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by edanm 3y ago
For the record, I just tried it and ChatGPT initially got it wrong. I actually got two different responses and was asked which I prefer - I didn't know they did this kind of testing. In any case, both responses analyzed the situation c
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by edanm 3y ago
> It wasn't nearly as bad as people today make it out to be This flies in the face of my personal experience (first 7 years in industry was before Git adoption), and also in the face of what most developers at the time said. I mean,
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by edanm 3y ago
From the conclusion: > The above makes me feel more optimistic that we have some time before AI becomes generally intelligent and totally disruptive. I mean, "have some time" sounds good. But trying to quantify it makes me feel
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by edanm 3y ago
Parent described what he did, in what way did he "glorify" this? I agree with your sentiment but I think in this case, it's misplaced.
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So? Boilerplate is there for a reason, usually because previous lawsuits or decisions made it clear that that boilerplate needs to be there for protecting against specific things. And if the argument is "its just boilerplate, the court
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by edanm 3y ago
This comment is off-topic in this thread - it doesn't belong here and I don't see why you'd quote-tweet a different thread to me from months ago in an unrelated place. It is tantamount to stalking. If you truly want me to ans
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by edanm 3y ago
> Corporations have perfected consumer value extraction, allowing them to pay themselves more and bid higher against the competition, further increasing prices to consumers in an endless loop. This flies in the face of most economic theo
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by edanm 3y ago
Oh that's awesome! Must be awesome to work on that. We've been using Airflow in production for 6 years at this point with various clients and it's been great, and we're trying to sell people on Superset now as well.
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by edanm 3y ago
A policeman in my city could arguably have more impact on my life than Jeff Bezos does. What kind of impact do you think Jeff Bezos has exactly? And obviously, a policeman is the lowest-power individual in this scenario - my city councilman
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by edanm 3y ago
> He could as easily made the lives of countless worse if he wanted to or as an unintended consequence of his projects. As an unintended consequence, sure, but that's more true of scientific/technological progress specifically
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by edanm 3y ago
> But it's not about who deserves what. It's about how much influence can society safely let a single random primate have. You are severely overrating how much influence $10m buys you, and very severely underrating how much i
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by edanm 3y ago
> I think most people will agree the threshold to be in the few millions. Some will argue for 5 and few for 50, but nobody can produce $1B of value. Take control of it, sure, but produce, no. That is just, on the face of it, false. Did S
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by edanm 3y ago
And yet many people have far more actual power over people's lives, for example many elected and/or appointed officials. If a cop in my city wants to ruin your life, there's a chance it'll be easier for them to do so tha
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by edanm 3y ago
It was weird for me as a kind-of part of the rationalist movement, I can imagine it's weirder for you. Then again, your views have effectively become semi-mainstream, or at least have shifted the Overton window so far that they're
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by edanm 3y ago
I really enjoyed "The Calculating Stars". As did apparently many other people. It's totally normal to dislike some winners, I certainly don't like them all. But that doesn't mean quality is down - it's a matter
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by edanm 3y ago
> Instead, I'll complain about commercials: why can't we just have something that's truly paid and ad-free? Do we actually value our time less than advertisers do? Yes, clearly, as revealed by the way most consumers act. H
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by edanm 3y ago
Came here to say this. Anki is one of my most-used apps, been using it for years and it's rock-solid and amazing. It's open source and completely free, except for the iphone version, which is their only source of revenue.
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by edanm 3y ago
> Well, more than just the dates, it's about the intellectual rigor of people thinking about the theology. There is no serious equivalent in Roman mythology to, for example, Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, which includes grappling
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by edanm 3y ago
You're being unnecessarily mean and confrontational, that isn't a good fit for HN. You can take parent at their word that he's thought about it and engage, or you can choose not to engage. No reason to disparage them.
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by edanm 3y ago
> No - it's a belief that shapes the very way we understand the world. It's a worldview. For Christians. You kind of do have to grapple with the fact that billions of people do not have that worldview, and therefore you do ha
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by edanm 3y ago
Nope, read it on my Kindle Oasis (I believe 2nd gen but not sure), and it was perfectly fine.
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by edanm 3y ago
You want to solve the problem of "slowing warming", period. Most people want to solve the problem of "slowing warming without harm to standards of living, as defined by them". So you think people who babies and stupid, e
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by edanm 3y ago
I'm sure there's lots of people who wouldn't move to the States. But it's completely untrue to think that more people wouldn't move if given a path, or even if given an easier path.
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by edanm 3y ago
> Why do we obsess so much over legacy form factors? We shouldn't. We also don't, not really. Reading books has a certain prestige, but by almost any measure, we "obsess" more about movies and/or tv shows. Even s
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by edanm 3y ago
> First, I reject the premise that audiobooks count as reading. We can agree it's consuming a book, or listening to one, but it's pretty objectively not reading. For (some of) the specific points you're making here, you&#x
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by edanm 3y ago
IIRC I bought it on Kindle for similar reasons.
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by edanm 3y ago
> I can't think of a story that has as thoroughly scattered my basic grasp of reality as this one. Only Blindsight even begins to comes close. Absolutely! Very few books have also basically changed my philosophical outlook on someth
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by edanm 3y ago
Which Egan is your favorite?
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by edanm 3y ago
I've long wanted to read Charles Stross and somehow haven't. (Well, I read a few chapters of Accelerando years ago and never finished it, despiting liking it quite a bit.) Do you think Glasshouse is a good place to start with his
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by edanm 3y ago
I'm a big fan of Egan, having read a few of his books and a bunch of short stories. Personally, Zendegi was the weakest of his books by quite a bit. (Still good, just... not great.)

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