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Is kimi making a profit? How subsidized is it by the Chinese government?

Let's compare concrete and equivalent people or institutions. I'll nominate Elon to represent "right wing philosophy" since this is a conversation about grok. What's an equivalent, in terms of importance/stature, that you'd nominate to represent "left wing philosophy". From there we can compare the accuracy and truth seeking of both. Warning, Elon has a terrible track record on this front.

It's more like evolution through natural selection. If you can buy a treasury that returns 3.6%, you will NOT invest money in a business that has more risk, is only returning 3%, and has no believable growth story. Even worse, if you own shares in that company, you will sell them and shift the investment dollars to something with better returns or better chance for growth.

It's this competition that leads to prosperity, the alternative is central planning which leads to poverty.

That's a 3% margin which is unsustainable. It's less return than you can get from buying treasuries, which means that if they don't improve it they will go out of business.

thanks, that's exactly what I was imagining.

We may need to create a community driven version of SO. Hard for it to be a successful business these days.

Except for the part where he says that he found Go infuriating to use as a developer prior to LLMs.

This is annoying but only needs to be solved once at the start, either by the LLM or the human guiding it. A single prompt of "Set up a uv project in this directory with Python 3.13" is enough that it's never an issue again for that repo.

This isn't true. I'm mostly using python and UV with claude and it periodically decides to try to run scripts directly instead of using UV.

The far left tends to treat humans as essentially good and plastic — corrupted by unjust systems, but redeemable once those systems are dismantled. Remove capitalism, hierarchy, scarcity, and people will naturally cooperate. The far right tends toward a Hobbesian view — humans are greedy and lazy by default. Without the discipline, consequences, and hierarchy, civilization unravels. Hence “if you tax people more they’ll stop working.”

Both are cartoon versions of something real, and both fail in predictable ways. The more honest picture comes from behavioral economics and evolutionary psychology: humans are neither blank slates nor rational maximizers. We’re a messy bundle of cooperative instincts and tribal ones, capable of extraordinary generosity within in-groups and breathtaking cruelty toward out-groups. Our “goodness” has always been conditional and contextual.

What really undermines the anarchist vision specifically isn’t that people are evil — it’s that they’re biased and self-deceiving in systematic ways. There’s a well-replicated finding that when you ask members of a team to estimate their individual contribution to a group outcome, the percentages sum to well over 100%. Everyone genuinely believes they pulled more than their weight. This isn’t malice — it’s a predictable artifact of how memory and attention work. We have more access to our own effort than to others’, so we weight it more heavily.

The practical consequence of this is underappreciated: it means that even in a community of genuinely well-meaning people with no bad actors, you’ll still get persistent grievance and conflict, because everyone will sincerely believe they’re being shortchanged. This isn’t a solvable problem with better norms or more transparency — it’s baked into human cognition.

pretty sure humans had hierarchy from the beginning.

I think it's people that do that, not capitalism. This happens in every system that has existed in human history.

You didn't really address his main point. Will this lead to higher levels of pollution that will have real health consequences? Oddly you suggest it's not valid to raise concerns around health consequences.

I honestly can't tell what conclusion you want us to draw? The vast majority of cows raise for agriculture are not raised in the ways you describe. Beef is the leading cause of deforestation in the rainforest!

You can absolutely survive and thrive on a vegetarian diet, and there is decent evidence suggesting you're health will be better.

what?!?!

It's the leading cause of deforestation which is a major factor in climate change. It also is a major contributor to climate change for other reasons. Since you mentioned energy, it's also much less energy efficient.

Isn't this something to care about?

If you're trying to link clang, this laptop is not for you. It's for people that would consider a chromebook for their use case.

Gifs. I'm only half joking.

What model did you use? Curious if something like Opus 4.6 does a better job.

Then why aren't Europeans using them?

Good call out, India is likely the most viable option.

It's not clear that anything will be kneecapped. You need more than a desire to not use these products, you also need a viable alternative. Using products from China or Russia probably isn't deemed viable if the concern is politics, which leads to a need for Europe or Canada to build alternatives. They have not been good at this for a long time, maybe that will change, but it's not clear that it will.

Which dynamically typed languages perform like a statically typed language?

Thanks for clarifying. I wasn't sure that's what that role was intended to do.

yes, but they typically hire a singular CEO to drive a cohesive vision and strategy with the check that they can fire the CEO at anytime.

Right, and it's TBD if that will turn out to be more or less effective. I'm hopeful, but more voices isn't always better.

It depends what the alternative is. A vacuum is worse for example.

It's been winning for a while

If we want the fediverse to take off we need a solution to the "LOT of traffic" issue.

You're showing it's expensive to get a lot of views on a video, or as you say, it's not expensive if you get a small amount of views.

I want the fediverse and open web to be viable, and we need a solution to hosting high view count videos.