- Also way too biased to humans, the fact that they poison us could just be a biochemistry coincidence, the author is operating from a very human-centric POV (like you say in (0))
- Because of legacy and momentum, not merit.
- Don’t worry about it - you know why? Because if the entire thing crashes, then everyone crashes with it, and there’s a million people (or more) that have a lot more skin in the game, a lot more power, and therefore a lot more incentive to make sure this doesn’t crash.
This is not your battle alone, so don’t worry like it is.
- But I am old
- This is the problem with this, in simple cases like “you add N employees” then you can vaguely approximate it, like they do in the article.
But for anything that’s not this trivial example, the person who knows the value most accurately is … the customer! Who is also the person who is paying the bill, so there’s strong financial incentive for them not to reveal this info to you.
I don’t think this will work …
- Yeah, the truth is that you need all of these things to be “good enough”
The idea has to be good enough, the execution has to be good enough and then the connections will come,
The idea that the system is rigged against someone personally is just them protecting their ego - it’s much easier pill to swallow that your failures are because “the whole system is rigged against you” than to accept the ideas and execution were simply not good enough.
And of course luck plays an element too, I’m lucky I haven’t had cancer yet, for example, there is an indisputable element of luck to life too, though luck surface area can be increased by failure resilience and brute force trying.
I don’t think the system is rigged, it’s just a way for failures to protect their ego, but as soon as the get over that and stop making excuses, they can learn, grow and adapt, and then success will come to them.
- Hardly anyone reads them, and unless you are a dev tool which might require more depth, just give a bullet point list of changes. Don’t overthink it, nobody cares.
- I went to the USA a few months ago and was pulled aside and questioned (I have no idea why)
and when I told them I didn't have facebook they looked at me like I was mad. They asked "why not" and I told them I was ideologically opposed to it, because I believe it encourages narcissism. They acted like I was a criminal.
I found this enourmously funny and kept laughing at them insisting there was something suspicious about me not having a facebook account, which of course made me look even more guilty in their eyes.
In the end they got frustrated and just let me through, but there was an underlying and quite theatening tone which I felt was like a presumption of guilt, I laughed at the time at the absurdity of the situation, just because I wasnt expecting it, but on deeper reflection its pretty disturbing.
- But the problem is the tight coupling of prompts to the models. The half-life of prompt value is short because the frequency of new models is high, how do you defend a moat that can half (or worse) any day a new model comes out?
You might get an 80% “good enough” prompt easily but then all the differentiation (moat) is in that 20% but that 20% is tied to the model idiosyncrasies, making the moat fragile and volatile.
- Gaming, then crypto, then AI - all GPU hungry!
- A lot of the western world is focused on "alert problem solving mode", which is great, because it's given us all of these technological advances.
But I think in the future we should explore more of these altered states, because I think it's going to be a great source of creativity since it's so underexplored.
- When the species was young the universe was fire
Then it was spirit
Then it was geometry
Then it was a machine
Then it was an equation
Then it was a network
Now it’s a simulation
They always remake the universe to the fashionable transcendent thing of the era,
Human mortality obfuscates this a little but if you were around for it, you’d see this clear repeating pattern of humanity
- Sorry that happened to you, I have been there too,
When a company is hiring and laying off like that it’s a serious red flag, the one that did that to me is dead now
- Its tacit
- >Success is relative. If the goal is to never fail, never try is the best strategy.
This is dangerously not true, if you never try, then you are guaranteed to fail to live up to your potential, which is one of the greatest failures of all.
- “The most successful people have failed more times than you have tried”
- When I was young I got the plans of the Titanic, and I started implementing it in Quake, after an afternoon of hard work building out the outer hull to scale, that was the first time I saw that RAM icon :)
- GUI library with no screenshots, classic
Painful