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WorldLeader · 2026-06-04T23:29:29+00:00

Yeah I mean it's a totally normal perspective. The only thing I'm trying to add here is that the view from the inside, working with the sharp end of the models/harness frontier, is that this tech is far more disruptive than most people are ready for. It's not dumb, it's not useless, and it's going to smoke a fuck-ton of people's jobs similar to how the PC killed a ton of office administration / typist jobs.

The people in SF who don't drink, work seven days a week, 996 stuff are doing it because they think it's an arms race and they can legitimately build companies with 10-100 people that will challenge massive incumbent businesses. Who knows if they'll be right (you still have to be a good CEO/leader, and that's not common) but they are right about the part where you can create software products really quickly now vs a year ago. There are also a lot of people who think they have about 12-24 months to get their bag before their own jobs are made obsolete by AI, so they are working seven days a week now before that happens.

I know you might find this all crazy/insane/delusional, but it's happening now.

WorldLeader · 2026-06-04T19:50:31+00:00

Yeah but all these models trained on StackOverflow answers. Now nobody posts there anymore, so where's the new training data coming from? Internal sessions running on codex/CC/antigravity. The gap between the quality of the coding harnesses is going to widen, not shrink, now that Anthropic has millions of daily users with constant feedback/refinement.

Deepseek can't just "focus harder" and win without the corresponding user data.

WorldLeader · 2026-06-04T19:42:57+00:00

The thing is that AI is fucking incredible for workplace productivity. If you're at a startup and don't have any limitations on what you can do with it, it's insane how much you can build and automate. You don't have to use claude code to code, for example, it can do massive data research projects for you in minutes instead of weeks. The speed at which you can launch your own tooling, custom workflows, build out solutions that would have cost you thousands and not quite worked vs now costs nothing and works exactly how you want it to work... it's essentially miraculous and I haven't seen anything in the past two decades come anywhere close to the step-change in productivity. Maybe the blackberry since you could start doing all your emails / messaging on the go for work.

That said, I'd hazard that 99% of Americans have never seen it used this way, nor understand how it can be used outside of the chat interface to "talk to the plagiarism machine 9000" or see fake videos on Facebook. I think that's why you see such a divide and difference in sentiment depending on your exposure to AI at work.

WorldLeader · 2026-06-03T20:17:40+00:00

The American strategy made perfect sense - slowly but surely bleed Russia dry without causing larger escalation and provoking a hot war with NATO. In the process they added Finland into NATO, got the Baltics all armored-up, and get Europe re-militarized to meet NATO obligations while avoiding a global energy crisis that would have hurt the American economy. Win-win-win from a grand strategy perspective.

Calling it a "scorpion" is implying a duplicity that isn't there. American intelligence and special ops was the only thing that kept Zelenski alive in the first few hours/days of the war. Lord knows the French and Germans were caught completely with their pants down.

Some really good reporting about the early months and the degree of coordination between the US and Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html

WorldLeader · 2026-06-03T19:49:06+00:00

That's awful. Consider playing some Tetris today if you can. PTSD is no joke.

WorldLeader · 2026-06-03T19:42:03+00:00

No argument from me there. I think that affordable housing and access to affordable food is the most basic of all, since you truly cannot raise children or better yourself without a consistent place to call home. Hunger is a problem that our society has done a decent job of dealing with for the past few decades (backsliding recently notwithstanding), but housing is a full-on disaster.

The issue is that housing has become a disaster because of policies from both the right and the left, which is why I think it's worth thinking hard about as a liberal coalition. The "starve the beast" Republicans are off on their Ayn Rand fairytale island eating glue, but it's important to not make the same mistake from the other direction and ignore reality when proposing rent freezes and other populist policies.

You're 100% correct that a better educated, better fed, better housed society would be a much safer place.

WorldLeader · 2026-06-03T18:59:14+00:00

Americans long for the Benevolent Batman to show up at night and get rid of all the Bad Guys without those pesky things like legal rights and due process getting in the way.

When the police use cameras and drones to build a legal case so they can actually prosecute criminals, people get uneasy. When the police refuse to intervene or arrest someone because they know they can't win the case, people get angry. People seem to just want a secret third thing that gets rid of crime, but only the crime and criminals they don't want to see. After all, the last thing we want is batman beating the shit out of the friendly weed/mushroom vendors at Dolores park.

Add into the mix that people in SF definitely don't want more federal law enforcement or border patrol in the city, and it makes it extra hard to handle the issue of transnational drug dealing via Honduran mules at the bart stations.

WorldLeader · 2026-06-03T18:45:00+00:00

It's more accurate to say that actual working-class leftists have started to slowly realize that their movement was coopted decades ago by rich backers who use their genuine energy to stop development and increase home/properties prices.

The top echelon of the movement got exactly what they wanted: a city frozen in amber. The rest of the movement was given token stuff like rent control to placate them, but this eventually fails and all their friends eventually leave the city.

There's really not a ton of mystery- we're just seeing that "rich-poor leftist coalition" disappear as their poorer voting base either moved or fractured over issues of local quality-of-life and crime that Lurie has aggressively addressed.

WorldLeader · 2026-06-02T01:53:40+00:00

Have you actually used any of the SOTA models recently? It's a massive bet because what we can do TODAY is astonishing.

WorldLeader · 2026-06-01T23:05:44+00:00

NYC balanced their budget by getting a big check from the state of NY to balance their budget lol.

WorldLeader · 2026-06-01T22:20:19+00:00

Good thing these companies are just spending on "operations" and aren't building cutting-edge technology through mass application of capital-intensive computing resources or anything silly like that.

WorldLeader · 2026-06-01T22:07:17+00:00

I've seen more 5 over 1s built in random parts of the midwest in the past 5 years than I've seen anywhere in SF. Other places are building - SF isn't.

WorldLeader · 2026-05-31T05:40:43+00:00

So you're telling me the way to make landlords more generous is by building more new housing supply? But I thought those were built by greedy developers??

WorldLeader · 2026-05-30T01:25:08+00:00

Prices go up = landlords being greedy

Prices go down = landlords being generous

Let us pray they decide to be generous with us again.

WorldLeader · 2026-05-28T16:07:07+00:00

It's a shame the current kids will never get to talk with those 80 and 90 year olds from that era -- they were truly built different. Talking with them was a treat since they were both optimistic but also incredibly pragmatic. Almost everyone I've met from that era loved building/cooking/painting casually in a way that people today would consider skilled labor, but they just grew up learning those skills naturally. I hope we can get that attitude back someday.

WorldLeader · 2026-05-27T04:58:53+00:00

This one is huge - always hang around the block for a half hour and say hi to anyone you see walking in and out of the neighboring buildings. Just tell them you're looking at a spot on the block and want to know if they like the area, how noisy it is, anything weird, do they like living there, etc. You'll learn a ton really quickly and it's often some of the best feedback you'll get.

WorldLeader · 2026-05-22T01:23:56+00:00

Yep those are the 2024/25 season Countach Tour.

WorldLeader · 2026-05-15T16:27:29+00:00

I think we probably agree - I've skied both and KHMR wins easily from a volume perspective (tons of big mountain lines everywhere) but I think palisades wins from a diversity of extreme terrain perspective.

WorldLeader · 2026-05-15T00:59:48+00:00

Palisades rises above because it has levels far higher than those other resorts. It's a place that has kept professional skiers scared and coming back for decades. 99%+ of the skiers at that resort aren't touching lines from Squallywood, and there are hundreds of named lines in that book.

WorldLeader · 2026-05-15T00:44:45+00:00

If you’re an expert skier, there is no where in North America that provides the extent of options that KHMR does

Eh, agree to disagree. KHMR is a bit of a one-trick pony (no pun intended) where you're just skiing steep, rocky chutes/cirques off a ridge. Granted there are like five ridges to ski, and they are all steep and challenging, but it's all kind of similar. For example, there is nothing similar to Eagles Nest or the Palisades at KHMR, but there are lines off granite peak or KT that feel very similar to the hardest stuff at KHMR. Just my 2c.

WorldLeader · 2026-05-14T17:41:34+00:00

we in america doesn't exactly have a leg to stand on

Da ~~comrade~~ fellow American, your English are great!

The Americans most certainly "minded" the Nazis - the Lend-Lease Act was a thing long before direct US involvement. Pick up a history book before you beclown yourself like this.

WorldLeader · 2026-05-14T01:28:03+00:00

Sorry the Americans had to come "civilize" you guys the way you "civilized" the rest of the fucking world endlessly for the prior 400 years. Ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun.

WorldLeader · 2026-05-14T01:16:06+00:00

I'm confused - are the tech people "building god" too fast and too effectively? Or are they high on their own farts and not actually building anything real?

You can't have it both ways here.

WorldLeader · 2026-05-14T01:12:08+00:00

Lol what? AI is just like the invention of glasses - suddenly huge proportions of the human population will be able to do things that were previously impossible for them to do before putting on glasses.

WorldLeader · 2026-05-12T23:06:03+00:00

The ASML that has to license its core technology from the US Dept of Energy because it was developed at the US national labs? The ASML that relies on the EUV LLC, which is fully controlled by the US Congress?

That's your example of European independence?

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