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by gitfan86 3y ago
Reducing carbon emissions isn't a solution. We need to go to all the way to zero and then to start carbon capture. That ONLY happens with batteries fusion and AI. We are making progress and as long as the pessimists don't get thei
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I'm leaning towards this being mostly legit. It may not be a perfect solution to the problem, but it may put us on a path to a solution. If this wasn't real, I would have expected someone who works in the area to have data about s
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I'm not sure how many people understand how much of a badass move this is. Andrej is helping apple and Facebook and more importantly the open source movement while also being paid really well by OpenAI(MSFT) But they are not going to p
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Yeah it is almost like the opposite situation described in this thread. It is the super rich that are hoping their child will become friends with the next Bill Gates. Not the next Bill Gates hoping he can meet a spoiled rich kid
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This is correct. I have three friends that went to HBS and got very high paying careers. Being friends with the CEO's son was not why they got the jobs. They administrators at these schools really tipped their hands when the Full House
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Right
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Yes but so many Americans are on Instagram and Tiktok that they feel poor since they are inundated with stories about people doing better than them.
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The media and politicians know that negativity drives attention. People that pay attention to that and do not think for themselves come away thinking that the world is in terrible shape ( The climate is beyond fixable, The LGBTQ+ are out to
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He compared it to a cult. Not all cults have killed millions of people. But many cults do stray very far from the original stated reason for the cult existing. For example some cults will treat their members like free labor and claim the go
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Which is a fundamental flaw in science. Most of AI academics have spent their career theorizing complex algorithms or complex explanations of intelligence. But the engineers have built large enough Neural Networks to give us data points tha
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Right. In historical context the scientific method was a huge improvement over the previous method of understanding the world, which was mostly religion. But today, academia is a victim of organizational and political capture, making it les
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My favorite idea that I have seen is allowed students to return their degrees for a 70% refund within 12 months of graduation. If the school is confident that the degree will be a great asset throughout the person's career it will be
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That is just some extra logging, it has been happening to one of my clusters for weeks
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That is the fundamental nature of intelligence. Like beauty it only exists on our minds. When you stare at something long enough you can convince yourself it isn't actually beautiful because it is just a bunch of brush strokes.
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Actually, I work at a job that perfectly fits my desired work/life balance and desired code shipping frequency/schedule. You seem to be assuming that people working at Twitter don't have the ability to look for another job, i
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Which is the problem with the medical research. They are figuring out if it is better to cut your toenails 2 times a week or 3 times a week, while obesity is killing millions.
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He is really into good engineering which has made him a huge fan of Tesla, especially since they took some of his recommendations and incorporated them into their manufacturing process. It is fair to say he is biased, but at the same time I
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You are correct. I took over a lead role at a small startup 6 months ago and I have delayed hiring a UX person because ChatGTP is so helpful. But at the same time, I think you are underestimating how slow society changes. MP3s of popular mu
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Bitcoin was created specifically to prevent the government from controlling money supply, by creating an alternate form of money. The idea that it isn't succeeding because unnamed bureaucrats is misleading. The SEC and other regulatory
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Yes, the government is part of the real world. If you created a nuclear power plant in your basement that you feel is totally safe, that is great, but a good chunk of the rest of the country wouldn't be comfortable with that and they w
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It seems obvious that efforts to hire specific types of people could result in lazy hiring managers looking to check off a box as fast as possible which leads to someone being hired because they are named Jessica not because they are especi
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I ran into the opposite situation. The people they hired were pretty good, but like you said the VCs gave the CEO a headcount target to hit in engineering and he did it because I guess the VCs are the ones calling the shots. Instead of just
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"Someone claims that someone else told him material exists that is from aliens."
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Interesting, seems hard to zero out the clouds and air density, and bodies of water
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You have the math backwards. It would be like saying that someone who guesses your 4 letter pin code is a mind reader because the likelihood of that is low. You are not factoring in how many times he has tried to guess other people's p
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Right, so your point about people not having hallucinations frequently is valid. But most people do see optical illusions. So it seems strange that you have jumped to the conclusion that these must be real UFOs since most people do not hall
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No, this is the same point I've been making since 2010. Having libertarian ideas like "code is law" and "money should be decentralized and permissionless" sound nice in theory, but in the real world they don't
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"normally functioning" brains see things that are not actually there ALL the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion Most UFO reports fall into the Optical Illusion category rather than extreme s
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Yes, that seems right. Humans fill in the gaps. AI is similar, where it "hallucinates", but are humans that much different?
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Angels, ghosts, UFOs, miracles all have the same characteristics. A person who seems very reasonable says they are sure that saw the thing, and they provide SOME circumstantial or grainy photographic evidence, but no one actually got a full

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