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by ekanes 3y ago
I agree, but if the unaligned AI can't do certain things, hopefully that contains it. I was just thinking about North Korea, and how AI will enable statewide surveillance on a whole new level, but then the thought popped into my head t
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by ekanes 3y ago
I think a lot of that is a description of what journalism is and should be.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Very interesting. It seems like we ought to focus on very specific points of containment. For example, AI should never be afforded "personhood" as we do now with corporations. It should never have rights, or bank accounts, or un
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by ekanes 3y ago
I read/skimmed what you wrote. Solid. I agree with most of it, unfortunately. This next phase is going to be exciting for everyone for productivity & services & cost & personalized entertainment, but I worry about job losse
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by ekanes 4y ago
Something I've found useful is the idea that you are as old as your spine feels. Seems quite true, at least to me, as both diagnostic and prescription. :)
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by ekanes 4y ago
All of that might be true, but sometimes, especially if you're a soldier, the right thing to do is die trying.
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by ekanes 4y ago
For me, it's that this recently-released product is already competing (in the minds of users, which is what counts) with a decades-old mature product. In terms of accuracy, the "but sometimes it's wrong" perspective remi
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by ekanes 4y ago
Re: Reddit -- I'd love for YC to issue a Request For Startups around verified human identity - soon it will be hard to distinguish people from AI that posts comments, participates and then astroturfs sites like reddit. Account creation
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by ekanes 4y ago
Dang. You're right. Classic Innovator's Dilemma!
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by ekanes 4y ago
Me too. What's helped me a lot is to just relentlessly make "what counts as starting" smaller and smaller until it's doable. Where "file taxes" is very very hard, "look through email and remember name of
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by ekanes 4y ago
This trade-off is everywhere. As a society, we choose to have some people die due to speeding instead of making speed limits 15mph, which would absolutely make roads safer. Human life just doesn't trump all else - we factor in other th
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by ekanes 4y ago
I think that's fair. But one is a mature product, and the other was just born/launched and will improve massively over the next decades. That this new tech is competing already bodes badly for google (yes they will incorporate the
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by ekanes 4y ago
Meh. Enthusiasm about Larry Page's ultimate goals and dreams went out the window right about the time don't be evil went out the window.
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by ekanes 4y ago
I think it's the first credible challenge to google's results in 2 ways. 1. People are typing questions into it and finding it hugely useful in ways that overlap with google. It just answers you, and you can ask clarifying questi
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by ekanes 4y ago
This is interesting, and I'm not sure if it's good or bad for society. Bad if they only protect wealthy paying clients (most likely scenario), but good if they protect opportunistically, and/or also involve the police. The bu
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by ekanes 4y ago
Yes, sort of, though if the economic incentive was high enough, someone could connect the AI to input through the keyboard and "type" out the essay. At scale it would be cheap. You could record video of you typing, which would w
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by ekanes 4y ago
Yes, but I think the comment is being downvoted for tone, not accuracy. It’s not nice to lecture people when they’re down, even if they’ll never read it.
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by ekanes 4y ago
> once you have a new job offer, any delay in beginning employment while waiting for a new visa can be claimed against Amazon If this is the case, I wonder if it implies that you can pursue an equivalent job IN CANADA, with Amazon paying
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by ekanes 4y ago
+1. As a founder with adhd and it was a strength not a weakness. Constant change and problem solving is exhilarating.
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by ekanes 4y ago
I think who pays for the return depends on what you choose for the reason for the return. If you acknowledge fault they charge you, etc.
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by ekanes 4y ago
No disrespect, but I’m guessing you’re not married with kids. That phase is very busy and focused and people have dramatically less time compared to uni days.
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by ekanes 4y ago
Something that’s helped in a “high leverage” way is interrupting the impulse to open an app that takes me into glazed eyes territory, or “licking the phone” as I describe it to my kids. :) None of the kids actually want to waste time on soc
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by ekanes 4y ago
How does that debunk the concept of CCP-curated content?
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by ekanes 4y ago
You might be right, but some of it is also mentally making the best of your situation. If you tell yourself the story that it has pluses and minuses, you might be happier and even more successful than if you tell yourself you lost a geneti
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by ekanes 4y ago
Agreed. Was quite surprised when my daughter was doing grade 8 math homework on her phone. Would never have occurred to me to try, let alone want to!
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by ekanes 4y ago
I don’t know that the GP comment disagrees - I think you’re just actually still in the hardest phase. imho it gets much better and more interesting soon! And then they’re teens you can have amazing conversations with them. And while we are
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by ekanes 4y ago
Title could be clarified a bit - I was both excited and nervous to read about two drones plucking this hapless man off the ground and back to Russia.
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by ekanes 4y ago
For the folks downvoting the above comment, it doesn’t necessarily reflect a viewpoint (that you could disagree with) but could simply be a heads up for people at a workplace with policies against viewing that content at work. (A policy tha
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by ekanes 4y ago
Right on. It’s the same for boiling, isn’t it? The water “can’t” get above 100 degrees C - added energy just goes into making steam. Right?
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by ekanes 4y ago
An absolute gem. I’ve listened all the way through twice.

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