losteric

I shoot on digital and film. Film photography has been "niche" for nearly 2 decades at this point. Comparing it to digital photography is like pointing out "smart watches can do so much more than mechanical watches" - that's not the point.

There's an overlap between the mystique of analog technologies, the ritual and limitations of physical processes, and status. Status in affording the time to learn about this niche, the money for hardware and film, the space for development (sometimes), signalling a different mentality towards content (in theory). Plus, for me, the end-to-end analogue feels like a retort to this phase of digital disinformation/AI-everything.

Any Joe can buy an expensive mirrorless with a good travel lens, shoot 3000 photos at a game, and come away with some good ones. Monkey on a typewriter and all that.

> Despite being trained on more compute than GPT-3, AlphaGo Zero could only play Go, while GPT-3 could write essays, code, translate languages, and assist with countless other tasks. The main difference was training data.

This is kind of weird and reductive, comparing specialist to generalist models? How good is GPT3’s game of Go?

The post reads as kind of… obvious, old news padding a recruiting post? We know OpenAI started hiring the kind of specialist workers this post mentions, years ago at this point.

> However what will actually happen is society will use these people to brick lay for houses, care for the elderly or something else. That's honestly a good thing for society as we have massive shortages there, and not a bad thing for the individuals as a whole.

Labor "shortages" for those jobs exist because they are not financially attractive. Why is it a "good thing" to eliminate more attractive roles? How does this materially reduce the cost of living, or increase for the roles you point to?

This is incredibly fatalistic.

I lived under all of this, plus two immigrant parents with no community / role modeling, isolated in suburbia as a kid with a chronically online 20s.

Yeah that nurturing left its mark. Yet I learned to see it, and learn new patterns. In my 30s I have deep friendships. Younger, older, men, women, nb. Most are still shallow, my energy is limited, but even there sometimes we touch into depth when it comes to relationship or existential stuff.

Rewrite your programming.

2 vs 1 doesn’t significantly impact space or cleaning labor, unless you’re staying in a super minimalist itty bitty unit (which I rarely find exists anymore)

Perhaps we’re trading different stress/anxiety coping mechanisms?

Project 2025 is only the “part 1” doc, and they’re tracking to wrap most of it up this year.

Yeah, that’ll be the product-oriented engineers / engineer-oriented product folks.

We will drop the narrow-minded deadweight that can only collect naive requirements, and the coding side that can only implement unambiguous tickets.

I’ve seen that several times. It seems like they just surface bing results atm.

I’m already at the point of distrusting any and all brand name call outs in ChatGPT, unless I’m talking about vintage stuff that is exclusively 2nd hand (and suspicious even then). They’ve already scraping an astroturfed internet.

For the same reason, I’d argue mortgages are a bad thing for consumers by creating this prisoners dilemma around debt.

How does bnpl increase sales?

My intuition is it brings in a slight bump now, at the cost of longer term.

The customer can either wait N months to buy the bike cash, or buy it now and pay interest for the next K months.

- In the first scenario, customers can quickly save up and return for accessories/etc.

- in the latter, the customer is playing XX% on top of the bike purchase which ultimately reduces the purchases that customer can make.

It’s just exploiting the “present bias”/time-discounting in human psychology.

Prevost was at the top of the "status" list. They also published guesses by "information control" and "coalition building".

We (Americans) have this culture of individualistic self-invention, consumer identity as a lifestyle (intellectual/artistic pursuits included), and the felt experience that worth/belonging/security is contingent on performance or achievement. Plus struggles with emotional intelligence and trauma (esp. among men), perpetuating that internalized conditionality.

I know so many people that got burned out and around their 30s, went off trying to do everything all at once (me too)… dancing around the hole.

The mixing of all of the above feels more uniquely American. Not that Japan (or others) don’t have some of the facets, like aspects of meritocracy (arguably balanced by other cultural values).

What do you mean by “clear answer”? How would you definitively prove this is fake or real?

Some photo might be proven to be eg distant lights or inconstant lighting… but a bespoke prop and old / bad cameras? we can only say “it looks super fake”

1. Seattle is quite safe. Friendliness is different than safety

2. It all comes back to housing density/supply. As you say, daycare costs are dominated by staffing ratios/wages - which are a function of cost of living. The surge of high income earners + housing supply deficit = pricing out daycare workers (and daycares).

We expected heavy elements from supernova. It’s surprising that there is 10x more heavy elements than expected. Were there more supernova? Bigger ones? Are we missing other pieces of the picture?

What was the web like before wide spread internet ads, auth, and search engines?

Did all those old sites have “business models”? What did the web feel like back then?

(This is rhetorical - I had niche hobby sites back then, in the same way some people put out free zines, and wouldn’t give a damn about today’s AI agents so long as they were respectful.

The web was better back then, and I believe AI slop and agents brings us closer to full circle)

You still didn’t name the conference

Yeah, they’d walk out because that’s a bad-faith example of a pitch.

A good sales person would talk about any self-driving feature built in (eg lane following) then mention the car is compatible with third-party self-driving products like Comma.ai.

Just like how they talk about brakes, wheels, exhaust on sports cars - all areas customers may mod after purchase.

I clicked your link and have absolutely no idea what I am looking at. There is overlapping text, obscure words without definition, terribly confusing UX.

What is this?

Who is it for?

Why do you think this is demonstrates the OP is BS?

> I think the issue is that life is boring; most problems are solved. There's nothing to talk about. Why go learn guitar when AI can make a song for you?

Why learn piano 200 years ago? We would’ve been forgettable even back then.

Life and the mundane is interesting, most people can be loved in some platonic friendly sense. Doing so is an active skill society seems to have forgotten.

I was in a large extrovert group recently, talking to a new person over a drink… we got to talking about their grad school research, which didn’t pan out and which they’d largely moved on from in work… just 5-10 minutes on that and they were so excited and connected because “no one is ever interested”. Their boisterous group was just that, jokey chatty nothing, all noise no signal.

Another friend, just yesterday, we spent 20 minutes talking about ice cream over ice cream after 2hrs hanging out 1:1.

If someone doesn’t have something to talk about, they are either surrounded by bad friends, have some self-work to do, or they are a corpse.

US has been reshoring hardware for a while, but that didn’t stop DeepSeek and certainly won’t prevent presently allied powers from building AIs.

A big lesson seems to be that one can rapidly close the gap, with much less compute, once paths have been blazed by others. There’s a first-mover disadvantage.

That’s fine. Your random click would be balanced by someone else randomly clicking

You're describing the belief value.

What are you talking about? We can wear gold, make weapons out of iron, cups out of copper… coins have both a fiat face value and real tangible value (the “floor”).

Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. It’s entirely belief.

That’s not a bad thing. MLMs can be very profitable, some turn into multi-generational institutions of faith.

I own bitcoin because it’s like buying a share of the Mormon church early on. Absolutely, do it! But comparing it with gold? Come on, be real.

Why bitcoin instead of doge or any of the other digital golds?

This comment is peculiar - among technologists, for years the common refrain I’ve heard is “Bitcoin makes no sense but the underlying block chain ideas are very useful”.

Of course the combination of signed transactions, common visible ledgers, introducing computational challenges to forgery, resiliency through consensus (kinda)… all the bits and pieces can be remixed into really interesting ideas.

Bitcoin, I still don’t get. More public, slower, more expensive, no fundamental utility, and still subject to nation-state interference?

Multi-generational families with tighter communities spreading the work.

My parents grew up spending a lot of time with their aunts and uncles. I grew up with my parents because they didn't have extended family or friends that could help. Now my generation, I see at least more "family circles" sharing in child care (eg Friday sleepovers at one rotating family, so the other parents can go out). I can't imagine how easy it would be if more grandparents were nearby.

Plus it was just cheaper to live back then. Now the norm is both parents work full time to stay barely above water economically, maximizing shareholder value.

> I'm a member of an organization that stresses personal improvement (amongst other things).

Do you mind if I ask what kind of organization? I’ve struggled to find active groups focused on values/principles instead of hobbies. Or maybe by organization, you mean work?