I love the screenshots, I need to do something like that.

I’m pretty sure Claude just uses mine to keep a running list of pressure points for when I get cross with it.

I'm screwed when the robot psychological warfare begins. They'll make everything I read have 4 space indentation... and I'll just hand over the keys.

Two can play the externalities game.

Unless you already had those cards, it probably still doesn’t make sense from a purely financial perspective unless you have other things you’re discounting for.

Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it though.

This.

Every time there is a discussion about how China is wiping the floor with the west, someone wants to chime in that they stole IP. It is an unhealthy fixation and betrays the fact that they are genuinely more efficient in many cases, even when labor costs and subsidies are removed.

Not to mention, complaining about China stealing IP is a pacifier. Even where true, it does not change the competitive dynamics at this point because any damage has already been done.

If we, as the west, want to be great, we will have to move beyond the victim stage.

I remember one of my brother’s friends bringing over gta 3 and, after having played gta 2 and the 1960s London version, having my early teenage mind absolutely blown. One of my older brothers had a job and had copped a ps2, and let me play it when he was at work or with friends.

I must’ve crashed the dodo hundreds of times, trying to figure it out in a pre YouTube world, where the best I could do is exchange tips with my friends at school.

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Huge if this can make it easy for companies/startups to scale talent like everything else (variable, outcome based, etc). Especially if it can be like Deel for project-based/high-skill contract talent.

Better have kept those environments.

> Most over-70s are significantly worse than the average driver and some are so dangerous they shouldn't be on the road at all.

> You're taking about statistical averages but I'm talking about a significant minority of over-70s who are wildly dangerous.

You sure about that?

Over 70s do have higher rates of accidents per 100m over average, although it is small until you get to 80+.

I was referring to the contradictory statements.

Businesses do not exist to create jobs; jobs are a byproduct.

Even that is underselling it; jobs are a necessary evil that should be minimised. If we can have more stuff with fewer people needing to spend their lives providing it, why would we NOT want that?

Because we've built a system where if you don't have a job, you die.

This is already hyperbolic; in most countries where software engineers or similar knowledge workers are widely employed there are welfare programmes.

To add to that, if there is such mass unemployment in this scenario it will be because fewer people are needed to produce and therefore everything will become cheaper... This is the best kind of unemployment.

So at best: none of us have to work again and will get everything we need for free. At worst, certain professions will need a career switch which I appreciate is not ideal for those people but is a significantly weaker argument for why we should hold back new technology.

Most of those welfare programs aren't very good, and most of that is on purpose, to make people get jobs at whatever cost.

If you were to rank all of the C compilers in the world and then rank all of the welfare systems in the world, this vibe-coded mess would be at approximately the same rank as the American welfare system. Especially if you extrapolate this narcissistic, hateful kleptocracy out a few more years.

Did we build it or did nature?

We did.