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by godelski 8mo ago
> there's no reason we'd need to have humans working jobs that only involve typing stuff into a computer and going to meetings all day I'm not sure I understand, and want to check. That really applies to a lot of j
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by godelski 8mo ago
Then I'm concerned as the writer is quite explicit. So let me quote from the post > We build tools, and ultimately some responsibility lies with us to think through how those tools will be used. Not just what their intention is,
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by godelski 8mo ago
I agree and think we're mostly on the same page fwiw. But there are parts I disagree with. We are more aligned than misaligned. But I do want to clear some things up > you're using "complexity" in the technical se
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by godelski 8mo ago
It seems like you're distracted. You wrote the same comment as your two siblings. If you're going to tell me I'm being disrespectful at least have the respect to see if my response will be the same. You should also have the r
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by godelski 8mo ago
> as an individual But that's the problem. Your logic applies to everyone in an organization (a business, a family, a country, and so on). The organizations actions are not the result of any single actors decisions, even if
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by godelski 8mo ago
Your sibling said something similar, my response is identical https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294347
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by godelski 8mo ago
> Merely being a member of the business class does not magically mean one has the ability to specify business requirements much less product specifications Is this not why COBOL failed? Common Business-Oriented Language sure does
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by godelski 8mo ago
> getting those out of your head into English is more important over the long haul than your undocumented short-term solution to the criteria. I think there may be miscommunication going on, or I may be misreading the conversatio
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by godelski 8mo ago
Probably because I repeated "don't get distracted". But if you read the article then I think it'll take on a different context, as I'm mimicking the author, including their short paragraph style.
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by godelski 8mo ago
I really believe the biggest lie everyone believes is that evil is only created by those that are evil. That evil is easy to identify. It's that love for simplicity that makes it persist. Were it so easy to identify, as so many claim,
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by godelski 8mo ago
I'm glad you got better (I don't think this is said often enough. People change, and I'm glad you changed in this direction rather than the other). If you write about your path I'd read it.
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by godelski 8mo ago
> besides, if we don't do it, someone else will, and we're the good guys here". It's funny that people justify themselves that way considering it's the literal phrase is discussed in every ethics 101 cour
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by godelski 8mo ago
> The HN crowd is elated that we can finally finish our side projects, while the ruling class is happy that they can finish their side projects too.
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by godelski 8mo ago
I have no issues on Firefox FWIW. I haven't needed to spoof the user agent, though this is something I needed to back in the day when they literally blocked FF's user agent.
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by godelski 8mo ago
Is it satire if there are no fools?
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by godelski 8mo ago
> I can get the exact right piece of knowledge I need to advance my understanding on demand This is where I disagree. It would be different if these LLMs were acting as instructors and pushing you through courses designed for lea
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by godelski 8mo ago
It really sounds like you're asking for something else. More like multiple people to be able to talk to the same instance. Which that's a very different thing than Slack
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by godelski 8mo ago
This is really cool and I'd love to see TVs ship with it. There's a lack of innovation these days and I think the only way to bring it back is to recognize that computers are environments and people need to be able to build on the
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by godelski 8mo ago
> I know not enough about the conflict to declare which side is more justified. That was never the question at hand and I think illustrates why this discussion is pointless. You're unwilling to engage in a meaningful way, s
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by godelski 8mo ago
Cool. And? Those were examples, not answers. Those examples aren't exactly compatible with one another (though bridges exist, but you can bridge anything).
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by godelski 8mo ago
I listed those as examples of where one could start. Not as ready to ship answers. I mean we are in a thread where the context is no ready to ship answer, so...
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by godelski 8mo ago
Why ask Anthropic? Why not build on something better like Matrix? Or Signal?[0] Or even Keybase? I really do agree we need to move away from Slack and Discord, but I'm also very confused why the call to action is to Anthropic. IMO we s
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by godelski 8mo ago
Honestly it doesn't even matter if true or false, their logic is flawed. We could just swap China/Taiwan for the Koreas and it would still be dumb. Clearly they have independent governing bodies even though they both claim the oth
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by godelski 8mo ago
Oh, we're quoting Dijkstra? I'll add one :) by and large the programming community displays a very ambivalent attitude towards the problem of program correctness. ... I claim that a programmer has only done a decent job when h
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by godelski 8mo ago
But that knowledge was never hidden or out of reach. Why not read books, manuals, or take online classes? There is free access to all these things, the only cost is time and energy. Everyone has tons of ideas. But every good engineer (and s
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by godelski 8mo ago
> But if you are genuinely confused by the attitudes of your peers, try asking not "what do I have that they lack" ("curiosity"?) but "what do they see that I don't" or "what do they care abou
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by godelski 8mo ago
> But no one ever mentions the hundreds of times it quietly wrote code that is better than most engineers can write. Your experience is the exact opposite of mine. I have people constantly telling me how LLMs are perfectly one sh
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by godelski 8mo ago
Don't worry, it was just a test of Abraham's loyalty. God was never going to let him kill Isaac. It's the perfect example of a completely ethical thing to do to another person...
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by godelski 8mo ago
So you think North and South Korea are the same country? If not, which is the rightful country and which is the rebel? They both claim the same territory and that the other is illegitimate. Do you think India and Pakistan are the same count
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by godelski 8mo ago
> It means you can bring your priors into the classroom but I can’t. I've heard about this from Fox News but I've never experienced it myself, even having grown up in a very blue state. I'm sure this happens some

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