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amradio1989 commented on Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be    · Posted by u/paulwilsonn
deadbabe · 20 days ago
What you just said about free-climbing is perfectly applicable to building something solo. Except unlike climbing solo, building a product is easier because you could get support the whole way. Also you won’t die if you fail.

You should never expect enthusiasm to last. How many people are just as enthusiastic about going to the gym for years compared to when they first start out? These are all the things people need to realize before embarking on these solo journeys.

You may not like it, but if a person was drowning and they actually do start to “just swim better”, they will survive. Just do what you need to do.

amradio1989 · 20 days ago
Who would look at a drowning person and say "just swim better and you'll survive"?

A drowning person can't "just swim better". That's exactly why they're drowning in the first place.

What you're saying is true but not helpful. There's a whole process that goes into "just do it" that is weirdly unpopular to talk about. You have to become capable first, and that only happens in community where you can safely make a lot of mistakes.

amradio1989 commented on Eleven Music   elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
amradio1989 · 20 days ago
I could be wrong, but I think the use case here is mainly for non-artists in domains where the music is not particularly important.

For example, a podcaster/youtuber may want a short intro track. An entertainer or a marketer may want some generic or silly background music.

Does it have a use case for a producer/musician? Maybe. It might give them ideas for chord progressions, melodies, etc. But real music does that too, and much more effectively.

amradio1989 commented on At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery   quantamagazine.org/at-17-... · Posted by u/baruchel
TrackerFF · 24 days ago
I see your point, but undergraduate degrees should provide a wide foundation, with little specialization. As you progress to a masters degree, you become more specialized. A doctorate is as specialized as it gets.

It is entirely possible for people to intensely focus on a very, very narrow thing - and ignore everything else. Even to such a degree that they can write a doctorate on it.

But I don't think that's a good excuse to make them forego other curriculum, especially if it is required for other students to take. Schools have a responsibility to educate people to a certain standard, and give them some general breadth.

amradio1989 · 24 days ago
I'm not sure higher ed's educational philosophy is serving students all that well. The breadth of education is a shallow survey at best that is quickly forgotten exactly one semester later.

Thankfully the workforce has common sense and will happily snap her up into employment.

amradio1989 commented on OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation   nytimes.com/2025/08/01/bu... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
amradio1989 · 24 days ago
Pretty insane valuation. It may pay off, it may not. Google search was vastly superior to its competitors. I don't think ChatGPT has that kind of edge.

This is a monopoly kind of valuation where no monopoly exists. Its like paying Microsoft billions for Internet explorer.

Personally I believe the future of AI models is open-source. The application of these models will be the real revenue driver.

amradio1989 commented on Fast   catherinejue.com/fast... · Posted by u/gaplong
PaulHoule · 25 days ago
How's that different from a human developer? Give the same task to different developers and you'll get different levels of correctness and quality. Give the task to the same developer on different days and it is the same.
amradio1989 · 25 days ago
Its a lot faster to give a task to an ai agent than a developer. The agent is always at their desk, always listening, and will immediately prioritize whatever you tell it to do.

An ai agent always has capacity, does not have competing priorities, nor does it have ideas about what does or does not fall within their "scope of work".

amradio1989 commented on Meta's Vision for Superintelligence   meta.com/superintelligenc... · Posted by u/GlitchRider47
amradio1989 · a month ago
Makes you wonder who owns the data that powers a "personal superintelligence that intimately knows all the details about you".

It also makes you wonder what they do with all of that information. But surely this is altruism.

amradio1989 commented on Every champion needs a rival   tombrady.com/posts/every-... · Posted by u/pbardea
lordnacho · a month ago
What I find interesting about American Football is that the QBs are considered rivals, despite never being on the pitch at the same time. Messi and Ronaldo actually appear on many images contesting the same ball, Peyton and Brady you'd struggle to find pictures other than the post-match handshake.

Why isn't the rivalry considered to be between the QB and someone on the defense? There's actually two matchups in an NFL game (plus specials but whatever), the two offense versus defense pairings. It's odd to make the rivalry about two guys who aren't directly tackling each other, when there are people on both teams who really are tackling those guys.

amradio1989 · a month ago
Its not really dissimilar to sports like golf, gymnastics, track and field (the high jump), etc. I certainly believe there can be rivals in those sports, so I don't see why we'd exclude football QBs from this conversation.

That said, American football is altogether inferior to the real football.

amradio1989 commented on AI Companion Piece   thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-... · Posted by u/jsnider3
luckylion · a month ago
What about people who don't have human companions? Should they not have any companionship at all over having dogs, birds, cats, or chatbots?
amradio1989 · a month ago
People who don't have human companions should find them some human companions. They could settle for an illusion of companionship (as with pets), but every human can have the real thing. They NEED to have it and they ought to have it.

If you want a really hot take: ai chatbot companions are just an evolution of pets. They are a vaguely life affirming substitute created to medicate human loneliness, for a fee of course.

amradio1989 commented on AI Companion Piece   thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-... · Posted by u/jsnider3
gonzobonzo · a month ago
Real humans as well. Not anonymous online commentators (including HN), not comedians/politicians/writers/authors who have no idea you exist, or TV characters people get invested in. Probably not even therapists, who wouldn't give you the time of day if you weren't paying them to.

The truth is, just about everyone is using some sort of a substitute for real friends at this point.

amradio1989 · a month ago
1000%. I should have stated this and I am glad you did. Could not have said it better.
amradio1989 commented on AI Companion Piece   thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-... · Posted by u/jsnider3
raincole · a month ago
> its against a ruling power's interest to do so.

What does it mean lol. If there is a button to make people find human companions the ruling class would press it so hard just to raise birthrate (= more working class).

amradio1989 · a month ago
Generally speaking, powers frown on public gatherings. When people gather, they exchange dissenting ideas, protest, or even rebel against the ruling authority.

Its similar to how a controlling boyfriend/girlfriend will isolate you from your friends and family first. You are much easier to control that way. You stay "compliant".

This is much harder to see in democratic nations. The strategy in America has largely been controlling public discourse to the point where we self-censor.

u/amradio1989

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