Foundation (on AppleTV) is simply a different story set in a similar universe. It’s a good story, worth watching imo.

If you changed the names I wouldn't have been able to guess it was supposed to be related to those books

No it’s really easy. You decide right now: are you the type of person that would cheat on your spouse? Yes or no.

It's really not and even now most of you never heard the psychological concept of situational structural crime. Literally the idea that people otherwise normal can get incentivized to do dubious things because of the particular system they are put into.

A lot of the attribution bias has been one direction when in reality it's bidirectional. More people should study actual psych ideas and not rely on generalizations based on their own limited perspective.

There’s no situation where I would destroy the life I have with my spouse because I value it too much. Offer me a billion, the answer is no. Tell me I’d save the world, also no. What’s your book psychology say is wrong about that? ;)

Dude we just got married. Why you make me think of this?

Then again, how long was Huang married? Children? Enough means to support anyone in any configuration... Not like they needed to stick together for the mortgage.

Dunno. One should not do it, I agree. But I can imagine there are difficult times for relationships. What I want to say is: I agree cheating should be legal.

In this case I'm assuming Mr+Mrs Huang were in a monogamous relation. Which, well, I have no knowledge of nor desire to know more about.

In modern societies it's a problem between them. And I think I prefer it that way.

> there’s a breakdown of the basic deal in MSR: do good work and good things happen

This really hit home for me. This is the contract that held for a *long* time at Microsoft and has been broken and rebroken with current leadership. It’s culture-destroying.

“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.”

I can’t fathom this kind of thinking. It’s not a case of having to choose between the lesser of evils, it’s a case of having some principles and making decisions based on them.

You can say no.

Keys don’t have to be a SPoF though. Multi-signature schemes are the baseline for security today.

Right, but who is the multi in the multisig and what happens if they die.

You can be the multi yourself. Choose diverse hardware (ie, not all the same Ledger) and your likelihood of compromise changes significantly in your favor.

Sure, loss of seed material would be catastrophic so have a backup scheme. The point isn’t that you can make it perfect, but there’s laughably risky and imperfect solutions and putting everything on a single key HW device like this is the poster child.

OK but if your wallet gets doxed, you can still be forced to give it up by criminals.

Indeed! The pipe wrench attack, employed since valuable things existed!

If that does become possible then the market will naturally establish efficiency again and the opportunity will disappear.

This seems somewhat obviously true, to some degree, but it all depends on the prompt, I think?

In the equilibrium, profits fall to zero in capitalism, but there's never equilibrium, everything is changing. Profit comes from insights that others haven't seen, from access to opportunities that others don't have, or through monopolistic control generating economic rents.

For that AI to make money, it has to have a harness that gives it one of the above things, which does seem possible.

> which does seem possible

But strictly time-limited, because as soon as someone else figures out what you are doing, there's no moat to prevent them from telling their AI to do it too.

Markets reach equilibrium very fast when everyone has access to the exact same tools and information.

If the market would be fully efficient how would it be possible to make money in the market? I font think the market is that fast at rebalancing.

it'll basically be scam vs scam if that's every what happens.

What makes you think that a clock-timing analogy even applies to brains doing work?

Just give yourself time and you’ll be the target customer then!

About that, a well known problem in VR is that all current headsets have a fixed focal, usually optimized for long distances. The problem is that if you are showing something at a short distance, the eyes will then adjust the focus based on that distance, which is not what the headset shows, so it will look blurry. That's why it is hard to read a book in VR.

Several solutions have been proposed, like varying the focal mechanically based on where you are looking (Varifocal, see Half Dome prototype). There are some others, but the simplest solution is to get old!

With age comes presbyopia, which is the inability for the eye to focus on short distances, bad in real life, great in VR! Because the inability of your eyes and your headset to adjust focus cancel out!

I suspect the author still misunderstands the SVP. If I were the SVP of engineering saying this to someone, especially someone who is in a non-core engineering role like product, I probably recognize that they have a tendency to verbally spew and I want them to focus on the risk mitigation and response plan. I’ve already talked to my engineering leader because they informed me immediately, and I’ve already read the incident details.

But also the post reads like it comes from an inexperienced/immature service org, so maybe they’re just sorting their operational response process out.