abhaynayar

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by abhaynayar 1mo ago
Interesting. I remember reading the book "Life 3.0" years ago, where one of the first things the fictional AGI does to make money is perform tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk while pretending to be human.
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by abhaynayar 2mo ago
Gem of a blog for me personally. This is the rare signal amongst the noise for me on HN. Went through a bunch of his other articles and realized his brain and way of thinking works in a similar way as mine but a bit different and further &q
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by abhaynayar 2mo ago
I haven't really listened to him much, didn't really like his style, just one or two of his sleep science episodes but I thought it was well-balanced and at each topic he added caveats etc. and always made sure to tell people to n
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by abhaynayar 2mo ago
Just because something is hard doesn't mean it's worth doing. Evolution selected impatience for a reason. Of course, the flip-side is fake supernormal stimuli like screens, etc. that does more harm than good. The new environment
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by abhaynayar 2mo ago
I have destination dispatch at my office, and while I don't like my personal user-experience of it, I can't imagine what would better suit a building when you have so many elevators in the same place i.e. in my case 10+ I think? W
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by abhaynayar 2mo ago
As usual, people will buy the iPhone cause it's the iPhone. I don't think Samsung will be stealing any customers as such.
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by abhaynayar 2mo ago
Thanks for the perspective. Yea you're right, I think different platforms have different effects on people. As an example quitting TV shows was difficult for me, whereas most people I've talked to don't even think of TV shows
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by abhaynayar 2mo ago
Yea exactly. That's why I allow it. Because apart from the obvious networking benefit and a few sane people I follow who post good stuff every now and then, I basically don't doom-scroll it. So the utility at that point crosses wh
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by abhaynayar 2mo ago
I knew someone would nitpick on that. Could've worded it better. But like I expanded later in the para, an absolute for platforms where I feel my brain hijacked. To make clearer, 0 minutes for those things (example-Reddit, IG, etc.). I
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by abhaynayar 2mo ago
In terms of solutions on an individual-level: after a lot of trial and error I feel like what works for me is an absolutist cold-turkey-approach. I've pretty much banned all consumptive screen-time except some things like Hacker News,
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by abhaynayar 3mo ago
Something I realized with the new LLM tools is that learning how to type plain English words fast i.e. without capitalization or punctuation, and even typos is not that big of a problem anymore. And so it follows that code-specific typing i
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by abhaynayar 3mo ago
Oh interesting. I was about to say that's not what banter means, because in my mind I always thought it's just a casual fun back and forth conversation not necessarily skirting that boundary of teasing. But then I checked the defi
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by abhaynayar 3mo ago
Due to multipolar traps (large-scale, multi-agent versions of the Prisoner's Dilemma) i.e. when individuals in a competitive system are forced to take actions that benefit them in the short term, but degrade the system for everyone ove
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by abhaynayar 3mo ago
But where does AR fit in? Doesn't this just need voice mode?
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by abhaynayar 3mo ago
What a hook of a first line! BTW, does anyone recommend doing a masters degree in bio-stats or not? Or something similar, bio-tech-like?
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by abhaynayar 3mo ago
Lmao. Yea I played it once and lost a day. I knew I had to uninstall ASAP else my life as I knew it would never be the same. Never touched it since.
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Finding the Best Sleep Tracker(karpathy.bearblog.dev)
1 points by abhaynayar 3mo ago|0 comments
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by abhaynayar 4mo ago
If his monetary value to the company was as said why would any other metric like complexity even remotely matter or need convincing assuming the main goal of the company was to make money. Money would matter even more than the interpersonal
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by abhaynayar 4mo ago
I mean what do you want the author to write, cooking recipes? Where is he "pushing" it? Writing a substack related to the theme of the book you're writing is, apparently .. bad? Even if true, are we we not supposed to market
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How to Land a Frontier Lab Job(vladfeinberg.com)
4 points by abhaynayar 4mo ago|0 comments
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The Harajuku Moment (2024)(tim.blog)
86 points by abhaynayar 4mo ago|58 comments
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Life After Lifestyle(subpixel.space)
1 points by abhaynayar 4mo ago|0 comments
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by abhaynayar 4mo ago
I've been able to quit short-form content, but does anyone have any tips on how to quit long-form content like YouTube or Netflix?
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by abhaynayar 4mo ago
I've been able to quit short-form content, but does anyone have any tips on how to quit long-form content like YouTube or Netflix? Also, why is this flagged?
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by abhaynayar 4mo ago
I mean I always knew Google could read all my files, but seeing it give an AI summary for every single freaking (PDF) file I open on my Drive is insane. Last I checked couldn't turn it off. It's insane. When I get some free time,
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Will Elon Musk's $2T IPO Break Index Fund Investing? [video](youtube.com)
4 points by abhaynayar 4mo ago|0 comments
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by abhaynayar 4mo ago
I mean sure, for LLMs, but: > It is going to have competition in the future and will lose customers. Is that not true for everything.
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by abhaynayar 4mo ago
Several things can be true at once.
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by abhaynayar 4mo ago
Reminds me of this [1] article, quoting Seinfeld, "In the seventies, this is the tragic turn of American culture. And this was explained to me by Mario Joiner who cracked this puzzle that I could not figure out what the hell happened.
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by abhaynayar 4mo ago
Thx for the info. I think I'll def start going to some irregardless of whether I do the molly thing.. But I was curious, is the sociability and confidence (?) u get thru the molly thing.. does it stay with you..?? I don't really t

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