jacquesm
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Comment · 5 hours ago
There are plenty of good role models. Competent leaders and good role models are a harder combination. And the top of the food chain is not good place to look for competent leaders, it's a great place to look for predators though.
Comment · 8 hours ago
It's about as useful as being jealous of lottery winners.
Comment · 9 hours ago
That's part of the story. The petroleum based part will go in a few years, what remains is the protective layer of wax that matters. I've bought some military surplus stuff that was coated in it, at first I didn't know what it was and then once I found out about it (and how to remove it) I was super impressed by how effective it is in preserving all kinds of materials from time's teeth. In particular these were parts for a 1940s vehicle, NOS that came out of the covering as though made the other day.
Comment · 9 hours ago
Traction and maybe some income. Enough to show your project(s) has a pulse.
Way too many people are looking for people to join their ventures that have effectively already failed. If you manage to distinguish yourself from the 40,000 vibe coded apps that were launched in the last 30 days that nobody will use then you've won half the battle.
Comment · 9 hours ago
You end with 'Anthropic please fix this'. That's an appeal to Anthropic.
Comment · 9 hours ago
HN is not Claude support.
Comment · 11 hours ago
Be successful first, then go looking for a partner. That will be a lot easier.
You are in the 'chicken-and-the-egg' phase, you need to get past that. One option would be to simply pay someone for this role for a while to make it easier to achieve the success required to get someone on board who will do it for an equity stake.
Comment · 11 hours ago
Mixed feelings. I feel sorry for the people whose info was taken but Scribd does not have my sympathy.
Comment · 11 hours ago
This is very bad news. These people were super brave in keeping the light of the free press burning for this long.
Comment · 11 hours ago
A fictional role model.
Comment · 11 hours ago
To argue this you have to prove the opposite: that consciousness is an algorithm. Not that an algorithm can simulate consciousness, that's a far easier task.
Comment · 11 hours ago
It's not just the people here, there is also a lot of money behind this concept. For instance, Anthropic named their LLM 'Claude', which is the name of a person. Right from day #1 they want you to think of their AI as a living entity. 'Siri' and 'Alexa' had similar connotations. OpenAI and DeepSeek do this in a far more neutral and technically oriented way.
Comment · 12 hours ago
With one huge difference: you could never run the Google index on your local PC. But you can run a 'good enough' AI on your local PC. Good enough that Sam Altman thinks you shouldn't do it because he has better uses for your RAM than you do (oh, and besides, because it may hurt his IPO chances).
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