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nanfinitum commented on Ask HN: What should I do with my old laptop in 2026? · Posted by u/nanfinitum
Hang on to it if it still works, and you've got a power supply. There's going to be disruptions to global trade one way or the other (Trump does insane things, OR Xi invades Taiwan) that will completely mess up the availability of CPUs, and indeed, most electronics. You may be able to sell it for a profit, or be in the top percent of computer owners in 3 years.
BTW It's a 2019 Dell Inspiron with ~2.8 GHz processor speed and 24 GB memory. It's pretty slow by today's standards. Does your recommendation still hold?
nanfinitum commented on Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything economist.com/1843/2025/0... · Posted by u/nanfinitum
the compounding (aggregating) behavior of agents allowed to interact in environments this becomes important, indeed shall soon become existential (for some definition of "soon"),
to the extent that agents' behavior in our shared world is impact by what transpires there.
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We can argue and do, about what agents "are" and whether they are parrots (no) or people (not yet).
But that is irrelevant if LLM-agents are (to put it one way) "LARPing," but with the consequence that doing so results in consequences not confined to the site.
I don't need to spell out a list; it's "they could do anything you said YES to, in your AGENT.md" permissions checks.
"How the two characters '-y' ended civilization: a post-mortem"