AbrahamParangi

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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
See, this is the thing. It’s just wrong in spirit. Americans just don’t care about China. Americans don’t particularly think about any other countries, period, and they definitely don’t care what those countries think of them.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Something amusing about “anti-China prejudice” is that generally speaking most countries don’t especially care if you badmouth them. Can you imagine Americans up in arms that someone in China doesn’t like or respect America? And don’t scour
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
this is art.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
I think viewing virality optimized content as informative in a meaningful way on any social media platform is a road straight to hell, to be honest.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
This is a material argument that is totally undercut by the fact that the bomb gave japan an excuse to surrender that they needed and otherwise would not have had. The bomb was directly referenced in Hirohito's surrender speech: Moreo
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
https://replicate.com does in fact already exist.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
You seem to be asking how you can be speak hyperbolically while sounding realistic.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
If Apple is in a lawsuit I'm not going to go to the Apple media relations page for the story. What about the NYT, also a for-profit company, makes it more principled than Apple, other than that they say they are ?
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Does it not seem a bit suspect to read the the NYT reporting on their own lawsuit?
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Weights are not intellectual property.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
I think people underestimate how much of a company’s value is in their key leadership, select talent, and technology. When a company is acquired those are typically the reasons to do so other than pure revenue acquisition. Microsoft already
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Ilya and co are going to get orphaned, there’s no point to the talent they have if they intend to slow things down so it’s not like they’ll remain competitive. The capacity that MSFT was going to sell to OpenAI will go to the internal team.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
This is deeply wrong. Just because you don’t see what’s special about him doesn’t mean he isn’t a rare talent.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
This is worse than firing Jobs, at least when they fired him it was for poor performance not “doing too good a job”.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
There's a tight relationship between wealth and democracy and we all always assumed that democracy drove wealth but what if wealth drives democracy and as the EU gets poorer we can expect it to backslide
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Part of the reason this doesn't happen is that the word "Safe" smuggles in some ideas that an average person might object to alongside many unobjectionable ideas. For instance, "Safe" might mean "enforce a cert
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Many people have said that historically, I may not agree with them but if the criteria for being a great philosopher is “everyone thinks they’re great” then there are no great philosophers.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Great philosophers like Karl Marx are responsible for uncountably more evil than the people who create and build things.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
With whatever respect is due, what you're talking about a vague psychologically based theory of intelligence that actually has a very poor track record of prediction - meanwhile "dumb" statistical ML has no clear theoretical
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
I truly do not understand how people have forgotten that in a democracy, any powers you give yourself - any lines you cross or precedences you break - are tools that your political enemies will use against you when they return to power, and
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Scams on marketplaces (ads or Amazon or the App Store) parasitize the buyers/viewers and legitimate sellers/advertisers but are symbiotic with the marketplace itself. This creates strong incentives for some PM with the goal of “ma
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
I think now is a salient time to remind people: Don’t read the news. It’s bad for you and wants to make you angry or scared so you read more and share more. Moreover, most news is fake, in the sense that your understanding of the world is w
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
My point is that literally everything falls into this category of “potentially dangerous under conditions of misuse” and so it is not a useful distinction .
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
The harm of kitchen knives, fire, electricity, thinking, and getting out of bed all clearly exceed 0. This suggests to me that it's fundamentally wrongheaded to think of it as the primary metric by which we evaluate things.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
I think US defense blob is actually the entity at the top of the entire global power food chain. Probably the actual last entity you'd want to meaningfully fuck with.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
It may be that the biggest problem YC has is the perception of SF as a sick city. One way to change that would be to change people's perception of the city by improving the material conditions.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
The covariates are awkward and because they correspond so strongly with parental traits, the possibility exists that the kids are dying because of dysfunctional parental behaviors specifically.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
You’re downvoted because this claim is worse than an insane conspiracy theory. It’s just mind-blowingly stupid.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
All’s fair in economic war, it’s not like the Chinese market is remotely open to foreign competition.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Aside but my favorite ivermectin study was the meta study that found that there was a relationship between whether or not ivermectin improved Covid outcomes and the rates of endemic parasites that could be treated with ivermectin. So, peopl

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