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Comment · 29 days ago
It also adds up to 76, which he made fun of in the video. LLM can't count, his words, not mine. Although, I tend to agree with him!
Comment · 29 days ago
Maybe you should just go ahead and watch the video instead of throwing hundred of hypothesis. It'll take just as long and you'll be informed by then.
Comment · 1 month ago
Nobody is arguing about the legal boundary of Freedom of speech, you're the only one making this argument.

We're talking about the quolloquial "free speech", here.

Comment · 1 month ago
Free speech absolutist, btw.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is going to be a meta comment, my apologies.

But I now understand the growth in Github's activity that led to its instability recently. Folks just see a project (Cursor's Origin), open up a claude session with a couple harness, and just throw a lot of money, and external energy at generating what will most likely end up being garbage.

But this garbage looks and feels good at the onset, and so a few iterations happen, more PRs, more commits until it dies down.

In the end, almost nothing of value was created, it was just machine creating stuff for other machines, while humans were mostly spectators of an illusion.

Rinse and repeat.

Comment · 2 months ago
I don't understand why you can't see my argument for what it is: People work hard on their own merit.

Wealth generation is not a meaningful driver, that's why people choose career with very low income trajectory, have hobbies, etc.

Calling people lazy is reductive and pejorative. People aren't inherently lazy.

Comment · 2 months ago
You mischaracterized my argument, people aren't "lazy" by default. Most people that walks the earth wants to explore, create and socialize. But you seem to imply that kids would otherwise "sit around and do the bare minimum" if not pushed from a young age to be industrious. This is ludicrous.

There are way more empirical evidence that luck plays a much bigger role in wealth creation than effort.

Comment · 2 months ago
The pervasive myth that hard work == wealth needs to die. Every people I have met in my life wanted to have a shot at a decent life and would have put the necessary work for a decent wage.

The word lazy should be identified as what it really is: a pejorative.

Comment · 2 months ago
> It's a long form post on a site I can't read because I have literally half an ounce of actual self respect.

Glad I'm not the only one.

Comment · 2 months ago
They really are the impressive tech, it's really a shame that they aren't the one capturing all the media spotlight.

I don't know if we'll get there eventually, but if we do, I won't be surprised if it's because of Waymo.

Comment · 2 months ago
We're all about to come face to face with this reality. This dance can only last so long.
Comment · 2 months ago
Although it's encouraging, they do mention that the reduction in the BMI also have an effect (they take it into the consideration by lowering the β −0.092 to β −0.066 (P < 0.001)).

Just skimming through it, it's possible there are direct benefits, but it could also be other environmental factor. This study will most likely generate others that give us more insight in the future.

Comment · 3 months ago
It doesn't have to be that complicated. Just absolute terms could have the desired effect.

- 1% tax of 10 million = 100k

- 20% tax of 100k = 20k

Hence, the rich pays more tax.

Comment · 3 months ago
This line of thinking could be applied to literally any company in the world, even to Spirit Airlines 5 minutes before it went out of business.
Comment · 3 months ago
Hard to not look at the crazy valuation of SpaceX and not see a correlation. At some point, something's gotta give.

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