godelski

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by godelski 6d ago
> the thing they do is they tell themselves they need to almost cosplay being a more senior engineer than they are. Isn't this explicitly written in every promotion guide? Every one I've ever read says you need to be wo
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by godelski 6d ago
That's how bags work
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by godelski 6d ago
> the people who were fooled in the past often were not fools themselves. I think this can't be said enough. Propaganda's greatest weapon is making you think you are immune to it. Maybe some, but so much is propaganda.
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by godelski 6d ago
We do. There's a lot of innate knowledge but all neuroscience demonstrates how incredibly flexible the brain is. Brains constantly learn and rewire. Here's a few things that I think show how crazy it is AND stress those points
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by godelski 6d ago
I never felt like I could be a hacker until I read these AI debriefs. I too can edit /etc/hosts, am I an elite hacker now?
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by godelski 7d ago
That's crazy! I'm commenting from Firefox! What a crazy world! How is this even possible?!
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by godelski 7d ago
You act like it hasn't been done before. Also, switching browsers is trivial. I do it on my parents' machines and they don't notice
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by godelski 7d ago
Tbh I don't think fighting open source is Google's best play. I think it is in their own best interest to keep it fully open. It is free labor by those who are most passionate. It gives strong signals at what people want, this dir
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by godelski 8d ago
I hope people remember this when advocating for chromium. Just because it is open source doesn't mean they don't control it. We need to start the long process of hard forking now or turn to alternatives like Firefox as a new found
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by godelski 9d ago
It is difficult to get off. If they can't smash it, they remove the finger. But if your ring gets caught you lose your glove. The one made of skin
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by godelski 10d ago
> You seem to conflate "no one is powerful" with "no one has any power in any situation at all". The problem is not this, it is your claim that all power is equal, that there is no imbalance. No one is claimin
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by godelski 10d ago
It really sounds like you're trying hard to define a square circle. Your argument isn't even self consistent because what you described sure sounds like someone has power...
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by godelski 11d ago
Don't look up how they get removed from your finger at the ER
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by godelski 11d ago
If that is true then we all are in charge and it is up to all of us. As you agreed elsewhere, cooperation exists.
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by godelski 11d ago
But the comment above wasn't about an explicit conspiracy, with billionaires meeting in dark rooms colluding. It was about implicit, uncoordinated conspiracy, where objectives align. My comment is defending the latter
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by godelski 11d ago
Plenty has come from all those things. But it's those in power who want you to feel like those are fruitless endeavors. That's why their strategy is to overwhelm. Good news takes time to be received and by then your focus will be
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by godelski 11d ago
> your enemies can potentially gain access to the same surveillance Which has already happened. Though it is less obvious if high profile targets have been blackmailed or coerced. There's at least signs that some have. Even
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by godelski 11d ago
> A wanton disregard of the treasure that is digital data. Most people just don't seem to care. I think the problem is a bit more subtle. People do seem to care but feel powerless. In addition to that, complexity is high. Wh
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by godelski 11d ago
This seems to contradict itself. You first claim that there's no organization but then you claim billionaires have no power because of the more powerful above them. Hierarchy is organization, so which is it
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by godelski 11d ago
> You could make this statement about any group at all. Yes, that's the point > And then once you realize people are in multiple groups, the whole thing devolves into chaos. You have bad priors. That would only ha
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by godelski 11d ago
It doesn't need any intelligence at all. There's mutually beneficial things to any group of people. So it doesn't require explicit coordination. Even fairly unintelligent animals have symbiotic relationships with other specie
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by godelski 11d ago
Honestly, my worry is that the longer we put it off the more likely any revolution or change will happen more chaotically. It should be organized, with strong leaders. But if that fails, I think Reverend King has a famous quote about the un
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by godelski 11d ago
I believe the parent is implying that we sit uncomfortably at home, silently, rather than uncomfortably marching through the streets, demanding. Yet, I say that while uncomfortably sitting in my home, typing on a screen
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by godelski 11d ago
It is even wrong about things > A validation set is one you consult repeatedly while building the model — to compare candidates, tune hyperparameters, and decide what to try next. The validation can be done like that but it is b
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by godelski 11d ago
> What about the next 3,900 words after the first sentence? But had I read those I wouldn't have been able to feel smart with egg all over my face.
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by godelski 11d ago
Not everyone needs to be a communicator. Why should we expect everyone to be both a great researcher and communicator? The obvious result is that it is as effective as engineering managers. Sure, there's some amazing ones, but most are
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by godelski 11d ago
> Mathematics is a part of physics This feels backwards. I frequently joke "physics is the subset of mathematics that reflects the observable world". Math can be as abstract as it wants, but physics has a constraint.
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by godelski 11d ago
Their about seems to say that they're just highlighting other writings. So the other URL is the official https://proofsandprompts.com/about-proofs-and-prompts/
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by godelski 12d ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49698699
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by godelski 12d ago
Let's take a hypothetical example: Suppose you're a firework company and your fireworks blow up, burning down the entire town. Could the company be sued? What is considered reasonable safety measures? IANAL, but I'm pretty co

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