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>One defining constraint must shape the product

>This constraint limits feature creep and forces identity.

With AI Agents this is a bit outdated. Now I tell people to be maximilist.


Both?

I read pretty dense philosophy and the longer I live, the more I think the writers were just bad writers with good ideas. LLMs can convert poorly written sentences into clear sentences with examples.


Do you live in the US? Because there is a military reason for chasing success for success sake. The US doesnt really have a choice here. We live in a unipolar(or bipolar world) and the US must be number 1, or the international system breaks down and we can expect incredible amounts of war. (Its generally agreed that historically multipolar worlds are the worst to live in).

If you don't live in the US and you are taking advantage of the US security umbrella, sure, you can deny AI and enjoy a curated lifestyle.

But living in the US means we must deal with this.


I guess I appreciate the explicit realpolitik of it all, but I'm not sure I buy your argument. The US is the world's current dominant global empire, and unlike other leftists, I don't believe this is inherently a bad thing. But I don't think it's necessarily a good thing either. It's just the reality.

I also think your whole unipolar vs. multipolar framework is ahistorical. It's always been more secure living within the cosmopolitan center of an empire, but there's never just been one empire.

I just think your view of history is too simplistic to be accurate or interesting. If/when the US declined as a global power, the results would be entirely unpredictable. They wouldn't adhere to the kind of formula you're describing.


This is an interesting perspective I haven't heard before. Do you have links to anyone who has articulated this further?


Do we know if the author has used Claude Opus with OpenClaw or Code?

This is basically how I talked in January and its obsolete now.

I got a feeling these types of programmers are going extinct and their only value is going to be in the transition years. I really can't imagine even security critical defense work being run old school in 10 years.


Alright my theory:

OpenAI has public models that are pretty 'meh', better than Grok and China, but worse than Google and Anthropic. They still cost a ton to run because OpenAI offers them for free/at a loss.

However, these people are giving away their data, and Microsoft knows that data is going to be worthwhile. They just dont want to pay for the electricity for it.


Small nitpick: the models probably make some money on actual inference. Might not be a massive amount, but hard to see them not having a positive contribution margin purely on inference.

What's losing OpenAI money is paying for the whole of R&D, including training and staff. Microsoft doesn't pay that, so they get the money making part of AI without the associated costs.


Karl Popper calls this a psychological probability(% chance I go to the gym today). This is different from objective probability (% chance a dice lands on 5).


In this case, it seems like we are rolling dice but no one is quiet sure if the dice are fair, how many sides it has and what numbers are written on the dice.

The only thing I am confident in is if it the bigger the fire, the faster the work. I want the Bitcoin community to start the work as early as possible so that it doesn't have to rush because rushing increases the chance of mistakes.

Start early, don't rush.


Imagine the outrage if this happened in the US instead because it's in Europe there's just a bunch of apologists here.

The longer I live I think US citizens just have the highest standards for both morals and life expectations.

Meanwhile Europe is happy to get anything.


> Imagine the outrage if this happened in the US instead

There’d be bunch of fat fucks who will write screeds on the internet but won’t get off their fat ass to do anything about it?


Oh look another anti AI article.

Oh they even swore in the title.

Oh and of course it's anti-economics and is probably going to hurt whoever actually follows it.

Three for three. It's not logical it's emotional.


Does this mean Apple, Nintendo, and Disney are at risk too?

I would love to see some justice.


I am only 1 person. FAAMG have reputation management teams/marketing teams that are paid to lie all day.


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