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correct, which is why industrial policy is important.

Eurasians had massive inherent advantages. Thats the entire point of the book. its just that the advantages werent "they are genetically superior."

unless you plan to read a dozen academic books about a variety of topics, i dont really think there is a better option for a popular audience that will answer the question

"why were Eurasians able to so easily take over the Americas" than this book.

> quirk of fortune

im not exactly sure what this means, but if you are interested you should read Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.

the reason it happened this way is because the Americas had very few domesticated animals and we get most of our diseases from animals.

im only bothered by people screeching about things that are wrong.

this seems to be an incomprehensible point for these people to understand. its really quite bizarre

not all agents have access to a terminal. not all agents are coding agents. a cli is a versioned piece of software that the user has to update to get new features. APIs can change in the background and add new capabilities.

MCP's have all the same advantages that a rest api has over a cli.

agents dont always have access to a terminal. why is this so difficult to imagine

> any mcp could be a cli

NO IT CANT!!! why dont you understand that not all agents have access to a terminal!

This has been what everyone who has supported MCP has been telling people, but coders just endlessly screeched about how CLIs are better.

Everyone on this forum has an absolute paucity of imagination when it comes to applying LLMs to any use case that doesnt involve coding.

are you under the impression 6 months is a long amount of time?

calling the tokens "subsidized" in a Muse subscription is incoherent. they arent selling the tokens. they are selling a product. the tokens are just part of the cost of making a product just like any other product in existence.

believe it or not some people care about different things at different levels

i have nothing else to say to you other than good luck

how is this nonsense still so persistent? There's piles and piles of evidence that inference has massive gross margins at api pricing. what are you actually talking about?

very very bizarre ideology. Glad you arent having kids. thank you for your service.

Jevon's paradox only applies to products with near infinite demand. Energy being the most famous example. I dont think its difficult to argue that compute/intelligence is also a base input into the economy and theres almost no limit to the amount of intelligence the world will want.

> Stripe is the company I usually hold up as the exemplar of polished internal tools.

unless you work there how would you know this?

bro why. its literally the most overpriced model in existence right now. i could name about 10 models off the top of my head that would be better and cheaper

very interesting, and im inclined to agree with you. Depends how centralized the agent economy is I suppose where bespoke deals are worth it.

maybe agentic commerce will finally realize the micro-payments based internet that crypto people had been wishing would happen for years? Should there be stablecoin based micropayments built into MCP to charge for agentic interactions to replace the micropayment of an ad into someones eyeballs?

i think its just telling the model that it cant output a shoot action

dude, AI is the cheapest and most widely distributed technological revolution ever.

methinks mathematicians may have a warped perception of their own importance.

you can still get oil paintings in your house. you just arent willing to pay for actual art

The entire western world is anti-progress and pro-incumbency, and its very tightly linked to gerontocracy.

Older people are desperately trying to keep a grasp on their current power and lifestyles at the expense of younger people and technology.

We need to ban Waymos because taxi drivers need to be protected.

We need to block housing because it would lower my property values, and eliminate property taxes while we're at it! I don't use the local schools so why should I be taxed to pay for it.

We need to spend recklessly to pay my pension and have the next generation foot the bill.

Its just a repulsive ideology.

Cursor does all that and actually lets you look at the code

the average developer back then was much better. 50% of engineers in the average IT department produce zero or negative value. I worked at one of the largest financial institutions in the world and had coworkers that literally committed zero code for months.

they are an agent company not a model provider, is this that difficult to comprehend?

our current society has such an anemic perception of morality