dropit_sphere

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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
Oh, goodness, yes. Remember: BASIC was successful! It depends on your criteria for "success," of course, but creating languages has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my interaction with computers over my life, don't
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
This is news to me as someone taking a break from a greenfield CLJS app to procrastinate on HN...
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
You can have inflation as a market result though. A lot of economic activity is adversarial and negative-sum. In the best case it's negative-sum but a multiplier of over 1, like police work. In the worst case it's value-destroyi
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
It's no mystery at all if you believe people when they say things, and exercise the principle of charity. Card is a believing Latter-Say Saint, and believes that a loving God has declared gay sex is forbidden. Someone who loves you wo
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
>And the thing that makes it really screwy is that we don't even know how to train developers very well. I think this is a really important point. What does it mean to be a good developer? How do we know?
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
>Also, the reverse might be possible, i.e., decompiling genetic code from phenotype and so on. I don't know anything about decompiling or ML, but doesn't the black box nature of NN rules this out?
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
Not nearly enough!
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
Honestly you guys, we really don't care about the money, take it and fund another Uber or something if you can find a loophole that lets you do it, we live and breathe this stuff.
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
Same place as the lines for "lets you check wikipedia" in the source code of the browser you're using. In other words: nowhere in particular, yet when you take the end product as a whole, it's there still the same. The
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
>I'm curious for others' thoughts, because personally, I've never encountered an individual like the one described in this article. I'm one, or probably the closest you'll find here, and I'm online-acquainte
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
> But like most contracts, marriage is an exercise in giving up freedom Thankfully, we have progressed beyond this.
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
In that context, the author is giving examples of history being written by tue winners.
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
Sure, because that's not actually the problem. What he was looking for was self-actualization. He thought he'd find that through building a company. He was wrong. That doesn't mean building a company js a bad thing! It&#
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
baller comment, just wanted to say
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
We don't get to choose whether we're in the race or not, but we do get to choose how we run it. I get the "these are forces at work, not humans" argument, but I think it underestimates the solution space available to
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
All this effort into designing these big machines, and banks still won't just give me an api...
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
I tend, as policy, not to answer these questions. The fora in which they're asked are often not conducive to actually, you know, thinking about them. Somewhere in this thread someone linked the Atlantic article, wherein you can see
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
You're not wrong, but I place a lot of hope in "[not] much." One thing individuals can do is act so that groups do have agency. But I know what you're seeing. I wish I could shake your hand. Best wishes. I upvoted y
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
I don't think I have missed the point. I think you're more versed in Land's thinking than I am, but I have been reading his blog for years, and I've had a good deal of mental anguish over the humanity-has-no-agency pr
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
I'm a scary far-right NRX guy, and the accelerationist idea has obviously been raised in the circles I frequent. But it generally leaves me cold. This keeps coming to mind: "Wo unto the world because of offences! For offenses mus
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
Is Antifa accelerationist? I think if you asked them they'd say they were "confronting rising threats," not spurring them on. Am I mistaken?
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
Obfuscation serves as a surprisingly effective spam filter though....
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
The difference is it never actually gives you more time. The expectations increase in lockstep with the efficiency.
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
You're not wrong. The labor market is relatively efficient. Go on a reasoning chain with me: - what solves the problem nicely is to sell software. Selling good software can be one of the easiest and most lucrative jobs in the wo
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
This sort of thing is why engineers are paid way too much, and way too little, and why so many see the profession as a young man's game. You're just not the master of your own fate. Sure, the computers are predictable (for some
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
"but what are imaginary internet points for if not spending on counterculture opinions?" Hear hear!
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
Using your downtime in a way that you don't regret is non-trivial. I totally get what you say about something else filling up the boredom void.
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
Since they can't be made too visible: Stallman's actual comments: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
>, defending statutory rape like that is really inappropriate See, the thing about statutory rape is that it is illegal, and sexual assault is also illegal, but (surprisingly!) that does not mean that they are the same thing. (It is
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
>Stallman quibbled over the definition of rape. Hell yes he did . Wouldn't you? If I made my own country where "rape" was defined as "sex without first doing twenty jumping jacks," wouldn't you "quib

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