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logicchains··on Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks
The whole raison d'etre of hyperliquid and defi in general is getting around "kyc or something". More realistic risk is poor opsec allowing govs to persecute people who use/host the service.
logicchains··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
Yes, but before you needed someone good at sales and a team of programmers, now you just need a buddy good at sales.
logicchains··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
AI also gives employees much more leverage than before, as they no longer need a large team to compete with BigCos at knowledge work. It's never been cheaper to start a software business.
logicchains··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
AI needs humans to fill in the gaps at what it's not good at: acquiring and managing large volumes of new information/context. This requires humans to learn faster than ever before, since their projects grow much more rapidly, and to spend far more time managing and switching context, which people generally find unpleasant.
logicchains··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
It's a metaphor for some tasks being inherently serial, so no amount of parallelism will make them complete faster.
logicchains··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
>Here's a question, to people who delegate all their coding to AI agents now: What are you doing to keep your mind exercised in all this suddenly new free time you have?

If you have a lot more free time you're not taking full advantage of agents. The time saved coding allows working on 4-6 projects simultaneously, and the majority of work is the hard design/product decisions that the agents can't do well themselves. Working on the hard parts of half a dozen projects simultaneously is far more mentally taxing than just hand-coding a single project, and with that many agents there'll usually always be one with a question for you so you won't have much extra free time.

logicchains··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
>if a company was growing at, say, 10% per year, prior to the covid-craziness, then one would expect something like that natural growth to continue

A company growing 10% per year would be around 7x larger 20 years later. There's a limit on how big companies can get.

logicchains··on Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Yet somehow the countries with far fewer exploiters (billionaires) like those in Europe pay their workers so much less.
logicchains··on Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
>Dude, it worked for a billion people in China, lol.

China starved tens of millions of people for two decades, it was only after they started opening up the economy in the 70s and allowed people to own farms/shops that living standards started increasing.

logicchains··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
It takes human talent to make a product as actively irritating as Teams or the Windows 11 Start Menu.
logicchains··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
I guess unfortunately there isn't an easy way to just "only fire the employees responsible for making Teams suck".
logicchains··on Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism
>AI does the stuff better than us in every category

Current AI is never going to do better than us in every category, it can only do better in us in categories where it's possible to generate an infinite amount of verifiable synthetic data (math and programming). AI is still just as bad at sales, marketing, writing and anything involving human subjective appeal as it was a year ago. And it's fundamentally handicapped in being unable to acquire new domain knowledge that doesn't fit in a few hundred thousand tokens of context.

logicchains··on Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism
>But what do people do to produce things when intellectual labour is automated?

They do what AI can't do, entrepreneurialism, because AI doesn't have property rights. Like back to the 1800s when most Americans were self-employed, not working for large corporations, because corporate cog-in-the-machine work can be done better by AI. With AI it's far easier to run your own business than at any time in history.

logicchains··on Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism
>But the gains have BY AND LARGE gone to the wealthiest individuals and countries.

This is simply false, the average Chinese or Indian is incredibly better off now than they were 100 or 500 years ago. In fact for the past decade many of the wealthiest countries (many Western European countries, and Japan) have seen barely any growth in living standards at all, GDP-per-capita growth has been concentrated in developing countries.

logicchains··on AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework
Even in China companies are already doing this: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/china-ai-ta...
logicchains··on AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework
>Even ignoring learning outcomes, answer sharing was a good excuse for the nerds to talk to the not-nerds.

You mean to plagiarize their work. Now finally the nerds also have the option to have somebody else do their work for them.

logicchains··on AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework
>If private enterprise was really this efficient, and government was really that inefficient, we should have seen ample evidence for that by now

There's a wealth of clear evidence for this in the economic data in Eastern vs Western Europe, East Germany vs West Germany when Eastern Europe was under Soviet rule. The countries under Soviet rule were significantly poorer and to this day most still haven't caught up with their Western European counterparts.

logicchains··on AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework
>single final exam selects for lucky people. Did you learn the right thing? Are you healthy and well rested on the day?

If it's a well-designed course it should be clear what the content of the exam will be. If not, it's the professor's fault. And barring rare emergencies being rested on the day is also generally a matter of preparation, not luck.

logicchains··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
>I've seen how long an average PR review actually takes

This was a problem well before AI, but it doesn't get talked about enough because so many developers are hooked on the power trip they get from making people waste time on crap that has no relevance to the user.

logicchains··on Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
https://bitchat.free/ is one, if you can convince any of your friends to use it.
logicchains··on Job loss and cortisone mania
>You don't think spending the days with your family, hunting/growing food to feed that family would be fulfilling?

You think it'd be fulfilling when your children had around a 25% chance to die before the age of five?

logicchains··on Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude
The article is about the Swedish Government, hopefully it wouldn't be out of reach for them.
logicchains··on Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
>pretty much nobody is using cryptocurrencies

Step out into the wider world and that isn't remotely true.

logicchains··on Quad9 to exit France
> If someone labors to write a novel, they're no less justified to get economic benefit from it than someone who labored to build an apartment building.

They absolutely are, because an apartment building is a _rival_ good, as are all physical goods, meaning that you and somebody else cannot both own and use it at the same time. Intellectual property is a non-rival good, meaning if somebody else copies your song or story, you still have that song/story! It's a very different moral claim; the apartment is "I built it, so nobody should be able to take it away from me without paying", while the IP is "I built it, so nobody else should be able to copy it without paying".

logicchains··on Starcraft: Ashfall
If it's that easy to make a game that people like then why didn't you do it?
logicchains··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
Math is not just a "field", it's a body of beautiful knowledge. It's never been easier than before to start learning it, if one wants to appreciate it for its own sake and not as a means to get famous or boost one's own ego.
logicchains··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
At this rate the frontier labs will be Anthropic and DeepSeek, with OpenAI struggling to keep up.
logicchains··on 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
AI is coming for jobs involving programming and math (which tend to pay higher) because it's possible to generate infinite training data for those fields via using a compiler/theorem prover to check correctness. They're not coming for high-paying jobs like investment banking and architecture because you can't generate infinite synthetic training data for those.
logicchains··on Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination
The people who downvoted you would rather everyone was poor than that someone else had more than them. There's a whole chunk of social and political science that exists solely to try to frame and justify envy as a virtue.
logicchains··on Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination
This ironically sounds like AI-written marketing prose.
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