The obvious book recommendation here is: Joseph Henrich: The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous.
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> most people who wanted EVs had already purchased them
You should really reconsider where you get your information from.
“Volkswagen reported more than 70,000 orders for its new Electric Urban Car Family within just a few weeks, while European BEV orders increased by more than 50% in Q2.”
https://www.volkswagen-group.com/en/half-yearly-financial-re...
I like that a lot.
The movie business is completely foreign to me, but I wonder if stuff like this would work: copyright owners licensing out their IP for niche studios serving niche audiences — I‘m pretty sure a lot of people would pay good money for a different take on the final GoT season. Or that third season of your favorite show that never came to be. A Thrawn-focused Star Wars trilogy. Various crossovers.
Assumed this would work good enough on a technical level any time soon — could it work in terms of licensing and economics?
> “Throughout OECD countries, men are much more likely to die from suicide, acute alcohol abuse or a drug overdose – on average, almost 4 men for every woman. This gender gap is largest in Poland, at 8.2.”
See figure 5.8 at https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2020/03/how-s-life-2020...
What do you think might be the reason behind this?
And abortions due to fetal abnormalities are no longer permitted in Poland.
Isn’t that at odds with „conserve freedom“?
Or what aspects of conservatism, and what aspects of freedom of expression, are you referring to here?
Yep, that's precisely the vision I formulated some months ago: https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/11/04/what-if-software-shi...
If LLMs are, as you stated, really good at catching potential issues, then they are, almost by definition, really good at producing code without potential issues, if guided correctly: all they need to do is inspect and iterate, until they do not find any more potential issue in the code they produced.
And how many levels up can you construct this sentence before things go south?
What I‘m implying with this question is, of course: What makes us so confident that these things are not also better architects than us?
After all there is a huge corpus on how to architect applications correctly, and that’s in the training data just as much as Python best practices and C++ style recommendations.
Never read up if that pet theory of mine has any merit, though.
And I‘ve quickly realized that it’s also much easier to follow that premise.
Not only because agents obviously help with writing documentation, test cases, DX tools, and so on.
But also because it feels so much more rewarding to know that someone — even if it’s just a soulless agent — actually cares to read and use and follow these.
I have always been the guy on the team who would write the tools and documentation, and it’s always been a bit frustrating to know that only half the team would care to read and use and follow them, at best.
No way you can just replace (also very very not good for you) sugar with something else and end up with all the upsides and no downsides.
While my approach is that users would modify the core application itself (even if initially in a sandboxed copy), which would be a lot more powerful, but also a lot more complex, with many more hard questions that would need to be answered, like how to deal with data and security and so on.
https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/11/04/what-if-software-shi...
https://www.ebay.de/itm/147282358614
Yes, you will pay more than the original price. But once every 30 years or so I don’t give a fuck, I want this because the video showed a man working on it who cared.