BobbyJo

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by BobbyJo 2y ago
What if I told you that 10 other people had the same idea as you and are willing to work 9 to 6? Or 9 to 9 even? The reason most successful startups take tons of work is that they are competing against peers willing to put in tons of work.
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Agree to disagree then :)
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
What would "this point" be? China has a population the size of the US and EU combined, and are every bit as capable intellectually. One would expect them to catch up technologically, all else being equal. I don't think that r
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
They very likely spent 6 years copying another company, and we able to produce a technology 1 year after Intel. Clearly superior.
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
well... that's a completely different point than the one they were disagreeing with, no?
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
> asian-looking people They were waving CCP flags, so making that sounds like some kind of race blindness is a bit wild. > but this is a common courtesy and basic politeness every semi-professional vlogger understands. The way they ac
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
The problem I've run into over and over with research code is fragility. We ran it on test A, but when we try test B nothing works and we have no idea why because god forbid there is any error handling, validation, or even just compreh
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Inequality increases criminal activity. No imports necessary.
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
A very unsweet sugar at that. It's all the downsides of sugar and almost non of the upside (taste).
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
I'm on your side generally, but something to keep in mind: the belief that it is not luck generates a ton of value and material security for humanity.
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
I mean, if you're saying the locals (a population of what? a million?) should be able to compete with the best and brightest from the entire planet (9 billion?) or move, then I have to disagree.
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
I dont think there is a language better suited for containerized applications, even web servers more broadly. Is it the best at everything? No, but it got everything exactly right for its niche imo.
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
The point I was trying to make is that being part of building something great isn't always a reward in and of itself. The laborers of many great works reaped no rewards for their efforts, and the people remembered for the work were oft
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Id distinguish between the two by asking if the group is specified in policy or in incident documentation. The former would infer uneven application of policy, whereas the latter is what you're referencing.
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Because otherwise the group wouldn't be specified?
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
You're hand waving away what the same way means. What if I make 500k once every five years? Should I pay taxes like I make 500k every year once, and nothing the other 4 years? Should I be able to amortize that across 5 years? What if
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Im not actually sure what you're trying to say here. Your first paragraph seems to suggest people with smarter assistants are indeed deluding themselves by thinking they're necessary. The second suggests you cant be unnecessary be
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
AI operates in a different time domain than humans. ChatGPT can't write code well, but it can write it far faster than any human alive. The moment its able to write code as well as a senior engineer, it will likely be able to do so a
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
If you have 10 "assistants" who are smarter than you, what are you actually doing that would take more than 5 minutes of your time? How could you convince yourself you're still necessary in that situation?
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Even if AGI was strictly human level, you'd have human level intelligence that was immortal, never got tired, and was instantly replicatable. Could you compete with a human that never needed sleep, had been studying for decades or cent
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
No? AI already generates data via interacting with the world. Right now that experience happens mainly by proxy through humans, but, even now, that isn't strictly necessary.
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
The big hurdle in robotics is the scale and complexity of the software required. Hardware to outperform humans at most physical tasks has existed for a long time, we just dont have the software that makes it function the way we want. AGI wo
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Depends on how you measure the bigness of the deal. AI, over the long term, will render humans mostly useless. We'll basically only be tasked with keeping ourselves entertained. Agriculture, if you disconnect it from the industrial rev
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
> Apple CEO Tim Cook isn't set to attend APEC, but a government-affairs official will go in his place, according to Bloomberg. This makes it sound like a US gov employee is going in his place, but im guessing its an Apple Employee w
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Is that the way the law has been applied? Or are you saying thats how it should be?
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
The problem isn't the law, it's enforcement. We can't prove wrong doing in most cases because who made what decisions with what information is often intentionally obfuscated. This is a good example. DuPont almost certainly
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
Deterrence really only works on individuals (actual people) not corporations (not actually people). So we're forced to consider the cost/benefit to society. Maybe (hopefully) the reason they worked it out this was is because it wo
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
The amounts allowed by the FDA are restricted to certain food types, and vastly lower amounts than would be present if it were an intentional additive.
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
I cant think of a single real use case for variadic generics. When you're talking about functions operating on mixed, variable length, types, what meaningful logic can you actually apply, that doesn't fall into requiring the types
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by BobbyJo 3y ago
That doesn't mean anything out of context. Yes, there are drug busts, but the size and frequency are much less than would be expected in a US or EU city of the same size and wealth. Even less than the percapita average of Japan if I&#x

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