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Very interesting Jonathan's take on how knowledge gets lost overtime, in part, due to abstractions.

Out of curiosity, does a Ltd from the UK counts as EU nowadays after the brexit?

> In some ways, the scale of this phenomenon resembles an episode of mass cognitive dissonance, or even a population-level folie à deux. It’s worth asking if something about our internal mechanisms for gauging the passage of time has changed

Ted Chiang's Exhalation short story comes to mind

From

> intelligence beyond human control. (1)

to

> that will obviously end humanity (2)

There's quite an assumption on the feasibility of (1) and even a bigger jump that from (1) follows (2)

Some people can have less apocalyptic / more pragmatic views of the potential of AI.

Actually, Heaven is our best shot at a post-scarcity society /s

AI has achieved the same religious undertones as your average cult. Is the new god of the gaps for some tech people. The wild card to achieve anything.

Is so fascinating and horrifying to read this. We still have to learn so much about how the brain works

The new version of this tale is that reality is a simulation. Reality being a dream is so 4th Century China

> Scientists really should have made up their own categories instead of using our words.

Doesn't really matter. The public would end up taking science words for their own purposes to sound legitimate. Look at how "quantum" and "energy" is used in alternative medicine.

This made me think of how dystopic would be a virtual reality with an algorithm that behaves like this to give the user more of what they pay attention to

This. If something is important enough, it will reach you through other media.

Which I'm not sure it happens that often anymore because it's easier to just complain on social media

> This is the key point, I think. I've seen the same as the author: people who want to be writers but rarely read books. And I don't get it.

Because the idea of being a writer is more appealing that the action of writing

It means at least, that there's something of value in the company worth that amount of money. Regardless of what it is.

> Stripe and every other big company could build this without any issues. It either is just a really stupid business decision or it is about the name. The only model proxy i know is OpenRouter despite plenty of other model proxies existing

I wait for the moment where engineers realise there's more to a product than just the building aspect.

This is beyond impressive. Very good work!

This is how it was explained to me by an actual management consultant

Thought so as well

> Except a ton of successful indie games, including some of the best of all time

True. A lot of successful indie games are built in a custom engine. But that doesn't imply that all successful indie games need to be built on a custom engine or that someone is going to have more success by going the custom engine route.

The best of all time is a bar quite high. Success is already a few rungs down the ladder.

> the engine limits the kinds of games that are thinkable. [...] You probably don't even realize the thousands of little decisions that are forced on you

Well, if Im not aware of those decisions forced upon me. I doubt they are affecting what I think is possible to do in the engine, as I'm not aware of the limitations in the first place.

Indeed. Pain is also interesting because chronic pain, AFAIK is sometimes a misfiring of pain signals even when nothing is physically wrong.

Turning off that misfiring with drugs would be dangerous (pain is an alert) but also improve the quality of life of so many people!

What has anything in this article to do with Ozempic? Is mentioned in the title once and never again. Engagement bait?

If you don't feel tired, are you really? I'm curious what are the objective metrics to determine someone is tired

Relevant.

What is a product? 106 points by rogix 4 days ago | 68 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202690

What job queue system do you use that works with Postgres?

> how incredibly toxic the web has become

A reflection of human nature at scale?

That's how enshittification begins. Next thing you know and there are blue badges next to profiles.

Very good reading. Thanks for sharing!

> If nobody is using the thing you built, you don't have a product, you have a toy

Hard disagree. I think the articles goes in a good direction when it comes to the question but this ending is short of a satisfying answer

I thought the A2A protocol from Google would solve this of our personal agents speaking with company agents