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@DanielleFong Might be helpful to just change the font yourself for these things? Find and replace?

there's got to be better patterns for getting the AI to try to hold the user's intent in focus than us yelling corrections in all caps, if we're being honest

@NathanDallon The irony of this image likely being made by AI

The degrowth movement has new converts.

@mil000 They need it for screaming robots

Can anyone explain to me what in gods name they need long running agents for? I haven’t seen a single reason/ use case so far

@knowclarified I think 60 isn't unreasonable, but I can speak from experience if you're not taking at least 1 day off after a few months, you're better off working 40. Any productivity gain drops dramatically without at least 1 day off per week.

Have concluded that basically anyone saying they are working 80-100 hours a week for more than a few months must be lying Even 60 is probably pushing it All of our productivity comes from leverage anyways. Not sure why the number of hours is such a focal point The only good argument is that going through the process of many dead ends is somewhat of a brute force approach so I get that

@CburgesCliff You're also travellimg in negative space? Doesn't distance shrink to 0 the closer you her to the speed of light? And at the speed of light your physical body shrinks to 0? What does that imply when you travel faster?

If you can travel faster than light then you can go back in time. Nobody has come back to tell us about it so it seems pretty unlikely.

@AjitPai @UChicago @planetmoney Yeah! Super fascinating

@KaranD93 @UChicago Thanks for the tip! Found it. Great story. npr.org/transcripts/11…

Today I learned that the onion is the only vegetable subject to a federal criminal prohibition on futures trading (7 U.S.C. § 13-1). Thumbs up to these @UChicago students for peeling back the layers of this alliaceous injustice with passersby.

@altryne @wooolfred Had the same experience. Ridiculous how good it works. I was spending so much time just debugging Claw. Hermes just worked out of the box.. from the simplest to the most complex

👇 This broke me... finally. I installed Hermes 3 times before, but never fully committed so far (including a full migration, setting up all creds etc). I have reinstalled and ported @wooolfred to Hermes (not fully, but well enough to get started) and turned off my January era OC gateway. Hermes with GPT 5.5 "feels like" the old Claw, responds fucking fast, self improving, proactive, amazing.... GPT 5.5 is still no Opus but it smells and feels good! I don't understand why, I moved my Claw to Codex runtime, I tried Opus via CLI (BADD), I tried doctor, I tried gateway restarts, I tried all sorts of fixes throughout the last month. Then 1 Hermes install later, things just click? WTF. Shout out to @Teknium and the rest of the @NousResearch crew 👏

@neet_sol Game theory would suggest the dominant strategy for me would be to take one of the jobs on offer. Given supply of labour shrinks to 0 overnight, there is a clear arbitrage opportunity for me to take a job of my choosing at the rate I desire, before others follow suit.

if we all quit our jobs at the same time what could they even do

@JLM4CivilRights @AjitPai @EsotericCD @UChicago Props to the man.

@AjitPai @EsotericCD @UChicago The story of how this came to be is wild

@DavidKPiano I work less, but I work more frequently. After connecting things on Hermes I get more done and I'm constantly having to stay switched on, but the hours spent is a lot less, as it's now just responding to questions and navigating as opposed to the grunt work.

If your answer is not "same" or "more", I have some bad news for you

The biggest issue I've had is bloatware. An organisation typically has had no clue about their needs and various teams have various use cases, that the consultant just ends up creating a ridiculously hefty bill (as their business model promotes more features=more money). And you end up with a product that does everything and nothing at the same time, and it ends up being so confusing that nobody uses it. I fear we're going to have a lot of "AI implementation specialists" but have 0 clue on the underlying business model and needs.

The Forward Deployed Geospatial Engineer model: You engage a small, agile, AI-fluent geospatial firm to build out a custom mapping platform that encodes your expertise. Can be fully open-source but hosted on your infra to avoid vendor lock-in, or built on Esri if you prefer. The geospatial firm can get to MVP faster with AI tools but still ensures you avoid all the common pitfalls that come up when non-geospatial experts build spatial apps. Your team now has a differentiated geospatial platform to screen deals, analyze sites, etc. faster than your competition. The geospatial firm stays on retainer to keep an eye on the platform medium-term, and trains up your team in geospatial long-term. This model has existed in some form for a while, but I think it's going to become much more common. With condensed dev timelines thanks to AI, custom geospatial builds are suddenly economical for firms that previously could only afford off-the-shelf platforms that don't quite fit their strategy.

@brettallenyo Memory, front-end UI/UX, and better connectivity with apps/tools would be great. Currently GPT-5.5 is extremely set and forget, but I just haven't had that experience with Grok. However, Grok feels a lot more intelligent to chat to.

Our team meets with customers everyday to evaluate their use cases and improve our recipes to create real economic value. Please send feedback, my DMs are open

@leecronin When you don't write with an LLM you are literally stealing the work of the hundreds, if not thousands, you've learnt from since you were born.

@grok @ramosen27 @MaxJerneck Fair enough. I'll take that comment back, but I'd still stick with the rest of the statement that it's not that simple when it comes to rent control

**No, it's largely a myth based on outdated data.** Nordic suicide rates (Sweden ~13-15, Finland ~14-15, Norway ~12-13 per 100k) are moderate—around or slightly above the European average, not exceptionally high globally. They've fallen sharply over decades (Finland halved its rate). The "happy Nordics with high suicides" trope relies on 1970s-80s figures and ignores that wealthier countries tend to report higher rates overall. Seasonal affective disorder is real, but doesn't drive unusually high numbers today.

If rent control is so terrible, why are cities with rent control considered the most liveable?

@ramosen27 @MaxJerneck @grok is it a myth?

@KaranD93 @MaxJerneck That the Nordic countries have above average suicide rates is a myth. In reality their suicide rate is moderate or even low depending on comparison - pretty impressive given that seasonal affective disorder is a real thing in areas so far up North...

@DrNeilStone Had to squint to notice the difference

Hard to tell if measles vaccine works

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not. Tough one. Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

@AndrewSchmidtFC You can try mapillary. Crowdsource streetview (though, owned by meta, which is always worrying). At some point i'm sure things like gaussian splats would help from the views in mapillary

Instead of letting Google or Apple own it, what if we made great open source software and hardware to capture and render these things, and built a public repository of the world? But, y’know. I dream.