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by edanm 2y ago
"Some people were sometimes wrong, so you can assume any writing on anything is dumb from now on."
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I mean, a modern example might be the various companies open-sourcing LLMs (e.g. Meta). I don't think "public-mindedness" is exactly the right explanation, it's probably driven by strategic thinking... but then, maybe th
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Fascinating! Thanks for sharing. I've done a bunch of thinking around how to organize things in dates, etc, and often wondered if I should be using week numbers. Never thought to look up if it's a common practice in any countries.
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A lot of people are bothered by it. There's not much we can do about it yet - we've done what we can with the crude methods we have available to look around, but we're severely knowledge-and-tech limited in ways of checking.
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> All this "AI safety" is purely moat-building for the likes of OpenAI et. al. to prevent upstarts like DeepSeek. Modern AI safety originated with people like Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nick Bostrom, the LessWrong/rationality move
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I don't remember if I've ever thanked you for the dose or reality you bring to these discussions, but if not - thank you! Before I started reading your comments on bug bounty payouts I'd probably have made the typical thought
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I think you're looking at this wrong. Security is hard. Incredibly hard. Unlike most things in business which are positive-sum, security isn't - it's adversarial. If we make companies pay huge civil fines for things that are
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I usually read/listen to a lot of books, compared to most people, but not several hundred . And if you're reading Brandon Sanderson as part of that - wow! I'm envious :)
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FWIW, A Desolation Called Peace is one of my favorite SF books I've read in the last 10 years. I really enjoy that series. I like Project Hail Mary, too, and it's certainly more popular because the author is far more well know
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> What I've realized is that the fame of the book is closely related to how interesting and unique the "elevator pitch” of the book. Really? I don't find that at all. It certainly helps , but books that have enduring appe
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Most of everything is crap. Most books are crap. Most science is crap.
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Apple acquiring Next. Facebook acquiring Instagram and Whatsapp.
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> The amount of money being invested is very clearly disproportionate to the current utility, I don't think this is so clear. At least, if by "current utility" you also include potential future utility even without any adv
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I've been a software dev for 27 years, professionally for 21 years. This idea is getting the causality arrows backwards. I'm not talking up AI because I'm in AI - I'm in AI because I believe it is revolutionary. I'v
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Umm, yeah, so? What is the implication of this comment supposed to be?
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This seems like an interesting time to post this. With the rise of LLMs, Software development has changed more in the last two years than at any time I can previously recall. And I strongly suspect that's just the beginning. I believe
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Thank you! Saw you contacted me, that's great. I'm planning to study your product more during the week to see if it's a fit for something we're building. :)
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I'd just like to say this is a fantastic "marketing" blog post. Great explanation of an interesting problem, that this company theoretically helps solve. Very well done! One note - there was a callout at the end to "stay
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by edanm 2y ago
Firstly, this list is completely one-sided. If you actually think you're right, why not write something real? Do you honestly think this is a good representation of reality? It's like writing down a list of Allied attacks in WW2.
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by edanm 2y ago
> So you are pushing the idea that Palestine deserves to be genocided because it voted for people who want to genocide Israelis. I'm not going to speak for the parent poster, but I think the more legitimate Israeli position here isn
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> Now do you see, my darling? Once again, your argument aside, your way of speaking is the issue here. If you think you're winning anyone to your arguments in this way, you're wrong. > And point two is that if you see these
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> you also cannot not see how what Israel did in Gaza, and has been doing for years with Palestinian, is not genocide In what way is "what Israel has done for years" genocide, if we're not including the response to October
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> How is the response to Oct 7 a defensive action? Using block sized bombs to take out one terrorist minutes after shooting a missile and has already left the scene when smaller munitions from drones can do the job is defensive? The mili
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> I'm not saying that Hamas is good by saying that Israel is also bad, both are bad, but only one of them came there with the goal to steal the land of the people living there. If you mean Hamas was founded with the goal of stealing
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In what way?
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> Do you see this rather simple point now? There's no need to talk to me in this way, either. Whether or not you're right, you're not doing your arguments any favor by being mean to other commenters with no reason.
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by edanm 2y ago
Even if you believe that Israelis are mass murderers, and even if you are willing to ignore that plenty of other groups have killed far more people, there's zero justification for making this statement about Jews and not Israelis. Th
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by edanm 2y ago
This is not a response worthy of HN. Calling the parent poster names, saying they support "baby murderers" with no possible justification - please keep this kind of comment off this site.
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Look, if you're trying to argue that Musk isn't a successful person in many ways, my only question is "then who is?". You're talking about literally the richest person in the world, and one that has had several succ
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I agree. Still, it's not a logical fallacy to think "someone very successful at X is more likely to be successful at Y", in many cases. Do you think that there is literally zero correlation between massive business success

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