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by ajkjk 10mo ago
what would they do to you...?
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by ajkjk 10mo ago
it's just fucking annoying, really. just a really irritating, baity way to write
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by ajkjk 10mo ago
i loved the base game, but god i wish (maybe this exists) there's a mod that would replace the godawful voiceovers in the cassette tapes with something good.
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by ajkjk 10mo ago
it is literally just not ridiculous
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
In the interim America got obsessed with fitness and being out of shape much less obese became dramatically less popular in the middle / upper class. Like now it's possible to go days in some cities without seeing a single obese p
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
those statistics really gloss over / erase the vast cultural changes that have occurred. america / the west / society's relationship to fast food and obesity is dramatically different than it was thirty years ago.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
imo younger engineers are doing this because the culture has driven out and suppressed any instinct to care about anything else. If you show up at a job and try to care you fail, you get frustrated and burned out, all your eagerness is re
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
ahem, by law programming languages must have code samples on the front page
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
one reason is that startup culture is cringe as hell I'm being course, but like... it is though.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
disagree completely. You're doing the thing I described: assuming it's all ultimately about personal benefit when they're telling you directly that it's not. The same people could trivially capitalize on the shifting cli
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
What does that mean?
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
If you are operating under the constraint that talking to strangers is impossible then I could see why ChatGPT feels like a godsend...
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
I feel like this is a textbook example of how people talk past each other. There are people in this world who operate under personal utility maximization, and they think everyone else does also. Then there are people who are maximizing for
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
> like building an AI product made me part of the problem. It's not about their careers. It's about the injustice of the whole situation. Can you possibly perceive the injustice? That the thing they're pissed about is the
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
hell if passing the buck is the opposite of holding the bag then maybe we should mix em maybe the full array of options is: pass the hot potato, hold the buck, or drop it like a bag.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
exactly. maybe you think of it as a smidge more credible because someone else thinks it, even. Especially if they're a generally intelligent person whose other thoughts you like.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
When someone suggests an idea without evidence there's still a modicum of data in the fact that they believe it. You don't have to, like, suddenly change your mind, but you also don't have to blow it off as unsubstantiated en
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
or you can thoughtfully consider it and maybe learn something quotes like this are only used to dismiss observations you don't like
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
"regulating corporate overreach = state ownership" Huh. Your argument boils down to "it is wrong for people to defend themselves from corporations", but the cases you're making are incoherent. It seems like you beli
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
What do you mean narrative? The narrative is that I hate them. If almost everyone else also does, we should ban them. Simple as that. It is no different from passing legislation to ban spam or mandate that newsletters have one-click unsubsc
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
not the LLM features. The undisable-able intrusions to advertise them, which rely on controlling platforms and so being able to use them to anticompetitively promote their own products.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
Yes. I think laws should be used to shut down things that are universally disliked but for which there is no other mechanism for accountability. That seems like obviously the point of laws.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
My feeling is we need laws to stop it
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
Why would this be flagged?
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
I don't think it's that. It bothers me a lot too, and not because anyone else is judging me or anything. I think it's just that it's depressing... it sucks to be doing bad work, on top of other bad work, and unable to do
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
I don't understand your point. It seemed like the person I was replying to didn't understand how both claims could be simultaneously true so I was elaborating.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
You rarely study delta and step functions in an introductory calculus class. In this case the first derivative would be a step function, in the sense that over any finite interval it appears to be discontinuous. Since you can only sample a
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
I agree, I think I misunderstood their wording. In which case it's at least funny, but maybe subtract one from all my derivatives.. Which kills my point also. Dang.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
One announcement from a company or government can suddenly change the derivative discontinuously. Derivatives irl do not follow the rules of calculus that you learn in class because they don't have to be continuous. (you could quibble
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
Hm that's true. Both seem plausible in English. I didn't look closely enough to figure out which they meant.

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