jollyllama

There was some emergent property of the communist countries, compared to the capitalist ones, that made them want to produce large numbers of highly educated professionals in specific fields, the Eastern bloc with engineers as well as Cuba with doctors. I suspect there are many factors but it should be considered that licensing boards prioritize career safety for existing professionals.

It's truly a bizarre piece. It reads like a pitch for EVs to self-described "men of the west."

Having no regard for the quality of the end user experience opens up a lot of business possibilities, LLM's or not.

Any chance you'll be open-sourcing any part of the underlying model hierarchy? A lot of us could really use a good library for deriving knowledge graphs or expert systems with cool features (such as expiration dates, like your solution has, or weighted probabilities) rather than everyone re-inventing it on their own.

If I'm happy with how it's working, an update can only break things.

I thought it was going to be "due to recent market volatility".

> Their runway is much shorter than you would imagine.

If they don't make it, there will be plenty of time to mine through their dataset for business ideas to sell to other people as they liquidate. Think of the Spirit Airlines dataset that was just sold.

> This robot looks a lot more "unnatural" compared to the Chinese robots currently being used in everything from gymnastics to fighting matches.

Yes, because as the author says, they actually had to try to make a humanoid that can do something useful, whereas the Chinese humanoids are simply demo-fodder for the uninitiated.

> Also, I wonder if (as in the case of XGO) it isn't easier to just automate the moving of crates onto the conveyor belt instead of using a robot picking them up and hauling them there.

It is, and there are many other better solutions as well, but it doesn't attract the notoriety that humanoids do.

Since there's enough comments here rightly questioning this finding, I'll entertain the claim at face value.

Supposing it's true, is it the result of malice or chauvinism?

Don't worry, you'll be making hardware pedals with webassembly and remote attestation soon enough, and we'll be back to the status quo.

Any relation to Krita?

> It's much more comforting

This kind of psychologizing can be used to subjectively argue either case.

For example, I could say that it's much more comforting to think that current circumstances are artifacts of greedy fools rather than coordination by malevolent and powerful actors.

> that the "top level" had a plan here

You're also being somewhat reductive here. Sure, entry-level conspiracies rely on an all-powerful council with top-down authority, but there are more nuanced understandings where they can arrive out of alliances of convenience between rival factions.

And every time you point it out, some useful idiot will say "you're making the slippery slope fallacy."

No. If you bought Cisco it never recovered, once you factor in inflation. Almost the same with Intel.

Watch what they do and not what they say.

> Right now most businesses hang up on them - and the businesses which answer will be the ones getting the bookings.

They probably have enough bookings without having to submit to robodialing. The best businesses typically have to turn people away.

Thank you blu. Would you go so far as to say that the current system is designed to discourage the existence of a Person A (or at least the non-party animal Person A) since they are not consuming as much?

Latifundia would have been a known concept to the historic peoples mentioned by GP and the ones GP is talking about purposefully rejected the practice. Local, small agriculture was a key aspect of culture and political power, insofar as the power to feed is the power to deny food.

> Assuming that the house is paid for, of course, if your net worth is really only $300K, odds are you don't have the house paid for either

I don't understand, is it paid for or not?

> I'm looking forward to the last Harley getting recycled.

Dream on. It'll never happen.

First, they came for the gamers...

> which the global capital order falls into a version of late-Soviet decay and collapse -- a major boon to the oligarchs, just as it was in Russia

We were already on track for that anyway. This just adds an interesting twist to it.

Where do you think most of the hardware is manufactured, and do you think the hardware manufacturers will keep getting paid if labs start going under?

These reason why they were proclaiming MCP dead and crowning CLI the influencer is that they aren't serious people. They're either vibe coders who never knew what the meaning of engineering for production or they are those who chose to forget the meaning because it fits their chosen vibe coder narrative.

Fair point about global vs US as your sibling notes.

> 2. Global GDP will be ~$165T by 2031

But GDP is a very different thing than payrolls.

What's total US annual payrolls? I don't think it's beyond the order of $20 trillion. So they're going to have to replace something on the order of magnitude of half of all jobs OR "create" the difference, in terms of jobs going to AI.

This. The web page title should be "Allow Babywearing on Planes"

> it turns out that was a stroke of luck

> demand has cooled off for EVs massively.

Or, maybe they just accurately realized that US consumers don't want EVs.

There's plenty of other laws that limit the choices of the poor for their own good. You can't just build a lean-to slum, you can't buy swill milk.

When it all goes bust, at least you'll have some real estate.