csallen

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by csallen 5mo ago
In what way is understanding the historical context in which we live "blindness"? Correcting someone who believes an old phenomenon is a new phenomenon, is not the same as giving up and saying we should do nothing about said pheno
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by csallen 5mo ago
> Tailwind instead pushes the dev into a CSS-first approach. You think about the Tailwind classes you want, and then throw yet-another-div into the DOM just to have an element to hang your classes on. But this isn't a unique flaw
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by csallen 5mo ago
It's depressing to see logic and reasoning in discussion replaced with name-calling and tribalism. "You're on the side of the <insert pejorative descriptive here>" should rarely (if ever) be a valid rebuttal.
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by csallen 5mo ago
You will probably be in the minority, and that minority will keep shrinking as AI keeps improving.
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by csallen 5mo ago
How many steps removed do you draw the line? Obviously, it's one thing to be a commander ordering an attack, vs a soldier firing the weapon, vs starting the company to make the weapon, vs being a supplier to the weapons company, vs bei
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by csallen 5mo ago
The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Secret of Our Success, almost any book about patterns in human history. Anyway, my point isn't about predicting historical or cultural changes at some hugely complex scale. My point is that it'
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by csallen 5mo ago
Yes you can, in many cases. Go read a book about culture lol
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by csallen 5mo ago
> Okay but sometimes people despise things and then they go away or get stigma'd into a corner. Sure, but has that ever happened to a technology that was useful, convenient, affordable, etc.? Definitely gotta be rare. I think the
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by csallen 5mo ago
> It's different from X" The post doesn't even say "it's different from X". It just says "it's unfashionable," with no comparison or mention of history at all, as if this is the first time a
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by csallen 5mo ago
List of things that the public despised when they were new: - Cars (expensive toys for the rich that endangered normal ppl and spooked horses) - Recorded music (similar complaints about it not supporting artists) - Bicycles (commonly called
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by csallen 5mo ago
> Even without touching moral/ethical/normative reasons, it's impractical. It's impractical to edit your AI-generated writing to put it in your own voice? People have been writing unique stuff for millennia.
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by csallen 5mo ago
I have no problem with AI-generated text. But I do have somewhat of a problem with unedited text. Personally, I even take the time to edit my HN comments. And, for the same reason I'd have a problem watching the same episode of the sam
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by csallen 5mo ago
> When code production gets cheap, the cost doesn't disappear. It migrates. I'm surprised people aren't taking the time to edit this very specific kind of phrasing out of their writing. It's such a common AI tell no
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by csallen 5mo ago
Good on you for cooking for the potluck! I think that's meaningful. I don't think having a meaningful job comes at a huge premium, though: 1. I don't think it's true that if you don't work, you'll starve to dea
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by csallen 5mo ago
On top of that, we have to continually tend to our bodies, feed them fuel (sometimes at risk of life and limb), exercise them, clean them, tend to them, visit the doctor, take medicine/drugs, etc., just to keep them in good shape. And
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by csallen 5mo ago
> under capitalism you’re not working for your tribe, you’re working for a tiny few shareholders The first half of this sentence is false, but the second half is true. I don't know about you, but when I look at my window every day
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by csallen 5mo ago
I think this is a problem in perspective/framing. Or phrasing, if you will. "Being economic entities in the workforce" could alternatively be phrased, "performing a skilled role or responsibility that's useful for y
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by csallen 5mo ago
The website tries to paint Spirit as some sort scandal where greedy traders drove it into the ground. Most of Spirit's debt was for financing expensive planes and surviving the pandemic. Literally every airline borrowed to survive the
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by csallen 5mo ago
Pro tip: introduce your friends to your other friends. Build a network. Networks get stronger as the number of connections increases, i.e. as more people in that network know each other. People are more excited to hang, bc they know more pe
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by csallen 6mo ago
> One defining constraint must shape the product... Minecraft is built entirely from blocks. IKEA is flat-pack, self-assembly furniture. I've been calling these things product primitives. I can't remember where I heard that t
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by csallen 6mo ago
No one's talking about excuses.
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by csallen 6mo ago
The whole point of that comment is that it's not that easy. There are potential side effects and consequences that are difficult to architect around.
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by csallen 6mo ago
Reached for money, I take it.
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by csallen 6mo ago
The challenge with the world is that it requires nuance, ad hoc thinking, and effortful thinking. The human brain doesn't like putting effort into thinking. It's uncomfortable. It's easier for us to just have one rule, one he
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by csallen 6mo ago
This is confusing to me. What is composability if not calling a program, getting its program, and feeding it into another program as input? Why does it matter if that output is stored in the LLM's context, or if it's stored in a f
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by csallen 6mo ago
That's true, but even if progress on models freezes TODAY and there is zero progress, not even incremental progress, we'll still have substantial progress in terms of techniques and agents built on top of the models in the next fe
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by csallen 6mo ago
Incredible, thanks for sharing!
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by csallen 6mo ago
Have you shared any photos online? Id love to see
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by csallen 6mo ago
Well, I wouldn't say it's irrelevant. That's a high bar. But I think it's becoming less relevant. And I tried to explain this as a counterpoint to engineers who think AI coding won't catch on in a lasting way bc its
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by csallen 6mo ago
What's even the point of vague replies like this that disagree with no real evidence, arguments, or examples?

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