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by dahwolf 4y ago
"The thing I’m most excited about in our weird new AI-enhanced reality is the way it allows me to be more ambitious with my projects. In the past I’ve had plenty of ideas for projects which I’ve ruled out because they would take a day—
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by dahwolf 4y ago
If you look at just the potential impact of current AI or slightly better ones that are around the corner... If you see cognitive work as a distribution, it's not far-fetched to think that it can take out the bottom half and after th
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by dahwolf 4y ago
In select countries (China, Turkey, India, many more) apps regularly get banned. In the west we frown upon this practice based on the principle of freedom of speech and free markets and competition. The second-order effect of this is intere
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From time to time one comes across an extreme version of the "nice but incompetent" character. Not only are they nice and incompetent, they are super optimistic, confident and ambitious. They pitch their idea to you. It's a t
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Software is flexible which seems to result in our human rights being equally flexible. Imagine the police regularly raiding your apartment without announcement. The post office opening all your mail. Storage box companies searching your uni
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I'd say you're cherry picking the exact examples where a radically left position ultimately became mainstream. That strongly implies that radical left positions are correct, fruitful and destined to become the norm if only given e
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No. The trees are owned by the Dutch company and they don't have a license to sell there. The customers of the end product are all in western Europe.
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I would complete the description by mentioning that the one employee that was helped probably had to return whatever help was given as it was just for TV. They can keep their 20% discount though on the after-work course "5 ways to fina
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Your hypocrisy angered me, in particular because it puts you on the side of the problem: dysfunctional discourse in politics, anti-intellectualism, suppression and silencing based on a whim, etc. I was firm but not out of hate. I was hoping
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Regarding the email example, you're reasoning from the current state of AI whilst I was looking at its future state where it's close to flawless. The bigger point was that sending AI content to each other is utterly pointless. The
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No, my story is much better. Undercover Boss doesn't fire anybody as far as I know. The premise of Undercover Boss is a company that is starving their employees. To distract from this awkward reality, the Undercover Boss picks an emplo
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Thanks for admitting that you had not even bothered to listen to it yet confidently labelled it as ideological flamebait regardless, and then used this made-up assessment in a discussion with this site's admin to suppress another artic
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I suppose it depends on the position in question. It's not "leftists made me turn right" in all cases, it's also formerly progressive points (equality instead of equity, freedom of speech, science over safetyism) shiftin
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One of my recurring revenge-porn dreams is as follow. I'm the owner (so not CEO) of a massive multinational. I'm mysterious and not really publicly known. The actual CEO is the public face. Next, I apply for a role in one of the b
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Same for Chinese food in the Netherlands. It's more like Indonesian food (former colony), but not really, it's more a collection of Asian-like dishes with tons of sugar added.
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There's nowhere else to go if you do not subscribe to left wing orthodoxy. Even centrists and center-left nowadays aren't ideologically pure enough, and thus also "right-wing". Recently a feminist on Twitter expressed th
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Way to argue against intellectual curiosity. If anything, "The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling" is intellectually rich and fascinating. Almost everybody who bothered to open their minds and actually listen to it is incredibly posit
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I totally agree. My vision for the future is that we dial back our obsession with stuff a bit, and in return get back more free time. We drastically need a vision for society to believe in, where life gets better, and not endlessly worse. S
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Oh I'm getting the point, that was exactly the (implied) point I was making in response to the OP wondering..."I don't get why people aren't excited".
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"The time I used to waste on commute I now use to meet with friends and acquaintances." I hope this is true, same for the sex breaks, but I'm skeptical. So on any given work day, you physically meet with friends between 7-9AM
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Yep, our AI voice equivalents could maintain friendships with each other in which case the "what is the point?" question applies. Or, you might reach out for real but fail to be sure if you're talking to your real friend or n
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In recent times we've already significantly given up on our humanity. The lack of shared institutes (church, bars, etc.), remote studying, remote work, ecommerce, personal contact via chat, social media, these all point in the same dir
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by dahwolf 4y ago
"When was the last time you got a 5x productivity boost from anything that didn’t involve some sort of chemicals? I’m serious. I just don’t get people. How can you not appreciate the historic change happening right now?" That&#x27
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by dahwolf 4y ago
"This is not "panic" in tech just corporate politics" You're quite confident in the thing you just made up. The CEO of Amazon literally has written an announcement detailing the process where they comb through their
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"We just don't care enough. The amount of apathy the average person in a developed country has for the rest of their fellow man is astounding if you stop and think about it for a bit." I wasn't going for that angle. I wa
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People obsessing over AI safety in how it affects our "well-being" truly do not get it. That's not the safety issue at all. The actual safety issue is that it's coming for our jobs. Not that it spits out a micro aggressi
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"...but the real reckoning came almost as soon as the ink dried on the 1999 trade agreement the United States signed with China. Wages were so cheap there that (aided by the occasional World Trade Organization violation) Chinese compan
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Please do remove the 72 trillion buttons plastered over the steering wheel.
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What if you learned that the person you hate the most in this world turns out to be an incredible painter? Are the paintings now no longer incredible? Does the person spontaneously lose any painting skill? No. Human beings can be excellent
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Sure enough the camera market has drastically shrunk, but even then it is bizarre to have the singular most popular website/community in the industry, with a treasure chest of 25 years of content, only to wipe it out like it never happ

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