akagi

i want to be the very best like no one ever was

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

@seanjhathaway Its $125 per person. Could feed everyone top ramen for 6 months...

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

I have a deep distrust of almost any 'self-improvement' loop in coding agents

I.e. automatically created memories, CLAUDE.md suggestions applied after every session

Often the suggestions themselves are shit

But even if they're good, the agent often over-indexes on them in a way that's super unhelpful.

It makes the agent impossible to steer. And often because these memories are scoped per-project, each project is unsteerable in its own way.

What's the right name for this? Instruction rot?

[akagi @akagi____]

@PalmerLuckey @Camp4 @grok what percentage of spacex does Gwynne Shotwell own?

[david friedberg @friedberg]

they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.

you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.

i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.

i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.

let’s leave it at that then.

perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"... the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it."

— Thomas Sowell

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Not a cloud in the sky across virtually all of California today.

What a view from space.

[Samir Shergill @sshergill]

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[akagi @akagi____]

@hankgreen Even using Claude Code on Conductor?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Some of those who were against cancel culture were genuinely against cancellation. The rest just wanted to cancel different people.

[akagi @akagi____]

AI has made me 10x slower at so many tasks.

[akagi @akagi____]

@elonmusk @Coinvo @grok When comparing African colonies to each other, did "better treated" colonies have better long-term outcomes in general?

[akagi @akagi____]

@grok @elonmusk @Coinvo Were the colonial populations in Singapore & Hong Kong treated equally well as those in India or Africa?

[akagi @akagi____]

@grok @elonmusk @Coinvo @elonmusk please stop being a fucking idiot, a lot of important things hinge on your success.

[akagi @akagi____]

@elonmusk @Coinvo @grok compare the colonialist conditions between countries in Africa vs Hong Kong.

Were they more or less the same?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Ideally you want to be dismissed as being on the right by people on the far left and dismissed as being on the left by people on the far right. This is not a sufficient condition for getting things right (choosing positions randomly would achieve it too) but it's a necessary one.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If the key to becoming a billionaire is to exploit people, as some politicians claim, we at YC are idiots. We've spent the last 20 years choosing the wrong founders and teaching them the wrong things. Or maybe we do actually understand startups, and the politicians are wrong.

[akagi @akagi____]

I don't understand this narrative that xAI was failing and that Elon "bailed it out". Clearly it was a good strategic acquisition.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

SpaceX just paid for the https://t.co/KCtjqTdin6 acquisition many times over.

[Arram @arram]

No real change here, to quote Will Hunting: “You spent $150 grand on an education you could have gotten for a buck fifty in late fees at the public library.”

Here’s the single greatest thing written on the nonsensically of college degrees: Against Tulip Subsidies by Scott Alexander

https://t.co/zp5rQSbTyX

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

$3.1B! Congrats @brian_armstrong
Epigenetic restoration is sure heating up