BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I think it's a stretch to call The Road optimistic.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Previously posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45383439
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I think I agree with pretty much everything in this article. The only thing is that I think if you agree with all this, you kind of have to take the next step and say, ". . . and therefore we must explicitly disincentivize the types o
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
That seems doubtful given my impression of the number of fake reviews out there for even totally worthless "brands".
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Just from a philosophical perspective I think multi-armed bandits are a fascinating idea and a great technique for thinking about many kinds of decision processes.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> The point of a financial market is to allocate capital to its most productive uses. This kind of thing is basically a paperclip-maximizer trap in another form. That may be the point of a financial market, but it's not the point o
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I'm so sick of these laws that just require people to "formulate plans" and "adopt policies" and so on. They should reverse the entire concept and ban all of it, then gradually start allowing little bits and pieces
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The law of conservation of intelligence: smarter technology leads to dumber humans.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
This is only touched on in passing, but I think editing is the real missing link here. When content was gatekept by publishers of various sorts, they wouldn't let anyone just ramble on for as long as they felt like. When anyone can d
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Kudos for making something that doesn't mention "AI" as one of its selling points. It's hard to tell if this is actually useful but at least it's not following the current bandwagon. :-)
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It has corrupted formatting throughout for me.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Let's think about what happened in 2025. Say, January 2025. Say, 20 January 2025.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
This is tangential to the main point of the article, but the anecdote about the dongle is interesting to me. The author's point seems to be that it was disturbing that Andre joked that being reimbursed for a new dongle (and/or me
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> That's a purely personal point of view but I don't think the AP people claim that "people want the wrong things", but rather that "the things you want have a cost and we're not hiding it". I think tha
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Anyone could make a web browser or server quite easily. Oh how times have changed. . .
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
There aren't many realistic alternatives.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Ironically, "every bit of whatever authority I have" dwindles further and further every time he posts something like this.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Wow, this deserves more attention. It's hilarious at times and would be perfect as fiction but overall leaves me with a sad and worried feeling when I realize it's fact. I really shudder to think what kind of world we're he
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> That's what makes this system so great, you don't see what other people you don't even know say But how do you get started? Are you saying you only look at blogs of people who you've met in real life and who told y
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> the ambiguity is not really in chess, it's in english (and probably every other language also) Sure, but the article is written in English. :-)
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
But if you say a position "has possible moves" (or "available moves") that unambiguously means moves that are possible from that position (i.e., future moves), whereas simply saying that a position "has moves&quot
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Yes, very strange that the phrase "possible moves" never occurs in the article. The key word is "possible". The article consistently just uses the phrasing "have moves" but this is not an obvious way of phras
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Quite fascinating! I've only read one Cormac McCarthy book but this kind of makes me want to read more. It also makes me wish I had enough space to keep that many books. . .
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The idea of insisting on a "clean" commit history always rubs me the wrong way. In my mind a commit is like hitting Ctrl-S. It's just saving a checkpoint in your work. And the commit history is supposed to show what actua
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
This is a dangerous statement, although I don't think that was the author's intent: > Before I get to other opinions, let me make clear that anything you can do to help you get a job is a good thing to do. There are lots and lo
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
In other comments replying to another user you dismissed "criticisms from the 90s", but I think that's not entirely justified. If the bad things they did in the 90s are still having bad effects today, and they built their su
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I'd agree with that, but based on this post I don't see that this is a huge step forward. From my perspective the big UI issues are not with this kind of stuff. Some of the bigger problems are intertwined with the server and pro
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I don't really get why they're spending their time on this kind of window dressing.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
But the question is do you want to actually reward behavior that is just less bad than before? Or should that reward just be in the form of less punishment? I agree the consequences should get better in relative terms, but I don't
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
That's because 1A only has to do with a limited subset of the actual concept of freedom of speech.

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