FloorEgg

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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
Most content on the internet has been optimized to get attention, not to represent truth. AI trained on most content will be filled with misconceptions and contradictions. Recent research has been showing that culling bad training data has
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
I'm not author of parent. My impression of the joke is that intelligent and knowledgeable people willingly engage with social media and fall into treating what they see as truth, and then are shocked when they learn it's not truth
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
Iowa city is a gem of a college town. Beautiful, vibrant and really nice people. Maybe this program wouldn't work everywhere. Makes sense it would work there.
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
Huh? I don't see the similarity between your comment and the point I was making. When a very successful long term investor buys a long term investment it can be a notable signal of the merit of the investment. But if anyone sells an in
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
Sometimes people need to sell assets for reasons other than an expectation that the assets will decline in value. Of all the data points one could use to predict Microsoft's future success, bill gates selling shares is one I wouldn&#x2
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
This would be a huge step in the right direction.
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While I agree that there are big markets for AI without what most consider consciousness, I disagree there is no market for consciousness. There are a lot of lonely people. Also, I suspect we underestimate the link between consciousness and
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
I find your stance kind of confusing. What do you mean by bullshit jobs? I've heard the term before I think even read a NYT or Atlantic article about it maybe a decade ago. My hazy recollection were jobs that added no actual value to s
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
Maybe you're right as I haven't seen the studies you're claiming prove this. I based my comment off my own experience using AdWords around 2013-2016 and then again around 2019-2021.
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
I agree with the latter 100% (the biggest problem is incentives), however I don't agree catching cheaters is easy. It's an arms race, and reminds me of catching cheaters in video games. Using every means available (multiple techno
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
I have an inside perspective on this via an academic integrity company. A couple weeks ago there was an exam in an R1 institution that double booked the facility so one section did the exam in person on campus and the other did it "fro
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
Its monetizing the data. Selling the data (directly or indirectly) is inaccurate.
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
Maybe consider trying to follow the HN guidelines?
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My guess is that whatever actually happens it will be very different than what the average person has imagined could happen (including me).
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
I don't have time to be precise, but I'll do my best to be more specific. New system better at organizing human behavior -> increases prosperity -> more capacity for invention -> new technologies disrupt power dynamics -&
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To me this all just looks like a big frothy chemical reaction playing out far beyond any one person's control. With that view, many things oscillate over time, including game theory patterns (average interaction intentions of win-win,
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
I take minor issue with your "the invention" framing rather than "an invention" framing, since the AI we have today is just another manifestation of automation, like the steam engine, printing press, plow, abacus... It&#
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
Yeah I dug into this, and the hive does show some characteristics of communism, and the regulating force of their behavior is their identical genes. So this is an interesting contrast, in this example in nature a pattern that resembles com
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
> There is no system in our bodies regulating our cells which has strong parallels to capitalism either. Sounds like you have considered every possible parallel and are confident you already know what's what. > you're mistak
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
The hive is a great example and I'll look closer at it. What stands out to me immediately is that all the bees seem the same and are doing the same jobs. There isnt the same kind of diversity in functions as there are in some other liv
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
As someone not an expert in capitalism but generally curious and knowledgable across a lot of subjects, my biggest skepticism of communism is that I don't see parallels to it anywhere in nature. When I reflect on the patterns that seem
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
I have theoretical reasons why I think communism can never work. The reasons why I suspect communism will never work don't seem to apply to socialism/capitalism with UBI.
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
I'm not trying to be reductionist, I'm trying to nail down a precise shared meaning of the terms that our conversation depends on. I have seen many founders who come from ivy league, with millions in family seed capital and exten
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Okay how about this then to cut through the ambiguity of terms. 1) Someone in their 20s who can live with their parent(s) while they get a startup off the ground has an advantage. It doesn't matter if they are below or above median hou
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
What does "come from money" mean to you? E.g. is a 26 year old still living with parents (firefighter and nurse) with no seed capital but all living expenses covered "coming from money"?
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In theory, I agree with this wholeheartedly. I have no idea if it's true in practice.
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I don't buy this. I've been building startups for 15 years, volunteered at two accelerators, angel invested and networked a lot. Anecdotally, the majority of the founders that I have gotten to know and lasted more than a year (act
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
For what it's worth I'm embarrassed by my entire dialog with you. I was having a bad day, sleep deprived and coming on HN to escape. I wasn't thinking clearly or communicating clearly, and on top of that I was straight up wro
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
that doesn't sound quite right to me. Something about game theory, art of war, and the difference between stated intentions and actual intentions. Trustworthiness comes from alignment of stated intentions, actual intentions, abilities
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
For what it's worth gpt-5.1 seems to have broken this approach. Now every response includes some qualifier / referential "here is the blunt truth" and "since you want it blunt, etc" Feels like regression to me

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