roycebranning

*67 meets 411

someone lmk me when they've built the "venmo my friend when I go over 7 hrs in a day" service...i'll sign up immediately

if users specifically wanted Grok, yes. if they generally want AI, no.

"The Unabomber is right that technology is a holistic, self-perpetuating machine. He is wrong to bomb it for many reasons, not the least is that the machine of civilization offers us more actual freedoms than the alternative. There is a cost to run this machine, a cost we are only beginning to reckon with, but so far the gains from this ever enlarging technium outweigh the alternative of no machine at all."

I think Kelly agrees with this point. Kaczynski being "right" is really scoped to the argument that technology is a self-perpetuating machine that is not entirely within human control to direct.

Read this chapter in 'What Technology Wants'. The technium operating as a living organism takes a new form in the context of LLMs - especially when considering these technologies are emulating source content created by humans. If generated information breaks conventions of quality checking (like SEO ranking and upvotes) it would appear that the technium is biased towards a different kind of validation mechanism - or perhaps none at all.

I've seen people run into the streets in front of cruises just to mess with them.

i'm most surprised that they got this one by HN community

"Good tools are hard to find, hard to evaluate, hard to learn. We have constraints, we have biases, we have shortcomings. But that’s all part of the work."

Before I worked at a startup I was obsessed with learning the latest and greatest tool. Then I learned that the best thing to get the job done is usually the thing you already know. Now I'm back to indexing heavily on researching the right tool for the job. I feel this is the cycle that we are destined to repeat again and again.