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Open-access article

See here instead (open article):

<https:// open.substack.com/pub/michaeljbu rry/p/foundations-...>

Nicely done.

Would they have diagnosed an issue if you hadn't presented it to them?

Life solves problems itself poses or collides with. Tools solve problems only when applied.

How does NN create a concept not in its training data? (Does it explore negative idea-space?) What if a concept uses a word not yet invented? How does LLM produce that word and what cosine similarity would such a word have if it's never appeared next to others? How would we know if such a word is useful?

Humans do this but this is not all they do. How do we explain humans who invent new concepts, new words, new numerical systems, new financial structures, new legal theories. These are not exactly predictions (since they don't exist in a training set) but they may be composed from such sets.

I believe I found it: https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/llm-forecast/question/C...

Questions like mine ("help me find it") occasionally posted here. I believe "Ask HN" is the appropriate section.

Super- or subhuman intelligence can be identified in the pre-Mason–Dixon line era.

found it, hn link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28764416 and source URL https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/the-most-counterintuit...

*Immortality

Full talk, grimy audio: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2rqwi63Q1Gs&si=F2ng6g7_HTVMDahP

Impressive mental gymnastics.

YC HQ is exclusively for YC founders.

Stack15? LANS? Noisebridge?

Discouraging, sure, but now the real question: did you apply anyway? :) I hope you did!

You're suggesting the half that wants smaller government impedes the day-to-day productivity of the half that wants it bigger?

Some things work well in government given limited resources. Other parts of government seek bigger and bigger budgets to implement ideological goals, no matter their efficiency.

(Any amount of money spent is justified by the end goal since the purpose of government is to print however much money is required to ensure complete social welfare.)

From Collison brothers interview on the Social Radar: https://pod.link/1677066062/episode/a54a49f4a2a444e9238d3c88...

I considered submitting original title but verbose. Instead derived submission title from article subtitle.

(I think this is an accepted hn convention?)

People make do with all sorts of things -- until someone invents the alternative!

Text editing is dismal, in general.

Structural editing in Lisps is a great convenience -- you manipulate expressions rather than characters.

Schemoid for Android is an admirable example.

Autocompletion based on my previous behaviors would be great, too: If I just googled “The Shining” in Android Chrome then open the Netflix app, Android should know to autofill the Netflix search bar with the completion (and select it, for easy deletion).

Thanks! but configuring macOS to behave like I want it to is so painful I only “update to the new macOS” when I get a new machine!

To my knowledge, macOS has no config or dotfile that can be dropped to restore the many customizations one acquires over time. I tend to first look for FOSS remedies.

Yes, I understand that theft and property crime is an issue. I appreciate the heads-up. I will keep it in mind.

My guess is people said much the same in 2003!

Appreciate the suggestions but looking for recommendations in BA.

I don't know if these have the density and walkability I'm looking for. I am thinking more Palo Alto, Berkeley, perhaps parts of SF.

I hope you still posted (and self-answered).

Yes, but my argument is they were not engineering the payments infrastructure.

Do you think the Allens had commit privileges to the Stripe codebase? That seems unlikely.

$300k each sounds high. I don't believe they had reports. It was its own fiefdom. Probably closer to ~$200k. I don't believe they are Bay Area–based, either, where 300 might make more sense.

> isn't pressed to make money

At $0 MRR, that's exactly what they are.

This is not a dig but the (current) reality of community sites.

At Stripe, they were probably being paid as marketers, not engineering managers. (No team, no direct reports.)

One problem is that indie hackers, by self selection, are not typically investable. If you're not looking to raise, the forum you spend your time on can't, say, buy equity in you or funnel you toward a batch-based accelerator program.

Maybe the Allens can do micro-investments, but again you have a selection problem at play.

They could choose advertising and decide to grow the base. Then they start competing with outlets like The Hustle, My First Million and Morning Brew.

The group of people who want to be indie hackers is much smaller than the group who enjoy “business news” (Morning Brew) or business entertainment (My First Million).

Whatever the Allens decide, I hope they succeed.