> "goodness of their hearts" (which may be related to avoidance of public pushback)
I hate this cynicism in everything. People didnt work there 10 years ago to be millionaires in a far away IPO, they worked there because they are Team Space.
> The AI workflow was as interesting to me as the retrocomputing work itself
> A coding AI can only hold so much in its context window … The solution was to make the project’s documentation the durable memory that the AI itself lacks. SwiftII was built as 18 numbered phases, 0 through 17, each a self-contained goal with a written record of what it was for and what shipped. The key milestones: […]
> Around the phases sit roughly 20 numbered design documents, each capturing one non-obvious decision. What was chosen, what the alternatives were and how it was done. … As the codebase and documents became bigger, each session had to load more context just to get oriented, so token budget became a real workflow constraint.
> Defense attorneys, in particular, used biological evidence like brain scans to argue that their clients should receive lighter sentences.
Counterintuitively people want negative traits be rooted in biology. That the soul is a victim of the faulty flesh, instead of lacking willpower or being responsible for ones actions.
Doesnt Dr Grant scare a kid in the beginning with the Velociraptor and say there that T Rex vision was movement based? I wonder if Chrichton made that up or if it was a real theory by paleaologists?
To be fair, food is the smallest bucket of my monthly expenses. And there are many people here on hacker news who pay more for their AI tokens than for their food.
How does argrar industry and tech industry compare as share of gdp in the US?
Paul Graham is the skating coach himself, as from 6000 startups financed by y combinator quite a few were unicorns. it is olympian level, but it there is a system to it.
Closed Source AI at least can be controlled. See the directive of the US government regarding Fable (even if one disagrees about the directive there is no doubt that it is effective in shutting it off) or the safe guards by a corporate structure (even a profit driven one). It is schizophrenic to praise Anthropic for refusing the Department of War full access to their models but at the same time root for Open Source models.
> In terms of bioweapons, I expect that closed-source AIs will be heavily optimized against helping with these, and open-source AI will be banned after the first warning shot (or become economically prohibitive even before then).
If you take AI risk seriously then Open Source AI should not and must not win. Both by evil actors (biological weapons research) and the danger of unaligned AGI itself. There are some people who would never work for the military or Anduril (automatic weapon systems), but an OS AI „without asking permission“ would be the same.
I know it felt clever writing it, surely many found it clever cynicism, but in no way does it reflect real life kidney donations.