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"obviously rubbish" is doing a lot of work here. How do you gauge whether something is obviously rubbish?

That's still how it is, at least for me in the US. I've never had to interact with a chat bot for anything, but maybe it depends on what you're returning.

I use Firefox (dev edition, v142.0b9) and it works great.

Have you seen what happens to people who live in zero gravity for long periods of time? It doesn't sound fun. I do get the appeal of wanting to experience it for a short period of time, though.

I would also say that scuba diving is probably the closest you can get to experiencing anything close to zero gravity on Earth.

How is living in space meaningfully different from living in a submersible in the ocean (apart from the view)?

You would think we would get really good at the latter before going after the former, and yet I see no interest from people wanting to live in a (shallowly submersed) submarine. It would also be an order of magnitude less expensive and dangerous.

> Kids really just want to hang out with you

Adults spell "love" L-O-V-E. Kids spell "love" T-I-M-E.

> Blaming Stripe?

Explaining Stripe?

How do we know the entire article isn't AI-generated? There are no external links or references. Could this all be made up blog spam / AI slop?

How do you get libertarians mixed in there? Libertarians want freedom from government, not the consolidation of power nor levy of new taxes (which tariffs are). Apart from downsizing select government organizations, what the current administration is doing is the exact opposite of what libertarians would want.

> $CEO says they use $HYPED_TECH to build their $PRODUCT.

Color me surprised.

This is the true litmus test IMO. If LLMs are so great and make everyone so productive, then where are the results? Where are all of the amazing products being released that otherwise would have required 10x the investment? Shouldn't there be _anything_ we can point to that shows that the "productivity needle" is being moved?

> Fundamental question is will US be ever able to come to terms with a world in which US is not the dominant world power?

I think one missing key aspect is: will the US be ever able to come to terms with _an authoritarian_ power being the dominant world power?

There was a lot of optimism around China (much like there is today with Japan) in the 2000's and early 2010's, but their continued lean towards authoritarianism and regional aggression (Taiwan, South China Sea, Philippines, etc) has definitely soured that view.

If this is true, then shouldn't we expect an economic "bump" from NN/LLMs/AI as they are today?

I have not noticed companies or colleagues 10x'ing (hell, or even 1.5x'ing) their productivity from these tools. What am I missing?

Mozilla really is in a bad spot if advertising, AI, and fundraising are the only innovative ideas their leadership could come up with. I will begrudgingly still use Firefox as my daily driver, but the mismanagement being shown is really appalling and I worry about the future of a free and open Internet.

Suffice to say that we all deserve better.

Dyshidrotic Eczema is also the first result if you literally Google the words "little blisters all over my fingers, arms and sometimes legs".

Classic "Bootleggers and Baptists" situation [0], where both parties are in favor for self-serving reasons.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists

> Social media and dating apps has made physical attraction more paramount than ever but I can’t do shit about it.

Maybe don't look for relationships on social media and dating apps? There's a whole world out there that you won't be able to access through a screen, but you have to go out and find it. It will not come to you.

And I don't know you, but I can almost universally promise that surgery will not change the outcome. Are you physically fit? Do you smile and laugh when around other people? Do you hold yourself in high esteem? Get the basics right and the rest will follow.

Yes, Dwarkesh does speak quite fast, though I think much of it is nervousness and excitement. He spoke even faster in his first few interviews, but learned to tone it down. Bryan Caplan even mentioned it to him in one of his interviews.

I wouldn't say it's representative of westerners, but more of hyper-active, eager intellectuals (over-represented in the programming world, from my experience). Marc Andreessen is another example of someone who talks very fast.

The issue in Houston has nothing to do with ERCOT.

It has more to do with Centerpoint, who is the electricity provider for the city and responsible for maintaining lines. The power is there, but it can't reach homes due to the number of trees that fell on lines due to Hurricane Beryl's wind.

Battlefield 2 (from 2005) and some of the later Battlefield games have a dedicated "Commander" role like that. [0] The friction would be in the fidelity of how your squad spots enemies (allowing the Commander to see them on their map) and whether they actually follow orders (which on public servers was always a question). It was actually a ton of fun if you took it somewhat seriously.

[0] https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Commander_(Feature)

100% agreed. His earlier conversations before the recent AI boom were pretty great, going deep into a wide range of topics. Since then, it's taken a sharp nose-dive into AGI navel gazing. He's clearly drank too much of the kool-aid.

Aschenbrenner et al are clearly smart, but they have no real world experience to base their (entirely biased) predictions on. It's all very on-brand for the EA and EA-adjacent folks, who spend way too much time on the internet and not enough time out in the real world.

How do you suggest they begin to address it?

I have reached the point where I believe it is a fundamental flaw in _all_ touch-screen interfaces. I would certainly love to see better alternatives.

If you think ServiceNow is awful, then you clearly haven't used the alternatives.

Believe it or not, there are users (not buyers) that _love_ ServiceNow for what it can do. Usually because what came before was a mixture of manual process, spreadsheet hell, or some living nightmare like BMC Remedy (at least for ITSM use cases).

There's a quote from Zach Weinersmith (author, cartoonist) during a podcast a while back that stuck with me about Milton's depiction of Satan:

"I will say Milton is great and readable as long as Satan is talking. [...] the joke on Milton is that he was the greatest gift to Satan in history. He did everything short of giving him a two-headed guitar. It is just like, Satan is so cool." [0]

I highly recommend giving it a listen (and Econtalk more generally!) if this is something that interests you.

[0] https://www.econtalk.org/zach-weinersmith-on-beowulf-and-bea...

I've had luck doing this (in mkdocs) with:

https://github.com/orzih/mkdocs-with-pdf

Do you have any citations for this case? I haven't been able to find anything that mentions such a court case (or anything mentioning connections between the Mexican Inn and the Frito Company).

In my experience the amount of spam is directly related to the domain (and what it's digital footprint is).

That being said, for my hobby/personal domains, the spam has been as close to zero as you could reasonably expect (maybe a few per week, and they are correctly flagged as spam).

Try it and let us know how it works out?

I think you'll find that "maximizing any and all productivity" is both harder than you think and not really something worth striving for.

Plus as neat as these advancements are, they are nowhere nearing the ability to create a "digital double of your brain" of yourself. There is a vast ocean from where we are are today to the possibility of replicating a brain digitally (if it's even physically possible).

Thanks for the great work on Helm! Ugly but functional is a great description of the Go templating syntax, and it is definitely my least-favorite thing in Helm.

Do you have links or anything else you can share on the Lua specification work? I'd be interested to see what a Lua-based chart would look like.

All good points, thank you.

What's the limit on language support? Is it theoretically possible to support any language/runtime? Or does it come down to the protocol (HTTP, gRPC, etc) being used by the communicating processes?