BurningFrog

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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
This kind of mind reading could easily become the end of human privacy. That's bad enough in democracies, but the consequences in more common forms of government seem really dystopian.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
In a dictatorship, the money goes to the dictator and his friends.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
OP was making a geometric observation.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
Doing pair programming well is a skill you have to learn from someone. Putting two regular programmers together in front of a computer will typically annoy both and not accomplish much. I was fortunate to learn from experienced people, and
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
The public is always against new technology that makes jobs obsolete. This is awkward because the immense progress of the last 250 years has mostly come from such technology. Yet few people are aware of this. I hope we can continue to progr
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
There are 3 million people working in the US military. Very few of them ever come close to killing anyone. Mostly they're white collar workers doing regular desk jobs, where AI is just as useful as in other industries.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
Everyone is starting to use AI. I use three AIs daily. Why would the US military be different?
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
That essay really shook me into understanding things I had never thought of, and I've been better at my job ever since. I remain grateful to Joel for the insights! In 2026, test suites can and should handle much of this uncertainty. If
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
I think the argument is more that jerf has that skill, experience, and domain expertise.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
Around 20% of people have a fear of needles. Around 4% have a clinical phobia, often intense enough to induce fainting. I suspect a lot of "vaccine skepticism" is just an expression of such needle phobia. Maybe developing more nee
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
Also note that we're 8 billion people living on a much higher average material living standard than when we were 2 billion 100 years ago.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
By what measure does it work for the French? They have 8% unemployment, 30% less GDP per capita than the US, and many other problems. Government by caving in to riots is not in general being responsive to the needs of the people.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
This is why I spent most of my career in startups. I did work at big companies twice for a few years, and it strongly reinforced that decision. Startup life has it's own problems. Primarily that the company may cease to exist at any ti
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
Great sounding quotes of unclear origin are usually attributed to Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, or a few others. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Misquotations
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
You get to vote for one of ~5 alternatives every 4 years. This then propagates to hundreds of decisions in a way that dilutes your influence to practically nothing.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
Cells are small compared to humans because we're made up by around 3×10¹³ cells.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
This makes sense, but a logical next step is to have one AI write code, and then have another AI, instead of humans, verify it. Or are current AIs too similar for that to be fruitful?
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
Here is a piece of history trivia. Not trying to have an argument. > they wanted to bypass what they considered "trading bottleneck" created by Ottoman The Ottomans didn't exactly close the Silk Road, but they made it ha
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
I'm thinking of custom built Teacher AIs, trained in how to teach different kinds of students, and with well defined curriculums. Even if they're not better than the best human teachers, I think being able to "personally&quot
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
With AIs as most staff, this should be very reachable.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
The Robespierre regime chopped off ~40,000 heads during the 10 months "Reign of Terror" 1793-1794.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
The French Revolution was an orgy in mass murder that led to the slaughter of millions in the Napoleon wars. It really need to be romantizied much less!
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
You can move your 401k money between several funds at any time.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
This is a bit like the critique of physics that they ignore friction. It turns out that for many purposes friction and externalities are small enough that they can be ignored for most purposes. Physicists and Economists are very aware of th
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
Just like dividends.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
Companies buy back shares as a different way than dividends to enrich their shareholders.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
Also, if your billion dollar rocket can be destroyed by a $2 bullet, maybe you need to look at hardening your design.
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
> First, the rich have unimaginably more power in changing people's minds If that was true everyone would love billionaires. I'm fascinated by the cluelessness of this assertion! The actual research on campaign finance says t
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by BurningFrog 4mo ago
This is just a disagreement with the principle of free speech. If you're only for free speech as long as it doesn't change people's minds, we have very different perspectives.
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by BurningFrog 5mo ago
So why were loitering laws introduced? I doubt it was purely a sadistic effort to ruin the lives of kids. My guess is that combatting gang crime was a major reason.

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