most consistent sense. Even those that grind Leetcode will tell you their heart is not in it (just like GP mentioned above).