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Consider the second- and third-order effects(fs.blog)
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by 23B1 3y ago
The ability to think through problems to the second, third, and nth order—or what we will call second-order thinking for short—is a powerful thinking tool that not only solves problems but avoids them.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Sorry, I don't understand your comment. Most of the world isn't going to rip up the deep cultural roots associated with their food traditions because some extropian techbro dyed some soy protein pink.
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by 23B1 3y ago
This fascination with replacing perfectly nutritious foods with synthetic nonsense is the perfect embodiment of the TESCREAL bubble. Your spreadsheet means bupkis when it comes to culture, tradition, and tastes.
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by 23B1 3y ago
The lawyers certainly agree with you on that!
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by 23B1 3y ago
Ironic that even our everyday governance has little 'Alignment' between ethics and law.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Impressed that Google was able to follow Apple - only 14 years later. (I know I know)
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by 23B1 3y ago
...yet. And I'm not just talking about privacy breaches, I'm talking about conscious, willful abuse.
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by 23B1 3y ago
I wonder how many HN readers are complicit in this same style of abuse towards customer data.
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Prison guards are fungible. Disobeying officers can only cause imprisonment, and won't change a thing in leadership. The logic of punishing prison guards comes from the false belief that soldiers can all somehow synchronize their ac
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by 23B1 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
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I think the inside of your bubble must be polished to a mirror finish.
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by 23B1 3y ago
It's interesting you think your technical savvy is correlated with necessity.
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by 23B1 3y ago
> I live in Silicon Valley, run a b2b tech company ... I have not carried a phone or an Google/Apple controlled device in 3+ years and exclusively use FOSS on a personal basis. Y'know, a regular salt-of-the-earth type guy
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by 23B1 3y ago
okay, so where are the steps?
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by 23B1 3y ago
Sounds to me like you're not commenting in good faith. Begone, nerd.
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Neither of those jobs require serious tolerances
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It really depends on a lot of variables; experience, location, ingredients, season, taste. Starting out it's good to learn measurements then you can advance to cooking with proportions and tasting your ingredients to see what works. As
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by 23B1 3y ago
There's no law in the U.S. that you must use imperial units, and I'm not aware of any serious professional that does. It's also such a silly argument coming from the brits who swap their units almost randomly: https:/
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by 23B1 3y ago
"Stung By Media Coverage, Silicon Valley Starts Its Own Publications" - NPR 2021 https://www.npr.org/2021/06/25/1010066447/stung-by-media-cov...
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The AGI is now running OAI. Hide your paperclips.
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Altman and OAI – and their investors, more importantly – have already proven over decades and decades that they're in it for the money and at any cost to people including their own paying customers. This generation is making the same
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by 23B1 3y ago
There's quite a few reasons that could be illegal, especially if it's trying to avoid debt etc. Not saying that is the case here, but there is such a (very rampant) thing called corporate crime that could violate both the letter a
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by 23B1 3y ago
One of the more confidently incorrect replies I've read on HN in a while, thank you.
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by 23B1 3y ago
It doesn't matter from an experiential perspective, no. It does matter from a legal perspective e.g. personhood.
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by 23B1 3y ago
"irreparable damage to my career" You're doing irreparable damage to your soul by not trying it out.
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The only thing I use gdocs for is collaboration. What are some of y'all's favorite alternatives?
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> are there lots of people in NYC and surrounding area who must drive into the city for work and don't have convenient alternatives available? Yes. Many poor people (think teachers, healthcare workers, services workers) have been pr
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How do you think the goods and services – upon which the poor depend – get into Manhattan?
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by 23B1 3y ago
It's CNN selectively reporting the facts because most of the MSM now looks at everything through a culture war lens. Plenty of other lenses to pick from. A large reason old internet was so fun is that nobody gave a damn about this id

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