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by happytoexplain 5d ago
Those cases are high-profile, and much more common than they should have been, but not common in the context of all products. They are examples of the type of decision-making that I am claiming has increased across the board. Also, those ca
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by happytoexplain 5d ago
I think this is the single biggest change making everything worse. Lots of businesses used to care about their own products, since quality and brand image seemed like obviously important things. As the machine ran, and we got better and bet
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by happytoexplain 6d ago
It's not a theory, it's just an observation that seems obvious, to be a little blunt. Why would saying "X is like Y" mean anything on its own? Analogies in the service of rhetoric are unconvincing by default. You have to
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by happytoexplain 7d ago
What's the intent of this comment? Edit: I.e. are you implying something about the submitted writeup? Or just demeaning her? Or something else?
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by happytoexplain 7d ago
Higher.
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by happytoexplain 8d ago
True, analogies are great fun, and useful for teaching. They're just rarely useful for convincing. It's hard to make a meaningful attack or defense of something, A, by pointing to a different thing, B, without some serious case-bu
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by happytoexplain 8d ago
Analogies are usually weak. They are rhetorical candy. Just defend LLMs on their own merits - don't bother simply stating that they are like a hammer, or a car, or a compiler. And try to resist the urge to predict your own downvotes. Y
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by happytoexplain 8d ago
The word for what you're thinking of is "faith". Theory and belief are the constituents of all consciousness. Young engineers sometimes fall into this trap - that there is absolute truth, and everything else. It would be nice
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by happytoexplain 9d ago
You don't like hammers...?
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by happytoexplain 9d ago
These kinds of posts make the HN rule, "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article," very difficult to follow.
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by happytoexplain 9d ago
You've read his writing outside this blog post? Or is this a first-impression take (in which case the degree of negativity would be a little unexplained)?
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by happytoexplain 9d ago
Please, please consider keeping this style of posting restricted to other parts of the internet.
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by happytoexplain 9d ago
This is a petty "gotcha". The statements are not in conflict. > Maybe he should have had an AI check his post :D Can we please stop this sort of smirking provocation?
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by happytoexplain 9d ago
I can't believe HN has changed so much that we are now mocking people for not hardening their blogs against traffic spikes. The comment used to just be "hugged", but now, if the author has anything critical to say about AI, i
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by happytoexplain 9d ago
This comment doesn't make sense as a response to anything the author said. As an aside: > they offer leverage in form of agents to put it in Naval Ravikant words This is a confusing use of attribution. It's sort of like saying,
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by happytoexplain 9d ago
You are inventing an opponent who is not in this thread. Please keep this noisy rhetorical tactic outside of HN.
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by happytoexplain 9d ago
This fallacy gets pointed to constantly, but it's not actually part of most arguments. I.e. it's a strawman. Bad immigration policy can and does negatively affect opportunities and salaries. Immigration in general does not nece
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by happytoexplain 9d ago
Even disregarding his incredible antisocial disorder which does real harm to our entire society, what does the most extreme individual have to do with statistics? That's the opposite of a good example.
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by happytoexplain 10d ago
You're implying they should have been kept there? I'm not following. It looks like they were maliciously sent there without an agreement, and still were treated humanely and forwarded somewhere that agreed to take them...? You&#x2
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by happytoexplain 10d ago
The point is that the vote is futile, not that the enforcement of the vote wouldn't be beneficial.
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by happytoexplain 10d ago
>if you share stuff everybody knows you risk coming off as arrogant I have always felt like my bar for publishing something (even just to internal wikis/channels) is too high due to being overly self-conscious. I think we should try
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by happytoexplain 10d ago
This isn't a good example of xenophobia, assuming you are using the word for its colloquial implications (I.e. simple race-adjacent hatred, and not just the fear of a large group of new strangers of a culture or circumstance that is al
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by happytoexplain 11d ago
This is a genuinely depressing position to see on HN - the one place left on the internet I will willingly engage with. Not everybody who disagrees with you on policy is simply a racist. You are being uncharitable, and leaning on the drug o
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by happytoexplain 12d ago
That just means you worked with brilliant people paid in excess of $400K. It probably has more to do with where you worked than with the talent or compensation of H1Bs across the spectrum.
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by happytoexplain 12d ago
You're right, there is no need physically. Luckily governments exists to exert power over human behavior (ideally to the benefit of its citizens), and not over the behavior of physics.
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by happytoexplain 12d ago
>Employers have only one job: to maximize profits, thats it. This is wrong. In practice, we bias toward this rule because it happens to align with benefit to society moreso than other rules (most of the time), but it is not the end, it i
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by happytoexplain 12d ago
It's an oversimplification to portray the "other argument" as asserting that everything in society is strictly a zero-sum game. In some important ways, it is; and in some important ways, it isn't. People may be wrong abo
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by happytoexplain 12d ago
>Economics is generally not a zero sum game This is true in the literal sense in which you are using the phrase, but the context is not realistic. This sentiment is used a lot in defense of bad policy. Economics is a zero sum game, jus
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by happytoexplain 12d ago
>immigrants do not actually "eat the cats and dogs" This is a pretty stark straw man. It's very normal to be critical of immigration policy without believing that immigrants will eat your pets, and it's petty to try t
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by happytoexplain 12d ago
The subcategory of NIMBY hate regarding overdevelopment of existing communities (as opposed to things like datacenters, multi-home owners concerned about investment, etc etc) is mostly hatred of the average citizen, which is not a great cat

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