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New comment by TheWrongGuy in "Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale"

TheWrongGuy — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:47:43 +0000

so many of the example pics are obviously slop! Why are people in such a hurry to release pictures where, for example, that there are two red headsets on the vintage red phone..

New comment by TheWrongGuy in "New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson"

TheWrongGuy — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:58:47 +0000

Data is much closer to being a neurodivergent human than he is an LLM

New comment by TheWrongGuy in "New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson"

TheWrongGuy — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:57:33 +0000

Here I am, reading about the homeopape on the homeopape

New comment by TheWrongGuy in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

TheWrongGuy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:39:01 +0000

I'm in the really annoying and lonely (not necessarily in that order) camp of people who think it probably does exist but isn't properly described by these specious and lazy arguments.

New comment by TheWrongGuy in "Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet"

TheWrongGuy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:09:41 +0000

After all these years they finally got someone

New comment by TheWrongGuy in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

TheWrongGuy — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:50:55 +0000

By that standard, human brains don't either. Our externalizations of concepts like language or symbolic structure allow us to do so. In the parlance of our times, we built our own reasoning harnesses because our intuition lead us to do so.

New comment by TheWrongGuy in "The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough"

TheWrongGuy — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:03:42 +0000

Felt like the article could have benefitted from more focus and follow through tbh. Relatable problem, but it didn't say anything beyond exactly what you would have gotten from reading the title.

New comment by TheWrongGuy in "What is a human? A miserable little pile of clades"

TheWrongGuy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:24:39 +0000

Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of

New comment by TheWrongGuy in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

TheWrongGuy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:18:24 +0000

This author, like many before him, have decided that their lack of comprehension of a concept (in this case, money) is somehow proof that it can't be understood.

New comment by TheWrongGuy in "Can we have the day off?"

TheWrongGuy — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:48:26 +0000

"Hence too the economic paradox, that the most powerful instrument for shortening labour-time, becomes the most unfailing means for placing every moment of the labourer's time and that of his family, at the disposal of the capitalist for the purpose of expanding the value of his capital." - some crazy radical economist, nearly 200 years ago

New comment by TheWrongGuy in "Founding Stories Are Myths"

TheWrongGuy — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:32:18 +0000

That's all fine, and you're right: Sam Walton was talented and it was a smart investment. You've interpreted my "average hard-working chump" to mean "not a talented businessman" which is not what I meant. I just think that if you got a bunch of money from your father in law and were part of prestigious society that needs to be part of the story. If it's omitted, I have to think that the author is intentionally pushing an alternate but equally-inaccurate view of how success happens.

New comment by TheWrongGuy in "Founding Stories Are Myths"

TheWrongGuy — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 21:51:18 +0000

Maybe true, but the article is pretty much replacing what you'd call "career porn" with what I'd call "persistence porn." About the kid who walked in the snow wearing nothing but a t shirt every day to get his degree, yadda yadda.. ignore the fact that Sam Walton he had a rich stepdad who financed his businesses, that he was in a prestigious fraternity and secret society at UoM, and had a number of other benefits that are simply not available to your average hard-working chump.

New comment by TheWrongGuy in "Founding Stories Are Myths"

TheWrongGuy — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 21:39:48 +0000

Great point that these narratives are usually self-mythologizing and mostly untrue. Success is more than just a “eureka” moment where it all comes together. It is also more than the alternative that you present here, wherein the person succeeds purely by outworking the competition. A much more complete — and frankly, more interesting — picture of success would include the ideas, the hard work, and also explain how Walton’s early stores were financed by his father in law Leland Stanford Robson (who often paid his son-in-law’s bills, sometimes even without Walton’s knowledge), that he was active in Missouri’s fraternity communities, was a member of QEBH, the UoM secret society that also includes several past and current state governors as well as one of the founders of Kinder Morgan. If your aim is to demythologize success and present a more accurate view of the the path one must walk to become massively successful, isn’t it kind of misleading to omit Walton’s network of powerful family, friends, and benefactors?