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Just think of it as a final service shutoff. Clients have had 30 years to migrate off of Oracle. /s

They did VEPs at Google at my org a year ago and nothing has happened yet.

Yes, the MO of the Trump administration is to blame the other side of what they're actually doing.

Loudly making unfounded or exaggerated claims of corruption is a pretty effective tool for muddying the waters and making it less clear where the smoke is coming from.

Sounds like they're really raiding the lost Arc

What constitutes a "specific" point?

You can't identify the points that I made? You think you're skilled in rational discussion but can't even do the basic skills required for it?

This is why people don't respect "rationalists." Because people claim to have superior reasoning skills but would fail a freshman survey course on it.

That's another mistake many rationalists make. Viewing other people's well justified moral convictions as "grandstanding."

I'm making valid (if deeply critical) points but you're contributing nothing except your misinformed judgments.

You need a combination of both openness and intelligence to distinguish good ideas from bad ones. We don't need to debate whether or not I'm secretly a dolphin.

Unfortunately most rationalists aren't as smart as they think and mistake verbosity for reason and judgment.

I've seen rationalist adjacent tech twitter accept people who take openly awful ideas, and it seems as though the tolerance for rejection of norms is a really good cover to let horrible ideas proliferate -- that is, if someone is willing to be verbose and pedantic enough to dissuade anyone from trying to argue against them.

Rationalists seem to believe that their ability to convince themselves of anything given enough evidence is a sign of intelligence. It's not. It's a sign of being disconnected from yourself and your true values. There is a great amount of wisdom and intelligence in properly honed intuition.

Rational thought should help you understand yourself, not disappear.

Well, yeah. They relocated their data and their services elsewhere. It didn't go away.

I doubt Yandex would ever be able to leave Russia, even if it wanted to.

Yeah, it contradicted my intuition as a developer. If you take down a data center it isn't gone forever. The development team does not live there. Even if it's poorly backed up they're going to rebuild it.

This has been Apple's niche forever. Create a product with a few extra bells and whistles, better craftsmanship, and charge a fat premium that people who care about those things are willing to pay.

Yeah, what I was trying to say is "the criticism doesn't make sense to me because I forget because I have access to the good stuff."

As a Google employee my defense is it's hard for a company this big to move fast, but I can understand how Google customers would be annoyed.

Uncharitably misreading things on the internet and getting upset about them is not the best hobby

I hope they refer the exploit as "legerdemain"

I feel Argon is about as good as Opus 5.5 but I find Opus annoyingly sarcastic and incomprehensible.

I know it's a matter of personal taste but it reminds me of a grad student that tries to sound smarter than he is by being dismissive and opaque.

As someone internal at Google I don't understand why there's so much criticism of Google models... but right now I'm using the next model beyond Argon, and Flash 3.8. In my personal Gemini app I only have access to 3.5.

Models move so fast now and Google is very cautious about releasing them.

I've been using it for a while internally at Google. I prefer Argon over Opus 5.5 because of the clear thinking and directness. It phrases things in an organized, straightforward way.

Apparently Home Depot has a very good developer culture too.

What's the answer? Let him do whatever he wants unilaterally?

He seems to have come to that conclusion, fwiw.

I used to worry about the exodus of billionaires.

Now that they're doing their best to undermine American democracy, perhaps we should do more to encourage them to leave.

It's like letting a cat sniff your hand or get used to your presence. We're smelling each other out at a subconscious level.

And more concretely, you're determining someone's values before offending them. Through small talk you might discover they're more conservative. Maybe they're hippies at heart. Maybe they hate dark humor, maybe they love it.

If you know those things, you can choose which serious conversations you'd like to have and which you'd better avoid. Plus the process of sniffing each other out means there's more baseline trust going in.

Why did they name a programming language after a skill most programmers are bad at?

Nice, wealthy scions cashing in on political connections and implementing the surveillance state.

> Harnesses orchestrate individuals

I feel this is probably coming and perhaps inevitable, but I fear for the poor employees this sort of thing will be tried out on first.

I actually have complex feelings about it as well.

The way I see it is that history is going to advance whether you like it or not and you might as well ride the wave.

I understand I'm lucky to be insulated from the crisis a bit, though. I do think once SWEs lose their jobs every other office worker is going to follow, so we're in the same boat.

I've been emotionally and financially preparing for this since I read about the singularity in 2007.

I do still love technology and I'm a builder. I'm also neither a tech optimist or pessimist, but an inevitabilist. It's coming.

It's a prototype project. Stop projecting on the internet.