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by antonvs 2mo ago
IPO when? Seriously, great stuff!
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Thiel bet against Musk when he removed him as CEO of PayPal. That seemed to work out ok. This article is an example of why cherry-picking is a logical fallacy. There are a lot of examples where a bet against Musk’s claims would have been a
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The primary evidence that religions aren’t “true” are the religious texts themselves: filled with easily disproved falsehoods and a primitive understanding of the world. Evolution is not compatible with creation myths. The biblical Exodus n
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There isn’t really any debate about “Y” - it acts as a vowel in most cases, and as a consonant in some cases, particularly at the beginning of a word, as in “Youtube”. The “you” sound is a consonant sound, and that also answers the ukulele
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It's a 50% profit margin because the profit ($5) is 50% of the selling price. It's a 100% markup because the selling price is 100% more than the cost. Some people might call it a 50% markup, but that's purely a deceptive tact
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These sort of calculations are nothing but examples of how a bad model gives bad results. In this case, the model is bad because it's underspecified. Saying "I have a bad model but there's some unknown Great Factor which woul
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by antonvs 2mo ago
It's probably unrelated to the Fermi Paradox. Life doesn't develop all the time on Earth largely because it's already developed. The conditions for that development are largely gone now, plus existing life easily outcompetes
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> I usually go around saying to anyone who will listen "incentives are dangerous". Sir, this is a Wendy’s
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Thinking of everything as a business model: This is your brain on capitalism.
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sytaylor_anthropic-is-now-tra...
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> I think it's pretty reasonable to think that an extreme climate would cause extreme mortality. Classic equivocation fallacy on the word “extreme” in two different contexts. If our arguments are so transparently wrong, it makes it
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by antonvs 2mo ago
It’s pretty much limited to the US now though. Most people elsewhere are unlikely to have heard of it.
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Security theater is what gets the economic rewards.
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I’ve learned tons since I started using LLMs. They’re an amazing tool for learning as long as you use them like that. Ask it questions about things you don’t understand. Verify the answers. Don’t have them do everything for you. Figure out
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Right. The answer is necessary but not sufficient.
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That attitude isn’t universal to everyone who enjoys tinkering and making computers do interesting things. I just had lunch yesterday with one of the most tinkering people I know, who as a side hobby teaches kids to program using robotics e
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Yup, we stopped using Atlassian completely. Highly recommended.
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> Rovo will helpfully tell you (after loading for 5 seconds) that YES stands for Yassified Entertainment Setting, a new option added to the app in January 2024. The problem with our brave new AI world is I can’t tell if this is real or n
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Joke’s on you, I’ve blocked evil.com
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Our company dumped Atlassian. No-one misses it, it’s universally considered a good decision.
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Hardly any Americans would recognize “git” as an offensive word. That would not have been a barrier to adoption in the largest single software market in the world. I grew up in one of the other ex-British colonies and we didn’t use “git” ei
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The comment was calling Hurd a Linux killer. One hopes that was intended as a joke.
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Have you tried asking an LLM to fix that?
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> Every organization has a mission, a reason for being. Organizations pass that mission — along with their terminology, procedures, systems, standards, and ways of working — to their people. Every organization has a mission, a purpose, a
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by antonvs 2mo ago
I use Antigravity and Gemini daily because it’s cheap and so is the company I work at. It really isn’t anywhere near as bad as people seem to imagine. I’ve developed a lot of good code with it. I sometimes supplement it with my personal Cla
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> Then your argument is we should have no police 'because power corrupts’ That’s an uncharitable strawman. We have checks against police abuse in place. Probably not enough in the US, but they exist. There’s no meaningful oversight
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> These nameless people could very well want to help people. The criticism is that what they’re choosing to work on is misguided, if the goal is truly to help people. The cost is just one of several factors, and one point about it is tha
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A sequence of logical implications that each follow from previous ones is exactly what a proof is. Did I really need to spell that out?
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> Technology seemingly tends towards increased specialization. The bitter lesson says the exact opposite.
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Stringing what together? A sequence of logical implications? The word for that is "proof".

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