AndrewKemendo

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by AndrewKemendo 2mo ago
There’s many people who live this this everyday still The future isn’t evenly distributed
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My observation is that on average, the world is too complex and confusing for the vast majority of people to operate in it without significant struggle.
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You can do this test yourself at home see if you can find mutual agreement among even a small subset of people on a precise singular definition of a singular term. You may be able to get a handful of people to agree temporarily but that’s p
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by AndrewKemendo 2mo ago
The fatal flaw in your argument is that none of the measures that you’re using actually have any impact on real world day-to-day power otherwise slave camps would not exist, there would’ve never been a pogrom, and the current state of econo
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> Why do we need universal agreement? Because actions have Universal impact
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You would first need a universal agreement on what constitutes “honor.” No harder challenge had ever been accomplished It’s easier to send a human to the moon than to get global agreement on a definition Consider that the fact that Celsius
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It's not cynicism it's history
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AI and eventually AGI is by definition like everything else that is based on environmental reward: It’s actions are based on what it gets rewarded for Human society overwhelmingly rewards lying cheating and stealing. All you have to do is l
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> The longer this war lasts, the more experience we gain. We had never seen a real war to gain real experience to learn how to fight with America. In these five months, we have learned how. We have also seen how the American military is
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by AndrewKemendo 2mo ago
All of this has been true for at least two generations That’s what college life was like for me in a top 10 US school in 2003-2008 and was true of that school since 1954.
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What does it have to do with?
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What if the products were too big in the past and now they are down to the appropriate size?
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Well if you get your friends and family to help to build them (which is what people used to do) and then cut a deal for cheap land in remote Nebraska Just pretend like it’s 1950 and use the tools and build the community you need to do it li
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Correct they fail in any out of boundary condition which is like 50% of cases in my experience Even worse is that the human is usually just as worthless because the problem is often upstream at the insurance provider or regulation This is s
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I’m aware of your argument and disagree. I know plenty of people who are unhoused and have no intentions on becoming housed anytime soon. Whether or not you agree with that philosophy or not living by yourself in a tent in the forest is abs
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Explain to me then why pharmacies have almost exclusively used IVR based phone systems for pharmacy refills and prescription management for the last decade? Like they don’t even say the full name of the prescription they just tell you the f
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Have you ever bought a car near a military base? How about getting a check cashed or a payday loan? Furniture financing is almost 100% a scam Pharma pricing?
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But that’s not the same world The current world has different technology and economics In order to match the same lifestyle of the past you would have to be subject to the economic and technological structure of the past Which you can emula
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I agree with you and the math checks out The challenge is that this is a hard argument to make to most people because they aren’t aware of the hedonic treadmill I could easily afford the life my grandfather had in 1950, but I wouldn’t have
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All technologies are used to change or amplify existing power structures
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In my experience you can’t get there through external sources You need to be accepting and prepared to die in every sense of the word in order get there Which means you need to shed your ego entirely and everyone has their own journey there
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If this was applied to all of commercial organizations equivalently, the entirety of our society would probably grind to a halt
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Any competent senior engineer has done a major refactor or manual rebase-prune merge so it’s not like its a rare event. You just have to have discipline and be prepared to to do the plumbing correctly so that you think ahead of the future d
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I’ve successfully done exactly what is described. You have to actually implement discipline yes. That’s the key hard part. However provided you stick to the discipline, it’s robust e2e TDD’d versioned worked through CI and in production You
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Then you version and update the spec and when you commit you reference the diff in the -m
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by AndrewKemendo 3mo ago
For what it’s worth suicide prevention was probably the number one initiative during my 17 years in the USAF from 2002 to 2020 I think the flu vaccine and sexual assault prevention were about equally as focused on To the point where it was
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by AndrewKemendo 3mo ago
Speaking of taste the author basically tells me not to read the article immediately as soon as I hit the page because the commenters on this site (HN) have made them feel so bad about it I’m pretty sure it was not technology that killed the
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by AndrewKemendo 3mo ago
>There was always an implicit understanding that the white-collar worker would be freed to spend their time on more valuable, higher-level problems "Oh yeah, we're gonna bring in some entry-level graduates, farm some work out t
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by AndrewKemendo 3mo ago
I’d argue this is exactly why this happened and why the poster is correct but missing the point: Your organizational management is the problem not the technology If you can’t coordinate internally to roll out a proper domain then I question
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It is full of obvious AIgen artifacts What’s more interesting is that whomever the judges were didn’t seem to notice or care. It was only until afterward were they upset

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