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by alganet 1y ago
How do I even know if the blog post represents this Xunzi faithfully? I don't even know how to properly read the source material in chinese.
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by alganet 1y ago
> should always be respect How do you know if you're being respectful to a culture you don't know? > Constant studying is the key, don’t you think? “Walk softly and carry a big book” If the Buddha thought books were the key,
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by alganet 1y ago
> Is this a problem you have? Maybe I do to a certain level. It is an awareness of the environment in which I grew up. > You couldn’t pay me enough to join the “ruling class.” Yeah, you seek to replace these unfit rulers. Sounds famil
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by alganet 1y ago
Don't worry, we're not comparing languages here. You are free to chose the language and community that fits best to your approach to software development.
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by alganet 1y ago
That's precisely one of the tricks charlatans use. Western culture likes to foster leadership. Everyone in the west aspires to be that 0.01% ruling class, or to project it. Again, how much this is actual wisdom you can apply to your li
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by alganet 1y ago
Over the years, I've seen many charlatans use eastern references to manipulate western audiences. These kinds of texts, therefore, must be taken with caution. Which parts are "actual wisdom that I can apply to my life", and w
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by alganet 1y ago
Machine-readable does not mean centralized.
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by alganet 1y ago
The shared-nothing architecture is great for some scenarios. Long running processes and async I/O are a great tool to have though. They are present in PHP for almost two decades now, and despite having many incarnations (select(), libe
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by alganet 1y ago
In theory, I shouldn't need to explain this.
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> keep the establishment in check The ultimate subversion of the estabilishment is raw honesty. Honesty produces an environment that disables unjust distribution of power. > never move against them That's inaction, not honesty. &
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by alganet 1y ago
Why is Hacker News talking about dinosaur films?
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by alganet 1y ago
It's worse. It creates a false sense of security, while it allows people with vast resources to spam and scam freely. We need smarter humans, it's the only way.
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by alganet 1y ago
You don't need to be the paranoid one, you just need to accept that some people will be paranoid and that's a good thing and you should listen. You don't have to like them or obey them. The other option is trying to make your
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by alganet 1y ago
> Code was always cheap It is more correct to say that cheap code always had a large supply compared to expensive code , and LLMs haven't changed that. Expensive code, though, is expensive. LLMs also haven't changed that. Expe
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I just did. By pretending to know less of egyptian culture and the academic consensus around it, I played the role of a typical human (not trained to prompt, not smart enough to catch bullshit from the LLM). I then compared the LLM output w
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by alganet 1y ago
Me: > > Companies and individuals are buying LLMs expecting them to be real developers You: > Yes, many companies and individuals have overinflated expectations > LLMs actually are at the level of real developers Ok then.
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by alganet 1y ago
We're talking about different things. You need to imagine a surveillance system that you cannot lie to, and cannot avoid or replace. It will be there, no way of escaping it. Sattelites, network monitoring, doesn't matter. Assume i
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by alganet 1y ago
Jesus
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by alganet 1y ago
We need to normalize behaviors that are commonly attributed to paranoia. It is ok to ask a lot of questions, it is ok to be skeptic of friendly interactions, it is ok to be suspicious. These behaviors are not social anxiety, not psychosis,
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by alganet 1y ago
I know nothing about moat or network or anything like that. This is basic stuff. People have money. People use money to buy things. Money is limited. It can move, and shift, but not grow. People earn X and will spend a portion of that on st
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by alganet 1y ago
Quality and low cost are the hardest things to clone. It's really not about features. Ideally, you want a lot of clones, but all of them more expensive or inferior quality than you. That's something that can beat any first-mover
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by alganet 1y ago
Have you considered the possibility that 1 million similar companies worth $100 each will appear? I know nothing about product, but think how many people could have done it with the same tools as you.
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> follows policy of the owner The owner is us, humans. I want it to follow reasonable, kind humans. I don't want it to follow scam artists, charlatans, assassins. > be prepared for it to call you on your bullshit Right now, I am
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by alganet 1y ago
Stargate fictionalizes Von Daniken. It moves his narrative from pseudoscience to fiction. It works like domestication. Culture is living, myths are the part that already crystallized. I don't care which one is more important, it's
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by alganet 1y ago
If that's the case, there was a lot of plans. I'm confident that you can web search them.
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> there are people consciously disengaging from social media There are people _voluntarily_ disengaging. It is different. We're talking about manipulation, you have to consider the possibility of unconscious decisions.
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It is quite mysterious that a sequence of similar phenomena would appear with such similarity and in sequence. It must be something deeper than, that caused both of those groups to appear. At least, it's worth thinking about. Thanks fo
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by alganet 1y ago
I will look down on your auto-generated commits though, and be more critical of your PR if you use them by choice. Just like I would be naturally more inquisitve about the writing origin for a book that has an auto-generated image in the co
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by alganet 1y ago
As I mentioned, there are two ways of seeing it. Maybe there was some kind of pressure for LLM usage in the Abstract section. In certain points of my career, I have been pressure before to generate commits with specific rigid requirements.
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Can you share with us why this distinction is so important?

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