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by blueyes 3y ago
Many parts of SF are walkable and many neighborhoods within the city do not have the crime problem that is so visible downtown.
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by blueyes 3y ago
Fwiw, Russia pwned Viasat's satellites during invasion last year. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-behind-cyberatta...
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by blueyes 3y ago
This is simply untrue. The number of great fortunes itself has vastly increased in tech's positive-sum economy. The increase in the number of multi-millionaires, and the growth of that class, has been deeply impacted by tech. And it&#x
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by blueyes 3y ago
Some people succeed that way. Others succeed with a lot of creativity and hard work. They may eventually face competition, and then sure, you have to compete. To say every great fortune stems from a great crime is self-limiting at best, a
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by blueyes 3y ago
That's what I said.
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If your data set is too small, they memorize. If you train them well on a large dataset, they learn to generalize.
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by blueyes 3y ago
A truly horrible take, and sadly pessimistic. Balzac's pronouncement assumes the world is zero-sum; ie that wealth must be stolen from others. While that may have been true of many fortunes for many centuries on earth, it is not true n
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by blueyes 3y ago
George Soros's theory of reflexivity is very useful for understanding this phenomenon. https://www.georgesoros.com/2014/01/13/fallibility-reflexivi...
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by blueyes 3y ago
Overall I agree with him (I don't want to consume information that doesn't surprise me in some way, and technically speaking, it isn't even information without that surprise). But ... "surprise" is totally contingen
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by blueyes 3y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/HEXcrypto/comments/zotxtv/father_of... Kind of a shoe-shine boy indicator ... time to get out.
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by blueyes 3y ago
People pay for scarcity, not utility. In economics, this is expressed as the water-diamond paradox. Software makers simply need to find ways to make some piece of what they sell scarce (managed workloads). Everything else depends on the con
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by blueyes 3y ago
There are multiple cultural streams within Silicon Valley. Anyone who lives there could tell you that. Again, not a monolith. One of those currents easily tips into scams, and they are the least respectable. Other currents are focused on de
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by blueyes 3y ago
"Silicon Valley" is not a monolithic actor, and certainly not a scam on some general level. There are scams within Silicon Valley, just like there are Madoff on Wall Street, and car dealerships charging too much for repairs in mos
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by blueyes 3y ago
Right, but my argument is that there are many niches in the market where there is no competition, and startups should try to find that and then creates moats with IP, data, etc. There are many situations where startups don't have direc
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by blueyes 3y ago
The business ecosystem, like biological ecosystems, involves forms of collective life that have learned how to sustain themselves in competitive environments, usually by seeking moats. Those moats "rig the game". The moats tend to
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by blueyes 3y ago
This is not quite true, because poker is fundamentally adversarial, while startups are mostly not adversarial, at least not directly. Startups are a beauty contest where each player focuses on maximizing the things about them that appeal mo
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by blueyes 3y ago
This comment is not for or against calculus. Doing random hard things in order to get into college or get a white-collar job is really no different than pointless test preparation that shows you can follow instructions, and it has produced
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by blueyes 3y ago
I find Andreas's short non-technical posts to be fairly unenlightening, and am consistently surprised to see them attract so much attention on HN. The information value here is low.
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by blueyes 3y ago
I would have put it another way: Money amplifies personality, both virtues and vices. The reason why the rich so often seem absurd is because, unlike most people, they can live out their impulses. Money reveals who they are. Many people wit
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by blueyes 3y ago
> Agreeableness changed only in old age. Nir Barzilai, a researcher of aging, tells a great story about a very nice 100 year old man. When Nir comments on how nice the man is to his 80yo son, the son says: "well, he was a real jerk
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by blueyes 3y ago
They got there before you...
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by blueyes 3y ago
Which are almost as harmful as the sugar that most of those drinks use to addict their consumers.
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by blueyes 3y ago
Fully agree that we should all do our best to make IRL interesting. I think the best thing is to do both: control access to digital stimuli, and enrich analog life (in healthy ways! ;).
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by blueyes 3y ago
"Dopamine reset" refers to resetting your baseline levels of dopamine. Highly recommend listening to Huberman's interview of Dr. Anna Lembke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JLaF_4Tz8 As well as her book, D
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by blueyes 3y ago
Digital addictions are similar to pathologies of food, and unlike other things we usually think of as addictive, like hard drugs. That is because, as with food, most of us cannot escape the digital. Everyday, we are exposed to the thing tha
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by blueyes 4y ago
One of the chief functions of our brains is to predict the next thing that going to happen, where it's the images we see or the words we hear. That's not very different from genML predicting the next word.
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by blueyes 4y ago
What do you think you're doing when you're thinking? https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/predictive-p...
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by blueyes 4y ago
Cutting-edge LLMs are commoditized anyway. There are very few tech moats here, so his point doesn't change the economics much. Data will sometimes be a moat, but companies with proprietary data will also expose their models through GUI
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by blueyes 4y ago
If I'm reading it right, the recent National Labor Board ruling also outlaws anti-disparagement clauses in severance agreements: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/nlrb-confidentiality-an...
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by blueyes 4y ago
Grew up in Montana, now living in the Bay. Stories like this are a good reminder of the excesses perpetrated in our red hinterlands. The dog whistle in Emrich's statement is how he talks about scientific facts and theories. He's a

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