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by amasad 9y ago
Ah thanks, will do
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by amasad 9y ago
It's been awesome to follow Canny's story from the start. The founders faced incredible skepticism from "experts" early on but they soldiered on and against all odds they're making it! Repl.it has been one of the ea
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by amasad 9y ago
>Too much of everything is always bad. That's folk-wisdom, which is sort of a good heuristic but is not useful when we can actually test and demonstrate. Some things are bad even in small quantities, say poison. Somethings we can&#x
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by amasad 9y ago
I think you sum up their position's fallacy pretty nicely here: >"if we don't figure out AGI safety now, by the time AGI happens it may be too late" The keyword for me is "happens". It's as if technolog
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by amasad 9y ago
A couple of weeks ago I went to see Max Tegmark (the author of this piece) speak about his new book "Life 3.0: being human in the age of artificial intelligence" in San Francisco and saw the same speculative AI intelligence explo
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by amasad 9y ago
This is beautiful! It's amusing to think that most of this can be replaced with a single iPad.
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by amasad 9y ago
I don't think anyone is claiming they have predictive power. I think judging all our thinking tools the same way we judge Science (scientism) makes it harder to make sense of the world. That's why I emphasize it being a "ment
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by amasad 9y ago
It's such a powerful mental model and a phenomenon that presents itself in social, political, and other types of systems. I recently applied dialectical thinking in a discussion about progress in programming. The main question I was tr
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Mental Frames to Get Over Entrepreneurial Anxiety and Depression(amasad.me)
3 points by amasad 9y ago|0 comments
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by amasad 9y ago
It's the least shitty of all other designs. It picked the best design decisions from existing package managers. By default it is project local (as opposed to global like what rubygems, pip, and others are), it's recursive and larg
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by amasad 9y ago
It means you take your client side JavaScript code and render it on the server for performance and SEO. Previously you had to either duplicate the code in different languages or pick one or the other (either use angular or rails).
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by amasad 9y ago
The fact that Node survives as a platform for Fullstack JavaScript shows how serendipity works in invention: he set out to build a high performance network server and ended up building one of the largest platforms for building web applicati
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by amasad 9y ago
TIL Google gives upwards of $100 million bonuses and Larry Page calls it "start-up-like compensation"! > Q: You would not have approved of a bonus of over $100 million if he hadn't made a significant. Can we agree on that?
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by amasad 9y ago
Repl.it | Hacker | San Francisco | Onsite Don't care about pedigree -- as long as you're self-taught, curious, intrinsically interested in computers, and would endlessly hack for hack value then please apply directly to my email:
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What percentage of Americans know what a prime number is?(daniellitt.com)
1 points by amasad 9y ago|0 comments
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by amasad 9y ago
I support this and find it really cool. However, I'd love to see less hero worship and more evidence. On its face there is nothing wrong with all those Alan Kay photos, but my feeling is that it's symptomatic of how much of what&#
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by amasad 9y ago
For languages like C that don't ship with a repl we don't currently implement one -- although we probably should, since a lot of them have third-party repl libraries. Check our most of our other languages. They're proper repl
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by amasad 9y ago
TIO looks great. However, it's probably serving different purposes than Repl.it, here are some differences as I see them: - repl.it is interactive, which means that not only a process and a container is booted up that stays with you th
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Ask HN: Is Google Cloud load balancer down?
3 points by amasad 9y ago|1 comments
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by amasad 9y ago
Ah cool! You're using Repl.it! Would be curious to hear your feedback on how we can make the site more suitable for this use-case.
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by amasad 9y ago
Repl.it | Hacker | San Francisco | Onsite Don't care about pedigree -- as long as you're self-taught, curious, intrinsically interested in computers, and would endlessly hack for hack value then please apply directly to my email:
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by amasad 9y ago
it's pretty unambiguous what he said. Unless he pulls a Clinton (be skeptical about the definition of "is") there is no way for this to "get interpreted as something its not".
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Startup options are much better than they look(benkuhn.net)
3 points by amasad 9y ago|0 comments
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by amasad 9y ago
We're commenting on an article by a philosopher about an advanced text about human behavior by a top scholar that is also making claims about philosophy . Surely, I can't be faulted for assuming some competency in basic philoso
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by amasad 9y ago
I've heard that about Scandinavia. That's a great step forward!
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by amasad 9y ago
>I understand that some people claim this to be a definition, but that hardly makes it one. What's 'extra-physical'? To do this, you must first define what boundaries physicality has. I don't think there is any good d
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by amasad 9y ago
It's not different definitions of free will unless you're using "definition" super broadly to mean anything that talks about the subject. At the end of the paragraph: >If there is such a thing as free will, it has man
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by amasad 9y ago
>None of your postulates are accurate or well-defined. >--I don't know what 'physicalism' means. Is "well-defined" a codeword for "I don't understand"? Physicalism is as well-defined of a concep
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by amasad 9y ago
I tend to agree with you -- the universe can't be so lazy as to generate such a useless string of words that is your comment. For the definition I refer you to introductory philosophy texts.
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by amasad 9y ago
This is really not a point of contention in philosophy. And that's I think why the OP didn't bother to define it as well. I suggest reading one of the philosophy encyclopedias online to get answers to the question of definition.

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