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by davidivadavid 3y ago
But it's not so much a "story" considering the reasoning is still motivated by cost savings. I don't really care to condemn "greed", to be honest. I'm mostly baffled by how terrible those rich people are
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
No one's saying it's not relevant — what's surprising is not the recognition, it's the endorsement.
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"Of course" the kind of investing Buffett and Munger do/did is the point here, not investing in general. Y Combinator is 1) early stage 2) tech. Neither of which are what Buffett and Munger cared about. You could make a goo
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
Yup, the shitty dorm is indeed the one thing that stands out, of recent memory. Not sure that helps his case. That he made one uncharacteristically risky bet isn't exactly proof of anything, either. I'll happily grant you that my
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
If the spec is cool, it's cool. If it's trash, it's trash.
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
That tells you about as much as you need to know about the guy, doesn't it? Incredibly successful, and yet a penny pinching tasteless bore until the bitter end. At least "robber barons" of the past built things that looked go
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
When is it that "hackers" and people into doing risky businesses started getting so into in the most boring, most conservative investor of all time? That tells you enough about how this whole segment of the population jumped the s
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
These are two sides of a rather naive understanding of technology that is yet surprisingly common in "tech". Technology is neither good, nor bad, nor neutral. Its value is relative. Technology is a means to an end. If you find the
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_depth
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I think this will come to be seen as a turning point in the history of Silicon Valley when people woke up from a collective slumber and realized most people hailed as great "visionaries" and "technologists" actually had
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
Hacker News really is like clockwork. Random "tech" industry problem? Gotta be "managers" or "designers." Engineers can do no wrong.
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
Looks like something that could easily result from autocorrect.
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That's the point of the article — the quote is supposed to be a kind of reductio ad absurdum of a simplistic view of game (or utopia) design.
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
That reminded me of an interesting Yudkowsky article [1] about how a utopia requires "high challenge" : "So this is the ultimate end of the prophecy of technological progress—just staring at a screen that says "YOU WIN&q
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
There's fair criticism to be made of most translations. The fallacy begins when one assumes that there is some kind of perfect ideal translation that exists somewhere, that translations can be compared to. Translation, especially liter
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
"Completely ignorant of the topic" is more accurate than "a bit biased." Most of those threads are partisan BS with absolutely no knowledge of (or real interest in) Ancient Greek, Homer, poetry or translation in general.
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
Book does seem interesting, came across this article a couple days ago, for those who want a bit more information about it: https://www.noemamag.com/finding-awe-amid-everday-splendor/
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
I mean, "humans with AI" replaced "humans without AI" the moment AI was invented. Is that what passes for "insights" at HBR these days?
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
Except these Grandes Ecoles provide easier access to Ivy League institutions to their students so they can go there and enjoy their prestige.
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While correct you're being downvoted because you're equivocating on the term "theory." People are assuming you're talking about a fully baked, documented theory couched in precise language and equations. What you&#x
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
But Sam Altman doesn't have a hint of vision. He just vaguely waxes poetical about how "the price of intelligence" is going to go down and then... what exactly? What's so interesting that's going to happen? He has n
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
Took me years before I discovered you have to append "name:" at the start of your search for Spotlight to actually be useful when you know what you're looking for (i.e. the keyword should be in the filename). The default UX t
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
I have to say the experience of reading the comments here (and all similar stories) gives a lot of Stockholm syndrome vibes. "The city's actually really safe if you completely ignore this whole area that sits in the middle of it o
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I'm sure he did. It's a terrible ending.
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That ending was such infuriating sophomoric "meta" bullshit it only cemented my perception of Curse as being the best MI game.
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Still remember randomly coming across his book "Representing and Intervening" when I first got interested in philosophy of science. Pleasantly readable and illuminating. Great companion piece to other works by Cartwright or van Fr
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I had the misfortune of coming across a bunch of tweets lamenting how "inferior" that translation is supposed to be — unfortunately, it seems to invariably come from people who can't read Ancient Greek, don't understand
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Is Football an Unsolvable Problem?
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It's almost like there's a(t least a) startup idea in making "human made" certificates for those things.
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by davidivadavid 3y ago
I've read the article. It exposes a well-known point of view in philosophy of science that has been debated at least a hundred years. It doesn't begin to cover that question at all. Notably, the idea that a new theory simply takes

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