> this thread didn’t have specific policies people took issue with Can you give me a consistent principal that that the government of the day is doing outside of flopping around screaming America First while shooting…
It just means that the entire system has not been captured by insane people that there is still some pushback. Anyone who believes in the Unitary Executive Theory likely believes that the President wears imperial robes.…
Whether or not you agree with how US laws are drafted, this administration has no logical foundation for anything it does which is a massively different and worse problem by orders of magnitude. This administration runs…
There is a lot of tension that the report seeks to either minimize or avoid. It’s also just really hard to express it in a report like this because there’s no real place for it if the goal is to look professional. I…
IMHO, Ruby Central keeps trying to find a way to frame all of this in a good light, but it seems like they keep falling flat. They tried doing filtered Q&A avoiding all the obvious questions that people hostile to what…
Don’t worry Peter Thiel will help change that after he destroys the functionality of most of the global economy since he’s basically asserted that New Zealand is his break glass refuge.
Why? If you care about the rules based order that we have mostly try to adhere to for decades, all of this is an enormous attack on it. Is the United States at war or not? What basis is there to sink a frigate leaving a…
It did not raise $110 billion. According to their own SEC filings $35 billion of Amazon’s funding is contingent on “(i) OpenAI meeting specified milestones, and (ii) OpenAI directly or indirectly consummating an initial…
The future is not evidence? I don’t understand what you’re saying. > The company is going to produce 5-6X the revenue with a similar number of employees as they had 6-7 years ago before the overhiring boom. That’s not…
The problem is that there is no hard evidence anywhere to actually prove this. I’m going to avoid whether or not AI productivity gains are real, but all the “data” I have seen affirming this is black box observations or…
I believe that OpenAI wants to IPO at that valuation. I don’t think it can IPO.
I remember distinctly that the developers said they were working on a next generation version of it and it just never happened. I think they just ran out of funding and died with a whimper.
I think he’s just a guy who got a lot of money who can pay people to implement his sometimes weird, sometimes useful, often ill-conceived obsession with decentralization and a very lame version of “freedom”. Like, he…
The Family That Owns New Brunswick: The House of Irving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9I-HY3wfVM
The most worrying thing is that Mullenweg just seems unwell and has created his own reality distortion field where he can no longer see the absurdness and damaging nature of his actions. His behavior reminds me of a…
FWIW, I found LocalSend (https://localsend.org/) to be quite handy especially since it is a cross-platform solution.
I agree with most of this story, but I really find the assertion that weird nerds are just autistic rather offensive and dismissive. It reminds me way too much of lazy teachers in the 90s insisting students they didn't…
It is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
It doesn’t matter who the Gerber Baby really is. Society has chosen to associate the Gerber Baby with certain attributes regardless of who the person behind the photo really is, and so it is with Kevin Mitnick. Mitnick,…
> I also theorize that founders are very social people and they especially typically can't figure out remote management. I think this is a large part of the problem that isn’t being explicitly pointed out. Extroverts…
Has Musk ever handled the operational aspects of the companies he claims to run? Does he really understand what it takes to make a company _work_? For instance, my understanding of SpaceX is that he really should be…
This constant hagiographic view of Musk and others like him is grotesque.
Foster City will amplify any shaking since the entire city was built on compacted fill and reclaimed earth.
I empathize with skepticism that a lot of people show towards centralized authority, but I have yet to see a meaningful proposal for an alternative that doesn't not ultimately rely on some sort of equally implicit…
Being the richest man on earth does not absolve you of being called out for being a hypocritical douche? I never understand this defense. There are lessons one can take from successful people, but they not demigods.…
> this thread didn’t have specific policies people took issue with Can you give me a consistent principal that that the government of the day is doing outside of flopping around screaming America First while shooting…
It just means that the entire system has not been captured by insane people that there is still some pushback. Anyone who believes in the Unitary Executive Theory likely believes that the President wears imperial robes.…
Whether or not you agree with how US laws are drafted, this administration has no logical foundation for anything it does which is a massively different and worse problem by orders of magnitude. This administration runs…
There is a lot of tension that the report seeks to either minimize or avoid. It’s also just really hard to express it in a report like this because there’s no real place for it if the goal is to look professional. I…
IMHO, Ruby Central keeps trying to find a way to frame all of this in a good light, but it seems like they keep falling flat. They tried doing filtered Q&A avoiding all the obvious questions that people hostile to what…
Don’t worry Peter Thiel will help change that after he destroys the functionality of most of the global economy since he’s basically asserted that New Zealand is his break glass refuge.
Why? If you care about the rules based order that we have mostly try to adhere to for decades, all of this is an enormous attack on it. Is the United States at war or not? What basis is there to sink a frigate leaving a…
It did not raise $110 billion. According to their own SEC filings $35 billion of Amazon’s funding is contingent on “(i) OpenAI meeting specified milestones, and (ii) OpenAI directly or indirectly consummating an initial…
The future is not evidence? I don’t understand what you’re saying. > The company is going to produce 5-6X the revenue with a similar number of employees as they had 6-7 years ago before the overhiring boom. That’s not…
The problem is that there is no hard evidence anywhere to actually prove this. I’m going to avoid whether or not AI productivity gains are real, but all the “data” I have seen affirming this is black box observations or…
I believe that OpenAI wants to IPO at that valuation. I don’t think it can IPO.
I remember distinctly that the developers said they were working on a next generation version of it and it just never happened. I think they just ran out of funding and died with a whimper.
I think he’s just a guy who got a lot of money who can pay people to implement his sometimes weird, sometimes useful, often ill-conceived obsession with decentralization and a very lame version of “freedom”. Like, he…
The Family That Owns New Brunswick: The House of Irving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9I-HY3wfVM
The most worrying thing is that Mullenweg just seems unwell and has created his own reality distortion field where he can no longer see the absurdness and damaging nature of his actions. His behavior reminds me of a…
FWIW, I found LocalSend (https://localsend.org/) to be quite handy especially since it is a cross-platform solution.
I agree with most of this story, but I really find the assertion that weird nerds are just autistic rather offensive and dismissive. It reminds me way too much of lazy teachers in the 90s insisting students they didn't…
It is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
It doesn’t matter who the Gerber Baby really is. Society has chosen to associate the Gerber Baby with certain attributes regardless of who the person behind the photo really is, and so it is with Kevin Mitnick. Mitnick,…
> I also theorize that founders are very social people and they especially typically can't figure out remote management. I think this is a large part of the problem that isn’t being explicitly pointed out. Extroverts…
Has Musk ever handled the operational aspects of the companies he claims to run? Does he really understand what it takes to make a company _work_? For instance, my understanding of SpaceX is that he really should be…
This constant hagiographic view of Musk and others like him is grotesque.
Foster City will amplify any shaking since the entire city was built on compacted fill and reclaimed earth.
I empathize with skepticism that a lot of people show towards centralized authority, but I have yet to see a meaningful proposal for an alternative that doesn't not ultimately rely on some sort of equally implicit…
Being the richest man on earth does not absolve you of being called out for being a hypocritical douche? I never understand this defense. There are lessons one can take from successful people, but they not demigods.…