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by iamcasen 9y ago
Note that I said "open source AI" with the implication that how it works is transparent, and how it is trained is transparent and verifiable. There is simply no skirting around the fact that our brains are not equipped to deal wit
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by iamcasen 9y ago
If face recognition all along every city street, and face recognition as a requirement to enter all buildings is cool, then I don't ever want to be cool. Between the face recognition, and the "social credit score" shit going
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Honestly, I think the only hope for the future is open source AI that can read and digest the vast landscape of "truth" on the internet, and help the average citizen be more informed by corroborating facts. It's very true: no
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by iamcasen 9y ago
The thing I find funny is that they aren't acknowledging the fact that they used to solve crimes before cell phones existed. What did they do back then? Hell, even phone calls could be made rather anonymously. They have way more metada
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Yeah I fit into the same mold as you do in that respect. How do you feel about the career development aspect? To me it seems difficult to grow my career further than the nebulous "senior engineer" title -- especially while working
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Everything has it's pros and cons. I've been working remote for about 2 years now. Really, what it comes down to is the company culture around remote workers, and your personality. Luckily, the company I work for is very clued in
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by iamcasen 9y ago
The author touches on a salient point: capitalism has no market for social good. Social good does not equate to profit, in fact, it is usually an exorbitant cost. Furthermore, capitalism has obvious logical limitations that most people who
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Is organic farming all that much better? Are there any concrete numbers that indicate how that timeline of 60 years might be extended with different farming practices? It seems to me like we might have to make a big push towards solar-power
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Yeah that's totally true. Costs have been skyrocketing and I'm not totally sure why.
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by iamcasen 9y ago
This totally makes sense to me. Entertainment is taking so many different forms these days, and it's increasingly on-demand and more personal. People are getting used to getting whatever they want, whenever they want it, wherever they
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by iamcasen 9y ago
You're right to think it's strange, because it is. It's a tax that was created long ago to try and close a loophole used by executives, but in today's world, it functions as a barrier to participation in the wealth creat
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by iamcasen 9y ago
At that point then, I imagine absolutely everything will have already been automated. Lawyers would certainly no longer be needed, nor would much of the judicial system. Music would be automated, hell maybe even animated movies. We might ha
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by iamcasen 9y ago
We are very much in alignment. I wish there were more folks that think the way you do -- then we might actually find good solutions to these issues. I am one of those suburban kids, but thankfully as an adult I've learned how important
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by iamcasen 9y ago
SoundHound has a number of beefy corporate partnerships already. They have a very intelligently designed API around their deep learning models that 3rd parties are using in their own in-house voice/music products (www.houndify.com). I
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Plug here: I used to work for SoundHound. They just have more sophisticated deep learning going on (the cofounders wrote the original papers on deep learning back at standford). SoundHound and Shazaam are similar on the surface, but its all
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by iamcasen 9y ago
In software it is more true than any other industry. The software we develop has the power to be leveraged across all industries. Much like the wheel, it should not be constantly re-invented. I truly feel like most software development shou
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by iamcasen 9y ago
If you know what socialism is, then you would know that they would indeed be better off. It's simple really, eliminate this concept of capital ownership by individuals or corporations. That way, when you work, your boss is not getting
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Brunch is so 2011 bro /s
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Oh man, this is my life. Spurious integration tests that are critical, but very complex and often times have timeouts in our test runner depending on how many builds are going in there. I might take 1 day on the feature, and then 3 more day
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by iamcasen 9y ago
There exist many more friendly ecosystems than a desert island my friend. Capitalism is indeed a desert island, with fortified garden paradises hidden behind insurmountable walls. The fundamental question is whether or not man can evolve en
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by iamcasen 9y ago
So true, I've come full circle on this myself. The issue for me personally though is that my family is not all that welcoming or supportive.
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by iamcasen 9y ago
I agree with what you're saying. I think the author was wrong in trying to pin it completely on the "nuclear family." I was more or less agreeing with the notion that many of us pursue this path to self-sufficiency with our n
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Spot on. This is something my wife and I have known for a while now. The shitty part of this reality, is that there isn't much anyone who isn't extremely can do about it. In countries like Denmark, there are many apartment communi
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by iamcasen 9y ago
This writeup made me chuckle, because we've all had to jump through those hoops in our career. The fact of the matter is, that most of those other professional industries have such a higher bar to getting hired. So much dedication, yea
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by iamcasen 9y ago
I'm glad the minds over at MIT are working on this issue, as I think it will be the most trying problem of our time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_pr... It's the reason propaganda
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by iamcasen 9y ago
you're completely forgetting to include "access to perfect information" Which is the whole point of propaganda and other forms of marketing: bombard people with a message, true or false, it doesn't matter. Over time peop
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by iamcasen 9y ago
As a life-long guitarist, and skeptic of capitalism, I have an anecdote: I own a few high-quality guitars. They have served me well for many a decade, and they are still in perfect condition. Why buy any more guitars? Perhaps the total numb
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by iamcasen 9y ago
I feel the same way. As a society, we are constantly hammered on concepts like "everyone rates themselves as a B+ driver even if they aren't." What about when you really are an A+ driver though? Same goes with any form of exc
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Mine too. It's all about who you know I guess.
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by iamcasen 9y ago
I have already felt the way you do and I'm only 31. I think 90% of that feeling comes from the type of problems your job is asking you to solve. It's definitely tough to keep the interesting work flowing in, and avoid the tedious

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