joquarky

> The big IT firms syphon off all the talent with compensation these fridge and supermarket companies can't match.

That may have been true 3+ years ago, but now there is a glut of tech people begging for jobs.

Monitoring and logging can be done without access to controls.

How does that translate? Are VPNs generally not secure?

When the SHTF, your high speed Internet connection will be among the first services to be cut off.

I rarely see discussions that bring up why money seems to always win elections.

I feel like people don't want to discuss this because the root cause is likely that people are easily manipulated by ads.

Remember when the web was just documents?

Most browsers have a "stop loading" button.

Why don't we have a "stop JavaScript" button?

That's the Starve the Beast strategy. It's been going on for at least a few decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

I think this is a an example of a Red Queen's Race:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race

> it's not showing up in any actual financial results.

Really? Not any results?

Please provide a few examples of what a knowledge worker can switch to and maintain even half of their income under the present scenario where all knowledge workers are (or soon will be) struggling to compete with LLMs?

It's sad that you were never given a chance to clean up your technical debt, as it seems to have marred your perspective.

It's not your fault, since most companies don't want to invest resources on properly maintaining their code.

Things are changing so fast that it's easy to let just a little bit of time slip by and think that smaller models are still unreliable.

What's ridiculous is this is all futile. Anthropic will go through all of this effort of attempting to block these things and it will be for nothing in the end.

Is anyone else trying to quickly hammer out useful tools before everything gets banned?

> As car ownership increased, it seems possible that norms would change a bit.

I remember a time when "internet addiction" was a thing.

Then everyone got smart phones and social media and now you rarely hear about internet addiction anymore.

> reach our potential

Be careful. I was constantly reminded of this throughout "gifted" school and it caused massive burnout when I couldn't sustain that expectation anymore in my 40s.

What do NFTs have to do with this? NFTs were a completely useless technology except for money laundering.

The surge is happening, with or without Anthropic.

What even is an "upstanding citizen" these days?

We could have a time standard based on the longitude where the sun is at meridian.

> It's because of their hostile attitude towards their users.

The same thing that happened to perl.

We need to bring back the term "vaporware".

So it grew, but it didn't grow fast enough?

This right here is the source of most of humanity's upcoming problems.

No. Patents and copyright are there to promote the progress of science and the useful arts.

> mass extermination of those that refuse

It already looks like this is underway if you look at the state of health care and how little is being done about it.

Anyone who has data that is so important to their livelihood should probably make backups.

North Dallas is infested with them.

> around 20-40% as I understand it.

Your figures are outdated. A lot of progress has been made recently.

Unlikely. Most people don't own investments, let alone a "vast majority". You are out of touch with reality.

I'm convinced that music and spoken language are closely related.