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by greekrich92 10mo ago
Maduro is the elected president. Don't spread misinformation.
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
If people were broadly socialized for collaboration and collective good, people could and would achieve as much with many fewer hours of work, and with the many more hours available for personal creative pursuit and play. There is no innate
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
I have a record collection and a cd collection. It was not the same. So many CDs of older music sound bad on CD. Recordings made during the CD era sound fine though, but I'm not an audiophile. Maybe the "loudness wars" are
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
All of the most reasonable and logical threads here have been nuked from orbit
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
"Poor people should" You should demand more of people with power before you criticize those with none
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
AI or an LLM? LLMs are matrix multiplication word guessing machines, so nothing. AI doesn't exist yet.
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
Denial of an objective reality is a symptom shared by various strands of bad thinking our current era. LLMs do not think. That's reality.
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
I tried the Mac demo on mobile and there wasn't a classic modem sound when connecting to AOL. It would be a nice touch.
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
Author seems to be conflating valuation and projected revenue
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
If someone lies and convinces you that a loved one has died and you cry, were those feelings authentic? Art that provokes emotion in a cheap or manipulative way is often, if not always, bad art.
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
Art that takes tremendous effort but looks effortless isn't negated by my comment. The process and struggle is still there.
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
Over a decade of web dev experience and constantly lurking on HN, I've never heard the initialism BFF. What is a Backend for Frontend and where did that term gain traction?
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
You are advocating for the closet
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by greekrich92 10mo ago
Sociopathy is often comorbid with being an executive
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
That wasn't dumb but thinking this a meaningful rebuttal is
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
These AI posts are annoying
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
This is an ideological statement not an empirical one
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
Possibly the best and most important website on the internet
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
800M people are not using chatGPT every week. Be a little less credulous.
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
Is it quantum-proof?
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
It's at www dot nyt dot com
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
How to Attend Meetings - Internal Guidelines from A.G. Sulzberger's Racial Science and Phrenology Blog
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
This opinion is not based in reality. The only way to understand that is to go outside and talk to real people who are neither techies nor managers, and, better yet, try to do their jobs better than they do.
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
Invest in candidates who will be ruthless about funding education and increasing the top marginal tax rate. What's that? I'm hearing this guy doesn't want to pay taxes?
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
Fair enough, but I have read Island, The Doors of Perception, and BNW, and none of those books described using uppers or anything about efficiency. Island was psychedelics (fantastic book in my opinion).
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
Just want to echo someone else's sub-thread: Adderall is not at all similar to Huxley's description of Soma. Soma was about feeling good and not having to think of the evil things that make the BNW society possible, not efficiency
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
The value of my wheat pennies and war pennies just went up
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by greekrich92 11mo ago
Pretty hyperbolic reaction to what seems like a fairly modest improvement
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by greekrich92 1y ago
$2500/month is cheap childcare in NYC. $2K/m for a 1 bedroom is cheap. How much do those things cost in Aalborg or Malmö or Wurzburg?
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by greekrich92 1y ago
>certain kinds of minds naturally develop certain kinds of value systems. Ok thanks for letting me know up front this isn't worth reading. Not that Yudkowsky's book is either.

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