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gorpy7 commented on What could have been coppolaemilio.com/entries... · Posted by u/coppolaemilio

epistasis · 14 days ago

While I'm somewhat sympathetic to this view, there's another angle here too. The largesse of investment on a vague idea means that lots of other ideas get funding, incidentally.

Every VC pitch is about some ground-breaking tech or unassailable moat that will be built around a massive SAM; in reality early traction is all about solving that annoying and stupid problem your customers hate doing but that you can do for them. The disconnect between the extraordinary pitch and the mundane shipped solution is the core of so much business.

That same disconnect also means that a lot of real and good problems will be solved with money that was meant for AGI but ends up developing other, good technology.

My biggest fear is that we are not investing in the basic, atoms-based tech that we need in the US to not be left behind in the cheap energy future: batteries, solar, and wind is being gutted right now due to chaotic government behavior, the actions of madmen that are incapable of understanding the economy today, much less where tech will take it in 5-10 years. We are also underinvesting in basics like housing, or construction tech. Hopefully some of the AI money goes to fixing those gaping holes in the country's capital allocation.

gorpy7 · 14 days ago

it’s peculiar because i love to use chat gpt to fill my knowledge gaps as i work through solutions to building and energy problems that i want to solve. i wonder how many people are doing something similar and, although i haven’t* read through all the comments, i doubt much is being said let alone giving credence to that simple but potentially profound idea. learning amplified.

gorpy7 commented on Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors electrek.co/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/apayan

misiti3780 · 3 months ago

I have had the exact opposite experience. I have been using FSD on HW3 for a few years and the latest version for me is much safer than me driving. I dont care about your opinions of him killing the brand, they are irrelevant. It's clear that the vision only approach will work, it may need more training data but it will get there. Good luck with your short!

Last I checked there were 35K fatal accidents in the US every year - if FSD can bring that down to 3.5K that will be an obvious win.

gorpy7 · 3 months ago

I used to try it for a few drives after each release then revert to driving myself. with the newest version i let it drive a lot- and i’m on the older hardware. Everyone likes to bemoan the lying but every corp lies, at least with Tesla you get to point the finger instead of yell at a faceless mass. and if it’s 15 years of lying and a well known political target, then at some point it’s not lying- it’s a feature. people need to take some personal responsibility. also, of course, every day that goes by without a fatality is another day that all the naysayers should capitulate- but we won’t hear it. time and pressure will solve fsd sooner than later, i doubt there is a soul in here that doubts it, so there is also /that/ clock that is ticking.

Cars, one of life’s current greatest killers. by accidents and by pollution-hmmm, let’s run down that evil dude!

edited: made on writing mistakes

gorpy7 commented on 2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in politically motivated killings, governor says cbc.ca/news/world/minneso... · Posted by u/awnird

OgsyedIE · 3 months ago

The article doesn't mention any details about public alerts. I'd like to see the eventual postmortem cover whether there were any warnings being sent directly to phones in Anoka, Hennepin and Ramsay counties or if alerts have been limited to older messaging methods.

Also, although many people would pin this purely on the political climate there appears to be an inadequate system for reliable identification nowadays that is also enabling a rise in impersonations.

gorpy7 · 3 months ago

Someone very local to the scene said they have received about 5 alerts so far.

gorpy7 commented on OpenAI can stop pretending theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/kmdupree

emp17344 · 3 months ago

Productivity gains boost the economy. The net result is job creation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

HN is often economically illiterate.

gorpy7 · 3 months ago

I always get a little triggered when i hear the phrase job creation. it’s like a solution in search of a problem. here idk if you’re using it in the way i usually hear it because i generally agree -productivity gains boost the economy. for me, i wish the focus was on value creation. i think of the economy like a bike, the slower it goes the harder it is to balance. i come from a biology background and there there is ‘boom bust’ as a widespread and normal process. if humans are clever enough, even when we run out of resources and are about to bust, we can just suddenly invent fertilizer or countless other things. we took natural gas and added value to it. humans have lots of tricks to keep the bicycle chooching along. Regarding ai, it’s a systemic change. most people aren’t great at systems thinking because most people are specialists. so it’s not too likely you’ll hear a salient take on what ai will do despite some rather smart people commenting. The one trend i like to look at is sort of a scale reset or, how do you say forest from the trees? what i mean is, one of corporate’s great advantages are their size and swath of roles and the coordination that allows them to have an outsized advantage-essentially leveraging the collection of specialist to gain a dominate effect in working ‘the system’(navigating government, economy or scale, overwhelming capital, etc). Enter AI, subsuming these roles into one thing and sort of resetting the required scale to have some of the corporate power/advantages. Of course these are some rosy shades but i often approach new things with “what’s the best that could happen” and it has served me well.

gorpy7 commented on Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM cocoindex.io/blogs/knowle... · Posted by u/badmonster

gorpy7 · 4 months ago

idk if it’s precisely the same but o3 recently offered to create one for me in, was it markdown?, recently. suggesting it was something it was willing to maintain for me.

gorpy7 · 4 months ago

i think it offered a few formats but specifically remember it would do it in obsidian to use concept map ability within.

gorpy7 commented on Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM cocoindex.io/blogs/knowle... · Posted by u/badmonster

gorpy7 · 4 months ago

idk if it’s precisely the same but o3 recently offered to create one for me in, was it markdown?, recently. suggesting it was something it was willing to maintain for me.

gorpy7 commented on Why the Ultrarich Are Unplugging from "Smart Homes" hollywoodreporter.com/lif... · Posted by u/billybuckwheat

gorpy7 · 4 months ago

nobody has a clean enough microwave to give that a try. I don’t even have the courage to look at the roof of mine. i just wait for something to truly explode before i begrudgingly clean it. so yeah, the essence will permeate the purity of a clean moist cloth. anyway, I’ve often wondered if poe could take the place of 14 ga copper for doing primary lighting. also, my bro in law is building a new house with double cat to all locations just for a backup if one fails. doesn’t want to have to rerun wire. seems brilliant given its ease and low cost.

gorpy7 · 4 months ago

regarding poe doing lighting, my early search after posting my first message suggests i don’t know squat about poe or ethernet.

gorpy7 commented on Why the Ultrarich Are Unplugging from "Smart Homes" hollywoodreporter.com/lif... · Posted by u/billybuckwheat

WalterBright · 4 months ago

I use the cat5 to distribute ethernet throughout. This was before wifi was any good, and I still use the cat5 all day every day. Gigabit is not supposed to work with cat5, but it does just fine.

I hadn't thought of the on demand heater. But it's hard to beat a $10 microwave that just plugs in.

Try it some time. You'll never go back to cold washcloths!

gorpy7 · 4 months ago

nobody has a clean enough microwave to give that a try. I don’t even have the courage to look at the roof of mine. i just wait for something to truly explode before i begrudgingly clean it. so yeah, the essence will permeate the purity of a clean moist cloth. anyway, I’ve often wondered if poe could take the place of 14 ga copper for doing primary lighting. also, my bro in law is building a new house with double cat to all locations just for a backup if one fails. doesn’t want to have to rerun wire. seems brilliant given its ease and low cost.

gorpy7 commented on As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond voiceofsandiego.org/2025/... · Posted by u/jhunter1016

jjice · 5 months ago

> then the state should provide opportunities for them so that they can continue their education

I get what you mean, but saying that something _should_ be the case in response to not liking it doesn’t really make sense since that’s the reason it’s popular in the first place. States don’t do this, so that’s part of why online schooling is valuable.

I agree that online school isn’t as quality as in person (in my experience), but it gives a ton of flexibility to those who can’t commute (due to time or cost) and allows those people to possibly get an education when they otherwise couldn’t.

I wonder if there’s a formal term for this kind of argument (would love to know because I see it a lot).

gorpy7 · 5 months ago

It’s known as the ricky bobby theory.

gorpy7 commented on Basic Income Pilot Project: Study results pilotprojekt-grundeinkomm... · Posted by u/3Vbgx5ro

gorpy7 · 5 months ago

Maybe there should be a universal basic job. jobs can be rated by how much value is created- it can’t be moving rocks from one location then back again. maybe that’s too hard to calculate. weekly, if you create enough value, you’ve earned your basic income. This might be 2 days of road work. you get 40k for this. take responsibility and up your skills with the remaining time. I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to give money out just for being- i understand there are sales taxes etc. I hate the idea of creating jobs, it has always felt wrong. If the jobs fulfill a valuable and timely need, sure. But i’d rather kill jobs, i say, if you can automate your job with no loss in value, you should be paid at least double that for the rest of your days. If we focus on creating value, we’ll all benefit. it’s just a matter of measuring value i suppose. things like teaching a valuable skill should be of enormous value- as an example. call me crazy.