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Pretty sweet! Don’t have the time (or budget) to directly invest in the hardware but do you have a list of open source “open” software problems you are looking to solve?

sigh You have engineers that read memos? Must be nice.

I realize introverts don't work that way, I know, I am one. But I've had some of the most brilliant ideas come through purely on a discussion nay sometimes an emotionally charged argument.

Important decisions are almost never 2+2=4, if they were, they wouldn't be important and yes you wouldn't need a meeting (like I admitted, there's definitely a lot of unimportant meetings).

But important decisions are almost always an exercise in coaxing, cajoling and persuasion, which is just extremely low fidelity on paper.

Most engineers will look at their team leads and say "I don't believe in this strategy on paper", and all their team leads can say is "I was at the meeting. You had to be there"

Having had been on both sides of this coin, I agree a lot of managers mis-manage meetings.

But then there's those engineers who don't show up to meetings and then a month later come to you with a

"I don't know how we're deciding on some of these critical product features"

and I don't know how to tell them its because they skipped some meetings where they could've been part of that discussion.

Like I told another commenter, "I am judging the two companies for what they are, not what they could be."

I'm sure Sam Altman wants OpenAI to do everything, but I'm betting most of the projects will die on the vine. Social networks especially, and no one's better than Meta at manipulating feeds to juice their social networks.

My point exactly. The App Store has no play in back office automation so the comparison doesn’t make sense. AFAICT, OpenAI is already making Billions on back office automation. I just came from a doctors visit where the she was using some medical grade ChatGPT wrapper to transcribe my medical conversation meanwhile I fight with instagram for the attention of my family members.

AI is already here [1]. Could there be better owners of super intelligence? Sure. Is OpenAI better than Meta. 100%

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/06/09/openai-hits-10-billion-i...

There is no world in which online gambling beats other back-office automation in pure revenue terms. I'm comfortable saying that OpenAI would probably have to spend more money policing to make sure their API's aren't used by gambling companies than they'd make off of them. Either way, these are all imagined horrors, so it is difficult to judge.

I am judging the two companies for what they are, not what they could be. And as it is, there is no more damaging technology than Meta's various algorithmic feeds.

Wait if an online gambling company uses OpenAI API then hosts it all on AWS, somehow OpenAI is more morally culpable than AWS? Why?

Honest answer*:

I think building super intelligence for the company that owns and will deploy the super intelligence in service of tech's original sin (the algorithmic feed) is a 100x worse than whatever OpenAI is doing, save maybe OpenAI's defense contract, which I have no details about.

Meta will try to buoy this by open-sourcing it, which, good for them, but I don't think it's enough. If Meta wants to save itself, it should re-align its business model away from the feeds.

In that way, as a missionary chasing super intelligence, I'd prefer OpenAI.

*because I don't have an emotional connection to OpenAI's changing corporate structure away from being a non-profit:

I keep hearing this as some sort of "common knowledge" but no one can really lay out why. I've shipped stuff with ROS (albeit with some custom modules that needed customization).

But genuine question, has some who has actually shipped with ROS laid out what they would like it to do better?

"No community is prepared for a gold rush to happen, nor has housing plans in place to accommodate it."

laughs in Tokyo/Singapore. Sorry, I want to feel bad for incumbents in the area, but they've worked hard to create this situation, especially the landlords. People gaining wage power is a GOOD thing and arguing against it is an insane political choice even if you are in the majority.

The rest is just basic agglomeration theory [1]. You are arguing against gravity making things going down. People will always come together since Vienna, since Baghdad, and the productivity gains are supposed to be good for the country again, if it wasn't for landlord incumbents. The solution seems obvious: remove incumbent controls.

There are only one people who are truly indigenous to the Bay Area (and I'm guessing they aren't on HN right now). Everyone else came as part of a proverbial gold rush, going back to 1849, so complaining about the only gold rush that came after you is not a morally substantive position. Your complaint should be against rent-seeking capital and their political power, not immigrants (national nor international, rich nor poor).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_agglomeration

P.S: Just to be clear, I'm not advocating for displacement. You can have gentrification and growth without displacement, what you have to accept (nay embrace) is rapid change. If you don't, displacement is inevitable.

In other words, if you can do more with less, you can do EVEN MORE with more!

No one's trying to rewrite anything.

"Californians, used to spending crazy high prices for property"

Please dig into why that statement is true and re-read your parent statement. Your analysis can't just abruptly stop there. It all goes back to housing supply.

Kind off and the potentially low marginal cost of everything housing construction related (due to AI and robotics) really creates a lot of space for creative business plans here.

The municipality can’t take away the land (most of the value here) and putting the house on top will be relatively cheap, given the low total labor costs.

If the whole affair is revenue neutral, that's a huge win.

If a "professional tenant" with an adversarial landlord can hang on for years, I feel like my chances with no landlords and a clean deed is actually much better.

It's simply pitting the most dysfunctional municipal and judicial systems against each other with the default outcome being people being housed.

I have this dream of having 4-5 robotic construction workers* capable of tearing down a Single Family home and building a four-plex in its stead overnight.

Then, I just buy houses in High COL areas and start popping them up and moving families in ASAP. What are they gonna do evict working families? Good luck

Then dissolve the underlying corporation before the municipal fines kick in and escape into the night. Render municipal and neighborhood control laws meaningless.

*may not be humanoid, I'm skirting that debate here.

So cool!

I would easily pay $1000-$1500 if you put two of these on a wheel base and made it all structurally sound. Extra points if the arms sit at least 1-2 feet of the ground and can reach the ground.

Incidentally, should we really count "income taxes" as something "Amazon pays"? Amazon doesn't pay income taxes. Amazon employees do. The fact that Amazon conducts the transaction via withholding seems irrelevant. It's the employee losing the money.

Super cool!

It looks like size and speed is your major advantage. In our RAG pipeline we run the chunking process async as an onboarding type process. Is Chonkie primarily for people looking to process documents in some sort of real-time scenario?

"If we need immigrant labor, give them Green Cards instead of precarity."

This is counter-intuitive but absolutely the right answer. Giving immigrant employees full bargaining power will murder H1B mills. And no waiting periods in precarious limbo either. If you want an immigrant worker, they automatically get all bargaining power as an American and then you make your decision based on the market forces.

Isn't the only way to do that is for ChatGPT to run locally on a machine? The moment your chat hits their server they are legally required to store it?

Sidenote: How is Mozilla's comm's so bad? I had no idea what their petition was talking about.

Thank you for your service.

Also presumably, this problem is trivially solved by some basic fine-tuning? Like if you are making an Illusion Animal Leg Counting app, probably don't use these out of the box.

"It will power scams on an unimaginable scale. It will destabilize labor at a speed that will make the Industrial Revolution seem like a gentle breeze."

I keep hearing this but have yet to find a good resource to study the issues. Most of what I've read so far falls into two buckets:

"It'll hijack our minds via Social Media" - in which case Social Media is the original sin and the problem we should be dealing with, not AI.

or

"It'll make us obsolete" - I use the cutting edge AI, and it will not, not anytime soon. Even if it does, I don't want to be a lamplighter rioting, I want to have long moved on.

So what other good theories of safety can I read? Genuine question.

I think this is a misunderstanding coder productivity. A 10x engineer isn't 10x faster at popping out Unit tests, that stuff is mind-numbingly boring that turns out a next token predictor can do it with ease. In fact I would guess that really "productive" software engineers, slow down considerably when forced to do this important but slow work*.

The 10x engineer is really good at deducing the next most important thing to do is and doing it quickly. This involves quickly moving past 100's of design decisions in a week to deliver something quickly. It requires you to think partly like a product manager and partly like a senior engineer but that's the game and LLM's are zero help there.

Most engineering productivity is probably locked up in this. So yes, LLM's probably help a lot, just not in the way that would show on some Jira board?

*One could claim that doing this slow work gives the brain a break to then be good at strategizing the higher order more important work. Not sure.

Haha this is so incredibly cool.

One thing I might’ve missed, what are the “physics” universe? In the rainbow example the turtle seems to teleport between arcs?

Also, if Christ did return, the first thing he's doing is probably whipping traders. So watch out Polymarket users!

Don't care if a computer program has special privileges or not, that's irrelevant. It's a tool, and it has the potential to make a whole host of processes and people's lives easier, and no one, not you, not an internet mob, not a council of elders has the right to preemptively stop those real-world tests based on vibes.

So getting to the bottom of what is actually stealing or not will be important (we can't just unilaterally declare it so), and AFAICT if a user misuses it to regenerate copyrighted material that particular user is at fault, not the tool itself.

" taking one or two art pieces and then turning around and creating something brand new, like a human brain might do."

I don't think the human brain is doing this at all (except maybe if you're writing a satire or homage). Your writing is the sum total of all your experiences which includes everything you've ever read, a number that might (depending on your age) at least approach millions of tokens.

And just like an LLM you'd find it difficult to piece together your influences.

Sorry when you said "Sole purpose", I assumed you meant the ChatGPT USERS sole purpose and OpenAI's expectation of their users' Sole purpose. My sole purpose as a ChatGPT user is not to create/recreate stock photos.

"just because you cannot pinpoint the exact art piece(s)"

Precisely, and neither can the owner of the copyright. Unless of course I rub into classical copyright issues ("these two art pieces look too similar") which goes back to my original question, why isn't just enforcing existing copyright law on bad ChatGPT users enough?

If I "use" your artwork, and generate another artwork that looks nothing like yours (either from my brain or by automating it) why do you care?