mattnewton

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Comment · 2 days ago
> The fact you think all your political opponents are racists and evildoers is why the left lost in 2016, and in 2024.

I didn’t say that, I said that the current administration is an ally to racists and business owners who benefit from undocumented labor. This is just established fact at this point.

> Notice how it isn’t Australians or Germans ending up having to be rounded up by ICE.

Plenty of law abiding people who come here legally have been rounded up https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/south-korean-workers-de...

Which begs the question, why are white South African refuges welcomed by the admin while skilled work visa South Koreans are not?

But I think we agree more than we disagree- there should be a reasonable path towards citizenship that is rate limited. I think we might disagree on the rate limit and the reasonableness of the current path, but that’s an argument I would love to have over the current one we’re having over if the masked federal officers should be allowed to racially profile people and hold them at gunpoint without identifying themselves.

Comment · 3 days ago
I agree, we should revise the laws to reflect what the people actually want- a reasonable path towards citizenship for immigrants working, paying taxes and not causing problems.

But that isn’t what the right wants; a modern coalition of racists who want no immigrants, and opportunists who want a underclass of labor that can’t organize, vote or otherwise fight back currently is in power.

And that coalition is in power after successfully scapegoating immigrants to average Americans who have no idea what the Byzantine legal citizenship process looks like now when they repeat that they want “legal immigrants”.

Comment · 7 days ago
I’m not sure who this plan is for honestly, for general purpose LLMs in the Gemini-quality-tier how are you using enough tokens to justify $200 / month over just using deepseek over openrouter? And if you need a more capable model than that, like Gemini 4 argon, why not get a Claude subscription? Maybe the family sharing parts make it worth it?
Comment · 8 days ago
It’s not that controversial; usually I end up arguing with people who don’t believe utilities are natural monopolies rather than no government control. They usually point to starlink with the internet and solar + battery on power as incumbents that don’t need public easement. But that easement is too hard to compete with still imo and we ought to just have a public option.
Comment · 11 days ago
I don’t think you are going to vibe code your own bank or store website, you (or your agent) will still use their interface, no?

This is beside the point of the analogy though.

Comment · 13 days ago
An LLM automating web developers with 99% success rate saves the company millions of dollars and allows them to launch products and features faster.

A truck or a car that has a 99% success rate would be the top threat to society and quickly rise to the leading cause of death under 30 if widely deployed.

Comment · 16 days ago
The honest answer is that the team is pretty happy with the text to image of Krea 2 and our team prioritized editing which was the big gap in the previous model’s capabilities.

We know users are used to using one model for everything though and have already turned our attention to the text to image side; that message is to let people know that the text to image performance is not final, we expect the final tuning of Krea 3 to beat Krea 2’s high bar there soon.

Comment · 20 days ago
I think this is related to the structures we’ve built in society. It’s lower friction to write software than just about any of the problems you listed.

It reminds me of the Ezra Klein quote that “OpenAl would need permits to cover its parking lot in solar panels, but it can accelerate into recursive self-improvement, as best I can tell, whenever it so chooses."

Comment · 25 days ago
Why not try Jev?
Comment · 27 days ago
There are lots of artists using generative ai in the same way there are artists using photoshop. It’s about control and intent, and it only gets weird with gen ai because you can give away both and still get results. Many people do take the role of a non creative manager, but that doesn’t meant you have to.
Comment · 1 month ago
Anthropic’s IPO?
Comment · 1 month ago
I’m worried why many big companies aren’t worried about when the shoe is on the other foot.
Comment · 1 month ago
It has happened to me actually with the snap spectacle things.

Idk why we’re acting like people are hysterical the dangers of always on displays and cameras versus phones that go in pockets have been debated for over a decade now with Google glass. People do not like it for legitimate reasons.

Comment · 1 month ago
It is less noticeable in person than a phone out and pointed at you yes. And I would react similarly.
Comment · 1 month ago
Your phone has to be out of your pocket and raised up to record me, which I can notice.

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