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only-one1701··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
The until Anthropic et al IPO to the tune of trillions Ed is more right than he is wrong.
only-one1701··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
A person savvy enough to understand the indirect financial benefit to Dario promising that Claude is so dangerously smart it must be regulated understands Zitron’s schtick
only-one1701··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
Damn the USA seems really powerful, I’m assuming handling a country like Iran shouldn’t give them any trouble
only-one1701··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
Maduro operation wasn’t a war my good man and the other two you reference were 20 and 30 years ago.
only-one1701··on America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report
Well, then and the millennials
only-one1701··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
There might be a requirement for these drivers but it’s uh…nontechnical, so to speak
only-one1701··on Jonathan Franzen on Talent, Theatre, and His Next Novel
The Corrections and Freedom were both amazing but nothing he’s written since has come close.
only-one1701··on Checkmate in Iran
I mean what’s there to say but, well…FAFO.
only-one1701··on Rotten Dot Com
One of the rare sane comments on this thread.
only-one1701··on Rotten Dot Com
Just because it can’t be easily measured doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
only-one1701··on Cursor Camp
Found the manager
only-one1701··on Cursor Camp
He's done it again folks
only-one1701··on The quiet resurgence of RF engineering
Couldn’t finish because of the AI. Write by yourself, cmon.
only-one1701··on The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
The time to solve that resource problem is before AI concentrates power, not after. It’s LESS likely to happen when a tiny elite increases their already huge amount of power.
only-one1701··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
If you make 900,000 but your rent and healthcare are 850000, how rich are you?
only-one1701··on Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
Scaling and edge cases with real users are the difficulty. Feel like this isn’t even that controversial.
only-one1701··on Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
If it’s used by < 1000 people, it’s not a complicated app
only-one1701··on Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
This isn’t meant to be sarcastic: have you ever worked for a real company?
only-one1701··on Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
I would ask this: which is the worse failure mode —- design not quite right, or users can’t access the app?
only-one1701··on Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
That’s what CEOs think lol. Let’s see if it pans out!
only-one1701··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
You mean the brilliant mathematician with the correct insights into the modern American condition?
only-one1701··on AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
Yes, a billionaire and substitute teacher have the same political power in America. Couldn’t have put it better myself.

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only-one1701··on AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
The terms are defined by the AI dealers!
only-one1701··on AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
Well said. It’s striking to me how many adults can’t conceive of “violence” as an abstraction that results in certain effects and fall back on “violence is dealing direct physical injury to a person’s body or building.”
only-one1701··on "I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video]
If you think that software isn't meaningfully different than avocados then maybe we are living in different realities.
only-one1701··on "I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video]
Yeah I’m sure the savings will be passed onto the consumer, genius
only-one1701··on "I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video]
What enemies?
only-one1701··on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
Cool
only-one1701··on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
“I invested a lot of money in something and my ROI is literally more important than anything else.”
only-one1701··on DHS ramps up surveillance in immigration raids, sweeping in citizens
It’s I guess too political for HN but these guys absolutely want to be the Gestapo and are trying their hardest.
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