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wagwang··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
The state literally exists to manage violence, especially revenge. It basically provides "fair revenge" which is justice.
wagwang··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
It absolutely is, if you arent going to punish someone who hurt my child then I will do it myself.
wagwang··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
Can some lawyer explain the rationale of statute of limitations? Like why does a robber get to get away with the crime if they are able to evade the police for x number of years. Is it just because the trials suck after a while cuz no one remembers anything?
wagwang··on Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
Everyone farms the idiots, the liberal establishment over the last 50 years sold working class jobs overseas and imported labor to devalue their wages. Don't be surprised when another faction uses these "idiots" against you.
wagwang··on Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
If you are on a sota model and your context window is less than 100k tokens and you don't have any vague or contradicting rules, then I've almost never seen a rule broken

The most common failure I've seen come from tools that pollute their context with crap and the llm will forget stuff or just get confused from all the irrelevant sentences; which if the report is true, is probably what these ai notetakers are guilty of. This problem gets exacerbated if these tools turn on the 1M context window version.

wagwang··on Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
Seems to work for me

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a06a4c5-d454-83e8-a5b2-c9468f6588...

wagwang··on Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
You can just tell the agent to do exactly that
wagwang··on Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
Depends on the product, but in many cases you cant actually decouple the complexity because the complexity is the product. There are times where the archaic flow needs to work for some stupid compliance reason.
wagwang··on The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
The last line of the video was talking about nuking others...
wagwang··on American aviation is near collapse?
There's no evidence that tight labor markets lead to a inflation death spiral, food in america is supposed to be expensive because America is a wealthy nation. The elites like to dress this up as something that is bad for the lower class but it's quite the opposite, the lower class in wealthy high cost of living, low immigration countries do very well, not that there are many of these countries left.
wagwang··on American aviation is near collapse?
It's inherently unfair because its used to drive down wages of the lower classes. Outside of highly skilled work that cannot be sourced from within the country that is critical for nation security, the moral response is to just pay the workers more.
wagwang··on American aviation is near collapse?
Yes, that's how I would describe using immigration to address labor shortages
wagwang··on A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
Always interesting to see the analogs of island vs continental culture when comparing UK <-> America and Japan <-> China. Seems like islanders, due to their reliance on trade, naturally get specialized and autistic about their craft so they can have a comparative advantage, and their obsessions carry over into stuffy traditional practices.
wagwang··on US national debt surges past $39 Trillion
you think we can print 40t without going into hyperinflation? Lol... Why would other countries hold usd if we print 40t
wagwang··on US national debt surges past $39 Trillion
Ah yes, the "we can cure debt by going into hyperinflation" argument
wagwang··on AI coding is gambling
> I divide my tasks into good for the soul and bad for it. Coding generally goes into good for the soul, even when I do it poorly.

Lmk how you feel when you're constantly build integrations with legacy software by hand.

wagwang··on Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
Executive power over the civil service is an ant driving an elephant. You can say it's a good thing and it's intentional, but the fact of the matter is that the executive appoint a fraction of a percent of the positions and those positions have nominal personnel powers that they can't really use without fear of getting sued.
wagwang··on Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
The US elected government has no control over the unelected civil servants as congress over the past 150 years did everything they could to prevent the spoils system.
wagwang··on ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
> because productivity gains must benefit the lower classes to see a multiplier in the economy

by this logic, the invention of mechanized farm equipment, which displaced farm labor, didnt increase productivity

wagwang··on Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over
in an age of generated tests, a mandate on no tests is just dumb
wagwang··on Payment fees matter more than you think
That's cc propaganda; merchant fraud is a tiny portion of the overall transactions so you'd save more overall if the cc fee wasnt passed onto the consumer. The counter argument is that the aggregate data allows payment processors to ban merchants if they are bad actors. But the counter to the counter is that the level 2 payments work very well in other countries (some with a lot more fraud) and data aggregation/centralized ban power is bad.
wagwang··on Payment fees matter more than you think
Let's just call it for what it is.

Visa and mastercard innovated in an era where payment settlement was notoriously difficult and expensive but they've used their monopolies to entrench themselves in (by negotiating deals with merchants and bribing consumers with points) while the rest of the world moves on towards "layer 2" payment systems that are much cheaper and efficient.

wagwang··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
Most of what you said has nothing to do with lidar vs camera
wagwang··on California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves
Garbage methodology, state by state policies need to use something like a difference in difference study measure actual effect sizing
wagwang··on AI makes you boring
Highly doubt that since its the complete opposite for coding. Whats missing for people of all skill levels is that writing helps you organize your thoughts, but that can happen at prompt time?
wagwang··on AI makes you boring
Isnt this just flat out untrue since bots can pass turing tests
wagwang··on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
If we lived in a high trust society, you could just trust people to scan their own items and walk out.
wagwang··on STFU
This is why going to the gym matters
wagwang··on To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
I'm talking about the features/hr. It's trivial now to spin up a website with login, search, commenting, notifications, etc. These used to be multi week projects.
wagwang··on To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
The obvious explanation is that the pace of writing software has speed up 100x but documentation has remained slow... until now.
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