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to receive fiat payments, you need to go through the hassle of acquiring bank papers, etc.
For businesses, this will likely not matter. So it's very likely you can create standardized payments in the traditional sense, approaching the ideal user experience of 0 friction. Good luck!
who is compelled to invest in the future? (e.g education, public works, etc)
This i think is the grand vision -- what could it look like?
in my mind programming should look like a map -- you can go anywhere, and there'll be things happening. and multiple people.
If anyone wants to work on this (or have comments, hit me up!)
Does anyone know if there's non-classified data, like something similar that already exists?
Would be interesting to see (e.g. where all the contract money is, etc)
I think capitalism & today's global law is an example of how a concept can be "copy pasted", with regional variations. The idea of a restaurant, for example.
Technology and AI does expand what can be gamified - from the basic concept to a very fine-grained, activity-oriented tracking of what people do.
So I guess the question is: given this power, how do you design systems that are good to propagate?
ie, how do you design the education -> workforce pipeline? what incentives do people have? what kind of cultural activities are there? what norms are there?
Fascinating bc there's so much opportunity - a lot of people are blocked bc the systems they live in are not optimal (ie, regional lords, bad incentives, etc). But if we can fix that, imagine if we plopped down SF 2.0 in the middle of Africa, using a combination of technology + human intermediaries to enable a better system.
Unfortunately I think existing systems might not take kindly to this
What are other Great Wonders of software?
Agents have a pre-iPhone feel to them (when everyone was making phones with keyboards). What do you think the ultimate Agents looks like?
I think it's an interesting option, at least
It really makes you think about education (what really IS the best way to learn computer science/programming? who should you do it with, and how?), reminiscent of the overall college experience.
IMO universities ought to innovate in terms of format & really explore what tech can do (deliver uniform material, and perhaps personalized material in the age of aI), and how it affects the values of university
(this one has less wow, i guess)
1. You take a string of fair samples 0101011101010 2. you split it into chunks of 3 (8 possibilities, so each one is 0.125 chance) 3. 000, 001, 010 -> 1, and all the rest is 0, which will get 0.275 chance
Any better approaches?
Starting to think.. what else could we use it for?
doc=programming in a DSL? / (what was that one language which was functional & represented in circles in a canvas?)
For example:
> "Instead of merely(!) aligning a single, powerful AI system, we need to align one or several complex systems that are at risk of collectively drifting away from human interests. This drift can occur even while each individual AI system successfully follows the local specification of its goals"
Well yes, making systems and incentives is a hard problem. But maybe we can specify a specific instance of this, instead of "what if one day it goes rogue!"
In our society, there are already many superhuman AI systems (in the form of companies) - and somehow, they successfully contribute to our wellbeing! In fact life is amazing (even for dumb people in society, who have equal rights). And the reason is, we have categorized the ways it goes rogue (monopoly, extortion, etc) and responded adequately.
So the "extinction by industrial dehumanization" reads a lot like "extinction by cotton mills" - i mean, look on the bright side!
for example, regarding human marginalization in states, it's just rehashing basic tropes about government (tldr, technology exacerbates the creation of surveillance states)
- "If the creation and interpretation of laws becomes far more complex, it may become much harder for humans to even interact with legislation and the legal system directly"
Well duh. That's why as soon as we notice these things, we pass laws against it. AI isn't posing the "existential risk", the way we set up our systems are. There are lots of dictators, coups, surveillance states today. And yet, there are more places in which society functions decently well.
So overall, I'm more of the opinion that people will adapt and make things better for themselves. All this anthropomorphization of "the state" and "AI" obscures the basic premise, which is we created all this stuff, and we can (and have) modified the system to suit human flourishing
Things I love:
- How every book has a title & link to the google books
- Information density - You can see various publishers, sparse areas of the grid, and more
- Visualization of empty space -- great work at making it look like a big bookshelf!
Improvements?
- Instead of 2 floating panels, collapse to 1
- After clicking a book, the tooltip should disappear once you zoom out/move locations!
- Sort options (by year, by publisher name)
- Midlevel visualization - I feel like at the second zoom level (groupings of publishers), there's little information that it provides besides the names and relative sparsity (so we can remove the ISBN-related stuff on every shelf) Also since there are a fixed width of shelves, I can know there are 20 publishers, so no need! If we declutter, it'll make for a really nice physical experience!
At a first glance, it sounds interesting though! identities being keypairs, files, content that is accessible via name...
I wonder if LLMs will make it easier to repurpose software like this
On the philosophical part, well, I can say things to composer like "build out a fastapi server with xyz routes, with a nice folder structure" and it'll do a lot. I still want it to be better, though, re: system design.
Maybe there's hidden workflows, like write your thoughts in a doc and let the LLM see that. Or maybe you can have the agent write down its thoughts in a doc as a sort of working memory.
I'd love to hear more about people's non-conventional usages of Cursor
I was thinking of building something similar (generic interface for calling tools, seeing the results, maybe with multiple agents) - does it support multiple agents?
I think there would need to be some basis in fact for these claims, right?
In the future, the owners of a free press will be permitted to operate if and only if there is board seat made out to a CIA member. Unions will be permitted to congregate as long as they register with the Office of Trade Security
All in all, a huge blow to the potential power of individual rights (essentially goes to the Founding Fathers' point that having a list of rights set in stone is NOT the end-all, be-all, it's who decides the rights that count)
- difference between actually broadcast and potentially broadcast. Can the government suspend someone for potentially doing something?
- More on the right to hear speech -- you're saying that I cannot receive speech from foreign adversaries if I choose to do so myself? IMO this is well within my rights
- Do platform effects (e.g. recommendation) count as speech? For example, I may choose to post on TikTok bc it circulates in 24h to a specific audience - if TT got changed, does this mean that my speech got curtailed? (right to assemble, etc)