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by andybak 2y ago
I think the point is that we need both. One is short/medium term and the other is medium/long term. An asteroid/comet impact big enough to wipe us out is a statistically certainty - not science fiction.
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by andybak 2y ago
Really?
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by andybak 2y ago
Not according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40351963
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by andybak 2y ago
Evil? Clumsy, lazy and risk averse - yes. Stupid? Uncaring? Infuriating? Yes. Can we save "evil" for now deserving cases?
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by andybak 2y ago
May I just say this launch was a bit of a mess? The web page implies you can try it immediately. Initially it wasn't available. A few hours later it was in both the web UI and the mobile app - I got a popu[ telling me that GPT-4o was a
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by andybak 2y ago
Impossible or inconvenient?
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by andybak 2y ago
Or Firefox
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by andybak 2y ago
I think there's a subtle point here about the cost of layoffs being hard to quantify but hugely underestimated by large companies. A culture where employees feel that their dedication to the company mission is reciprocated must surely
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by andybak 2y ago
To be honest, his forte isn't the written word. Watch a documentary or two. He has a fascinating style and is eminently (maybe too eminently) watchable. "New Adam Curtis documentary just dropped" was really a thing for a fair
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by andybak 2y ago
I disagree. AI will be able to do "rigour" before it can do "thought provoking". Part of Adam's appeal is the fact that behind it is a human being struggling to understand the world and struggling to explain it. LLM
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by andybak 2y ago
Is this your first day on planet Adam Curtis? ;) I love his stuff but you really need to treat it as "thought provoking but utterly lacking in rigour". Treat it as a jumping off point for topics that might be new to you and as a n
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by andybak 2y ago
It seems obvious to me that the things you find obviously stupid, obviously aren't.
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by andybak 2y ago
Thanks for the snark. I just spotted the update and came back to add a message. I've got way better things to do with my time than just to post on HN to get imaginary internet points.
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by andybak 2y ago
"Update APPLE APPROVED THE GAME WITHOUT ANY CHANGE! They told me that upon further review, they have determined that my app is compliant with App Review Guideline."
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Apple rejected a (VisionOS) game because of using realistic Guns(old.reddit.com)
6 points by andybak 2y ago|4 comments
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by andybak 2y ago
> I was dumb and was trying to help people, not build a 'knowledge base'. It is about helping people - but helping multiple people for the same effort it takes to help one person. As we descend further into "Need help? Jus
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by andybak 2y ago
> The problem is, SO can't tell someone who asks an insane question from someone who asks the same question but has constraints that make it sane. Stack Overflow is not there to help you solve your use-case. It's there to creat
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by andybak 2y ago
A workaround is literally "a way to avoid triggering a bug". So if it's a workaround, then you're admitting it's a bug. So the distinction is between "We screwed up but at least you can do x to mitigate it&quot
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by andybak 2y ago
I've heard of it and I roughly know what it is. But remembering the meaning of an acronym while scanning front page post titles without much context? No. My brain is pretty ruthless at evicting TLAs that are reasonably distant from m
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by andybak 2y ago
> We have 4 days to contest "Know Your Customer" would have been a better title. The missing information is more easily guessed from skimming the article than the mystery acronym.
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by andybak 2y ago
If you're going to editoralize the title, could you possibly tell us what KYC stands for?
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by andybak 3y ago
"Garbage" is harsh. It's flawed but they are streets ahead of Pico or Vive. Ironically Google Daydream was also very polished and now Google is starting again but with a gigantic dent in their credibility.
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by andybak 3y ago
Are your features potentially new revenue streams? This is. Or at least they believe it can be.
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by andybak 3y ago
Jeez. I dunno. Sometimes I just reach my threshold for the time I'm prepared to spend debating with strangers on the internet.
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by andybak 3y ago
> (And note that "something" and "nothing" in that sentence are terms of art with more precise meanings than the colloquial ones.) Bingo. You are using a much more specific definition than I was. As the other person c
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by andybak 3y ago
If science is tackling these questions then it's most likely doing so by making non-falsifiable claims. And at that point it's doing philosophy rather than science. And if you want to disagree with the definition of science that I
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by andybak 3y ago
Children often ask questions such as "Why is there something rather then nothing?" or "What happened before time?". These questions often cause great mirth for any adult in earshot. You can choose to draw one of two very
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by andybak 3y ago
Because the text for this is only a slight variation of the tech for a broad range of legitimate applications? Because even this precise tech has legitimate use cases? > The only purpose of this technology I can think of is getting spies
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by andybak 3y ago
You're not far off. I'm tempted to head off to write a "if philosophers were programming languages" post now.
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by andybak 3y ago
OK. Names aside I'm not sure how much you know about Wittgenstein. I'm far from an expert but - he did largely refute the Tractatus later in life but reasons that are probably the opposite of what you're implying. If anything

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