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Nobel Lecture: On the possibility of progress (2019)(paulromer.net)
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Taiwan Market Cap Tops $4T on AI Boom, Overtaking UK(bloomberg.com)
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Teaching Mathematics (1997) [pdf](maths.tcd.ie)
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by ipnon 6mo ago
My belief is that to a large extent the art of politics is the art of bothsidesing and rationalizing away your integrity for common aims. And that when applied correctly, these common aims can be used to benefit the public. Look at systems
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by ipnon 6mo ago
I really think left-right and honest-dishonest are useless dimensions to evaluate Congress members on. The job practically requires ideological fuzziness and truth stretching to get anything done. This is a feature: legislatures that requir
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by ipnon 6mo ago
Interesting. I like it. Now let's say I currently use the OS process as my primitive for agents, just spawning `claude "foo bar baz"`, and orchestrating this way, using perhaps Unix style of files for intermediate data and pi
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by ipnon 6mo ago
Yes, to paraphrase Jobs, I'm only interested in the intersection of Technology Avenue and Liberal Arts Street.
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Author's preface to the book: "PGP Source Code and Internals" (1995)(philzimmermann.com)
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by ipnon 6mo ago
It’s like saying you don’t want to exercise because it induces tachycardia and hypertension. The point is that you are training your body to adapt to overstimulation in a context and dose dependent manner.
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by ipnon 6mo ago
The singularity doesn't mean that we get an AGI Day with a big announcement from The People In Charge that intelligence has been solved once and for all. It simply means that the frequency of "this changes everything" and &qu
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by ipnon 6mo ago
Common failure mode in environments that promote being the best over getting things done: If you went from school to college to industry always identifying with being better than everyone else, because that's what it takes to get in th
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by ipnon 6mo ago
I like this quote from pg: >In a way this is virtuous, because I think startups are a good thing. But really what motivates us is the completely amoral desire that would motivate any hacker who looked at some complex device and realized
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by ipnon 6mo ago
NPM is designed to let you run untrusted code on your machine. It will never work. There is no game to step up. It's like asking an ostrich to start flying.
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by ipnon 6mo ago
I think it is accurate. Where are the autonomous AI who beat the creator to the punch? When we write "Hello, World!" in C and compile it with `gcc`, do we give credit to every contributor to GNU? AI is a tool that thus far only hu
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Shor's algorithm is possible with as few as 10k reconfigurable atomic qubits(arxiv.org)
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by ipnon 6mo ago
In Brusselsese that means we should be able to start business sometime around the turn of the century, right?
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by ipnon 6mo ago
Hopefully the program continues its success and becomes basis for 25th EU regime
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Contemporary Australian Composers: Alan Lamb (2000)(rainerlinz.net)
2 points by ipnon 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ipnon 7mo ago
But you only $200/month for the productivity of what used to cost monthly salary for 10 software engineers. Doesn't this democratize software construction?
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by ipnon 7mo ago
I think the combinatorial space is just too much. When I did web dev it was mostly transforming HTML/JSON from well-defined type A to well-defined type B. Everything is in text. There's nothing to reason about besides what is in t
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The Department of War is making a mistake [video](youtube.com)
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The cruelty of teaching computing science (1988)(cs.utexas.edu)
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Dijkstra's Crisis: The End of Algol and Beginning of Software Engineering (2010) [pdf](tomandmaria.com)
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by ipnon 7mo ago
Greatest time to work in math since Pythagoras drew a triangle
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by ipnon 7mo ago
Yeah something like that. A breakup fee between the job board company and the hiring company: “if you don’t hire someone within 90 days we keep half of the salary.” But there’s not much incentive for the hiring side to do this!
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by ipnon 7mo ago
Put some money on the line. I'm not an economist but you could structure a market where you cannot just take up mental space in the job market for practically nil. That's the current malincentive, that companies put up job listing
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by ipnon 7mo ago
I think you are smarter than me because I continue to work in computer programming even when there is no money to be made!
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by ipnon 7mo ago
In my experience anyone who went to Ivy+ or worked at Big N never has any problem getting a job.
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by ipnon 7mo ago
Yes, but how many people have tried to enter the field since then? Is the economy that supports current number of tech workers really better than one that supports 10x?
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by ipnon 7mo ago
I think this is one of the weaknesses of rationalism and effective altruism, is that it tries to make a clean break from the common law legal reasoning that the government, and thus corporations, operate on. While I find rationalism to be a

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