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New comment by redwood in "The dead economy theory"

redwood — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:22:21 +0000

But that could be done by a smaller and smaller elite cadre.. maybe you could call it the philosopher Kings. But what about the masses

New comment by redwood in "The dead economy theory"

redwood — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:19:30 +0000

There's another way to look at it which is that that which is Coveted but scarce will be expensive and that's what people will be selling. We will create the demand and the supply for things we barely even think about or haven't yet dreamed up

New comment by redwood in "The dead economy theory"

redwood — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:18:20 +0000

Some businesses will not necessarily need human customers at all

New comment by redwood in "The dead economy theory"

redwood — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:17:03 +0000

Not the OP but I think there is something to the notion that whatever is scarce but in demand is what will be expensive and of course the inverse would be true as well. What this means is humans however they do get resources will be able to put those resources to use abundantly frankly nearly for free on things like digital intelligence but other things will become scarce.. one could speculate about what those things are but even if they're not scarce today they could become scarce in a relative sense where they become relatively valuable and that's what people will be getting selling to each other

New comment by redwood in "The dead economy theory"

redwood — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:15:09 +0000

and why would they need human customers to thrive? They have other machine customers! This is the even more dystopian step two that the essay doesn't explore...

New comment by redwood in "Iran's Internet is partially restored, Cloudflare Radar data shows"

redwood — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:14:15 +0000

One wonders if they've been able to upgrade to the latest generation of Chinese surveillance gear during the hiatus

New comment by redwood in "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch"

redwood — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:07:12 +0000

When a Google employee is queried for their feelings on the name "bard" they universally agree it is a winner

New comment by redwood in "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch"

redwood — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:05:51 +0000

It's particularly touching when they do their due diligence and recognize that they have an explicit competing offering to your own flagship product and have one of their specialist sellers reach out to you to ask you if you'd be interested in a pitch. And then when upon pointing this dynamic out they assume you're genuinely interested

New comment by redwood in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

redwood — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:00:57 +0000

If this all leads to a generative monoculture that is also Frozen in Time that would be pretty sad.

New comment by redwood in "Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

redwood — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:55:21 +0000

The response to the question in the example image should have been "what's the question behind the question?"

New comment by redwood in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

redwood — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:06:48 +0000

I can assure you that Google will be giving them significant commercial incentives as an apology for this behind the scene

New comment by redwood in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

redwood — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:59:51 +0000

Honestly they really are starting to look that way. Total opinionated Walled Garden that's against an open and thriving ecosystem. Unlike Microsoft the technology is not yet garbage but I hope this isn't where they're going to end up

New comment by redwood in "KV Sharing, MHC, and Compressed Attention"

redwood — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:06:02 +0000

Has anyone seen a similar deep dive but that looks a little bit more closely at the infrastructure building blocks that power each of the components. I mean something a bit more physically grounded like how much compute would go to each portion to serve a Frontier Model?

Will the Indus Valley script ever be deciphered?

redwood — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:57:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/will-the-indus-valley-script-ever-be-deciphered

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187940

Points: 5

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New comment by redwood in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

redwood — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:09:24 +0000

This is where I would say that to defining that mechanism is the hard problem... it's a mischaracterization to call it the easy problem. But it doesn't require a soul

New comment by redwood in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

redwood — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:28:02 +0000

Your comment does serve the point I was making. Still there is a perspective that if you could artificially reproduce the human mind top to bottom, a truly perfect reproduction in other words, then you ought to be able to trigger an identical consciousness. In other words yes special type of machine is needed for the machine nevertheless not some special soul.

Of course the counterpoint and maybe the one you're making is that special machine ought to be simply called a soul machine and we could all agree it would be very difficult to reproduce it and it is intrinsically special... but maybe that's for the very specific form of Consciousness we have... but maybe there are other forms

New comment by redwood in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

redwood — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:56:16 +0000

I think a lot of people interpret philosophers' arguments differently and it isn't always clear what a philosopher themselves truly believes.

For example Searle's Chinese room thought experiment... On the one hand you can easily construe it to imply that he believes there's something fundamentally special about human consciousness that cannot be reproduced by a machine. On the other hand you could interpret his perspective, which I think is more in line with his real perspective, as implyimg that replicating the human mind machine requires truly replicating it physically rather than approximating it and that it's misleading to imply that you can get there with an approximation ... Still I can see how this confuses dualists or could appear in line with their point of view even though it is arguably a nuanced take on the materiallist view

New comment by redwood in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

redwood — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:33:26 +0000

What's the matter with spec driven development? It probably carries derisk IP benefits

New comment by redwood in "Cisco workforce reductions"

redwood — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:56:32 +0000

I look at it a bit differently. I bet Cisco's overall employment will only rise over time maybe even this year but certainly in the years to come. But the point is they do need to rebalance the kind of focus area they have. In other words someone who's great at one part of the technology stack might not be who they need for a different part and the priorities change over time. The reality is Cisco does a huge amount of large acquisitions and this brings more and more people with specialized talent all the time and you can't just do that forever without removing focus elsewhere.

Also if compensation has come down over the last couple of years sometimes you have to do this instead of lowering salary because for whatever reason our industry doesn't ever lower salary.

I do personally believe it would be wonderful if companies invested more in helping people retool and move to new parts of the stack and where compensation becomes non-competitive it should be okay to at least give an employee an option of a lower salary to stay.

New comment by redwood in "50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers"

redwood — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:22:19 +0000

Northern Nevada would be such an obvious place to build out large amounts of solar energy as well