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by ergonaught 2y ago
Like any other "algorithm" feed, if you dislike what is engaging the masses then switch to a chronological view and sip from the feed as you will. ie: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Well, he isn't wrong.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
I am referring to the history of dueling in this country, but I’m not seeing a whole lot of people engaged with reality here.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
You know the first amendment was written by people who would shoot you for running your mouth, right?
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by ergonaught 2y ago
One day maybe you will recognize that generalizations are shortcuts your brain uses to avoid having to spend energy thinking.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
People who read don’t want this garbage. If your content must be read, don’t use this garbage.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
6502 and 680x0 were just a delight. I learned C (and later C++) solely because I couldn’t escape x86 anymore and hated assembly on those chips. Still do, really, though I’m decades beyond wanting to write anything in assembly now.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
By the time there is any actual mass recognition of what is happening, nevermind any attempt to intervene, it will be far too late. There was a successful coup and the USA as such has fallen, now presumably on the route to failing.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
We're in the stage where the enablers are having trouble maintaining their delusions. They don't talk much in that stage.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
The silent downvotes for my comment are simply fascinating.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Reality as we find it responds to power. Without extreme force multipliers, the main driver of power is numbers/bodies. Do you perceive that those communities possess power? No. You are "indicting" powerlessness.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
I’m pretty close to wildly unprofessional raging at coworkers sending me LLM-written emails/Slack messages. So far the 21st century seems to be a mad dash to see who can turn off their brain the most.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
There are a number of major systemic risks. As ever, the problem is compounded by the chunk of population who enable it, and the typically larger chunk of population who are unable or unwilling to recognize clear and present danger. Or: ht
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by ergonaught 2y ago
This. I receive several hundred non-junk emails every day. I don't need to read all of them at the time, but I do need to receive them. Many of them lend themselves to some form of segmentation. No idea how I'd realistically manag
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by ergonaught 2y ago
In my experience he typically has a reasonable point, even if everything surrounding the point is wildly off mark.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
The full quote is better. Ie: “I can’t explain it in terms of something else you’re more familiar with because I don’t understand it terms of anything else you’re more familiar with.”
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by ergonaught 2y ago
US citizens do not want this. Every news article descending into tangents on any other point than that is part of why we can't have nice things. The whole country has turned into some sort of lower primate improv troupe where whatever
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by ergonaught 2y ago
While acknowledging one does not "have to" have so many dependencies, the prevalence of this npm-esque type of practice is one of the two things that destroyed all of my interest in Rust.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Because the education system is garbage; because the parents are idiots; because of the paranoid delusions about Them and What They Are Doing; because the kids (and in many cases the teachers) are awful human beings that people (idiots or n
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Comments so far seem to fail to recognize that this post is a "response" to the WSJ article linked at the very beginning and isn't a standalone piece by itself.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
This is basically the difference between creating art and creating commoditized product. The distinction and the unwillingness to acknowledge the distinction (even though it’s made regardless) creates a lot of friction. The masses don’t giv
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by ergonaught 2y ago
I was pretty happy he didn’t cave in to this demand. He accepted the fine and agreed to change for the next game day. They were being belligerent.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Their charter defines AGI as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work", and their intent is to ""directly build safe and beneficial AGI" or "[aid] others to achieve t
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by ergonaught 2y ago
I've been leaning in this direction for several years, now. Longer books generally are a) trying to do too many things at once, or b) demonstrate that the author doesn't understand their topic very well, or c) are filled with padd
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Trying to solve a generalized problem in response to advice to refrain from prematurely generalizing solutions. 10/10.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
I assumed from the actual title that there wouldn't be any content worth reading and stopped there. It's funny to call the false HN title "clickbait" but I did click that one and wouldn't have clicked the other.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
> The HN title makes it sound like differences between the brain and ANNs were previously unknown and is misleading IMO There are no words in the title which express this. Your own brain is "making it sound" like that. Misleadi
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Bummer. Not sure it's possible to overstate the impact BBSs had on me and my life between 1983-1997 (and all the things downstream of that). Certainly used a whole lot o' Xmodem initially.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Reaching and publishing "conclusions" like this is not.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Google search results are garbage and are still superior to DDG. I start every search in DDG and have to take it to Google fully 90% of the time.

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