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hdhdhsjsbdh
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hdhdhsjsbdh
3y ago
I can’t help but feel that your reductive description of child-free people says more about how you see your own choices than it does about theirs. Surely a sufficiently-motivated child-free person can use their advantages wrt time and money
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hdhdhsjsbdh
4y ago
This whole category of blog post where people ask ChatGPT about themselves and then act surprised when it gives inaccurate responses is really uncompelling. The purpose of this technology is to grasp and synthesize information on general to
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hdhdhsjsbdh
4y ago
I agree with your sentiment here. I felt like this article could have been really interesting with some more detail but it seemed mostly like fluff around the core idea “some people have experienced weird bugs”. I’d be curious to see how th
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hdhdhsjsbdh
4y ago
While the notion of treating these systems as “sociotechical” rather than purely technical is probably a good move wrt actually improving people’s lives, I can say from my own experience in academia that there are still way too many academi
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hdhdhsjsbdh
4y ago
> Elon Musk has moved the needle much more than all of the universities combined it seems like. This is incredibly narrow-sighted. How many of “Elon Musk’s” (really, the people he employs) achievements have been made possible by foundati
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hdhdhsjsbdh
4y ago
You sound like you have had some bad experiences – if so, I’m sorry for whatever happened to you. I felt compelled to respond because I don’t think your statement is objectively true, and is in some ways harmful. While finding good relation
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5y ago
I made it a few years on the gov side of this equation and had to quit. Like you say, there are certainly lots of bright people…but just as many (if not more) lazy and willfully ignorant people punching the clock and keeping the money fauce
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hdhdhsjsbdh
5y ago
If development in this space is driven only by the same unregulated, profit-motivated organizations that have created our current social media status-quo, what’s to make that utopian outcome any more likely than it was for the current Inter
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hdhdhsjsbdh
5y ago
Phrasing your thoughts this way is tedious and melodramatic. What is anyone supposed to glean from this comment? How are they meant to respond to it? Just plainly say what it is you want to say and deal with the consequences. Are you sugges
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hdhdhsjsbdh
6y ago
Sounds like you’re looking for a government job, or a government contractor job. The bar in that domain is fairly low and the benefits and work/life balance are good, but it usually comes with certain lifestyle expectations (no drugs,
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hdhdhsjsbdh
6y ago
Hell, why not get rid of ethics entirely? Especially since people have been arguing about this for thousands of years already. And really it’s been pointless if you think about it, considering we can’t just answer it like a math problem. Wh
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hdhdhsjsbdh
6y ago
> More and more I distrust non-technical people. It just seems that if someone doesn't come from a technical background, their modus operandi is simply to take stock of the social situation in their field, rather than try to look at