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by happytoexplain 1mo ago
A tortured analogy. The concept of `NIMBY === house as investment` is a very common strawman. Believe it or not, most people care about their homes and communities for their intrinsic value, which is where most NIMBYism comes from.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Not even close. Any given social network is not ubiquitous, socially.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Edit: OK, I think I see your question. Elon is much more explicitly/publicly on one side of US politics than Meta is. That's why people accuse his critics of playing politics (a convenient scapegoat).
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Yes, it's appropriate given the metric you have chosen ("big"ness), though maybe the word should then be "expected", since "appropriate" implies some kind of broader human-oriented concept of rightfulness&
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
I don't normally bother complaining about LLM writing, but this case is uncommonly bad. Everything above the fold is a nightmare. It's physically painful to see what's being done to English, my native language. It lacks so mu
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
For sure, proving things even just as a sanity check is definitely interesting (and sometimes things we think are "intuitive" turn out to be false or at least intractable to prove).
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
^blindingly^mind-numbingly^
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Sorry, I wasn't challenging your logic, I was implying that it's intuitively obvious - it's funny to see the term "blindingly obvious" followed by a paragraph of formal logic.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
>Isn't this mind-numbingly obvious? Yeah, I think so. >Collapse the shape into a function describing the area of the left side if you were to cut the shape at that X coordinate in that orientation. On one end the function has val
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
The code is the example. "Demo" is probably a better word for what you're thinking of.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Sure, they're not "tricks", but it's also definitely not the same as what you get randomly browsing formal documentation.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Microsoft has always had plausible sounding but contextually nonsensical writing/UI. E.g. In Outlook, it says (or used to?) "All done for the day!" when your inbox is empty. It's like they see how other UI/writing i
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
There are a thousand factors, but one of the biggest and simplest is getting commute time back. Gaining even one hour a day is life-changing. Imagine gaining two hours.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
I am intrinsically motivated, but AI doesn't just accelerate, it changes the end product when used in the way we are forced by economics to use it: Broadly, and supported by tests rather than by looking at each line. Something I made i
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
If all the pilots were affected, it would be a disaster, not one person's personal challenge. If you switch out "pilot" for something even more common/fundamental in the economy, like "tradesman", "scien
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
>Either use it and shut up or don't use it. Life isn't this simple.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
What AI has done to my job as a software developer is make my personal output higher while taking away almost every ounce of enjoyment, interest, and passion I had for the job. Overnight I went from loving my job to hating my job as much as
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
>Dream bigger. Ironically, this oversimplification is narrow-minded.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Normally people use this kind of comparison as evidence supporting some opinion, but you left that part out. Are you saying "Yes, Facebook is immoral like these other industries"? But then your tone doesn't fit. Or is this in
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
The Luddites were rational. Just because something is inevitable doesn't mean the people whose family's lives get fucked up along the way are somehow assholes or unrealistic for demanding that we handle it in a more controlled&#x2
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
The pace of growth of hatred is new (thanks to AI, mostly), but it's been sitting at a simmer for 20 years.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
He's the guy doing the thing that he is delivering the message about...
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Not every sense - in the colloquial sense, people don't count that as being "in debt".
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
I'm shocked how small that part of the pie is. That's concerning.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Does a balance that has not accrued interest count as debt for this measurement? I.e. people who always pay the statement.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
He's not. This is one article.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Why are you referring to rarity? "Ambling" refers to ( RELATIVE ) luck, not commonness.
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Why is it incredibly important? You said that, but didn't continue. Must grievances be only with employers/patrons to be valid?
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Shutting down is a subset of reasons for mass layoffs. They are not equivalent. Disregarding that, it's not very different. What is the implication you're making? That it's good because it's common?
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by happytoexplain 2mo ago
Not who, how.

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