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by ajkjk 5mo ago
It's a bad market to take on because the competition is 'commodification by Google/Apple/Microsoft'. If you do a great job you compete with Dropbox on price and quality, and if you do anything short of that you comp
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
huh? I said nothing of the sort. They're hunches. Like: for example, it seems fairly obvious that some societal-level change happened around the 70s or 80s that triggered our modern obesity epidemics. My personal best guess is that it
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
yeah... mostly I said it that way because this take upsets some people. The full list (which I think are 80+% fixable by lifestyle) is something like: sleep apnea, obesity, back pain, most things that require physical therapy outside of inj
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
fwiw I really believe it is , my sleep problems come and go based on entirely physical variables--how flexible I feel, how much time I spent "shrimping", how tight my back and neck are. Personally I would not be surprised at all
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
yes, it needs to be pointed out. if you have it for a long time you might not realize it's a fluke (like me)
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
I mean.. Get someone to vouch for you. If people are distinguishable from bots then you should be able to easily distinguish yourself. If they're not, then you need personal vouching to establish who the people are anyway.
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
... Yes, people talk about that.
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
A feww options: 1. get some people who trust you to vouch for you when you join (similar to requiring an invite to join but maybe more flexible?) 2. some kind of induction process, maybe the algorithm surfaces your stuff and gets feedback,
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
I feel like the dream solution is more like tree-based content: you see content that is vouched for by people you vouch for; if someone's account is compromised then their vouches get updated to not matter anymore, cutting their whole
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
My aim was to communicate the thing that I wrote. Broadly, to supply the obvious refutation to the thing I replied to for any passing readers.
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
You're thinking of comment threads as some kind of high school debate contest? for some reason?
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
Nor do I feel the need to, since my goal was only to present the obvious refutation to the (basically fascist) argument I was replying to. Anyway both are self-evident: prosocial enforcement exists because we see it around us every day and
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
"most effective" requires a lot of justification. I think it's empirically false, personally. A system that uses violence to establish norms is fundamentally unstable because it lets whoever can muster the most violence set t
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
I think the only thing that really works is to appeal from one's person. Had Mr L said: the flag is important to me , and draping it over yourself like that is something I find disrespectful, given how many peoples' lives were lo
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
Pretty sure the right answer mainly involves the car knowing about the weather and other emergency events.
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
Yes, having AI write something and not checking it yourself is sure to lead to hallucination, hence, it is a fraudulent way to write.
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
It's not the kind of mistake that is possible unless you're engaging in fraud anyway.
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
I'm much more interested in the app and what they learned than anything to do with AI. Leave that part out, imo.
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
The correlation is well-documented in gerontology and not spurious at all.
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
Well, a slowing gait speed does strongly correlate with increasing mortality in the elderly: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3080184/ So we have to distinguish between walking slowly deliberately vs becau
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
erg. You're not wrong but TexMacs looks like more 80s software that no one wants to use anymore because the user experience is awful.
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
I can't imagine the frame of mind the author has to be in to think that there's moral value in not "naming names" of corporations that do things badly, as if they are people who can be offended. Although they also write
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
Well -- TeX is "80s good". We've gotten better at designing ergonomic software since and it really doesn't meet the modern standard. But it's good enough for most people, and sufficiently hard to replace, that it ha
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
not if you also condemn the American states that allow that...
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
yes, most places I have worked were hobbled by the organizations being completely idiotic. which is why engineers want to be left alone to code, historically. Better to be left alone than dealing with insane bureaucracy. But even better tha
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
Can't stand this kind of corporate apologism. It's one thing to disagree about whether this is a reasonable thing to do, but there's no need to additionally gaslight people about whether their category of grievance is even va
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
*most, sigh
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
Because of the "grifty addons" part. Is that not obvious? This situation is not ideal.
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
another thing to keep in mind is that > try to talk to someone > run out of things to talk about > feel awkward or dumb is not really a bad outcome, physically speaking. IMO ost people's anxiety about things X is not "fea
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
sounds like it's not efficient at all? it's barely functional as a business and is only surviving on grifty addons?

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