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What else have bot farms learned through scaling?

- Batteries are dangerous

- you treat your phone as literally yet again VM

- using non commercial sim cards at scale can by tricky or even illegal sometimes or against TOS.

- you don't need sim cards per so if you route your phones over WIFI per unique outbound network/ip

- you can buy wall paint that blocks EM emission

- you can TRIVIALLY build illegal GPS jammer

- phones don't take much power - it can be clandestine as hell


> building Rube Goldberg machines that cannot be reasoned about

What a great phrase!, can I use that in conversation?


“Good” schools are made up of their members. Good houses are largely a function of location, and community. Good groceries… I don’t know. Never knew this was an issue in the year 2026 outside of, like, North Korea.

But anyhow, you see the problem.


> Never knew this was an issue in the year 2026 outside of, like, North Korea.

Look up food deserts. I'm sure there are myriad issues you think exist only in North Korea.


Food deserts are simply a consequence of grocery retailers avoiding locations that are unprofitable because of high shrinkage.

Blue Apron, instacart, hello fresh, etc. The logistical options boggle the mind, as long as one has enough money.

> The logistical options boggle the mind, as long as one has enough money.

Yes, obviously. But you said these conditions don't exist outside of North Korea, while people live in poverty the world over.


Likely cheaper than owning a car in a food desert though.

If one had enough money they wouldn't be living in a food desert.

They would, and do, but never notice it. The 30 minute drive to the trader joes is just part of life

I honestly don’t see the point of this comment, it’s not even that coherent. Are you saying poor communities should just go conjure up some “location” benefits, or conjure up some money to get more nutritious food? Please expand.

> it’s not even that coherent.

They are saying the biggest problem with the poor communities you're talking about is the people living in them. That seems true statistically no? Or at least, there's more data that supports that than the idea that there's magic soil in the rich communities.

Are we going to pretend like communities aren't shaped by their people now and everybody is just NPCs that has no influence over what their communities look like?

We can at least rule out that poor people can't make good communities because there are plenty of counterexamples that show otherwise.


Maybe if you took one step farther out, you would see that the reasons some people and communities are poor are due to external factors. But go on, keep blaming all your problems on the individual poor people that obviously have something wrong with them.

> But go on, keep blaming all your problems on the individual poor people that obviously have something wrong with them.

Well, I didn't say I had any problems so I'm not sure what you're even referencing here. Weird strawman

> you would see that the reasons some people and communities are poor are due to external factors.

Oh spare me. This is like reaching algebra and thinking you've reached the frontier of mathematics in 2026. As if nature vs nurture wasn't drilled into every prepubescent brain in even the worst school systems in the west. It seems that you're the one that's unable to escape elementary pop psychology.


I see from your history you have some incredibly bad takes and analogies that simply don’t work. Most of what you say I doubt even you understand. For your own sake, go get out of whatever bubble you’re in for 5 minutes.

> I doubt even you understand

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

…

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.


Low IQ signal is focusing on the analogy instead of the point being made. You're still in grad school, spare me about bubbles. I very much doubt you have the kind of self awareness that warrants this kind of comment

Typical telco behavior though. Cox cable, Verizon, AT&T, so on. They even sold “price lock guarantee” as a feature, often a time limited promotion.

The halting problem is a product of a Turing-complete model of computation.

If we want perfectly secure systems, then perhaps we don’t want universal and general purpose ones.


The bar for Turing-complete is very low. The halting problem is to programming as Godel's incompleteness theorem is to metamathematics. Yet no one is seriously suggesting that we downgrade to axiomatic systems incapable of expressing Peano arithmetic, nor that our current axiomatic systems are impractical for proving theorems.

We cannot automatically and completely verify nontrivial semantic properties of arbitrary programs written in a Turing-complete language (Rice's theorem), but as long as we as humans can intuit correctness arguments for our programs, then formal methods will apply to it. Of course, declarative rather than imperative programming semantics tend to result in simpler correctness arguments, sidestepping reliance on global state and convoluted loop invariants.


I just don't think we need turing completeness to solve the problems we try to solve with software. You bring up how humans can reason and prove correctness for our programs, but I say we just force them to do that (making our programs no longer turing complete). I don't think I've ever encountered a problem that required steps that I didn't think I would be able to prove halted.

And maybe we discover that perfectly secure systems are not useful, or fun, or otherwise enjoyable to use.

Maybe the digital equivalent of being locked in a doomsday bunker eating only white rice doesn't produce interesting software experiences.


One can imagine a world in which Rust allows a `decidable` block and code has stricter guarantees within it.

I imagine it would be a nightmare to work with.


Software “engineers” aren’t responsible for their code the same way professional engineers are. Yet, I’d prefer the embedded system for the supermarket freezer were a nightmare to work with, over a society that is a nightmare to live in because of “cyber.”

small, open source, decision model optimized for fast experimentation, local development, and innovation...

But just think of the street cred!


What kills the team is the failure to adapt leadership skills for the office into leadership skills for wfh teams. It’s more work for the leads and “bosses.”

Apple’s opportunity is the greatest hope I know of for the democratization of AI. Fingers crossed

Democratization as in buying a narcistic president with a golde iphone, amongst others?

Why would a $5 trillion dollar company have any interest in democratizing anything at all?

Boggles my mind that people are fooled into into thinking a company has their best interests at heart.


They're a hardware company that made trillions of dollars selling hardware. "Commoditize your Compliment" is one of the oldest business strategies out there.

their share of income from services and subscriptions has been increasing steadily year over year, i think they're interested in keeping that growth

What do you think the word democratize means, exactly? It's a serious question.

Here's what I think it does not mean: walled gardens, vendor lock in, closed source, subversion of interoperability.


ultimately they are not going to win the AI model race. There's absolutely no way apple is thinking about making boatloads of money off whatever measly AI solution their team could come up with. Their best hope is to make their hardware platform attractive to AI researchers and businesses.

The platform is attractive to researchers and developers that that could potentially drive the future of adoption… Much like Nvidia’s current situation

A hardware company whose strongest gross margins come from services and has been trending in that direction for over a decade. Heck, if trends continue, their margins and profits might be predominantly services based in the not to distant future.

Men can dream, can’t they?

We had these in the 80s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_Film_Card_calculators

I don't think it's too wild to expect Linux to run in this form factor, 40 years later.


Especially if you’re not looking for a gui. Just one lean SOC, stuff for power, and 80x100 character display.

While I’m not sure what this does, I’ve made sure to have chatgpt do it for me, safely from the cloud.

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