grufus

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by grufus 4y ago
One should not confuse growth as in producing more and more stuff with growth as in progress. Of course you can't produce more stuff ad infinitum. A balance to reach net-zero stuff is necessary to be sustainable. But nothing prevents y
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by grufus 4y ago
Rather, the result of sanctions, i.e., the almost total absence of cross-border trade. Historically it was through trade that societies/nations became successful, were growing, were eventually dominating. The early dominance of Europe
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by grufus 4y ago
Issue with system design is that our industry is so highly opinionated about things. You design something to the best of your abilities, it works (though may have its pros and cons) and then you go present it to a crowd of engineers (HN, sa
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by grufus 4y ago
Not? "After a few hours of playing with it I give the opinion that it can't be that hard" is kinda the essence of basically not having a clue but feeling competent to express such a judgement nevertheless.
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by grufus 4y ago
> I urge people to shift their mindsets and approach cutting edge technology from a perspective of what it could be in the future, vs what it is today Maybe they realized that too many jumped on the blockchain BS train.
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by grufus 4y ago
> At this point the word "engineer" has lost its original meaning. Until there's a formal theory of how we can interact with LLMs and you make use of that in a systematic fashion, "prompt engineering" is really c
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by grufus 4y ago
I think you are mixing up the general concept "hiearchy" with the very concrete concept of a "pyramid scheme". The defining characteristic of a pyramid scheme is that the income at each level is predominantly connected t
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by grufus 4y ago
The theory of 16 stages is pretty entertaining. > According to Ingram, one must continue to meditate through these awful experiences until reaching a deeper state of awakening. He makes it clear that the consequences of stopping are seve