aetherson

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by aetherson 1y ago
If you really want me to, sure. Here's the expansion: You discovered that there are certain amounts of judgment calls and subjectivity in the legal system, and then you seemed to get really excited, stop thinking, and start patting yo
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by aetherson 1y ago
You're a combination of smug and wrong that I don't think is working for you.
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by aetherson 1y ago
When you make bad law that involves trying to apply a fuzzy rule to a fuzzy situation, judges make bad calls. And you also make it possible for people to be very harassed by bringing cases to court where it's not possible to easily di
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by aetherson 1y ago
Those strike me as problematic. It strikes me as a big problem if I've got to navigate some fuzzy line about how much I am perceived to focus on someone every time I take a photo in public. Who decides too much focus is too much? Ho
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by aetherson 1y ago
I agree with your historical analysis, and I'm also uncomfortable with the total surveillance, but I'm not sure I buy there exist effective legal solutions. The truth is that everyone carries a camera, that all vehicles have came
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by aetherson 1y ago
That site is weird. As far as I can tell, it's measuring income inequality, not wealth inequality, and it doesn't... appear to know the difference? Quoting it: > The Gini index, or Gini coefficient, is a statistical measure
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by aetherson 1y ago
You also have the option to move. I mean, that's not ideal, obviously you don't want to have people up and change addresses to deal with a problem with a single company, but if you end up on both Google and Apple's shitlists
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by aetherson 1y ago
I also find it annoying when retail stores try to sign me up for marketing emails, but I'm not real sure this is a relevant comparison to the effort of banks to engage with a business customer who has deposited multiple tens of million
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by aetherson 1y ago
Not really, these are probably mutually beneficial. Having $35 million sitting in a cash account is, as Mitchell recalls in the article, pretty bad -- you're forgoing a lot of benefit for yourself. What the bank is probably mainly try
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by aetherson 1y ago
There just aren't that many people in wheelchairs. There's not a lot of TAM in trying to build a better wheelchair that involves a huge capex. So instead the government gets involved and demands a change to built environment inst
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by aetherson 1y ago
Okay, that seems ultra relevant to the ~100% of bikes that routinely run red lights in San Francisco at fully trafficked intersections where the sensors are clearly already tripped.
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by aetherson 1y ago
I agree that you could imagine that homes could be laid out more efficiently for automation. However, the vast majority of housing stock is not new and is not cheap to remodel. The result is going to be incredible pressure to make robots
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by aetherson 1y ago
It's a rails app with a JavaScript frontend. I know rails pretty well and feel like I can just take over manual coding if I want to or the AI gets in over its head. But I'm very out of date on JS frameworks and would have a big
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by aetherson 1y ago
I worked through most of my fear of rejection in the 20s and then spent some time giving other people advice about approaching people. My phrase was, "She's already not dating you. What is she going to do, not date you with a v
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by aetherson 1y ago
I use Claude Code to hack together a little webapp that allows me to make hex-maps for use in roleplaying games. There are a lot of sites on the web that let you make a hex map. A lot of them are even free. Many of them have features that
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by aetherson 1y ago
Obviously the die game is a simplified stylized example. Yes, I agree, that chance that Figma stock was worth literally zero (above what was paid) was less than 50%. But the point is that there was obviously risk that Figma would be worth
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by aetherson 1y ago
But high IPO prices is evidence against the idea that Adobe was willing to overpay for Figma due to downside risk to Adobe that is not matched by upside benefit to Figma!
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by aetherson 1y ago
Suppose that you have an opportunity to play a game. The game is you roll a fair normal six sided die. If it comes up a 6, you get $60B. If it comes up a 5 or 4 you get $30B. If it comes up 3 or less, you get $0. This is clearly a valua
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by aetherson 1y ago
I agree that that dichotomy is not necessarily true, but also you gave your reason for being "more excited" about one side of the dichotomy being that you "don't want 10x the stuff," and my point is that you're
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by aetherson 1y ago
You shouldn't have gotten a 2 carat diamond that cheap at that time. Either you got a really great deal for some idiosyncratic reason or your recollection is off. Here's an example article from the era: https://www.was
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by aetherson 1y ago
If stuff is 1/10th as expensive as it is now, you can also work 1/10th as hard for 1x as much stuff as you have now, instead of 1x as hard as you work now for 10x the stuff.
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by aetherson 1y ago
This is a bad analogy. Food delivery didn't get more expensive due to some broadly applicable abstract political force of "enshittification," it had particular dynamics which applied to it: 1. Investors in the 2010s overlea
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by aetherson 1y ago
Gray bands, or more realistically just desaturated bands. There'd still be sensitivity to light through rods (black and white), and even if the peaks of wavelength sensitivity were highly separated there would still be some cone res
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by aetherson 1y ago
Yeah, 30 years ago this might've been able to get off the ground. Today? Not a prayer.
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by aetherson 1y ago
And it's under-commented upon because it's counterintuitive, but most people stop taking it. Like, two year continuation of use is about 25%. That's kinda wild, because it seems like holy shit if you're taking a drug th
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by aetherson 1y ago
Nope, try again. "You can't possibly learn enough about a system to simulate it" is still a different and weaker claim than "It is mathematically impossible to compute this thing that is being computed." But also:
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by aetherson 1y ago
"Current LLMs are not going to get to AGI" is a different and much weaker claim than "AGI is mathematically impossible."
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by aetherson 1y ago
If you want to argue for a fundamentally non-material mind (ie, that human cognition happens in a physically impossible, spiritual plane), then cool. Though you might want to give some consideration to how much it seems like physical proce
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by aetherson 1y ago
Hacker News heist plan initiated.
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by aetherson 1y ago
That may be true, but Tesla stalled out a long time before Musk's rightward turn.

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