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by ajkjk 1y ago
I think of Apple as blessed and cursed by hubris. The same arrogance that lets them assert a design into the world on the belief that people will adopt it allows them to incapable of changing at the things they are bad or deplorable at.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
It still casts suspicion? That doesn't change anything.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
It sounds like you're trying to feel what you're supposed to feel according to other people, and then feeling anxious about that's not how you actually feel? which sounds hard. I'm pretty sure the only way to be that mak
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by ajkjk 1y ago
lol, what is going on inside this comment, you're like whiplashing between having preferences and explaining why you should want fancy things but then actually you don't. like... it's completely okay to not want something exp
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by ajkjk 1y ago
Surely
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by ajkjk 1y ago
That's the cynical take, but as far as I can tell it is far from universally true. You just hear about all the bad cases. Not to mention, the the way it pulls on policy can be much more subtle than getting bills passed.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
Well.. there is somewhat more on the line if it's wrong that way.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
Well studies like this are often directed at policymakers, who actually can do something about it.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
It's so silly to use statues of liberty as a metric when nobody really knows how tall it is either (famously it's a lot smaller than people expect).
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by ajkjk 1y ago
If you can't communicate clearly there's no reason to try to take you seriously.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
Nah it's on you to be coherent, there's nothing interesting to ask about
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by ajkjk 1y ago
This kind of statement is too vague to be useful. I even know all the words in there and I still don't know what you mean.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
is this, like, true? or gut feeling? or made up?
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by ajkjk 1y ago
that's not 'research'
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by ajkjk 1y ago
this person's whole worldview seems really gross. Like they have swallowed the entire framework of growth-oriented capitalism uncritically and reorganized themselves completely around maximizing their returns. Fortunately the world is
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by ajkjk 1y ago
This is worse: this is just pretending like the machine does their jobs because it benefits them. The big (biggest? ) problem of modernity is that quality is decorrelated from profit. There's a lot more money in having the optics of d
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by ajkjk 1y ago
It is in their interest to find explanations for reductions in labor that don't assign the blame to corporate greed. For example, a call center might use the excuse of AI to fire a bunch of people. They would have liked to just arbitra
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by ajkjk 1y ago
That's what makes not doing it moral
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by ajkjk 1y ago
In this day and age anyone going against profit motive is commendable. the default is "fuck people over but not care because you're abstracted away from them". It's the tragedy of our times. Big respect for anyone who&#x
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by ajkjk 1y ago
I think there's a typo in the definition of C? It should say q in R^3, not S^2, right?
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by ajkjk 1y ago
I think the idea is that you can't, but we're assuming v doesn't vanish at that point which would imply that it's possible?
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by ajkjk 1y ago
agree with this completely. the goal (and maybe this is what Apple can do) is make this possible for everyone, not just clever motivated people. I think it takes more leadership than the industry has mustered. (And maybe their successors ca
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by ajkjk 1y ago
This is unrelated but occurred to me as I was reading it: It would be really amusing or entertaining or inspiring or something to see what the best possible outcome from an LLM-style chat session would be. E.g. get a bunch of brilliant hu
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by ajkjk 1y ago
Well I enjoyed those
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by ajkjk 1y ago
> When you ask an LLM to tell a joke, the LLM is guessing what joke a majority of people would find funny. The result is almost never funny. This is... false. The LLM is generating text that would be associated with "being a joke&qu
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by ajkjk 1y ago
I feel like Apple has historical been good at taking things that are "good ideas but everyone is doing the execution so badly they haven't really caught on" into the "everyone uses it all the time" category (eg ipod
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by ajkjk 1y ago
Presumably they mean Adderall. Plausible theory tbh. Although it's just a factor not an explanation.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
well I was being flippant but what do we have other than our opinions? I think everything sucks so that's what I said.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
the new ones we should have made by now that fix their problems... Zig and Rust and TS are a start
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by ajkjk 1y ago
eh I feel this but it's a lot simpler than that. Not "if everyone built everything correctly" but "if everyone's work was even slightly better than complete garbage". I do not see many examples of companies bui

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