Is chicken-networking related to duck-networking as described in The Story about Ping?

Everyone always talks about how to serve a dish of revenge. It is good that you are starting the conversation on how to serve forgiveness.

Changing the second would make a lot of calculations in the metric systems that are very clean in terms of constants now very ugly though.

LWN had a couple of articles about it

https://lwn.net/Articles/991906/ https://lwn.net/Articles/993895/

So what does Artisan actually do? Its main product is an AI “sales agent” called Ava that supposedly automates the work of finding and messaging potential customers. The company claims it works with “no human input” and costs 96% less than hiring a human for the same role. Although, given the current state of AI technology, it’s prudent to be skeptical of these claims.

Ah, yes, the first impression I want to give a potential customer is that I am too cheap to actually have a human even spend a second on them.

That is not quite the same thing.

This isn’t a problem with capitalism, it’s a problem with governments. If we eliminate government entirely (e.g. anarcho-capitcapitalism), there are no regulations, thus no regulatory capture

No, in that case you would just have large existing corporations hiring hit squads to kill potential competitors instead which is obviously much better /s The desire to do what regulatory capture does originates in capitalism, not in government, government just turns it from a violent action into one of bureaucracy.

Even asking for an example on how to use a specific API has failed about 50% of the time, it tends to hallucinate entire parts of the API that don’t exist or even entire libraries that don’t exist.

If they outsource their thinking and coding to an LLM, they might start getting ahead quickly

As a programmer I have yet to see evidence that LLMs can even achieve that. So far everything they product is a mess that needs significant effort to fix before it even does what was originally asked of the LLM unless we are talking about programs that have literally been written already thousands of times (like Hello World or Fibonacci generators,…).

The problems you see in government are the problems caused by capitalism through regulatory capture.

Not to mention that there are plenty of inherent problems with capitalism since it just doesn’t work for products bought e.g. only once or twice in your life or where the quality can otherwise not be judged by the buyer before buying.

Yeah, and that would only get worse if the only controls over currency were applied by those with a lot of currency (proof of stake) or able to afford a lot of computational power (proof of work).

You do make a good point but most of the levers to apply power in that space seem to be essentially controlled by how much computational power/how many nodes you can afford to run to apply control and most of the proponents are not really among the rich. They might, however, be among the ones who think they would be, sort of like the often cited temporarily embarrassed billionaires.

I don’t really see the appeal of currency anarchy in general. Do the proponents of that really think that the power in that space wouldn’t be held by what essentially amounts to digital currency warlords (anyone with a lever to apply power and the matching lack of morals to do so)? Not to mention that some regulation of finances are a good thing, it is not as if every currency intervention by central banks is done for bad reasons.

The motion sickness issue might be solved, maybe if you are willing to allow it to interfere with your nervous system on a deep level the bit where your body moves while you move in VR but the issue of being cut off from your surroundings will never go away.

At this point the evidence is mounting that the productivity boost through AI for software development is somewhere between negligible and negative.

VR is just not attractive for most people in the way you need lots of space and have to cut yourself off completely from the world and might only find out it gives you motion sickness after you already spent the money.

For that to become useful AI would first need to produce something you can use without a manual inspection round.

I wish media depicted more healthy relationships.

And when they do they often portray them as effortless “found my soulmate” kind of relationships which is not how the real world works. Even if you have an amazing partner you need to put in effort to be an amazing partner to them yourself.

What if I’m not okay with either?

Then my statement starting with “If you are okay with killing …” obviously doesn’t apply to you.

It also makes absolutely no sense to put tariffs on products and raw materials that are literally not available locally, e.g. if they are only mined in certain parts of the world or required specialized knowledge not available locally.