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jpadkins commented on State of AI in Business 2025 [pdf]   nanda.media.mit.edu/ai_re... · Posted by u/candiddevmike
jpadkins · 7 days ago
I can't take paper seriously when they have sentences like this:

> In an agentic web, systems will autonomously discover optimal vendors and evaluate solutions without human research, establish dynamic API integrations in real-time without pre-built connectors, execute trustless transactions through blockchain enabled smart contracts, and develop emergent workflows that self-optimize across multiple platforms and organizational boundaries. Early experiments show procurement agents identifying new suppliers and negotiating terms independently, customer service systems coordinating seamlessly across platforms, and content creation workflows spanning multiple providers with automated quality assurance and payment.

jpadkins commented on Apple and Amazon will miss AI like Intel missed mobile   gmays.com/the-biggest-bet... · Posted by u/gmays
9rx · 7 days ago
> The issue is that they're working on it the wrong way.

So is everyone else, to be fair. Chat is a horrible way to interact with computers — and even if we accept worse is better its only viable future is to include ads in the responses. That isn't a game Apple is going to want to play. They are a hardware company.

More likely someday we'll get the "iPhone moment" when we realize all previous efforts were misguided. Can Apple rise up then? That remains to be seen, but it will likely be someone unexpected. Look at any successful business venture and the eventual "winner" is usually someone who sat back and watched all the mistakes be made first.

jpadkins · 7 days ago
> Chat is a horrible way to interact with computers

Chat is like the command line, but with easier syntax. This makes it usable by an order of magnitude more people.

Entertainment tasks lend themselves well to GUI type interfaces. Information retrieval and manipulation tasks will probably be better with chat type interfaces. Command and control are also better with chat or voice (beyond the 4-6 most common controls that can be displayed on a GUI).

jpadkins commented on Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia   accc.gov.au/media-release... · Posted by u/Improvement
chollida1 · 7 days ago
How long till we see someone write G$$GLE like script kiddies do with M$FT?

So we now have META, MSFT, GOOG, AAPL all with major government actions against them.

Maybe its just not possible to get that big without doing something anti competitive?

jpadkins · 7 days ago
Don't Steal. Governments hate competition.
jpadkins commented on Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people   apnorc.org/projects/food-... · Posted by u/speckx
garciasn · 17 days ago
Just look at the name of each of the primary groups in the US:

- Progressives

- Moderates

- Conservatives

Progressives, by definition, want 'progress'. Conversely, Conservatives do NOT want progress; if anything, they want regression and thus their desire to roll everything back done in the name of Progress(ives).

Moderates just want to play both sides and find some sort of middle ground; something that doesn't really play well in the US in the current political climate.

jpadkins · 17 days ago
so if a junior dev checks in 4k lines of crap code in the codebase, is that progress?

And what do you call the more senior engineer that advises we make changes carefully, and that there are subtle, important reasons why systems are working well today. Is that engineer a conservative?

jpadkins commented on Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people   apnorc.org/projects/food-... · Posted by u/speckx
yoyohello13 · 17 days ago
The end result of this logic is that poverty must exist for society to function and I just don’t accept that.
jpadkins · 17 days ago
The OPM from the US government is defined as a relative wealth function, so technically it has to exist. Also you can compare the standard of living of someone above the poverty line in 1910 vs someone below the poverty line 2010, and 99% of people wouldn't trade places. Access to running water, toilets, air conditioning TV, Internet, mobile phones, etc makes life a lot better than what we called middle class 100 years ago. [source https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/air-c... ]

It's all relative and as long it's relative, mathematically speaking poverty has to exist.

jpadkins commented on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives   blog.cloudflare.com/perpl... · Posted by u/rrampage
dgshsg · 21 days ago
You want the website to be able to force the user to see ads?
jpadkins · 21 days ago
no, I think a fair + just world, both parties agree before they transact. There is no force in either direction (don't force creators to give their content on terms they don't want, don't force users to view ads they don't want). It's perfectly fine if people with strict preferences don't match. It's a big web, there are plenty of creators and consumers.

If the user doesn't want to view content with ads, that's okay and they can go elsewhere.

jpadkins commented on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives   blog.cloudflare.com/perpl... · Posted by u/rrampage
fxtentacle · 21 days ago
I find this problem quite difficult to solve:

1. If I as a human request a website, then I should be shown the content. Everyone agrees.

2. If I as the human request the software on my computer to modify the content before displaying it, for example by installing an ad-blocker into my user agent, then that's my choice and the website should not be notified about it. Most users agree, some websites try to nag you into modifying the software you run locally.

3. If I now go one step further and use an LLM to summarize content because the authentic presentation is so riddled with ads, JavaScript, and pop-ups, that the content becomes borderline unusable, then why would the LLM accessing the website on my behalf be in a different legal category as my Firefox web browser accessing the website on my behalf?

jpadkins · 21 days ago
> 1. If I as a human request a website, then I should be shown the content. Everyone agrees.

I disagree. The website should have the right to say that the user can be shown the content under specific conditions (usage terms, presented how they designed, shown with ads, etc). If the software can't comply with those terms, then the human shouldn't be shown the content. Both parties did not agree in good faith.

jpadkins commented on The FBI's Leaders 'Have No Idea What They're Doing'   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/petethomas
AnimalMuppet · a month ago
> It's hardly a poster child for good governance.

I'd like to see your evidence that it's badly governed, rather than just a one-line condemnation.

Its job is to control the value of the dollar. I think they've done a very good job of that in some very difficult circumstances. Not perfect, but very good. (Compare the crash of 2008 to, say, the Panic of 1893.)

Do you think that, if the Federal Reserve was setting the interest rate at the president's command, that we would be better off? If so, I think you are living in a fantasy land.

jpadkins · 25 days ago
> Its job is to control the value of the dollar.

Thank you for the softball! Since the 1913, the dollar has lost 95% of its value [source https://disciplinefunds.com/2024/07/23/the-death-of-the-doll...

The prior 100 years, the value was roughly stable [source https://publications.cedarville.edu/books/haymond/no_free_lu... ]

So yes, using your preferred method of judgement I think we were better off before the creation of the "independent" federal reserve. Note, the constitution did not give the president the power to set the value of a dollar. It was a fixed amount of gold.

I can give you more in depth arguments why the Fed is bad (e.g. interest rates are future price of money, history has shown that government price fixing typically has bad outcomes) but you suggested we use a good, simple measure - value!

jpadkins commented on The FBI's Leaders 'Have No Idea What They're Doing'   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/petethomas
aredox · a month ago
>Instead, you choose to devolve into personal attacks (probably because you don't have any good arguments or explanations).

Independant agencies have been set up since the 1880s. Do you think you are the first person to "ask questions"? Did you do a modicum of research on the topic before "asking questions"? Do you know the existence of the internet, of google search and of books? Do you know about "Chesterton's Fence"?

jpadkins · a month ago
I've done some research. I didn't find any arguments on why un-elected bureaucracies are better than the status quo. The Federal Reserve is the currently most independent "agency" we have (privately owned corporation with a board chosen by Presidents). It's hardly a poster child for good governance. Can you imagine if the DOJ was owned and operated by private corporations, where Congress or the President would pick a board? Sounds like tyranny to me. I asked genuine questions if anyone had arguments for why this is better. Clearly you don't have any.
jpadkins commented on The FBI's Leaders 'Have No Idea What They're Doing'   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/petethomas
relaxing · a month ago
The reasons why it is beneficial are well known. It’s bizarre you failed to pick up that knowledge in high school civics class.

And the downsides to federal departments staffed by political hacks and flunkies are playing out in front of us.

jpadkins · a month ago
federal departments have always been staffed by political hacks and flunkies. This is not a new phenomenon. But no one has articulated a better way that is also responsive to the electorate.

Monarchy would probably result in a much more efficient gov, with competent staffed departments. But it's not ruled by the people. I still don't see any good arguments on why un-elected bureaucracies is better than status quo.

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