FloorEgg

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by FloorEgg 6mo ago
I don't think this is true anymore. I agree some do, but I am very skeptical about most . It's also changing rapidly. To be clear I'm not disagreeing that a manufacturing engineer role would require a degree in engineering
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by FloorEgg 6mo ago
> Students are making a rational economic calculation: they need a degree to get a job. Except it's not true. They don't need a degree to get a job. Maybe they need a degree to get a very specific job, but then they will be doi
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by FloorEgg 6mo ago
A couple years of work experience in grueling or soul crushing dead end jobs before going to college can do wonders for this dynamic.
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by FloorEgg 6mo ago
How can the AI be lacking in results and also at the same time responsible for layoffs and slowing of hiring? Wouldn't it be one or the other?
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by FloorEgg 7mo ago
Cutting off Canadians was one of many things that seemed to shift my opinion of YC. YC became a lot less enticing to me under Gary's leadership. I am not sure if it was a coincidence or because of some of the things he did or said that
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by FloorEgg 7mo ago
I think we are maybe talking past each other? Fitness is effective truth prediction, appropriately scoped. A frog doesn't need to understand quantum physics to catch a fly. But if the frogs model of fly movement was trained on lies i
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by FloorEgg 7mo ago
Yes, and to me the evolution of life sure looks like an evolution of more truthful models of the universe in service of energy profit. Better model -> better predictions -> better profit. I'm extremely skeptical that all of life
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by FloorEgg 7mo ago
Hi Ronan, I would love to read your piece and pay you and new Yorker for it, but I am not interested in paying a subscription. If I could press a button and pay a reasonable one time license such as $3 or $5 for just this article, or better
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by FloorEgg 7mo ago
I wonder if their motivation for doing this is to detect the LinkedIn automation tools that power all the spam messaging and connection requests?
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by FloorEgg 7mo ago
In 2023 I did a deep dive into the crypto community with two main questions: - do these people understand the principles of making good products? - is anyone clearly working towards a microtransaction system that could replace advertising a
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
I wonder if this was causing the increase in the number of 429 errors I've been getting from Gemini on vertex.
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
Fwiw: I didn't read the post carefully, this is just a passing by comment. For my own use case I was trying to test consistency or an evaluation process and found that injecting a UUID into the system prompt (busting cache) made a mate
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
That's not true. You're going to have to bring some strong evidence to convince me of that. I've been around and paying attention for a few decades and what you just said contradicts everything I know.
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
And that point is foolish no matter who is making it.
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
Hmm. I'll think more about this. It makes sense to me that a culture that values collectivistic cohesion would shy away from paradigm shifting ideas (disruption). I also see the correlation between disruptive ideas driven by principled
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
I realize that now, and feel a bit foolish for being triggered by it. It's too late for me to edit my comment now though.
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
Why conflate critical thinking with individualistic values? It seems you are unnecessarily muddying the water.
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
For what it's worth, most of the pennies I've earned definitely came from my ability to think and communicate well. I can't help but wonder whether the person who gave you advice "to think critically wasn't for [you
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
Yep you're right, but it's too late for me to edit my comment. The idea triggered me, and I tend to struggle with sarcasm.
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
Mayb in some extreme cases, but I wouldn't go so far as using the "con" word most of the time. The hardest part of startups is probably the making good decisions part. To be a good VC you need to be better at founders at judg
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
Ah, I struggle with sarcasm sometimes and I was a bit distracted while reading. I'll give it another chance.
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
Building a successful startup is very hard, and not just in the "it's a lot of hard work" sense, but also in terms of making good decisions. For the average person who went to college and worked in some other industry/ca
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
I was enjoying the article until I got to this paragraph: > Individual intelligence will mean nothing once we have superhuman AI, at which point the difference between an obscenely talented giga-nerd and an ordinary six-pack-drinking boz
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
https://archive.is/D4EYW For anyone seeing 404
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
It's because they optimize for attention over truth.
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
The thing I find the most hilarious about all these companies jamming llms in all over the place is that they don't ever put it where it makes the most sense to me - to manage the settings. They could do away with all these mazes of se
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
I disagree. The whole point of it is to shift the frame of reference away from the product and into the customer's job to be done. Ironically, we call it the milkshake example instead of the eating breakfast on the way to work example.
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
I think the problem is that it's rare for people to be capable of empathizing at that level and be capable of doing all the types of things that the leader of a large company needs to be able to do. It's also like a game of teleph
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by FloorEgg 8mo ago
Hahaha. I'm sorry but I find this funny. I discovered jobs to be done in 2017, then dove deep into outcome-driven innovation and spent years consulting as a practitioner who interviewed people on behalf of my clients. My clients would

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