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What would be cool is a delegate to agent to use your own browser to find parts on eBay. Every time I build a new rig I always save a couple hundred with used gear.

He also doesn’t control how the resources are distributed except how his dollars vote, so it seems like this is just his opinion and not any practical reality.

Very cool, this is how Ender communicates with his AI in Xenocide and Speaker for the Dead.

I would have preordered but your accuracy FAQ is terrible. It amounts to “it’s really bad now so we won’t give a number, we hope to improve it”. If you were 90%+ with the same promise I would have paid early

Accuracy is the sales objection. Your website does a terrible job addressing that.

I think so too. The “I get elected if I am pro Trump” factor seems to have flipped in spots to where he is a negative. Seems obvious when a wannabe king dies there is a power struggle that can rip the party apart. That might be the only hope for America to salvage a decent future, if like 1/3 of republicans started thinking about what’s best for their constituents and voters instead of how to funnel the most money to their pockets. There will still be a lot of grifters trying to hold on to squeeze out a few dollars but maybe a couple of the party grow some principles.

Isn’t capitalism basically where the capital owners decide the allocation? This isn’t central in the governmental sense where the capital allocation is decided by force, it’s the capital owners being willing to pay a higher price and therefore their use case is more valuable?

Not advocating the position.

Isn’t this just capitalism in practice?

The entire republican party is built on the image of Donald trump who loves AI so much that he tried to rename it to his liking. The reps who owe their power and grift to him may not like it personally but they have to support it which amounts to effectively the same thing as liking it.

Democrats aren’t a unified block, and they have some bright stars coming into their own this year. Their future looks bright, if people vote their interests the signal is getting through and change is possible.

And because republicans are a unified block whose entire platform is to serve you for dinner. Their whole existence is dedicated to reversing any change.

I’m sure with Chrome, Google has smart people calculating the value of the data that they get from it. It doesn’t make money directly but it’s gotta be a huge money maker.

Why separate out products developed internally versus acquired and growth? There is an almost moralistic element in the tone of “well they just bought it”. Sure, they bought it and grew it into a behemoth, plus what really matters is not the provenance but how much money it makes for them. Plus, it’s reasonable to call YouTube (and instagram, which also gets the same treatment) two of the all time best corporate acquisitions. It’s not easy to buy a company and grow it like that.

I am projecting but I think these companies are looking at their output (“intelligence”) as electricity. There’s never too much electricity, really - it just goes into lower margin uses.

For intelligence, I bet if inference got 90% more efficient they would just increase the “thinking” by 90%.

Because for salaried knowledge work, the premise is that your impact or output and not the hours worked is the basis for your compensation.

Suppose someone (pre AI) wrote 100k lines in 50 hrs/week of bad code but someone else wrote 10k good lines working 40 hours. In theory the former person would not be the high performer.

I agree many places don’t work that way, but also many do - so it’s maybe a hard discussion to have broadly and not scoped to the individuals limited experience.

I encourage you to challenge your priors, here. It’s one of the few cross the lines issues, maybe the only other one was making previously free parking require payment.

The trumpworld corruption and cult behavior and elevation of absolute nincompoops notwithstanding. Data center hatred could be what helps heal America after that amazing little blood clot grows up.

We underestimate how much can change in 10 years, is all I can say. Maybe it’s fantasy land, I guess I am just currently living in a fantasy land because that’s my primary use case and it’s pretty effective now.

That could change but it could also get better. Meta announced today that shopping is the top use case for Muse, for items over $200 (more than anticipated). There is a ton of money for retailers who can make their numbers just by being a great agent experience. This honestly could become the primary UX to buy things online, just because current margins require user hostile behavior doesn’t mean they always will.

Have some optimism, it helps activate and create a better future rather than ceding it to the megacorps.

In-Q-Tel and Sony put $527k combined into Keyhole, a mapping startup that google acquired in 2004 (1 year after the original investment). In Nov 2005, Sony and IQT sold google for about $2.2M, by then google had IPOd for $1.6 billion.

I wasn’t familiar with the details but that’s not a very convincing connection to derive anything from. Is there more evidence to the story? Seems like a small amount of money and they briefly crossed organizational paths for about a year, over 20 years ago.

… but you can’t force them to learn. Explicit instruction that isn’t backed by modeled behavior isn’t going to be very effective, IMO.

These companies have goosed their profits via slippage and friction for customer support because they built the systems. Humans don’t have the time nor energy to fight Byzantine systems. Personal agents help me buy what I want without the upsells, cancel when I want without forgetting. They are a balancing power in the future but upsetting the corporate owned control. Therefore they will try to ban them.

I don’t agree with this view towards two options. Humans are complex and reducing it to this narrative eliminates so many possible narratives where she could be incredibly self aware in one compartment and also completely delusional in another. Multiplied by 50 different dimensions.

Isn’t the reasonable expectation that publishers don’t transfer rights they don’t own?

What happens if the publisher has a license granted by their tier1 but their tier1 can’t grant this license?

You’re comparing a successful operation revealed years later against a failure. I understand your comment was tongue in cheek but cmom

We’ve collectively decided this because the West developed a strong sense of property rights of the individual versus that of the collective. Typically it’s taxation that nudges these behaviors, at least in theory. It’s nuanced complex and incoherent at times, so no need to come after me for just trying to answer your question. I am not advocating that it’s the right balance or mix.

We shouldn’t prioritize efficiency when it comes to moral matters. That’s a bad idea for the government.

People’s primary residences are more than just an economic asset. If you don’t understand that, it’s difficult to have a conversation as we have very different starting points about morality.

It’s not a bullshit idea, it is realistic and the problem in California is that it includes commercial and second homes.

I don’t want my country to force old people to either move from their home, or take out risky debt.

There are absolutely problems and prop 13 has been awful for California but it’s a red herring to worry about the primary residence exceptions.

Did they reach a good diagnosis by using tools to provide themselves additional information to process?

Or did they make a fatally wrong diagnosis that was only discovered because the old doctor whipped out their medical encyclopedias? You left us hanging without the relevant part of the story!

I agree. The companies want to release their models that are just ahead of the competition while working on UX based vendor lockin. They can buffer model releases if everyone is slowing down (releases are hard and expensive!) and then do more foundational-but-not-ready-to-apply research while continuing on he funding, valuation, addition, and revenue pushes.

I read the whole thing as coordinated behavior to reduce the breakneck pace of 2026.

I think it’s more precise to say it’s easier to change the mind of someone who lives in symbols than who lives in dirt. Whether that is changing their mind for the better (oh new maths proof, I’d better update my priors) or the worse.

That sounds a lot like the American MAGA movement, was my first reaction.

Whatever the tool, the problem is that it’s wrong, not that it’s done by AI. Like, why are we conflating the two - is it because it’s now easier for someone to produce a wrong artifact that visually looks ok and therefore tricks our brains? And people get upset because a prior quality heuristic is now obviously broken?

It’s definitely not in the community’s interest to have auto posting bots also commenting, and I am not advocating for that

But in this case I appreciated the summary so i didn’t have to waste any time on the article.

Hopefully next time, my agent will read it all for me and make this comment.

I was really curious and looked it up. Gun owners went for Trump 2:1 in 2024. I thought it would have been higher tbh.