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If they can help figure out how to make turning office space into apartments attractive that will solve the vacancy problem and help keep housing costs at bay.

Yeah, when I hear about how the tax changes are going to result in a huge exodus of millionaires it's not backed by data. The data shows millionaires actually move LESS than the general population. Places that instituted high taxes didn't see an exodus. It turns out if you have a great city with great physical and social infrastructure, people want to be there. Seattle is building both. The physical infrastructure is better now then when I moved there 10 years ago. I just took a train to Bellevue from downtown Seattle for a couple bucks. Waterfront looks amazing and beautiful now. City is really clean.

This is so cool and I wonder how effective it would be using this technique when using LLMs to generate code. Have the llm generate code and a TLA+ model. Use the TLA+ model as the test bed of the code (instead of writing tests in the original language).

I have built a radically different system in general called Abject (https://abject.world). I have been thinking about how agents are the wrong abstraction and what an operating system can look like now that we have LLMs. It's not designed to help you with your website or app, but it does code and make different kinds of apps within it's system. In principle it should also be able to code apps outside it's ecosystem but I haven't tried that in any serious way.

Nice, what's the chunking level? I would want sub function, logical blocks, etc

This is great in concept but what prevents me from using it is TDD. I don't want to waste tokens on producing code that doesn't ship to the end user. Design by Contract is a far superior approach. If you've never heard of Design by Contract I don't blame you, our culture really failed to bring it mainstream. But I swear by it and it gives me real superpowers. Maybe I should fork this and gut the TDD part and replace it.

Have you ever run a business? I have and still do. I make the pricing decisions, nobody makes them for me. Have to factor in a lot and repricing is always a hard choice in either direction. It's never automatic or some mystical force.

I'm in the US. The benefit of the Chinese spying on me vs a US company is the Chinese can't come to my door and take me to jail.

Yes and all the price decisions are done by a person. Lowering prices, increasing prices, these are all decisions. Nothing is automatic.

Post COVID is a great example of this in action. They DID raise prices because they could. What keeps prices low is competition. But again, it's not automatic. Look at Arizona Ice Tea as an example. All price rises are business decisions with a person behind it.

People forget that prices don't rise automatically. Businesses decide to raise prices. There isn't some magical force called inflation cuasing prices to go up. It's human decision-making all the way down.

This brings me back. Used the live cd (then later thumb drive) at my university whenever I needed to use the computers. Would just reboot into it.

Margin debt (debt used to leverage stock buying) Is near record highs, and most of it is flowing into AI stocks ...

There is a reason Jolla is ex Nokia people who made MeeGo. Sailfish (the OS) is a direct distended.

Here is an old clip of Alan Greenspan explaining to Paul Ryan why the social security system can't go bankrupt.

https://youtu.be/DNCZHAQnfGU?is=CWQS-QUJB0z4EfSM

Gold based money, or eras of coinage, historically have been times of war and slavery. The debt system we are in now is far better in a lot of ways. The outcome of what happens depends on the political will deciding where the credit flows.

Why do you have respect for Rene?

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Wow, this takes me back of making my own software renderer and game engine as a teen in the 90s. Then OpenGL came out and fixed pipelines and some of the cool magic of doing anything with pixels disappeared (until pixel shaders came back). One cool rendering technique you don't see much today is voxel graphics.

There are firm proposals. Read the Democracy and Work effort lead by Richard Wolff.

As someone who has been a startup founder across several and who has basically been under-paid for the last decade as a result I am constantly thinking if I should have went to work at big tech again as many of my peers are much richer for doing it.

But Paul Graham is right, you weren't meant to have a boss. In fact this is not unique to programmers either. Nobody is meant to have a boss.

I encourage everyone to read "The Dawn of Everything" by David Wengrow and David Graeber to understand the kinds of human organizational structures that are possible and have existed in the past.

You made some good points, let me address them.

The reason comparing to TCP, DNS doesn't make sense is this doesn't replace those at all. The reason I compared against other agent frameworks and things like MCP is because that's the common question people have.

You are right objects don't exist in a vacuum but you are wrong an object that just exposes a description and an LLM reading it from the outside does better. Think about object oriented programming, objects expose and interface but don't reveal all of their internals. Calling the Ask handler could change internal state. Maybe response depends on what object is asking. Maybe the Ask handler might want to call the callers Ask handler too. You can't do that by just exposing a description.

You said the goal is to ultimately transport data to a higher layer. That's not the goal. You are thinking too hierarchical. The relationships between objects is dynamic and the concept of a higher layer makes no sense here since the point is to get rid of the hierarchical nature current agent protocols have.

Keep in mind I built a working system to test the concept. You can download and try it.

Have you heard of the Ask Protocol? (https://abject.world/ask-protocol/).

I might be biased because I came up with it, but we are over complicating these systems. There is a simpler way, and it appears to work well since I built a system using it to test the idea.

What are you talking about exceeded expectations? Starship is very far behind schedule.

Companies are spending about $1 trillion this year in capex in the US! World wide estimate is about $2.52 trillion in AI spend in 2026 according to Gartner. There has never been a bigger spend in tech. It's so much spend that the software industry has to basically double in revenue in the next couple years to keep up.

Most of that spend is on infrastructure, GPUs, ASICS, and everything else that goes into a datacenter.

Go back and look at the original plans and projections. Constantly redesigning is not something to be proud of. I call it vibe spaceship design.

Sometimes a design is poor and needs a lot of modification and patches to kind of work.

This incremental progress, far smaller improvements than planned, has put them so far behind schedule I'm not confident this design is any good. Still haven't done orbit. This launch was not a smooth launch. SLS by contrast seems to work. Why did nasa contract SpaceX for the lander. The whole plan is bad.

I love that open weight models are catching up so quickly. Also hilarious how far behind Grok is. I guess demand for Grok must be poor if Anthropic is able to rent resources from xAI.

I had fairly deep knowledge about the bitcoin code base 7 years ago and I got a weird vibe from it as I've seen government code before. When I learned that Tor was funded by the Navy something clicked. Just as it makes sense to have a large onion network to allow spies abroad to surf the web anonymously, it would make sense to also have a currency you can use to fund agents or groups abroad that lived outside the banking system. Bitcoin makes sense for that purpose. If you have a large border-less digital currency with many people on it, even if it is traceable, it's still less risky then using cash which you would have to launder.

The fact that many states are now using it for funding purposes to get around the banking system further adds proof to bitcoin's potential origin.

Also, it doesn't help that Satoshi Nakamoto means basically central intelligence in Japanese...

I'm not saying Bitcoin was created by the government, but if it was there are signs...