I have some ex-colleagues that entered the indie dev scene, one man micro SaaS factories. According to them the space has never felt more "toxic" whereas before if you announced your new product you'd see other people…
All I want is that a rich person can't strongly direct the government to do things like idk start wars because they happen to own an intelligence/arms manufacturing company or control how food is regulated so their…
Math is completely abstract and the base rules and mechanics of it are some of the most clear cut and formalised because that’s the entire point of the subject. Biology is the complete opposite of that.
The business models have become more extractive robbing users of control and agency and herding them to places where the business wants them to be.
E=mc*2 but m is really really tiny
Making it public will invite the deviants who derive pleasure from the audience. Look up historical behaviours of crowds in some of the last public executions in France. If this were livestreamed you'd have just…
>Government surveillance is much worse than corporate surveillance I think in practice you'll find they go hand in hand together.
The 55+ crowd where I'm from have the most active social life. Constantly at each others houses for a chat, activities (gossip parties) after Sunday mass etc.
>The upper class and wealthy socialize a great deal. I mean a ton. Shared vacations, constant social occasions hosting fund raisers galas sports hobbies etc. practically non stop. I wonder how many of them would count…
I'm surprised companies are doing take homes in an era of LLMs. I suppose it can save valuable paid time by forcing the candidate to waste theirs instead, but surely you get a lot more signal from actually talking to…
I do hope for an optimistic outcome of course. But the same cohort that gave us algorithmic screen maximisation is also funding and leading the AI revolution so I'm a bit sceptical they have our best interest in mind.
I'll be the negative nancy and say that I think it's more likely we see an acceleration of the current trend. If we're talking about students, the top students will be doing as well or better than today but the median…
The complexity of manufacturing is one reason why TSMC is one of the most important companies in the world right now and why Nvidia is the most valuable by marketcap. If you can make a GPU more efficient and cheaper…
Mathematics and programming is verifiable and fully controllable in a digital environment. Fusion research and cancer research requires expensive experimentation in the real physical world. You can’t just throw a…
No. His real innovation was shamelessness. A lot of high society functions on these "gentlemen agreements" where you can theoretically get away with murder but it'd be rather uncouth of you to do so. He doesn't care and…
And scarcity gives things value. No one bats an eye at a mass produced cotton t-shirt with a detailed custom print on it. There's services online where you can order a thousand with whatever print on it for quite a…
You're opening yourself up to data right and privacy risks with that. My company demands that I use their enterprise account because they can claim full ownership of all produced output and have full logs of every…
A trillion of these silly small guys pass through us every second. Funny to imagine them like that.
Rank & file employees have very little input with their stake. It's a small piece of a big pie. Consider also that Anthropic is trying to IPO with co-founders holding a share that secures 50.1% of total voting power…
The company's board and c-suite should be held legally responsible if the company's services do damaging things. Punished by jail time, fines targeting their equity etc. That would certainly change the game of perverted…
There is no plan, it's just people's vocalised anguish as they anticipate being left out in the dust. Like a squealing pig before slaughter.
The thought of using Facebook products as a show of rebellion in 2026 is extremely amusing to me.
>where is the alternative political coordination happening They're probably too poor to play.
If I imagine this as a winner takes all markets are big corporations safe? If you replace all your human labour with a service from a big AI monopoly what leverage do you have when they tell you hey btw your tokens are…
I've never seen more performative bulshitting in my company, and the C-suite has never been more brainless, flighty and bandwagony.
I have some ex-colleagues that entered the indie dev scene, one man micro SaaS factories. According to them the space has never felt more "toxic" whereas before if you announced your new product you'd see other people…
All I want is that a rich person can't strongly direct the government to do things like idk start wars because they happen to own an intelligence/arms manufacturing company or control how food is regulated so their…
Math is completely abstract and the base rules and mechanics of it are some of the most clear cut and formalised because that’s the entire point of the subject. Biology is the complete opposite of that.
The business models have become more extractive robbing users of control and agency and herding them to places where the business wants them to be.
E=mc*2 but m is really really tiny
Making it public will invite the deviants who derive pleasure from the audience. Look up historical behaviours of crowds in some of the last public executions in France. If this were livestreamed you'd have just…
>Government surveillance is much worse than corporate surveillance I think in practice you'll find they go hand in hand together.
The 55+ crowd where I'm from have the most active social life. Constantly at each others houses for a chat, activities (gossip parties) after Sunday mass etc.
>The upper class and wealthy socialize a great deal. I mean a ton. Shared vacations, constant social occasions hosting fund raisers galas sports hobbies etc. practically non stop. I wonder how many of them would count…
I'm surprised companies are doing take homes in an era of LLMs. I suppose it can save valuable paid time by forcing the candidate to waste theirs instead, but surely you get a lot more signal from actually talking to…
I do hope for an optimistic outcome of course. But the same cohort that gave us algorithmic screen maximisation is also funding and leading the AI revolution so I'm a bit sceptical they have our best interest in mind.
I'll be the negative nancy and say that I think it's more likely we see an acceleration of the current trend. If we're talking about students, the top students will be doing as well or better than today but the median…
The complexity of manufacturing is one reason why TSMC is one of the most important companies in the world right now and why Nvidia is the most valuable by marketcap. If you can make a GPU more efficient and cheaper…
Mathematics and programming is verifiable and fully controllable in a digital environment. Fusion research and cancer research requires expensive experimentation in the real physical world. You can’t just throw a…
No. His real innovation was shamelessness. A lot of high society functions on these "gentlemen agreements" where you can theoretically get away with murder but it'd be rather uncouth of you to do so. He doesn't care and…
And scarcity gives things value. No one bats an eye at a mass produced cotton t-shirt with a detailed custom print on it. There's services online where you can order a thousand with whatever print on it for quite a…
You're opening yourself up to data right and privacy risks with that. My company demands that I use their enterprise account because they can claim full ownership of all produced output and have full logs of every…
A trillion of these silly small guys pass through us every second. Funny to imagine them like that.
Rank & file employees have very little input with their stake. It's a small piece of a big pie. Consider also that Anthropic is trying to IPO with co-founders holding a share that secures 50.1% of total voting power…
The company's board and c-suite should be held legally responsible if the company's services do damaging things. Punished by jail time, fines targeting their equity etc. That would certainly change the game of perverted…
There is no plan, it's just people's vocalised anguish as they anticipate being left out in the dust. Like a squealing pig before slaughter.
The thought of using Facebook products as a show of rebellion in 2026 is extremely amusing to me.
>where is the alternative political coordination happening They're probably too poor to play.
If I imagine this as a winner takes all markets are big corporations safe? If you replace all your human labour with a service from a big AI monopoly what leverage do you have when they tell you hey btw your tokens are…
I've never seen more performative bulshitting in my company, and the C-suite has never been more brainless, flighty and bandwagony.