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by camgunz 9mo ago
I was a contractor/consultant between 2020-2023; I have a problem w/ authority so it suited me. But work/life balance was awful--I have 2 kids now, and I can't do nothing for 6 weeks then work 100 hour weeks for 4 weeks.
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by camgunz 9mo ago
The housing affordability crisis only exists in places that are very desirable, which is to say if you only build homes, you won't solve the problem, because most people don't want to live in a huge belt of suburbia. You have to b
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by camgunz 9mo ago
If you're not afraid of pushing back against an entire industry you don't have a full appreciation of the risks. Aside: I love your website! Cool games :)
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by camgunz 9mo ago
You can't ignore managers, founders, colleagues, investors, and procurement teams.
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by camgunz 9mo ago
Republicans ignored a literal coup
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by camgunz 10mo ago
This thing is so long and poorly written I honestly quit reading. I got all the way to Gas Town 101 . If some LLM didn't write most of this I'd be surprised. These things all have the same tone, the breathless, maniacally uncriti
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by camgunz 10mo ago
These are collective action problems. The number of people who would have to maintain personal websites full time in order to replace Reddit is boggling and unachievable. These articles all reduce down to "I don't love ads".
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by camgunz 10mo ago
Again though, it's about time
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by camgunz 10mo ago
Well the other models are even less useful so I try and stick with the steelman version of these things. That IBM quote isn't ambiguity about what computers are for, but about who can afford them in their current, highly bespoke state.
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by camgunz 10mo ago
> A bit like OK Waymo isn't perfect but it works in SF...we don't need a giant breakthrough to bring it to another 1000 cities Well, a lot of cities have snow, or different flora and fauna, or different road rules (Karachi, Mex
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by camgunz 10mo ago
Yeah but the thing that distinguishes the gold rush from mesmerism or whatever is actual gold. Most LLM promises are NFTs with extra steps. The arguments here are totally bonkers. People didn't wonder what airplanes were for, or cars,
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by camgunz 10mo ago
The loophole here is that this account isn't a person
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by camgunz 10mo ago
I've never been more convinced LLMs are the vanguard of the grift economy now that green accounts are low effort astroturfing on HN.
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by camgunz 10mo ago
These aren't communities; they're resorts. Where would my kids go to school? Who picks up yard waste? Who do I see for antibiotics and flu shots? Who do I report crimes to? That's right, a real society with a real government
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by camgunz 10mo ago
Or like any mea culpas. I remember Larry Summers scoffing about this, as well as our very own Walter Bright.
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by camgunz 10mo ago
Interested in that guitar effects thing, would follow progress :)
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by camgunz 10mo ago
No, they're verifiable as having been signed by a key. You can still call yourself "Michael Jackson's Ghost". This is the only identity verification people care about, the big bad "send us proof you are who you say
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by camgunz 10mo ago
If you do all the stuff (DKIM etc) AND you're not on a banned IP, you're fine. It seems like this person couldn't find a non-banned IP. I know plenty of people who self host email and successfully send to Gmail.
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by camgunz 10mo ago
"Take some ordinary, off-the-shelf servers. Treat them as dumb, untrusted pipes. Their job is just to relay information. They don’t own the keys—you own your keys. You sign messages with your key, then post them to one or more relays.
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by camgunz 10mo ago
It turns out the Great Filter is that any species with the technology to colonize space also has the technology to soma itself into annihilation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
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by camgunz 11mo ago
There's no serious company who would do anything equivalent to "hey Jr Dev make me a Counterstrike", so examples like these do way more harm than good, because they give the impression of superpowers but this is really just t
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by camgunz 11mo ago
We're not disagreeing. Your best example is throwaway mocks: temporary slop, which these models are good at, but all the costs and externalities are hidden from you. They're not actually economical to use (even if you don't c
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by camgunz 11mo ago
This is the kind of thing that's so impressive that if you're not an (experienced) SWE you think "man LLMs are the future, and I am making some major decisions based on this". But you look at the code, and it's esse
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by camgunz 11mo ago
What's the lid shell design flaw (did a little googling couldn't find it)?
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by camgunz 11mo ago
Dunno if you listen to Ezra Klein but he had an anthropologist on once who described this tribe of humans who when someone came back having bagged big game, they had to run a gauntlet of everyone else downplaying their accomplishment like &
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by camgunz 11mo ago
Maybe this is a stupid question, but is there any downside to harvesting heat from the planet? Would we slow convections by cooling it and then cause some weird ass problem?
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by camgunz 1y ago
There's a cat in our neighborhood that shits on our back porches multiple times a day (I have no idea how this is possible, maybe it means the cat will die soon!), and I finally got a huge industrial fan and hooked it up to a motion se
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by camgunz 1y ago
Then the only thing I have to ask you is: what do you think this means in terms of how we treat LLMs? If they think, that is, they have cognition (which of course means they're self aware and sentient, how can you think and refer to yo
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by camgunz 1y ago
I super agree. Life today is unrecognizable from life just like, 80 years ago. I'm not advocating for like, taking the warning labels off the bottles and letting the problem solve itself or whatever, but I do think there's somethi
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by camgunz 1y ago
I read AOtD and I had a different takeaway: TV is great entertainment (watch all the trash you want!) but it's terrible for news and learning about the world. I found it pretty convincing--it's so clear to me that our societal dis

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