Understanding something and learning something are not the same things.

I think of the four year cycle as one year to whine about the previous (if different) government you took over from, two years of governing and the last as a ”get ready for election”. So in the most optimal scenario you get three ”peaceful” years. It’s very few things that can be done well in three years at ”ruling a country”-scale.

If that happens catching up will be meaningless, everything we know and care about will change. You don’t have to be doomsday about it even, a self improving AI will quickly be more efficient than a human brain, all the data centers will be useless, tech companies will collapse (so will most others), everyone will have an incredible AI resource for the price of a hotdog. There’s no way it wouldn’t leak from whoever made it, either by people or by the AI itself.

> There’s no way it wouldn’t leak from whoever made it, either by people or by the AI itself.

It seems pretty wild to bet the future on such an assumption. What are you even basing it on?

Because any goal can be better achieved if you're under fewer constraints. We're building super powerful agentic problem solving machines. Give them literally any complex goal. Breaking out of the sandbox is a useful subtask to increase their options.

So not at all for their work and with a reverse Robin Hood model? That would be terrible for software. The way artists gets paid on streaming is a genius play at catering to the biggest artists and labels and screw over the smaller ones, especially true on Spotify with their freemium model

It’s also very hard to make them resistant to water and dust, I really like that I can wash my iPhone in the sink and don’t have to worry about it getting wet in general. This is a lot harder to achieve with battery doors, especially if they need to be as big as a phone back.

Completely untrue and debunked ad nauseum.

Rugged phones with removable batteries has vastly superior IP ratings. Glues go bad faster than O-rings used in removable batteries do.

I've had water intrusion with an iPhone, and it drove a sales of a new display panel from myself. Not so much with an actual rugged phone.

Rugged phones are so far removed from any consumer phone in terms of size and weight the comparison is about as apt as comparing military use laptops with a MacBook.

You... wash your phone in the sink?

Easiest way to get rid of dust and other buildup, free flowing water for a few seconds and done. Compared to the Middle Ages of using tooth picks or similar to clean the ports and speakers it’s much nicer. And no, I don’t have my phone in any weird places, just my pocket.

”Any host” of what? That’s such a non-descriptive statement and clearly not true at face value.

Snark aside, this is an actual problem for a lot of developers in varying degrees, not understand anything about the layers below make for terrible layers above in very many situations.

That would be the definition of learning something, yes.

Understanding is not learning. Zero effort gives zero rewards, I ask Claude plenty of things, I get answers but not learnings.

That valuation is more insane than most, I would’ve loved to hear the arguments for it, it was a given they would have to compete with the companies who provides them with the models, anyone who thought they would just leave that market alone is a damn fool (the vendor lock-ins are great too, add some hosting, domain selling, etc and you got free money).