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Comment Re:TACO Tuesday? (Score 1) 47

That unfortunately makes a lot of sense. And it makes for a larger number of complete personal failures on an epic level. As if having mountains of money was a worthwhile goal, compared to, say, working on your skills of seeing reality or having good ethics.

Well, the desire to have more "gold" or "game tokens" (which is valid modern equivalent, agreed), is probably as old as the invention of any money-like thing that scales well enough. This desire is also utterly destructive if not kept in check.

Personally, I do not get this. Money only gets value when you spend it. And what you can actually spend is limited as long as you do rational spending. Also fits in with the now very well verified research result that money does not buy you happiness. The sweet spot seems to be around $75k ... $100k income per year in the west. I cannot imagine how unhappy people like Musk or Trump must be...

Comment Re: Color me surprised... (Score 1) 199

Come on, you too now? There are a lot of immature people here, but you and me are generally not among those.

For reference, the USSR is a case where that happened before. There are others. It causes upheaval, a lot of people get crushed, but overall things continue to work and that is what I am saying here. This is macro-level, not detail level. You usually get that.

Comment Re:US pushes people toward China (Score 1) 47

Indeed. Lawful evil you can trade with, because at least they are dependable. "Chaotic" of any kind, you cannot. The problem is that all business needs to be able to plan investments, sometimes over 10 years or longer. And that is completely impossible with a chaotic leadership in a potential trading partner.

Comment Re:Nice, but... (Score 1) 47

Indeed. But the de-Americanization of the world is well underway. Will take some time, but there is really nothing unique the US makes. There are unique things in Europe (like ASML) and China has a massive advantage doing renewables because they deploy like crazy in their own country. But the US? Not even their weapons sell well these days, with the F-35 lemon and future drone strategies being created and refined in Ukraine.

Comment Re:TACO Tuesday? (Score 1) 47

Mythos has done some impressive stunts, but stunts is all they are. And not-so-smart people let themselves be blinded.

For example, of the hyped "271" FF bugs (which were actually 3), sound coding practices and "gcc -f analyzer" (or other tools) would have found at least 2, the "use-after-free" ones, which should not be happening in competent software creation anyways.

The thing that is happening here is that money that should have been spent on software quality was not spent. Then AI comes along and the money gets spend indirectly via its use. Actually competent tool use and dev practices would have done more than the LLM and at a much lower price.

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