Hasu

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by Hasu 2y ago
It's telling that I have no idea what your politics are from this statement. It could equally be a criticism of the left or the right in America.
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by Hasu 2y ago
Inconsolata was inspired by and named after Microsoft's Consolas font, which was presumably so named as it was meant for the console.
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by Hasu 2y ago
For the same reason people don't think it's OK to rob a bank and donate the money to charity.
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by Hasu 2y ago
> It seems too well crafted for their main focus to be on their stated goal of giving individuals the tools to treat themselves. Is this how you think about everything? Do you go to a restaurant with nice chairs and think, "The food
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by Hasu 2y ago
> In other words, let's suppose the old Friendster social network was structured as "non-profit-board-controlling-a-for-profit-Friendster" like OpenAI. The ideals of the "non-profit being in control" is a moot po
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by Hasu 2y ago
> And you think these kinds of maxims formed out of vacuums? Do you think they've always existed in all human cultures throughout time? The pro-work ethic is fairly new in human civilization. Previous cultures considered it to be a
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by Hasu 2y ago
Why wouldn't you want it, unless you are currently benefiting from employing people who would rather be doing literally anything else?
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by Hasu 2y ago
I have absolutely done this myself in the past and confused myself with bad names. Any criticism I apply to other people also applies to myself: I am not a special case. Naming things is hard! Even if you're really good at naming thing
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by Hasu 2y ago
> If the code is working, it means what it needs to mean. No. Working code says nothing about the meaning of a label, which is purely to inform humans. The computer throws it away, the code will work no matter what you name it, even if t
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by Hasu 2y ago
> This doesn't really make sense, either. How do you not consider the right tool for the job? The thing people keep trying to explain is that when it comes to this stuff, there isn't a "right tool" for every job and e
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by Hasu 2y ago
> It’s the exact same rational behind airlines charging the same, but offering ludicrously valuable loyalty programs. If we are moving towards a world where everything has the consumer experience of airline travel, then yes, we should bu
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by Hasu 2y ago
I'm not a research psychologist, but my understanding is that growth mindset is already non-replicating.
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by Hasu 2y ago
That's a bunch of arguments that have nothing to do with anything I said. There are millions of examples of usage of the word red - none of them communicate the subjective experience of seeing red. The brain is purely physical, sure, t
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by Hasu 2y ago
The dao that can be told is not the eternal dao. There is also the concept of qualia, which are the subjective properties of conscious experience. There is no way, using language, to describe what it feels like for you to see the color red
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by Hasu 2y ago
> Four cities across 3 states This is actually a scale up to five cities across four states: > ...which already provides over 150,000 trips per week across Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Austin Which of course only adds to y
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by Hasu 2y ago
> my impression of the Substack stance was that it boiled down to "one of our main values is free speech, and while we understand the desire for content moderation, we're going to lean towards letting people use our platform ev
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by Hasu 2y ago
> Mega-corporations should have their communications logged at a much higher level than a normal business. I agree entirely. And it's not like it's unprecedented: we treat banks like this already. They have to keep records of a
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by Hasu 2y ago
It can't possibly be "just as important" - in some cases, I will accept "almost as important", but any situation where the optics are "it works" and the reality is "it doesn't work" is event
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by Hasu 2y ago
> So I was surprised to see it presented here as a thing that happens in big companies too It happens at small companies and medium sized companies too. I've seen it as both a contractor and an employee. Like much common wisdom, the
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by Hasu 2y ago
> On the other hand, if the code is in a function, then you only need to change it once. And if you do find that one of the ten invocations should not be changed, then you can still copy-paste - or make the function more general. Ah yes,
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by Hasu 2y ago
> it sends a pretty loud message to the Democratic party that normally reliable media orgs have lost confidence in the democrat party’s ability to bring forth a competitive candidate against Donald Trump. It's not two media organiza
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by Hasu 2y ago
> Not able to cancel a subscription easily after you willingly enter into a relationship with some business is too tiny an issue to merit expanding the government monster. So in your world, I have to protect my credit card details from a
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by Hasu 2y ago
Yes, that is how our justice system works. First, the government accuses you of a crime, then they have to prove that you committed it, and you get to defend yourself. How else could it possibly work? Companies just get to break the law and
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by Hasu 2y ago
No technology has been invented that doesn't have costs and tradeoffs. Technology that deacidifies the oceans will have other costs, other externalities that we cannot predict now. Determining how we want to deal with those costs/
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by Hasu 2y ago
Does it matter if you "own" your car if it is part of the Waymo fleet, getting regular updates and communicating with the Waymo network like any other robotaxi in the fleet? You could even opt into having it give people rides whil
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by Hasu 2y ago
The idea that no one is allowed to criticize anything unless they can and have done better is one of the most perniciously stupid ideas out there that just won't go away. If the parent poster is secretly Linus Torvalds, do you walk awa
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by Hasu 2y ago
If my IDE autocomplete sometimes generated invalid syntax, I would throw that IDE in the trash and never do business with the people who made it ever again. Why would it be any different with "AI"?
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by Hasu 2y ago
Gambling is generally against the law in South Korea, but any esports players or personnel who get caught fixing matches (this doesn't necessarily mean throwing a game, bets get placed on all kinds of things that aren't just the o
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by Hasu 2y ago
Your point is completely out of scope of what's being discussed. My comment was a reply to a comment saying "It's beyond stupid to elect people who are in charge of upholding laws and prosecute crimes." My argument is en
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by Hasu 2y ago
> In my perspective, it is exactly the same thing when you disagree with the electorate. In a democracy, you can argue with and convince your fellow citizens to change the law and how it is enforced. If a majority doesn't agree, you

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