hellojimbo's comments

On: Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs

[hellojimbo]

Isn't that basically what browser base does. I've found the hardest part of browser use to be stealth first then client change management then browser comprehension (which gets better with every new model).

[merlindru → hellojimbo]

i'm not too familiar with browserbase, but invoke works with any macOS app (or at least the accessible ones), i think browserbase is only for browser usage.

in the context of this blog post, the conclusion looks similar though!

"use the whole web like it's an API"

works much better than

"figure out similar or identical tasks from a clean slate every single time you do them"

On: Talking to strangers at the gym

[hellojimbo]

in the past, you genuinely needed other people all the time which made this so much easier

On: New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

[hellojimbo]

Anti nationalism was the liberal motto for the entirety of my lifetime.

On: OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

[hellojimbo]

i do

On: Let's Buy Spirit Air

[hellojimbo]

why not just start your own airline instead of buying one that is dysfunctional and losing money

[Ekaros → hellojimbo]

In current era of regulation for starting airline is huge amount of paperwork. All sorts of permits, plans, filed documents and so on. So much so that just buying parts from collapsed one is cheaper option.

[danaw → hellojimbo]

because airplanes, routes, employees, pilots etc arent exactly easy to come by without a whole lot more time and capital expenditure

On: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

[hellojimbo]

For different brains, the answer has to be no because the images you see are a "neural net" construction and if that neural net differs then the "image" you see is different

On: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

[hellojimbo]

PE has literally nothing to do with what Enron did which was accounting fraud + cashflow problems because they actually didnt make any money, in fact they lost tons of money and used future earnings in current reporting

On: 40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal

[hellojimbo]

> we need the calories to feed a growing population

> population doubles

> we need the calories to feed a growing population

On: Von der Leyen uses Orbán defeat to push for end of veto in EU foreign policy

[hellojimbo]

How does an autocratic leader lose an election, can Xi lose an election?

On: Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers

[hellojimbo]

How can it be that groups pay for it long term when many of the successful apex predators exhibit interspecies murder and territorialism.

Just to use your own example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapogo_lion_coalition

[adsweedler → hellojimbo]

Wow. I just read that whole wikipedia article and had a fantastic time. Thank you very much for sharing

But to comment on your point: species DO pay for it in the long term when members murder or teratorialism.

Lions are not cannibals. Some lions are cannibals. A successful group of lions cannibals existing (and what a brutal and awesome-in-the-biblical-sense story it is!) does not mean that it pays for the lion species as a whole to have groups of cannibals existing.

In fact, I could only see the “proliferation of groups like this committing atrocities” reach a tipping point for a species - not murdering when this murdering happens will make you cease to exist. So if the species doesn’t have a reason to reach the extreme where this NEVER happens, then it will quickly reach the point where this ALWAYS happens

[bluegatty → hellojimbo]

Totalitarianism is not 'murder', it's 'power'.

On an individual level, even in authoritarian situations murder is still immoral and illegal.

Even within the context of power it's still nominally immoral. Stalin did not kill people, he tortured them until they 'admitted their crimes'. That Stalin needed to present the blood-stained admission is very telling.

Even Bloody Mary couldn't just kill however, there had to be some kind of legitimate premise. Heretics, threats etc.. It's how QE1 survived.