> Ironic how a libertarian would impose his personal views on "the system". Doesn't work? Let it die. Too many PhDs? Perhaps, let them search for a job. If they're indeed too many, a generation of plumbers etc. will emerge naturally. No one is impeding their businesses, if anything governments worldwide are aiding big technology companies in any way possible.
It's not ironic when you understand that libertarianism is really about maximizing personal liberty: removing constraints on the wealthy, so they can do what they want and impose their personal views. It's the most libertarian thing for millions of people to have very constrained lives under the rule of some wealthy person.
> more than 50 Playdates have been provided to students
Provided. To me that doesn’t seem like the students are paying for them. Furthermore, from other comments in the thread of former Duke students using iPods, it seems Duke lends you the hardware.
Paper provides an actual utility that people want and serves a real human need. Hyper scale data centers only exist to make Garfield porn and help scammers.
That's like saying 'cars were better made in the 1950's because they used tons of steel'. Like they were 'heavier and more robust' - but that doesn't mean better.
Foundations are way better, more robust, especially weatherized. Windows today are like magic compared to windows 100 years ago.
What we do more poorly now is we don't use wood everywhere, aka doors, and certain kinds of workmanship are not there - like winding staircases, mouldings - but you can easily have that if you want to pay for it. That's a choice.
AI is power and leverage, it will make better things as long as it's directed by skilled operators.
I also interact a ton with C and C++, but it's easy today to have Claude write a Project Panama wrapper and then put a nice Clojure veneer on top of the Java.
Nietzsche argued that genius is more frequent than we think, but that something else is missing for its realization ("the five hundred hands"):
> In the realm of genius, might the “Raphael without hands” — the term understood in its broadest sense — be not the exception, but the rule? — Genius is perhaps not so rare after all: but the five hundred hands it needs to tyrannize the καιρὁς, “the right time” — to seize chance by the scruff of the neck! [0]
I can't be the only one with a severe aversion to language/platform specific IDEs. "Oh no, you can't write Python in Vim, you need to get Pycharm!" "iOS apps? Don't try anything except XCode."
IDEs are (were? :-/) a very personal choice. Maybe I'm an AI but I would have loved a CLI-centric workflow. It would have kept options open.
Exactly. People often forget that Congress can only exercise a limited domain of enumerated powers. The big one is regulating Interstate Commerce, which is already huge because of how interconnected the country is today, and is even bigger because of creative stretching of its reach (did you know that the Civil Right's Act's ban on discrimination by businesses is within Congress's Interstate Commerce power, because somebody might patronize your business from out of state?).
Anyway, I suspect Bob Hacker has a strong case that such a law as applied to himself would be beyond the scope of Interstate Commerce. Until he tries to sell or make his OS widely available, at least.
Much of the USA accepts "gun deaths" as an unfortunate but acceptable price that must be paid for the widespread freedom to own guns.
When those same people are hysterical about Protecting The Children, you should understand that "protecting the children" is a distraction from whatever the actual intent may be.
The general public is thoughtless, and there's little reason to think the decision-makers are much more thoughtful, but Protecting The Children is merely this age's Trojan Horse.
Agreed. Weirdly many people are against. This really seems like the best possible option. Actually helps parents as without this there is no way to enforce kid age. So instead of having it all per account and everything linked in most privacy invading way, just your OS tells the apps/browser whatever was set in there by the parent. I want this now!
True, but at that time it was already too late. C/C++ had won.
Moreover, for a very long time GNAT had been quite difficult to build, configure and coexist with other gcc-based compilers, far more difficult than building and configuring the tool chain for any other programming language. (i.e. you could fail to get a working environment, without any easy way to discover what went wrong, which never happened with any other programming language supported by gcc)
I have no idea which was the reason for this, because whichever was the reason it had nothing to do with any intrinsic property of the language.
Since the performance of 4.6 started dropping, I started using Codex more and more. OpenAI playing it smart by being more cost-effective, even if they are catching up in terms of total utility in their desktop application, is going to win more than Anthropic (if they can't drop prices).
I will send your administration a request to put your statue on top of the Arc de Trump. If they can pay 400 million for a ballroom, they can spend one for a diamond statue of the man that saved a lot of American lives today.
They don't even need to do anything. LLMs are effectively random anyway. Even ignoring temperature and inadvertent nondeterminism in inference, the change in outputs from a change in inputs is unpredictable and basically pseudorandom. That's not to say they aren't useful, just that Anthropic could make zero changes and people would still see variations that they'd attribute to malice.
A dollar is still a useful unit as "the fraction of the economy that can be controlled by currency". It's true that printing a huge pile of it and throwing it at GPUs wouldn't instantly convert into more GPUs, but it would meaningfully represent that other things are being squeezed out to allocate more resources to GPU production even so. That such reallocation is inefficient, arguably immoral, and highly questionable in the long term versus other options wouldn't stop that from being ture.
It seems pretty obvious that GP wasn’t saying $10/hr to mean literally $10/hr, but were exaggerating to imply that people were getting chump change for this work. $30/hr is still chump change and not enough to buy oneself any reasonable quality of life for the majority of the population.
Agreed. I use the Claude desktop app almost every day, and have used Code and Cowork since their respective launch dates, and even I still have a really hard time grokking what each is for. It becomes even more confusing when you enable the (Anthropic-provided) filesystem extension for Chat mode. Anthropic really needs to streamline this.
I want to point out some of the language you've used. You've brought up "current narrative", "crusade", "sin" and "inquisition", when really you seem to be saying "the image doesn't signal anything and the push to remove it is overblown". I disagree with you (for example IEEE has banned it) but I do respect you believe the actual movement that disagrees with is small but influential.
Instead however I would ask you look at the words you used, where they came from, who said them to you, and why you brought them up here. They are strangely charged words for a debate over a picture.
Probably one of the worst of the lot - but Andrew Carnegie. I think it takes a special single mindedness to come from nothing and become as rich as he did.
Then his commitment to give the money away - and his Gospel of Wealth. The building of libraries, even Sesame Street all stem from Carnegie
At the same time its hard to juxtapose the bad with the good
Marketing used to be obvious, now it's deceptive. You can't tell whether the content you're watching is genuine or astroturfing.