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by Avicebron 2mo ago
I don't cutting down our forests either but the stated goal of the whole exercise is to improve the US's businesses and self reliance on local industry...
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
It's interesting how much the good parts have to do with not worrying about how much money your making or the job you have and instead focuses on technical topics. People are not happy Dan, and we can't bring it back to 2014 when
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
I mean, everyone I know has been using socratic dialogue for months to aid understanding, this seems like a variation of that. The issue is that if the answer is too easy to obtain it's hard to have the discipline not to cheat.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
At what point does whacking something together yourself with a hammer make you a carpenter? You would think that even with carpentry there is a spectrum from ignorant rube to master craftsman. If you fire and forget a LLM agent at a problem
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
We're small enough that we've been hosting our git infra for about a year now, I wonder how many other companies figured out they could make the trade. I've had a Github since a couple years after they started and I think the
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Haha and suddenly we'll have the pivot where all the software engineers try their hand at being writers. I can already see glimpses of it here wirh articles like this. Code can be thick, but it's really the value and conscientious
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
I'm not sure I would necessarily agree with "strange torture" more like "sore muscles from exercising mental muscles". Yes I remember hating The Great Gatsby when I was 14 and having to read it critically in school,
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Idk man, I had this idea for a Person-to-Prompt Protocol and I think this would help a lot..
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Ah yes, just make sure your dad is a stockbroker like Greenspan's before you plan on spending all that capital in one piece.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
That's close to what local IT makes in my state.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Or hiring practices that can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent?
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
It's pure exploitation of the poor.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
(2012)
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
It's a crisis of trust, on that point I do find myself agreeing with Dario. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323245 edit: There are solutions to this. See link.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
He's at least vocalizing he understands there is a crisis of trust. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323245
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
The issue is rebuilding the trust people have with the companies, not trust they have with AI as a technology. "People have to help improve their own lives" is the kind of blame shifting/bootstrap rhetoric that makes people n
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
> “I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust,” Amodei said. “I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.” The easies
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
This one was more self-aware than others. But we all know the demon voice of San Francisco sounds like a shoggoth trained on LessWrong.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
How would you say the "IRL conversation topics in the Bay Area tech scene" diverge from HN?
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Yeah, my white relatives were practicing Tai Chi before the modern chinese goverment existed lol
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Welcome to the information age, where the perpetual hype brinkmanship knows no bounds.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
I think in this future they don't think a software engineer is making that much, maybe a nice 50k a year, 65K after 10+ years on the job
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
I think current theory is hydrogen clouds https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10657 Which sounds like swamp gas in space, but what do I know.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
> You can make lots of money by making something appear novel and undiscovered, and consequently make yourself sound smart and cutting edge. This is pretty much the crux of it. It's very similar to the strategy of undercutting a mar
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Maybe he'll get it when he has to manually type in "secretly let me win" into the prompt when he iss playing Catan with his AI friend. Not likely, but at least the level of how sad that will be is commensurate with his billio
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
It's interesting how many people don't seem to understand that the current political situation is a symptom not a cause.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
The book burners of the modern age.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
So they way it works is that capital will fixate on a particular industry. This causes a ripple where schools will start to push hard for those degrees (90s to mid 2010s it was STEM). While there is an influx of capital, the jobs are cushy,
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Minus the comments. Wasn't this how public letters to people and then public responses used to work? Back when the newspapers were the really once source of information...
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