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I'm not here to hype LLMs but they don't used an outsized share of fresh water, that's essentially a myth hyped by social media.

https://andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake

None of this is necessarily zero-sum. I'm skeptical AI is going to be a meaningful tailwind for games, but if I'm wrong it could absolutely benefit customers, studios, and labs through boosting productivity.

It would be great if I could jump directly to a specific page. I wanted to see the median wage by jumping to page ~2500

Even besides our selfish impulse to live the 'why' is clear. If death is inherently a bad loss, then the longer life extension takes the worse it is.

We live in a world where even regional nuclear war will trigger a nuclear winter that starves people across the earth. Nationalist isolationism makes no sense in the modern world.

The bitter politics can also be right wing and you can spot it when migration topics pop up.

What distinguishes so much of the right wing and left wing politics is that so much of it is angry and zero sum.

I've also been looking for greener pastures. Lobsters has better technical signal/noise but is much more bitter, zero sum, and political.

You seem to be missing that I'm describing the effects of Valve's massive %30 tax on the game industry. There are studios that would've survived and continued making games people enjoy if Valve had less market power and charged %10-%15. There are dollars gamers would've saved instead of spent if that tax was lower.

The equilibrium has been reached and it's more studios going bankrupt, less games getting made, gamers spending more for less, and Gabe owning over $1B in yatches

Steam uses outsized market power to take an enormous %30 cut so it also does major damage to the games industry.

We are locking in path dependence on flawed technologies because by nature newer technologies lack the training distribution needed for good LLM output. Our industry is in a pretty dismal state.

I'm also skeptical of narratives of a pre-ordained future for America based on the American Dream or any other teleological belief system.

C++ & Linux are world-changing tools, but C++ & Linux really do suck in ways that become more offensive with taste. Rust makes very different tradeoffs than ones gamedevs want.

Regardless, if arrogance drives people to make new tools then we should be grateful for that arrogance.

I just opened chatGPT's voice mode and mocked the worse accented english I could muster asking for tips on pronunciation.

chatGPT just told me that my pronunciation was perfect over an over. It's transcribing audio into text and has no sense for details needed to improve conversational skills.

I love clojure with CIDER but I have heard as a REPL experience it doesn't compare to CL with SLIME. I like emacs as a lisp machine but I know that a big ball of mutable state and functions with side effects on a single thread really doesn't live up to a proper lisp machine.

All of the other examples you gave are products constrained by physical reality with a small set of countable use-cases. I don't think computer operating systems are simply mature appliance-like products that have been optimized down their current design. I think there is a lot of potential that hasn't been realized because the very few players in the operating system space have been been hill-climbing towards a local maxima set by path dependence 40 years ago.

This was one of my bigger worries for LLM coding: we might develop path dependence on the largest tools and languages.

Impressive that the app still works! Did not expect that.

I don't know, but specifically many people objected that the tax would hurt retail inside and they were wrong.

We had significantly less welfare in the 60s. We also had more poverty per capita in the 60s but living standards were rising as a result of technological improvements. Clearly a private space company (spaceX) has dramatically outperformed our public space company at advancing technology, despite being a scrappy startup with a fraction of the funding 20 years ago.

The objection that pricing will damage local retail, in aggregate retail has thrived from pricing.

https://bettercities.substack.com/p/congestion-pricing-is-a-...

I really don't find the macOS windowing or application handling defaults to be tasteful or competently designed.

In order for me to work using macOS without constantly bemoaning what feel like obvious shortcomings I need aerospace and quite a few scripts.

I don't need aerospace but I find Mac windowing to have a lot of cumbersome design shortcomings.

Long animations between spaces, fullscreen creating a new window at the end of the list (??), slow processes to tile windows and efficiently use space, a lot of shortcomings with multi monitor setups, lots of dragging via touchpad to move and size windows across spaces.

Aerospace solves this, and many other design problems with Mac OS windowing.

Pigouvian taxes are genuinely one of the few policies that really are nearly a free lunch in economics.

Which objections lead to better policy?

Yeah, estimates of returns on public science generally are dramatic.

That R&D money to private space companies has lead to the biggest advances in space technology in our lifetimes.

Children are the retirement plan but tax revenue positive migrants can also plug the gap.

That isn't enough to solve the problem.

https://www.crfb.org/socialsecurityreformer/

I think Git is incredible version control hiding behind a terrible interface.