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the_gipsyon EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

Do you really think the USA could annex anything but (maybe) Cuba, after seeing how the Iran war is playing out?

the_gipsyon EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

The true treasure is the friendship we made along the way.

the_gipsyon The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

Seems pretty clear that "embargo" means "could/would sell for a profit" but doesn't for fear of WG's reaction, which is not the case for the USSR.

It's not explicit in the article, but I would guess the USSR didn't have a strong enough coffee industry to be helping anymore.

the_gipsyon We must pace the frontier

> why cant people here just read this for face value?

Why should we? Yes, reading the comments, it seems like the IT (or maybe it's just the AI) community has taken up an attitude of simply believing our Dear Tech Leader's by their word. What happened?

the_gipsyon Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route

Short-term benefits seem to be good enough for America in this new age.

the_gipsyon Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

> mismanages its access to sensitive personal data

> interactions being used to train Facebook's AI models

Yupp, the only "edge" Facebook could possibly have, is user data.

the_gipsyon Lion-man

This is the earliest evidence of such fantasy we have. It's not that this piece at this time was the earliest human fantasy, but there is a cutoff line somewhere between humans and our last common ancestor chimpanzees.

the_gipsyon Glacier Mice

    #define bug dog

the_gipsyon Aphantasia Beginner's Guide

Exactly, so you just got distracted on the steering wheel, happens to the best of us.

the_gipsyon Aphantasia Beginner's Guide

I think you just have a different interpretation of how you "see" things. Sounds just like any other anecdote of getting distracted on the road, those can be dramatic, but nothing here points to actual visual hallucinations.

the_gipsyon Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

Had to google his name. Welcome to the Egghead's lair, Mr. Bond.

the_gipsyon I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

It took a long time to cross that desert, and no sane company would want to get stuck in a desert, unless it's specifically an R+D "desert crossing" company.

the_gipsyon Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week

> Rather than sticking to the facts or the law, the states have instead decided to chase an outlandish payout.

Those evil states!

the_gipsyon Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week

Meta is Facebook, forever.

the_gipsyon There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

They absolutely do not have AI-heads with PhDs writing the apps and general infra. I've met a guy that worked at Anthropic, and he was "just an engineer", so exactly that: a top guy, but not specifically AI focused, doing regular stuff there but with infinite access to the top of the crop AI.

Now look at what software they make. It speaks for itself.

the_gipsyon Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

Oh yea, that's what I meant, sorry for not being clear.

And we do have all kinds of disasters, but the state not only effectively intervenes, but also supports the aftermath and reconstruction. In America there are some crazy examples of towns just being left straight out abandoned afterwards, because tehre's no such thing as government reconstruction support.

the_gipsyon Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

So someone predicted Greece will default, because they had an abnormal amount of debt, and they did default (albeit in a controlled manner) after the 2008 crisis. And because of that you think Spain and Portugal will default?

No, and with absolute certainty not because of the second houses or public servants. That's armchair economy talk from someone that got one predictable thing right once.

Look at Michael Burry (the 2008 bubbly guy, whatever his name is). He keeps screaming "bubble" every once in a while, never got anything right again.

Let go.

the_gipsyon Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

Strictly an American fantasy, that you're left on your own in the face of any kind of disaster.

the_gipsyon The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

Isn't the folk intuition that "words come after thoughts"?

I agree that a stroke cannot isolate language exactly, it's not an ideal approximation of "languagelessness". I think you will find this report interesting: https://nautil.us/what-my-stroke-taught-me-236544

There is no doubt that many marvelous works and concept can be produced entirely without language. Something as complex as driving a car can be done mostly without "thinking about it", without language, without the inner monologue going over all the decision our mind is making.

What we can't do without language, is making a complex plan over time and space, beyond something like "need to fetch hidden item behind the corner to unlock box right in front of me now". The question is how much exactly does language "augment" our intelligence. Is a baby, a human that has not yet learned language, really smarter than an octopus? Or a crow, remarkably smart but interestingly not a mammal, which indicated that intelligence doesn't have to be strongly tied to some evolutionary biological feature. A human stays as "dumb" as an animal if they don't learn language.

Re: your theory, if true, why? The theory implies (though correct me if I'm wrong and strawmanning), that there is another, hidden, way of encoding these extremely complex "information bundles" for lack of another word, in our brains. Why not use that for metacognition too, then?

the_gipsyon The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

> adults who reported low levels of inner speech

the_gipsyon The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

So what is it, then? Some mystical thing?

the_gipsyon The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

I'm not saying it is text. But it's not an image.

the_gipsyon The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

Picture your last meal. Is it a picture? Pixel or vector, or like a photo?

the_gipsyon The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

There are no movie clips in your brain that you replay. You are re-narrating the scene, you just may not notice it.

the_gipsyon The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

"We need to move away from text files to something proprietary and lock-in our users, while we still have this moat."

the_gipsyon The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

> So I devised a plan to retrieve it. I'm just going to rewind time. I'm going to go back to doing what I was doing when I had that idea, and then it'll come back to me.

You narrated the ideas back. It's words and language. There is no hidden, unknown, layer of "thought".

the_gipsyon The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

You just lack (or lacked) introspection, nothing special. Many people claim to have no inner monologue. When pressed, it always comes out. Simply put, it's impossible to function as a human without it. But many people are not aware, and think it means something like "hearing actual voices".

the_gipsyon You only need the frontier model for one single edit

> Senior architect, junior engineer. Sounds great, right?

Sounds like a consulting slaughterhouse. Picture Java Enterprise Solutions. As we all know, the pinnacle of software engineering.

the_gipsyon Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

I've been using tig, written in C, for ages now, never once crashed. And I'm all for safe languages, but a git TUI isn't really as critical as you imply - if I interpreted the sarcasm correctly.

the_gipsyon Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

The new fullscreen UI is really bad. The old one (scrolling) starts to bug out after a while, but it van just be restarted and resumed.