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Billionaire Math

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20250711
10•avinassh•3h ago

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PaulHoule•3h ago

    The dangerous ones pick ever loftier goals (colonize Mars) 
    and then bet everything on it. Everything. Their time, their 
    reputation, their relationships, their fortune, their companies, 
    their morals, everything they’ve ever built...
That's not Musk. I mean, if it was Musk he'd be a much more wholesome character. He'd realize that there are at most 3 chances to go to Mars in a two-term presidency and he'd better keep everybody sweet. He wouldn't be digging tunnels under Las Vegas and buying Twitter and picking the fights he does. He'd be cultivating an image the way Warren Buffer did that opened doors and didn't open them. He shouldn't be thinking about tapping people's brain, he should be thinking about finishing the job that Eric Drexler started because that's the critical path to "disturbing the universe" but no full self-driving will be available in 8 weeks...

Zuckerberg with VR might be a better example. When it comes to his existing platforms he seems to be "careless", my take is that's he's even "careless" about the aspects in which his VR platform is already successful (a game store) because he's wishing for something else. (I get pinged with notifications on my phone about a game that's 50% off and I want to buy, but it doesn't drop me to a landing page for that game but rather to a disorganized home page which I find really tiring to engage with) You hear here and there he's got a boyish interest in Ancient Rome or UFC or something like that, but unlike Musk he doesn't seem to be whole-heartedly into anything and when shareholders slap his wrist over being distracted by AI he half-heartedly looks like he's pivoting into half-heartedness but boy he's got a genius for acquisitions to reinforce his monopolies or just plain acquisitions of monopolists (Luxotica) and he scares me about as much as the witch in that Narnia movie who looks more like a junkie than anything else.

closeparen•16m ago
>We programmers, we 1%ers, are in the top percentile of capitalism high scores in the entire world - that’s the literal definition - but we keep fighting with each other to get closer to top place. Why?

>Because we forgot there’s anything else. Because someone convinced us that the score even matters.

Because we want homes near the offices we're required to work from in order to maintain those capitalism high scores, and those homes are a fundamentally zero sum resource.

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Exclusivity on OpenAI's $3B acquisition for Windsfurf has expired

https://fortune.com/2025/07/11/the-exclusivity-on-openais-3-billion-acquisition-for-coding-startup-windsfurf-has-expired/
1•granto•1m ago•0 comments

Humans overrely on overconfident language models, across languages

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06306
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X-Plane 12.2.1 beta: Increased demo time from 15 to 60 minutes

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Writable Instruction Set Computer

https://wiki.c2.com/?WritableInstructionSetComputer
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Timepiece linked to Darwin voyage cannot leave UK

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg6kz54kz7o
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How to Beat Creative Block

https://substack.com/home/post/p-168013503
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2•ummonk•10m ago•0 comments

Psilocybin Delays Aging

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1•vo2maxer•11m ago•0 comments

Photos: The Scale of China's Solar-Power Projects

https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/07/photos-china-solar-power-energy/683488/
1•coloneltcb•11m ago•0 comments

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Type Inference Zoo

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https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/gaming-gpu-ceramics/
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Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing

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Dutch Childcare Benefits Scandal

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Monorepo Tooling with NPM and Shell

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Norilsk

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Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy

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1•PaulHoule•29m ago•0 comments

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I spent $200 to test every LLM on a complex SQL query generation task

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p2x9093t
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7•TMWNN•46m ago•0 comments

Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is

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Global Measles Outbreaks

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