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by ian_j_butler 5mo ago
> Those people are free to move to Afghanistan or Somalia or the Congo. I doubt they will. This is barely relevant, because it's not a plan for agency or comfort, it's strictly worse in that it would destroy both, in addition
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by ian_j_butler 5mo ago
I can't even tell if this is tangent or central to the main idea, but I'm so intrigued by this one part: > at the relatively mild cost that such applications now have security that is "game-based" instead of "sim
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by ian_j_butler 5mo ago
Apparently Counting Heads is currently a freebie for audible premium. Rainbows.. overrated IMHO. Nexus series has a great story with great pacing, classic cyberpunk ambiance with genuinely fresh takes, but be warned.. fairly bad writing.
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by ian_j_butler 5mo ago
> This reminds me of the statistician's aphorism: 'All models are wrong, but some are useful.' It reminded the authors of this too, since they quote and source it
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by ian_j_butler 5mo ago
This is kind of interesting, but I predict that it pleases almost nobody. Philosophy of science types will be kind of annoyed at the preoccupation with statistics, ML people will be annoyed at too much philosophy of science, etc. I totally
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by ian_j_butler 5mo ago
> Being afraid of losing one’s job is quite a step up from being afraid of a rival tribe ransacking your village. Or a predatory animal. Or bacterial infections. Obviously, things could be better. But they could be much, much worse. If
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by ian_j_butler 5mo ago
Does he invent things though? Probably more brokering than inventing, and as the "idea guy", whatever he does come up with he doesn't need to build because the world is so overflowing with AI and 3d printers elsewhere. Wit
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by ian_j_butler 5mo ago
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41452962
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by ian_j_butler 5mo ago
> Malice – revenge for waking him up – sharpens Manfred’s voice. “The president of agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.AB5 is agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.201. The secretary is agalmic.holdings.root.184.D5, and the chair is agalmic.holdings.roo
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by ian_j_butler 5mo ago
> as somebody who majored in math, I sort of feel like it doesn't add much. I know ML frameworks intimately, and you really don't need category theory to describe them. Not that the work linked here is doing this, but.. using c