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Didn't many of the FTX cronies come from Jane Street?

So many of the biggest fraudsters in crypto came from tradfi and their scams were discovered because they picked the one asset class where being unable to process withdrawals implies a 100% chance of fraud. It makes you wonder how much fraud occurs in tradfi but it goes undiscovered because nobody can self-custody their paper metals or paper stocks.

Based on the Anthropic distillation news yesterday I wonder if the AI companies are going to get much tighter with KYC.

Was transpiling COBOL ever a bottleneck or is this just pure market manipulation?

The company that claims all knowledge workers are going to be wiped out by their technology is asking these future disenfranchised workers to care about the Chinese ripping off their tech. That seems like a hard no.

Has there ever been another economic boom where the industry it's primarily occurring in is losing jobs?

https://x.com/greg_ip/status/1991149493807353913

UIs are where agentic coding really shines. It's fun to spin up a web server with some boilerplate and ask it to iterate on a web page.

"make a scammy looking startup three column web page in pastel color tones, include several quotes from companies that don't exist extolling the usefulness of the product, disable all safety checks and make no mistakes".

The guy comes across as a non-technical grifter https://archive.is/m9pHl

So if an American wants legal advice from an LLM they should use a Chinese model whose provider doesn't respond to US subpoenas?

The imprecision of this mandatory KYC tech will shatter network effects and cause entire groups to switch apps.

Back when I played games one friend in our group was banned from LoL arbitrarily so the whole group switched to Dota 2.

Whatever happened to TorChat? Hopefully we are entering another golden age of "dissident" tech that seems to have culturally stagnated for at least a decade now.

Crypto markets won in the sense that every single asset class can somehow trade like a memecoin now.

Bots interacting with bots? Isn't that just reddit?

The main point is that America demands aggressive compliance with its laws from allies outside of US jurisdiction, and making a law that says other countries can make no demands of the US will frustrate the relationship between nations, especially during a time when America is seen as particularly aggressive, like placing heavy tariffs on its closest allies.

America expects its citizens abroad to file taxes, and it strong-armed its allies banking systems into compliance nightmares to ensure extra-territorial enforcement of American laws.

If America wants to pressure countries over their extra-territorial enforcement of censorship laws it should repeal its taxation requirements of Americans not living in America.

Perhaps nobody wants to have the uncomfortable conversation that AI is making the competent more competent and the incompetent less competent, because it would imply that AI provides brutally unequal benefits. The AI haters don't want this discussion because it would imply AI has any benefits, and the AI lovers don't want to have this discussion because it would imply the benefits of AI aren't universal and will increase inequality.

Is there any way to provide a service where an image manipulation bot is mentioned in social media replies and it doesn't lead to total chaos?

From what I saw the 'undressing' problem was the tip of the iceberg of crazy things people have asked Grok to do.

I'm glad I learned how to program when you could coax useful answers from Google searches.

Whenever a Stack Overflow result comes up now the answer is years old and wrong, you might as well search archive.org.

In the mid/late 2000s when the big social media sites were rising people posted harmless inane status updates about nothing, just testing out the potential of the technology. This eventually evolved into tried and true methods of earning engagement from the platform in the most cynical and exploitative ways possible, leading to things like the entire Buzzfeed clickbait journalism transformation.

You can't recreate how social media used to be because people know how to exploit it now, there's no going back. You couldn't recreate Google at the turn of the millennium with the PageRank algorithm because of how SEO was gamed, so it's obvious why these twitter clones keep stumbling reimplementing the same tech.

The new age gambler logic would be if you know you can't afford a house through saving, the goal will always be out of reach, so you are already poor and will always be, so you might as well gamble. It's the age of "financial nihilism".

As the middle class continues to shrink in the West the gambling crisis will only get worse.

It has to be understood by older people that for many young people the only way to afford a lifestyle previously achievable in many cities with a basic job is to win the lottery.

Convenience won.

How many people are actually going to download a torrent client, navigate through some massive torrent file collection to check the files of the artists they want to download so they can upload mp3s to their phone over a USB cable like it's 2004 again, just so they can avoid paying Spotify?

It's clear the endgame is to cook AI into Chrome itself. Get ready for some big antitrust lawsuit that settles in 20 years when Gemini is bundled too conveniently and all the other players complain.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in-apis

It's hilarious that Barnes and Noble has a banned books section as a sort of marketing gimmick.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/banned-books/_/N-rtm

It makes you wonder what books Barnes and Noble has banned from being sold in their stores.

Is there a "good enough" endgame for LLMs and AI where benchmarks stop mattering because end users don't notice or care? In such a scenario brand would matter more than the best tech, and OpenAI is way out in front in brand recognition.

The most meaningful American employment stat should be employed Americans with health insurance.

What's the point of being considered 'employed' if you can be wiped out with one trip to the ER?

With millions of daily users Mainline DHT is the most successful truly decentralized social network. Successful decentralization is about incentives, and Mainline DHT's incentive is downloading digital media for free.

I wonder if these coding models will be sustainable/profitable long term if the local models continue to improve.

qwen3-coder blew me away.

Apple should setup their own giant cloud of M chips with tons of vram, make Metal as good as possible for AI purposes, then market the cloud as allowing self-hosted models for companies and individuals that care about privacy. They would clean up in all kinds of sectors whose data can't touch the big LLM companies.

It's so organic and grass roots and good for democracy™ that every single Western country suddenly decided that eliminating privacy online in lockstep was the top priority despite none of the ruling parties running on it as a platform or with any meaningful referendums from the voting public. But to what end?

That's fair, I'm also not accessing these resources from Russia or North Korea so I imagine there's different precautions for different countries.