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by axg11 4y ago
Most employees never consider starting their own company, so we can strike off (2). Buying SpaceX is vanishingly unrealistic, so discount (3). My impression of working at SpaceX is that the options for employees are: 1. Keep working at Spac
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by axg11 4y ago
This is a very predictable consequence of criticizing your employer via a public letter. Criticize internally all you want, and influence the changes that you want to see happen. Employment is a two-way relationship. If you don't like
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by axg11 4y ago
Why does the cost have to be competitive? Price it at a level that covers all costs. If the price is uncompetitive, 99% of users will not take it, however, that 1% that _really_ need to continue using Brex (for whatever tail reason) can con
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by axg11 4y ago
Why do this rather than offer customers a chance to continue service at some higher cost?
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by axg11 4y ago
I'm really happy that large language models are forcing us to reconsider these questions. I don't think we can be sure of the sentience of anything other than ourselves, almost by definition. Having said that, I go about my life _
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by axg11 4y ago
Aren’t you just proving my point? For each of these categories, Apple’s entry massively expanded the entire category and redefined the form of all future post-Apple products.
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by axg11 4y ago
You’re correct - Maps is a good example. I think the relative point still stands though. On the whole, Apple releases fewer higher-signal products and a better track record of industry wide impact.
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by axg11 4y ago
Apple has a history of surprises and engaging keynotes. Google, for all its success, has never launched a category creating product. Every Google success I can think of is a follow-on product, even search. Apple’s category creation resume:
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by axg11 4y ago
We don’t even know what sentience is. We don’t have a good way of defining sentience, nor a common definition. If we were to definitively create sentience, there wouldn’t be a universal consensus on whether we had actually created it.
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by axg11 4y ago
Yes, thank you for explaining this more clearly :)
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by axg11 4y ago
The focus on learning is misguided. Human brains don’t have to use the same mechanism for learning as they do for reasoning. Perhaps they do, but I don’t believe we have enough evidence either way. The useful part of AI is the inference&#x2
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by axg11 4y ago
Long term effects of Stuxnet are unclear. In the short term, it was a huge win in delaying the programme and sending a message that even air gapped systems are at risk. In the long term, Stuxnet put the programme and every adversary on noti
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by axg11 4y ago
How could it remain hidden? The programme heads would think it was an accident? This was a devastating setback to the entire programme. There would surely be an investigation to ensure a repeat could not happen.
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by axg11 4y ago
Hiding and obfuscating the payload is pointless in this case. The author doesn’t seem to understand the reasons why a group would go through the trouble of obfuscation or other similar techniques. Stuxnet was a one-time operation with a ver
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by axg11 4y ago
If I were looking at buying in the next 0-36 months, I would wait at least 6 months. It’s entirely possible that economic conditions continue to slide, interest rates get to 7%+ and a deep recession reduces housing demand. The opposite of a
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by axg11 4y ago
To be honest, I was always on the “AirTags are harmless” side until reading your perspective. You are probably right that making the UX so simple and coming from a trusted brand will enable many more people to misuse the technology. Ultimat
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by axg11 4y ago
This is essentially Toronto. There is a fairly big delta between mortgage payments (with a reasonable downpayment) and rent. If you only care about monthly cash flow, renting is a far better option. For the last decade the wisdom has been t
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by axg11 4y ago
What is the alternative? In a situation where the software has detected an imminent and inevitable crash, the _only_ sensible action is to turn off self-driving and revert to 100% human control. I don’t see this action alone as Tesla attemp
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by axg11 4y ago
Agreed that the current (incorrect) web3 narrative is that all decentralization is good. There will be use cases where it’s good and use cases where it’s bad. The process to a valuable endpoint will involve a lot of duds and failed companie
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by axg11 4y ago
It takes a lot to look past the branding, but I think the vision is interesting. I think there _will_ be more personal ownership of data in the future, but not across all services. Decentralized, permissionless self-custody data only makes
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by axg11 4y ago
> All genes have a function. For the benefit of readers unfamiliar with the field: this is wrong. You can show this experimentally. Construct a gene that produces a non-human protein and introduce this to a human cell/genome. That g
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by axg11 4y ago
There’s not any type of mapping and this is what makes biology so difficult to study and understand. One gene can affect anywhere from zero other genes to every single gene. We also need to account for effects at every level of the central
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by axg11 4y ago
If someone wants to make false accusations, they can do that now? I can see authorities trying to prevent adoption of homomorphic encryption. Once widely adopted I don’t think merely using it could be used against someone. Similarly, regula
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by axg11 4y ago
Can you explain this comment more? Genuinely asking as I don’t understand the implication/downside?
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by axg11 4y ago
Presumably one of: - the image is never analyzed - the image is sync'd to device and then analyzed
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by axg11 4y ago
I'm only familiar with Android from a distance - does Google Photos perform all the analysis on device?
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by axg11 4y ago
Apple is still behind the rest of FAANG in terms of publishing ML research, but they've taken the lead in terms of real world impact of ML. If you go back a couple of years the general consensus was that Apple is very far behind and la
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by axg11 4y ago
This is interesting. Not something that I ever came across but can very much believe this happens. Most problems in academia come down to bad incentives. Researchers are incentivised to publish for prestige and citations, which are poor pro
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by axg11 4y ago
As a former (PhD) researcher, this is spot on. Here are the factors I've observed: - fear of getting scooped: there's a general fear that sharing data makes it easier for competing labs to publish on the same topics, leading to th
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by axg11 4y ago
What if, at a societal level, we just end up employing more people on fewer days? Wouldn’t that be a good thing?

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