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by cs137 4y ago
Agree. Graphics matter but aren't the most important thing, and anyone who thinks GPT-3 can write compelling storylines doesn't understand GPT-3 or story craft. A FAANG would fuck up any MMO it tried. Trust me on this. I could say
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by cs137 4y ago
Thanks! Yeah, I'm in the process of figuring out what I want to research. I'm still in the phase where all the areas of CS seem interesting, although some more than others. AI is the most interesting and mathematical thus far, but
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by cs137 4y ago
Yes. I'm married--in fact, threats against my family were the major reason I scaled back by public presence--so that adds a bit of complexity, but moving elsewhere is definitely an option. I know enough about Europe to know that it&#x2
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Ask HN: Can a politically exposed person in middle age become a CS researcher?
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by cs137 4y ago
Part of the problem is that you only get one real crack at the career game. As you get older, your options diminish and the negative social inferences that come with age (even though they have no basis) tend to mount, so you don't have
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by cs137 4y ago
That's true, but when people complain about their cities getting worse because of transplants, they're usually talking about something different: the newcomers "killed the vibe." This is based on a 1960s-era presuppositi
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by cs137 4y ago
Thank you for this. It really infuriates me when white guys (and I am a cishet white guy, but I have empathy for those who aren't) treat issues like gay marriage and abortion access like "culture war" nice-to-haves, as if for
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by cs137 4y ago
Austin is in danger of following California's path. The reason Silicon Valley sucks is that Wall Street started sending its failures into tech to boss nerds around, and they drove out the real people, the ones who actually cared about
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by cs137 4y ago
What more do you want, or will you blame some specific demographic + sex + sexual orientation for this ? I'm not sure what you're getting at. Are you implying that all critics of inequality dislike cishet white males? Because I
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by cs137 4y ago
Not only will there be inequality of talent (relative to whatever talents are valued at a given time, because that itself is in flux) but simulations like this show that random inequality is not an aberration, but inevitable. The more preci
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by cs137 4y ago
In academia, it's open season on attacking ideas. There's nothing wrong with this; indeed, that's what we expect our intellectuals to do. Unfortunately, some cannot separate (both as critics, and when criticized) the attackin
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by cs137 4y ago
With academics, I think the problem is to some degree self-created. In the Boomer days, they copped the attitude that their research was the only thing that mattered and that teaching was unimportant grunt work to be delegated as much as po
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by cs137 4y ago
This makes sense, but it might be a mercy that progress on VR is slow, given that it's Facebook ("Meta") that is trying to push it. It'll be best for all of us if technology slows, except perhaps for those innovations th
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by cs137 4y ago
There are a lot of problems with academia, but this post shows such a rosy-eyed view of industry, I have a hard time taking it or its conclusions seriously. An industry job is fine if you're protected from the politics and valued for y
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by cs137 4y ago
What seems to be happening is that economic Moore's Law is continuing: computation is becoming cheaper, which means that the same amount of money can buy more of it. (This may be on hold post-2020, due to the shortage crisis.) On the
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by cs137 4y ago
That's why it's important to regulate employers even more tightly than search engines.
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by cs137 4y ago
Plausible deniability for whom? Employers? Which side are you on? If we don't regulate employers and the decisions they make, people will continue being denied jobs for stupid reasons. In the ongoing war against fascism, moderation is
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by cs137 4y ago
Damages for defamation are hard to prove. If someone with a million followers says on Twitter, "I don't like Bob", then Bob is never going to get hired anywhere, but there's no legal case. Indeed, the person voicing the
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by cs137 4y ago
What about their search engine? I knew someone who worked as a "reputation hit man". I don't know what his rate is today, but back in the 2000s, he would, for $500, impersonate and defame a person all over the internet. Most
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by cs137 4y ago
4) I'm sure people have committed suicide and lost jobs because of the consequences from Google blocking their account without any recourse. This is definitely not an acceptable state of affairs, and I'd suggest avoiding using Go
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by cs137 4y ago
Plus, you only had to brownnose for a couple afternoons. Once they decided they liked you, you just had to be not insufferable.
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by cs137 4y ago
That's a factor too, and I think that as Millennials and Xers realize that the BoomerJobs--the jobs in which you actually have some choice in what you work on, where you write your own performance review because the boss sees you as a
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by cs137 4y ago
"Great resignation" is mostly that, a narrative. Workers aren't actually becoming powerful. They're just slightly less powerless, and everyone knows it's transient--barring an overthrow of corporate capitalism, but
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by cs137 4y ago
Stephen King is a special case for all sorts of reasons. He's undeniably talented, which even his detractors will admit. (The complaint of literary snobs isn't that he's a bad writer, but that he puts his talent toward genres
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by cs137 4y ago
But really, who is the better player after 10 years? The person who keeps losing while playing the game in 'impossible mode' or the person who keeps winning while playing in 'easy mode'? Hard to say. I think they'
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by cs137 4y ago
I am. We're a long way from automating all human labor out of existence, but we only have to automate some of it to trigger wage collapses, because the job market is inelastic in a way that works not in labor's favor. The reason c
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by cs137 4y ago
So much of what is called being "wrecked by success" is just regular old regression to the mean (which is not usually real regression--i.e., there is no underlying degradation--but simply the contrast between early skill-plus-outl
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by cs137 4y ago
This is on the money, and it's a real problem. You see survivorship bias all over this economy, and it's manifested most strongly in the self-help and toxic-positivity cultures. People who succeed don't understand or know why
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by cs137 4y ago
If you're making your kids pay rent, there are bigger issues. Why aren't they able to find housing? Are they not able to find decent jobs? There could be any number of answers, and it might not be the kid's fault, but somethi
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by cs137 4y ago
Surely, you know that there is a difference between abstinence (voluntary, pursued for esoteric reasons) and deprivation (involuntary, imposed by a malevolent society). I think children should do enough chores to have a sense of self-effica

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