Alternative title idea: "Instead of Reaching for AI, we used Good Old-Fashioned Engineering to Solve a Tough Problem"

Is machine learning old-fashioned already?

Machine learning is part of AI.

Are you responding to an 8 year old?

Will my 8 year old be exposed to sports gambling commercials?

If they like sports at all you absolutely know they will.

Rest in peace to a true legend.

> I don’t see how a government elected by the people can be considered a dictatorship.

Have you read any history?

I did. And rare were the autocrats government which came in power from a non-rigged, open election.

Two exemple which are frequently used as exemple are Italy and Germany in the 1930´s but neither Hitler nor Mussolini came in power through the election, but by strong arming the power in place, and after that (at least for Germany) use the excuse of rigged election to validate their power.

Hitler and Allende both gained power legitimately.

They both abused that power afterwards to become dictators.

In a typical retelling of Chilean 9/11 there indeed was a guy who abused his power to become a dictator, but that was not Allende.

It seems that the story you have is different from the one I have. Could you tell yours?

I think you mean legally. And yes, yes, Hitler came to power legally. Doesn’t mean it came to power through some elections, which was my point.

And calling Alende a dictator need some Shutzpah. On this point, I think we would have to stop at the « agree to disagree » level.

Bukele is a large hole in your argument.

First, I never said than a dictator never came to power through fair and healthy election. Just that it is rare, much rarer than a lot people think.

Second, I would say that the jury is still in debat for Bukele. Yes, it’s re-election is anti-constituai but he seems to still have the support of the population, as the election seemed to be fair and healthy.

But I agree that his legal shenningans to allow for his re-election don’t bode well for the future. Let’s wait and see.

*chutzpah

Thanks

This is completely false.

If you took time to check out the link, you would see that this post is about the Lightning Network, which can support massive transactional volume.

Also from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584237

There was also related discussion about another longform piece by the same author that I'm too lazy to look up at the moment..

In my opinion, this author has drunken the kool-aid and then some. There is simply no evidence that more scaling of LLMs will lead to AGI, and on the contrary there is plenty of evidence that the current "gaps" that LLMs have are innate and unsolvable with just more scaling.

That is not “just” what is in this article. There is quite a bit of consideration of algorithmic progress.

What's the markup on software?

The term "Geometers" makes me think of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, which is just as will, since the article is about advanced orbits.

Fool me once...