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The best what? You don’t see the problem with investors throwing money at companies who don’t really have a product but only a name with AI in it and good marketing?

Everybody is incentived to use the tools FAANG+ are using even if completely unnecessary, ie follow fashion. Developers for Resume Driven Development, and execs because it reassure investors and is good for marketing. The industry doesn’t reward smart engineering choices.

SWE became way more productive with Email and the Internet, did that lead to a significant part of them getting fired?

Like with any salesman whether he believes it or not is irrelevant as long as others do.

You are not wrong, but this is far from obvious for most people. Most companies have strong PR maintaining appearances for people without a lot of experience. So while this is an independent claim I think it’s still to remind that.

The constituents of the person physically exist, the different scales are just labels to group the particles/atoms/molecules/...

Corporations on the other hand exist purely in the mind, it's not about scale. It's just a tool, a mental framework. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juridical_person

> A juridical person is a legal person that is not a natural person but an organization recognized by law as a *fictitious* person such as a corporation, government agency, non-governmental organisation, or international organization (such as the European Union).

Also limited liability companies did not really exist until the 19th century. It's just useful abstractions above people interacting with each other. I get it's easier to live not being conscious of the bare metal, too bad people lose their humanity in the process.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)

Car door and head are just labels on group of atoms, when you banged your head the collision was real. Try banging your head against Amazon or Oracle. Where do you start? The hard drive holding the contracts? The buildings? The web servers? The receptionist?

"The Shareholder Value Myth" is an interesting book about companies purpose https://www.amazon.com/The-Shareholder-Value-Myth-Shareholde...

A company doesn’t physically exist, the reality is people interacting with each others. People are not responsible for others whole experience, but certainly for their actions. You can’t hide behind non-existent things, you are having a real interaction in the real world and impacting real people. Otherwise it leads to systemic evil.

Your computer physically exists, just as your lawn mower. Amazon and Oracle on the other end just exist in our minds. Physically it’s just people interacting with each other. So for me personal integrity depends on each specific interaction.

D&D world draw heavily from Middle Earth but also from other authors like Vance, Moorcock, Leiber, … The list is officially documented as “Appendix N” in AD&D 1st ed manual[0]

Kind of like Warcraft, I personally started playing around the Warcraft 2 release and it was always kind of the same world of everything medieval fantasy mixed in, never realistic.

[0]https://goodman-games.com/blog/2018/03/26/what-is-appendix-n...

From the D&D original author:

> The most immediate influences upon AD&D were probably de Camp & Pratt, R. E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, H. P. Lovecraft, and A. Merritt; but all of the above authors, as well as many not listed, certainly helped to shape the form of the game.

Edit: citation

Yes, see the sugar industry. I find it quite similar how both use brain hacks. It makes behavior extremely hard to change once people are hooked.

No, tech has become no Woz and no Jobs either. You don’t get enshittification with Jobs, but the opposite. Also he would abhorre modern day process driven product management: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l4dCJJFuMsE

> All the market correctly predicted is that the market would continue to incorrectly predict their value.

I don’t understand why so many don’t get this, especially after crypto currencies became a thing. The token can be DOGE or TSLA, the mechanism is the same, only marketing and PR content change, reality doesn’t matter. In fact Musk already said Tesla is not a car company anymore. Crypto opened the eyes of a lot of smart CEOs, and not in a good way, and investors look away as long as the dance continue.

Interesting how this is the opposed of fitness recommendations where it’s all about mTOR activation to build muscle with protein or even pure leucine supplements. That would imply a strong inverse correlation between muscle mass and longevity, but I’m not aware of research showing this, even maybe the opposite. How do you explain this apparent paradox? Maybe the problem is mTOR over activation, not an intermittent one, kind of like insulin? In that case phases of muscle building with autophagy in between (ie intermittent fasting) could be the best of both.

And what is the content people scroll to? And how does one become a celebrity in the first place on IG or TikTok? And what teens do all day long? Yep, sharing their live.

I share your experience, but for me it is just the one of a millennial getting older.

Not only sensors: in Europe I don’t see how driving in small towns could be possible without communicating with other drivers and pedestrians, and reading custom signs. Maybe add a robotic hand to the list of required hardware.

Sure but that’s not the hypothesis, that’s your definition. Of course a definition is true.

See this is exactly what is wrong with “this time it’s different” here. AI has been useful and used for decades (but under a different name because the term was tainted by previous bubbles). Look at the section “AI behind the scenes” here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intellig...

What’s the point if the capacity to deploy good products has been lost in the process? What if what you see as unreliable was at the hearth of what enabled great things to happen. This is a typical caveat of a programmer centric organization. Things get more reliable but more frozen and innovation die.

I don’t understand this argument, Google is a giant monopoly worldwide in many markets compared to Apple who only has a slight advantage in only one market. Google own the web (search), mail (Gmail), maps (Gmail), videos (YouTube), smartphone (Android)… Apple is smartphones in the US.

I was talking only about shootings. But if we are comparing anecdotes regarding your example I happened to also live in one of these unsafe suburbs, and visiting LA, SF or Chicago and getting in the wrong neighborhood seemed order of magnitude less safe. Gangs are not armed, you don’t hear gunshots at night or people screaming in the city center, and you don’t encounter aggressive drug addicts. All of this never happened to me in decades in Paris but did in one trip to the these US cities.

Not "everywhere", as an European that grew up in a big city (Paris) that's unthinkable.

This is not the original title, which is "Database Diagnosis System using Large Language Models". LLM as a diagnosis tool seems indeed like a really good use case as the paper show, but the changed title imply the point is replacing the whole role.

You care indirectly because if the articles are search engine optimized it means they are gaming the search engine by being artificially ranked higher. It’s the role of the search engine to find relevant content to your question impartially, not of the websites themselves. As a user with SEO what you end up seeing is the website that is saying “it’s me!” the loudest, instead of real search results. But I know that boat has sailed, SEO has won and real search engines are dead.

I don’t find any mention of this on the study. But even if there was you realize how insignificant that signal is compared to everything else right? From personal anecdotes to any married bald man it’s trivial to show it’s irrelevant. Like others have said work on what you can improve, like getting fit, and obviously confidence and empathy first by getting female friends and in the process realizing they are not cavewomen. If you are seriously looking at studies for what is attractive then that’s 100% the problem, not your hair.

I have read these kind of stories many times but I'm starting to realize how much the relative engineering success of MacOS 8 and 9 is overlooked with the now "classic" storytelling centered around Jobs and his comeback. Mac OS 10 was not really usable until 10.1 in 2001, yet the iMac, iBook and PowerBook G3 were successes, so the OS obviously played a role, but reading these stories it's kind of absent.

My memories are surely tainted by nostalgia because 1997-2001 I was a teen and avid Mac user but from what I remember between the mid-90s Performa on 7.5 and late 90s iMac on 9 it felt like a lot happened. While not the future, as an end user 8.6/9 felt relatively modern, especially compared to Windows 95/98. And even in the mid-90s even if from a business POV the future was bleak for Apple from an end user one 7.5 was not really worst than 95.

This is true but only explains business apps.

For me it makes sense when you start to see Chrome as an OS. Developers use Chrome specific API, which means the apps are not web apps, but Chrome apps (and the developers Chrome developers). Sure the Chrome (OS) is cross platform so it’s a great platform to develop your app. But it’s a little bit unfair (unless you consider that Google = the Web, which may be the reality I refuse to see).

This is irrelevant for safety, the parent is talking about a child population potentially more at risk. A lifeguard's job is not sociology or history.