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So Anthropic makes a new model, Qwen or whoever learns how it works and makes their model nearly (but not quite) as good and then sells it back to Anthropic?
Like the soap-making scene in Fight Club.
Absolutely!
To be fair, the people who are producing capital-a Art are mostly producing crap as well.
Whatever you call it, I participate to find out if it’s crap or not.
To me, this (whether or not “content” is a good word to use) is very similar to Comic Sans discourse.
The stronger you feel about it and the more you seem to enjoy sharing your opinions on it, the less interesting you become.
No, it’s not really a thing in any significant way.
This guy is 17 years older than he was in 2009. The world moved on to YouTube, TikTok, etc.
A teenager today is almost certainly not going to set up a blog to share their thoughts with the world.
Most questions of this nature are just “how do I feel like I’m 23 again?”
Open Book Touch is the device I’ve been trying to build for six years: a small, beautiful, completely open source e-book reader that does one thing and does it well
What makes this beautiful?
It isn't wrong to be self-centered!
How many self-centered people have you met in your life who go, "yep, I'd call myself self-centered."
BUT if you work with people who would rather work with you in an office then you are being self-centered by putting your wishes to work remotely above their's. That is not wrong! But it is also not wrong for their wishes to include you commuting into an office.
If 2 people have different and conflicting desires, one of them is likely to end up disappointed!
I mean employees pushing for remote work is a status and power play, too. I’d imagine self-centered employees don’t like being told where to work either.
Office work isn’t objectively bad and remote work isn’t objectively good.
If you like one and dislike the other, shocker you’re going to find fault with the other side’s reasoning.
I think we need to address the underlying causes of people outsourcing their thinking like
Most people take the easy way out most of the time. Not that complicated.
If I had $20 a month when I was 17, I would’ve paid for Apple Music in a heartbeat (if it were available at the time).
You have to define what burnt out means to you.
The WHO has a very specific definition of it but it seems like everyone has their own personal definition which leads to a lot of unproductive conversations which are just complaining about work.
Take the job. Save a lot of money.
Nothing more freeing than being young with good savings. Puts life on easy mode.
one could say that all of physics and creation is "glorified autocomplete"
Exhibit A.
Stochastic Parrot
Nearly all (99%+) people who use this phrase are anti-AI and just looking to show off how much they dislike AI and how clever they can be in insulting it.
So it's a great phrase because in just about every case I can ignore what someone says afterwards.
Similar to "glorified autocomplete."
or is it too much to understand for them?
You’re talking about a guy in Cleveland like he’s a Neanderthal.
PineVoice is in an early-stage development and early adopters will encounter quirks and performance issues. Future firmware updates should resolve issues in time, but like all of Pine64’s products, you’re not buying a consumer-grade product.
Like the Penny Arcade comic about a director who’s making a movie that’s not meant for the critics. “Wait, you can do that?”
What did you switch to?
I think everything I'm wearing right now came from the result of me clicking an ad.
I like clicking ads! I work and I have money to spend on things I like.
All of those things are optional.
I promise you can sell something to your neighbor for $10 without filing taxes and registering a company.
To believe otherwise is like the Top Gear story about the German guy who insists you need a license to drive a car.
Wildly optimistic about the future!
Every year gets better than the one before. More technology, more opportunity!
Why would I have any fun believing that things have peaked?
Nobody will cry when their AI girlfriend model gets revoked
These are the people who cry the loudest and there’s not a close second. They have infinite time to whine online (see /r/chatgpt after 4.5 went away).
My Mac Mini took so long to arrive that I never messed with OpenClaw/Hermes and just went straight to Claude CoWork w/ Dispatch from my phone. One of the biggest blessings in disguise I can remember.
I read /r/openclaw for ideas on automations and 95% of the content is complaints or people having it do things that just don't need to be done.
As a side question for anyone reading this, what are the best agentic AI subreddits for people who are actually using it for work and not just personal dashboards?
This happens in any industry where value/status are at a premium.
So, all of them?
I use it for closer to everything every day. Just realized recently it could clip my (virtual) Safeway coupons for me and make my grocery list.
They loved having an identity built around a skill most people didn’t have and the power/money that came with that. Losing that is tough.
So if Jeff Bezos (and every other billionaire) was worth $999,999,999, then the world is much better off?
You’re going to have to explain the logic of that to me.
Do you disagree that (many, perhaps not all) billionaires also create a massive amount of value for society? Would Jeff Bezos be a billionaire if Amazon was a net drain on society?
Jeff Bezos being incredibly rich doesn’t make my life worse. In fact, Amazon makes my life better. I’ve had jobs that existed because Amazon existed. I’ve had things I wanted to buy delivered very quickly. I read my Kindle for hundreds of hours a year.
Why would we be in a dark place? There’s a new set of skills to learn and opportunity abounds.
I think this misses the point as well.
If we eliminated billionaires would everyone have healthcare, a decent roof over their head, and other basic things?
I generally believe that to not be the case. The government misspends (to an extent) the money it has now. So the solution is to give them more money to misspend?
I feel awesome about it!
IMO this would be like in 1997 (or pick whatever year you think the Internet took off) asking, "How do you feel about posts about the Internet taking over the HN front page?"
This is what makes this a potentially (mostly) great interview. If the candidate can’t/doesn’t understand the dynamic of the interview and hates it, they opt out of the process.
Probably only thing I would’ve done differently would have been to limit first call to 30 minutes to save me time when someone is obviously a bad fit.