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In this context, "moat" is a cargo-cult invocation of Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham. Just another square on the hackernews bingo

Promptfondler DLC for Disco Elysium is a big disappointment so far

yeah don't do it to yourself. I forget how I originally noticed this weirdo, it may have been through amolitor99's continuous anthropology safari of TPOT freaks. Speaking of which, somebody needs to get that guy over here

data moat

of course somebody prompted up a LessWrong-specific chatbot

twitter gon' have nothin' left but the cranks

crazy people who look sort of like me but younger.

giving away the game a bit, Mr. Schmidt

Despite the industry's deeply ingrained neophilia, I think it speaks to the importance of backwards compatibility and legacy systems.

I can't help but think that the genAI craze will end up being a regrettable side-quest along the path to "coding for non-programmers" akin to Visual Basic. But hey, I bet there's a lot more legacy VB apps being kept alive out there than anyone would be comfortable with.

Point well made. Engineers, however quantitative they may be, are not often finance people. If the true believers were left in charge, they'd probably bankrupt promises much more rapidly, and auger the whole enterprise into the ground that much quicker. I can't see that Altman is actually that great a finance guy either, at least in stewardship of other people's money, but he has cultivated the ability to manipulate cash out of people and institutions during this grift-dominant era of Silicon Valley.

I guess in this scenario, Balaji's fetishized hyperinflation finally happens sometime in the next 6 months.

Yeah, "thousands of days" seems like a first-draft attempt at "let's choose a unit of smaller magnitude to make this seem more serious to the plebs." And everyone around him drowning their brains in GPT slurry shouted, "excellent turn of phrase, sir!"

Imagine if he turned up among the guest cast on Star Trek. He'd probably play a Bajoran who narc'd out to the Cardassians