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Google’s oauth also has a multi-day approval nowadays.

Wow, I love the vibe the voting by companies give. Could see this kind of governance expand to other areas.

They are making me do it

worse, they can be dismissed as an abstract ”ai is dangerous” and used to justify funnelling money to the various ai safety charlatans

Had a very similar experience also with regards to deposit not returned. The person never showed up or did anything at all so I had the pleasure of picking the "repossession man" (for lack of a better word, it was in a country with a bit different system) from a list. I went with the one with the most ominously sounding name and he subsequently very effectively garnished the wages after adding his fees on top.

Every time something like this is said, the author turns out (in this case, obviously is given the yc’s recent investment profile) to be a peddler of AI coding tools.

Good, space program run by the government was very wasteful for many decades.. scientific missions were nice but also a bit of extravagant luxury

Punitive damages are no-go in Europe given they would mostly result in money transfers from the ruling families to common people.

I am assuming this includes manufacturing the evidence?

Out of curiosity, what percentage of YC founders just go to the office hours and dinner and not work for the duration of the program? Is this encouraged?

Does piracy have negative connotations? I thought everyone thought pirates were cool

and how do the effects of these interventions compare with normal variability of the lifespan in normal people?

and yet none of that makes even a dent

Create a mini-cat shelter. I don't know about growing the money, but you will have a lot of cats.

Google denies the outage. https://x.com/Google/status/1933246051512644069

Wish there existed a decentralized network connecting computers around the world

imo it's easy to distinguish AI emails, grammar errors or not. Monkeys have evolved for hundreds of thousands of years to detect subtleties in the tone and those skills transfer well into the LLM era.

Another thing is whether it's a bad thing to have emails written by an LLM. I think it's only bad if the resulting message is longer than the person would have written themselves.

Controlled diet + controlled exercise. Freshly prepared daily full-day meals delivery + personal trainer at the gym 2x/week combo is the only thing that ever worked for me. And it worked every time (3 times) in different countries. I would get fat again in between those periods, like I am now, after staying in a rural area without those facilities.

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Don't they know AGI soon?

> Both claimed they were touring California but later admitted they intended to work

yeah...

It's not that it's not useful at all, it's that the mismatch between the reality (what you described) and hype ("build full-stack AI companies to outcompete human-first ones") is wilder than anything I have seen in my lifetime. It's reminiscent of stories about the dot-com bubble era, which I am not old enough to have seen first hand.

(Maybe a bit less than what you described. It's something I tried and I don't think LLMs can deal with most unstructured data at scale very well.)

It's noisy, biased, and slow, but it generally does eventually reward what works better, in most cases.

> It makes me wonder whether everyone else is kidding themselves, or if I'm just holding it wrong.

Have been wondering this ever since 1 week after the initial ChatGPT release.

My cynical take is that most people don't do real work (i.e. one that is objectively evaluated against reality), so are not able to see the difference between a gimmick and the real thing. Most people are in the business of making impressions, and LLMs are pretty good at that.

It's good that we have markets that will eventually sort it out.

Most users cannot handle more than two buttons anyway, at least outside of professional tools for power users.

I have had AI support agents deflect my questions, but not resolve them. It is more companies ending customer support under the guise of automation than AI obsoleting the support workers.

I am not comparing the relative utility of cars and guns, but questioning the claim that the utility of gun ownership is small.

> Gun utility: small

For you.

> There are people straight out of university who know nothing and can't deliver anything on their own earning over $200k per year and seasoned experts who can deliver anything barely earning 100k.

In my model of the world, there is exactly one country in the world that values skilled labor, the US. The highly skilled 100k people from abroad are firewalled from it by the visa regime and the fact that most people with money have IQ too low to effectively work remotely (so they have to work in person to be able to assess the vibes of a person using their lizard brain).

The 200k kids are from good families (hence psychologically stable) joining established orgs where the important thing is to be a good cog shapeable into a decent engineer rather than just the ability to deliver.

> recognizing which companies to buy

I bet it's really simple from the vantage point of being the owner of the biggest social app with billions to spare.