adamisom

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by adamisom 4y ago
Unclear what you think you’re supposed to do if you decide ‘hmm I probably won’t voluntarily seek out conversation with them in the future’. Making that personal choice doesn’t mean you don’t respect them; it’s not ‘fake’ to have the grace
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by adamisom 4y ago
Wow and I thought functions should only perform a single task. I need to keep up with the times! Apparently you need an entire deployable app and API to do anything these days. I guess it makes sense. How else could we justify so many sof
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by adamisom 4y ago
Are you comfortable with the claim that some human writing has more insight than some other? Then you should also feel comfortable judging ChatGPT as ‘not demonstrating insight’, even if you can’t define exactly what it is.
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by adamisom 4y ago
Not meaning to be inflammatory but the same scenario exists in flipped terms: how many people would you let die of cancer rather than, idk, eat the downside of running riskier experiments. There’s no privileged neutral really. Consequential
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by adamisom 4y ago
One remark I have on anti-"ends justify the means" is they always ignore the ends. The "ends" might literally be saving real people's lives, whose lives have value. I'm sure there are good arguments against the
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by adamisom 4y ago
Wow, for a diatribe on bad-faith, this is precisely that. e.g. You say the labcoat-flasher doesn't really believe in egalitarianism either... People profess desires to be a certain way (sometimes 'moral' sometimes not) despi
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by adamisom 4y ago
This is an unfair attack. Choosing "for anyone" instead of another phrase does indeed carry meaning. You're both finding more meaning than is justified. A little wobble in imprecision from martin led to a bigger one in syst
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by adamisom 4y ago
Is a logging service/pipeline that removes* PII the only real high-level solution? (* or 'does its best' to remove PII; I feel like there's an immovable object / unstoppable force thing if the answer is "0% PII
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by adamisom 4y ago
Damn good writing.
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by adamisom 4y ago
People actually get happier as they get older though. I think above 45ish.
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by adamisom 4y ago
I personally use my phone sometimes when CC are on, splitting my attention—CC make it easier to not miss too much flirting back n forth. By contrast I always pay attention when CC is off. Given how much younger people use their my phone, I’
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by adamisom 4y ago
>all people will eventually die, both today and 50 years from I wouldn't be so sure--would you also be confident about 100 years from now? 500?
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by adamisom 4y ago
Speaking of clients, I like Hey. I just like it, and have discretionary income to spend on an important tool shrug
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by adamisom 4y ago
Maybe they are. Better at programming and leading projects, that is.
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by adamisom 4y ago
The elephant in the room for any analysis like "It's a more productive use of time than whatever the alternative would've been (social media, watching television, etc)." is that, y'know, maybe people need to find go
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by adamisom 4y ago
Yeah, I am also confused by the statement that nudges theory doesn’t replicate and I’m afraid that statement won’t replicate haha, or rather, there are basic, indisputable findings with mindboggling effect size that countries with different
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by adamisom 4y ago
> don't even know what "correct" pour-over technique is Well, hmmm, it would only take a few minutes to learn. Frankly I think your post is signalling (on a meta level). I know it probably doesn't feel like it, but th
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by adamisom 4y ago
I recently bought two linen shirts for the first time and they’re heaven in both looks and feel.
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by adamisom 4y ago
Good point. To me it follows because the aggregation intuition seems right to me--human life good, more human lives more good--and to me things like 'the repugnant conclusion' mean only that more nuanced thinking in how you aggreg
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by adamisom 4y ago
Life may be beautiful and good, but I'm sure if we probed our respective ethical intuitions--even after subjecting them to reflection--we'd agree that an ant's life isn't as worthy of ethical consideration as a dog'
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by adamisom 4y ago
I think you should answer your own questions - with the comment that if you don't think human life is instrinsically good, I'm really curious what the foundation of your ethics is, and if you think anything at all has value.
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by adamisom 4y ago
Except software isn't long hours. Or at least there's plenty of good-WLB jobs where 40h/week avg is an upper limit, not lower.
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by adamisom 4y ago
It’s more Spock-like than rationalist-culture-like. It’s clearly poor rhetoric and doesn’t jibe with anything I personally associate with the rationalist sphere. This really seems representative to you? If so I had no idea their image probl
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by adamisom 4y ago
That is generally true and not really specific to jquery
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by adamisom 4y ago
Lack of clear guidance is right. The existing outdated laws or regulations just didn’t make sense for their business model or for the Internet age. WGU is regionally accredited in all regions. Not to say it’s good-quality education; it’s no
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by adamisom 4y ago
I think a new word or phrase is in order because a new dynamic exists (a sufficiently quantitative difference equals a qualitative one) where this sort of thing doesn't just happen but is characteristic of today's web. But I think
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by adamisom 4y ago
> canceling is a label applied to play the victim What word should we use instead then? What word is suitable to describe low-context, online-mob-driven pile-ons / denunciations? (Perhaps you’ve never seen that happen?—that would be
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by adamisom 4y ago
> I call this out as the bad rhetorical technique of "no, but this time it is different". A lot of things are going to be different if longevity tech is successful.
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by adamisom 5y ago
I think it does make sense. I love this relevant classic SSC article: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/23/in-favor-of-niceness-c...
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by adamisom 5y ago
Sounds like your experience is very different than mine. Do you work at faang, maybe Amazon? I feel my work life balance is absurdly nice, I’ve actually worked in a call center, I could go on… but my theory is that when I am feeling mi

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