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Ok. I upgrade.

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Hmm. They've charged me. There's no meaningful support. I just got scammed, didn't I...

A few years ago I had a date with a backend engineer at Meta.

I asked if they'd ever considered the societal implications of the work they did. They said "Oh wow I've never even thought about it". Probably a solid hire from Meta's perspective.

I'd argue (simplistically) that AI is largely introspection.

How am I only finding out about this now... my sides

Thank you for a very detailed explanation.

The rich international student pipeline has always stood out to me – we've seen dozens of 30, 40 or even 50 storey skyscrapers built for students, enjoying lifestyles usually reserved for those in high finance.

It just seems very suspect to me.

I'm still sure we can do a little better though.

Maybe a personalised diet and exercise plan based on a huge range of information: preferences, biometrics, habit forming, disposable income, your local area etc

It would probably depend on the target audience.

I was very impressed by Anthropic's swarm of agents building a C compiler earlier this year with 1000 PRs per hour. Easy to nitpick that it wasn't perfect, but it sure was impressive.

As a Brit, I've never had the sense the UK (specifically the City of London) has any genuine interest in tackling money laundering. I suspect our economy is structurally reliant upon us being extremely good at it.

Responding to the tweet quoted in the article: why are the examples given of futuristic capabilities always so visionless - it's always booking a flight or scheduling a meeting. Doing this manually is already pretty trivial, it's more productivity theatre than genuinely life-changing.

There are real, impressive examples of the power of agentic flows out there. Can we up the quality of our examples just a bit?

Best of luck! I completed mine 2 years ago and have to say it was 100% worth the patience.

It was fun and exciting at first. However when phone batteries started getting low and the streetlights were still off you could see that changing. Candles and the relaxed Spanish attitude to life helped a lot :)

It would be remiss not to also mention The Cube Rule

https://cuberule.com/

By mass, sure - but have you considered delectability?

Apologies as this is fairly tangential:

There's a parallax effect in Street View on Apple Maps that separates out the layers of every image. Things like lampposts or telephone poles all rotate slightly differently to whatever is behind them.

And it's such a subtle effect that I still break my brain trying to determine whether or not I've made it up.

Imagine expending that much development time and effort for something you're not even sure is there. And somehow I still find it enviably cool.

This is really cool. I loved the technical breakdown and side by side comparisons. Surprised to hear that Microsoft and MacOS default fonts didn't score so well!

Just earlier I received a spew of LLM slop from my manager as "requirements". He clearly hadn't even spent two minutes reviewing whether any of it made sense, was achievable or even desirable. I ignored it. We're all fed up with this productivity theatre.

The streamer PayMoneyWubby did a hilarious deep dive into the world of artisanal pencil sharpening last year. He couldn't quite tell whether it was real or a genius comedy bit.

For the curious, Clickspring has recreated something a lot like this and uses it on his Antikythera Mechanism videos on YT.

Just checking (genuine question) there wouldn't be a sneaky way to weaponize a million satellites in orbit around the Earth, would there? I can't imagine it wouldn't have ever been looked into.

The Toss emojis at the end of the article are surprisingly artful!

There are many versions, it's a popular theme. I saw 4 or 5 together in the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo recently.

That second video was fascinating, thanks for posting.

I used to make these for myself and found them very helpful for planning out the year. Mine had only one difference, which was aligning the days of the week between each month.

Bob Dylan used to regularly play a small annual festival (Hop Farm) near me in Kent, England.

Growing up, I always found it slight strange that this big global name was playing down the road.

I imagine this would be a great use case for AI helping out?

I literally reused the definition of stealing you gave in the post above.

> Stealing implies the thing is gone, no longer accessible to the owner.

Isn't this a little simplistic?

If the value of something lies in its scarcity, then making it widely available has robbed the owner of a scarcity value which cannot be retrieved.

A win for consumers, perhaps, but a loss for the owner nonetheless.

It could be a wide range of things depending on your field: highly particular materials, knowledge or processes that give your products or services a particular edge, and which a company has often incurred high R&D costs to discover.

Many businesses simply couldn't afford to operate without such an edge.

Given the conduct we've seen to date, I'd trust them to follow the letter - but not the spirit - of IP law.

There may very well be clever techniques that don't require directly training on the users' data. Perhaps generating a parallel paraphrased corpus as they serve user queries - one which they CAN train on legally.

The amount of value unlocked by stealing practically ~everyone's lunch makes me not want to put that past anyone who's capable of implementing such a technology.

Earlier this year I thought that rare proprietary knowledge and IP was a safe haven from AI, since LLMs can only scrub public data.

Then it dawned on me how many companies are deeply integrating Copilot into their everyday workflows. It's the perfect Trojan Horse.