ChrisLTD

It says that memory is supply constrained?

then technically the internal models are the frontier

Developers don’t even like to pay for their own code editors. Something they used to work in all day.

Yikes. The old posters had an austere beauty

a filling in of gaps in memory through the creation of false memories by an individual who is affected with a memory disorder (as Korsakoff syndrome) and is unaware that the fabricated memories are inaccurate and false

vs.

a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine)

And the other two?

There are degrees. Bernie Madoff died in prison. AT&T was broken up. Microsoft was strictly regulated.

The law, as practiced in the United States, protects but does not bind elites, whereas the law binds but does not protect the lower classes.

In the U.S. we hardly had what you’d call “lockdowns”, more like government suggestions that you shouldn’t expose yourself or your loved ones to a potentially deadly virus. Restaurant goers, teachers, commuters, and others wanted to avoid sickness and death, so many organically avoided activities that would leave them exposed.

Forties isn’t old. You might not have the energy reserves of a younger person, but you shouldn’t feel like your brain is mush.

Yeah, that conclusion was nonsense. Perhaps hedging so he doesn’t sound like a crank?

History is replete with counter examples for good and ill

Something else they want to price us out of?

> AI agents are just software, after all. I wasn’t going to understand them by reading prompt guides. I had to use them for real work, see where they failed, change the prompts, tools, or environment, and try again.

AI agents are just software, so the only way to understand them is trial and error?

I'm not sure how you can be confident the things "you" built won't crash if you're not at least scanning the code that you're generating.

Some people like doing DIY plumbing and related tasks around their own homes. Work might not be "fun" in the traditional sense, but it can be satisfying to build and fix things.

Would you say that the government telling those people that they should be afraid of vaccines will help or hurt in this case?

> Yet, we all trust these things.

We trust them - in large part - because we know that professionals took the care and responsibility to build the foundations correctly.

And if the foundations failed in some way, those same professionals would suffer a hit to their reputation.

> upper management who are already eliminating these assembly line, JIRA-ticket-taker software jobs en masse

Is there any proof of this?

> I fully admit that we have been surpassed by the machine in the ability to entertain.

Why though? Daily here on HN, posts are pilloried for being AI generated and full of AI tropes.

AI generated content might be drowning out human generated content, but I wouldn’t say that it’s surpassed human content in a qualitative way.

This is certainly overstating the difference between compiled code and the source code. If I write an if/else statement, I understand what the computer is going to do when it's evaluated even if I don't know or see the literal machine code.

There are other benchmarks for that

"Our AI makes your workers X times more productive"

"Our AI takes the drudgery out of X, Y, and Z"

The datacenter antipathy is odd, but then again so are the AI corps' marketing strategy of making everyone afraid for their jobs and the future of the species.

If Linux doesn't qualify as open, then what does?

and if you're an author that lives outside the United States?

If the US implements export controls and China doesn't, it would kill the market for OpenAI and Anthropic.

Why would this law make things worse?

What would your proposal be for fixing what you’ve identified as the underlying problem?

You have to start somewhere, no? We have laws against stealing and murder and folks don’t usually go around saying they should be removed from the books because some people still steal and commit murder.

So why do you recycle? Based on your argument, you're just wasting your own time or "shooting yourself in the foot".