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PierceJoy··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
Startups fail by default. It doesn't make the pessimists correct. What I have noticed though it that successful startups are rarely, if ever, run by pessimists.
PierceJoy··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
People’s bullshit detectors have gone off on the launch of basically every single billion dollar tech company. That’s the downside of being early. No one believes it will work. If everyone believed it, you’re late. I’m sure I could find a comment such this, basically verbatim, on the launch post of every successful startup to come out of YC.
PierceJoy··on Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them
/compact
PierceJoy··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
OP isn't criticizing the practise of leaving to renew. He's criticizing the this new policy of not letting you back in when you leave.
PierceJoy··on Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency
I didn't. Ryan Atwood was great in Southland.
PierceJoy··on Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency
You obviously weren't in high school at the time the OC was on. Everybody watched it. I don't think I've ever viewed Ben as anyone other than Ryan Atwood ever since.
PierceJoy··on Rewriting Bun in Rust
This seems like a much much harder problem than having a model translate between the two languages. I think people in general are way overvaluing determinism. In most cases, it doesn’t matter if the output from two runs is different as long as it accomplishes the desired goal.
PierceJoy··on Tidal AI Policy
I have serious doubts that their detection will be good enough, especially in cases where it's not 100% AI generated. The EDM and hip hop genres relies heavily on samples, and I guarantee all the sample services all being pumped full of AI generated creations. Many artists using the sample won't even know they using things that are AI generated.
PierceJoy··on Tidal AI Policy
Sure, if you're referring to people who actually play instruments or sing. Electronic music shows are mostly DJing though.
PierceJoy··on Rocketlab acquires Iridium
Rocket Lab's market cap is 57B and are buying Iridium for 8B. I'm assuming you're implying some other measure of worth, but it's not that crazy based on stock price.
PierceJoy··on The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
How do you know the changes aren’t placebo?
PierceJoy··on US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%
If inflation due to energy costs is running hot they’ll have to raise rates which will cause stock prices to fall.
PierceJoy··on Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs
In what way?
PierceJoy··on Judge dismisses human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The rule of law is definitely dead, but the evidence is that this man was deported mistakenly and then charged with a fictional crime to cover up that mistake.
PierceJoy··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
I think this is the opinion of someone who thinks about personal security (like many on this site) and would prefer not to use Facebook marketplace. From observing many of those around me, this is an uncommon concern. Facebook marketplace is insanely dominant, and nobody cares about inviting people to their house. They would rather invite someone to their house than have to drive to GameStop and drop off their stuff in exchange for losing money on gas, losing time, and losing a cut of the sale price.
PierceJoy··on If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
They’re different scenarios. The prisoner’s dilemma is purely selfish. How do I maximize my own return? Cooperation is an option, but it’s still about maximizing your own return. This scenario leaves it open for people to choose to act selfishly by maximizing their own return, or selflessly by attempting to got maximize total return for everyone. But the choice required to maximize total return isn’t clear.
PierceJoy··on Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure
What a time to be alive.
PierceJoy··on Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user
So don’t buy an iPhone if you don’t care about the security of your device and personal information. That would introduce a massive security hole that would negatively affect far more users than it would help.
PierceJoy··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
And why did the cost of insurance for ships rise?
PierceJoy··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
> impotent threat of attacking ships

You've been paying attention to what's happened over the last few weeks and you qualify that threat as impotent? That impotent threat basically brought the rest of the world to it's knees.

PierceJoy··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
To whom, and to what? A military threat to the continental US, sure. To US allies in the region, and to the global economy, it appears Iran is a much bigger threat than we were lead to believe, and still are. If anything, they're justifiably more emboldened now than ever.
PierceJoy··on Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars
Reminds me of https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-indu...
PierceJoy··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
Nothing a couple /simplify's can't take care of.
PierceJoy··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
I mean, isn't it obvious that they didn't?
PierceJoy··on Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project
> it feeds directly into my conspiracy theory about how people are being intentionally pacified using chemicals.

What is more likely? That there's a grand conspiracy involving thousands of people to chemically pacify the population. Or that products made with plastic are cheap and easy to make.

PierceJoy··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
The speculative reasoning I've seen is that they have optimizations in their CC client that reduces their costs. If that's true, I think it's fair that they can limit subscription usage to their client. If you don't want those optimizations and prefer more freedom, use the API.
PierceJoy··on Your Supabase is public if you turn off RLS
I find that supabase is pretty good at warning you about these things in their project specific security advisories, but obviously you need to actually pay attention to them and then take action.
PierceJoy··on Agentic AI Foundation
The guy who created that page actually went on to found the Calm app, which has a multi billion dollar valuation now.
PierceJoy··on Measuring political bias in Claude
Trump received 49.8% of the vote. Harris received 48.3%. Where is the bias?

Outcomes that don’t match with polls do not necessarily indicate bias. For instance, if Trump had won every single state by a single vote, that would look like a dominating win to someone who only looks at the number of electors for each candidate. But no rational person would consider a win margin of 50 votes be dominating.

PierceJoy··on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
Me too. Found out you can reenable it in the extension settings.
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