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I think some justify it as SpaceX plans to offer hosting in space, and then use Starlink to distribute it.

The argument is dialectical. In other words both sides are right.

There is a really important question that is been lost between the anti and pro AI camps which is really answering what AI is good at and what AI is bad at, and what is the root cause of the weaknesses. Is it intrinsic to the models that LLM's use, or the way thy have been trained. In this knowledge is where the gold mine is for the next start up.

For example AI is very good at answering well defined questions, but suffers from premature closure. It will not know if it has all the information to answer the question. So whilst AI will score better than a doctor or a lawyer on a domain question it will not necessarily gather all the evidence needed to answer the question properly. Knowing this whilst using a LLM is a super power.

There is also a large gap Usability issue in that often the LLM does not really know the humans context, in other words a context collapse. It does not know if you specilised in your domain or just asking for fun.

We should be exploring and debating these gaps.

Try this with ChatGPT or GROK or Claude

How many days of the week contain the letter d?

The answer I get with ChatGPT, and Grok is 3 and 6 with Claude.

Yes, I agree. There are two theories here Quantity has gone up but quality has gone down, or people need less apps as the LLM answers their needs.

Trying to answer this is important to try to answer the future. What startup to build

A really interesting point in the article that even though the number of IOS apps Has increased by 80% the number of reviews has actually decreased.

The number Apps with significant usage has gone down slightly.

Is this suggesting less critical thinking?

I think this article echos a lot of what people have been saying here on HN, that there is a massive funnel of productivity.

The article says that whilst the number of edits to individual files has increased by 300% actual releases have only increased by 30%.

I even find this 30% seams higher than what I am seeing.

I love the quote by the Japanese engineer Ohno that a broken machine or system makes a lot of noise. I think it sums up the current situation precisely.

And archived https://archive.is/5nHAP

So how much more improvements are there for efficiency in the Claude code base if they are using react for a tui, in the rest of the code?

I also wonder about the wasted cycles and just the environmental damage caused by all these wasted cpu time . (Edited added a comma for clarity)

Why did the account recovery system need AI. Surely just an email would do? What added value would AI add?

What I can’t understand is how she was able to publish the book, but is not able speak publicly about what happened.

As Mark Zuckerberg has said in 2017 :

"I'm here today because I believe that we must continue to stand for free expression," he said. "You should be able to say things that other people don't like, but you shouldn't be able to say things that put people in danger."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/facebook-ceo-promote...

Because often it happens so randomly. Sometimes it takes two people to be on a natural break at the same time, hungry at the same time, or just how two people got on at a meeting.

I have found working with remote first natives that the narrowness of their knowledge is also very high. When you work in an office there is a some knowledge transfer happening having lunch with the guy in accounts or the women in the sales team. This non structured learning is missed in remote work.

And Archived :

https://archive.is/BgXyO

But the part that should not be forgot is Jef Raskin’s book The Humane Interface. Many of the ideas in the book are only now implementable with the arrival of AI.

Also he defined the difference between computers and humans as computers been precise and accurate and humans as vague, but more flexible. We have now had a paradigm shift in that ai is now the flexible interface that sometimes hallucinates.

Is VibeDebt a term yet?

It’s actually dependent on your individual biology and the environment that you are in.

You need more hydration in hot climates than in cold damp ones. Also your activity influences how much hydration you need.

Ps I don’t think the article is about how much water you drink. (Edited to make the last sentence clearer)

How does China manage it with their censorship rules?

Is not the answer to strip the dangerous information before training? Rather than trying to add guardrails post training.

This theory comes from what Kano calls delighters. In the 1980’s Noriaki Kano came up with the a product framework called the Kano model.

Touchpoints come in three ways. Delighters as already mentioned, a popsicle delivered to your room, or a chocolate on your pillow. Then there are performance needs. In the case of a hotel this could be the quality of the view, or the case of an employee the basic wage, and then next is the basic needs. Using the hotel example this would be something like the air conditioning.

You complain if it does not work, but nobody writes a review about how perfect the aircon was.

So I wonder if the issue of the agents going rogue is due to the 15 day duration and context rot?

I wonder what they did to preserve context?

And is this just a PR exercise?

You actually have many alternative money transfer systems around the world.

Like Qvik you mention, UPI in India, Blik in Poland, and Swish in Sweden.

Even cross border systems like Revolut pay.

Surprisingly the first system started with MPESA in Kenya. Showing that innovation can happen Africa, and does not need to limited to Europe or the USA.

I understand where you’re coming from. I differ from this view. I think we can hold a dialectical view. We can recognise art that raises questions or creates problems, while also recognising design or technology that solves problems.

Human progress depends on both: defining the problem and solving it.

Where is the harm? You can be in both worlds at the same time.

If we think of Leonardo da Vinci he created both art that created problems, and inventions that solved problems. But these world where very separate.

I was always told that the difference between art and design is that the artist creates the problem, and the designers solve them.

I thought it followed the Socrates tradition in that the true philosopher is the one asking the questions, and it is the role of the student to answer them.

I wish I remembered who I am quoting here

It does discolor over time. The point is that one should be thinking about the impact over centuries and not years. It needs to be used with care and other alternatives need to always be considered.

For a painting or building that has survived for half a millennium we need use methods that will preserve the object for another 500 years.

Too many times I hear people say we will just use Paraloid.

It is used to strengthen materials. For example if plaster has crumbled, or the paint on a canvas has become flakey, or wood rotten, Paraloid B-72 can be used to hold everything together. The issue is that generally it is not reversible. Therefore one should always look at varnishes that can easily be removed and reapplied, but sometimes only Paraloid can hold everything toghther.

You can see the research here : https://www.woodresearch.sk/wr/201104/07.pdf?utm_source=chat... and here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400226168_Aging_Mec...

The issue is that it does yellow but after 25 to 50 years. The challange is that it is very difficult to reverse.

On the restoration of my house I allow its use on very specific cases. It very useful for example in strengthening wood that has rotten. Sometimes Paraloid is the only thing that can be used, but it needs to be used with care.

He was so passionate about no modes he had a personal number plate for his car that was “NO MODES”