joshdick

This is answered in the interview:

"Context collapse is a claim about informational contexts, and my claim is a claim about normative context."

This paper is from 1997 ...

I think new forms of media, like radio and television, are worthwhile comparisons to AI. They were hugely influential technologies in the 20th century, making a small number of media companies hugely powerful. That sounds a lot like AI.

The difference to AI is that we regulated the heck out of radio and television companies. I think this is evidence in favor of heavily regulating AI.

Seriously. If he doesn't already have a diagnosis, he should probably get evaluated.

This is 4XX versus 5XX errors in HTTP.

> everything owned by no one is owned by infrastructure eventually

Whoa, now there is a truth bomb. I've seen this happen a bunch, but never put it this succinctly before.

Aww, that's so sweet!

> Look, we clearly have a problem here. This task was voted a two-pointer and after two weeks we're still here talking about this. This shows me that there's a skills mismatch between you and what we expect from someone in this role.

This is depressingly real. So much agita is caused by tasks that are initially underestimated.

Claude Code

Steve Jobs just came up with the number. There was no deep reasoning behind it.

Shouldn't future work like this just go into the backlog of your ticketing system?

This is partially a collective action problem. It might be socially optimal for people to take more risks working on crazy ideas, but for individuals there's less risk in working for a large corporation on incremental improvements.

This species of mosquito isn't native to Florida in the first place, so I don't see how we can wreck the ecosystem by removed this non-native species.