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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
indigenous Americans did practice agriculture and were not hunter-gatherers. there were settled cities all across the Americas: Cusco, Tenochtitlan, Tikal, Cahokia. like cereals were the catalyst for the Neolithic revolution in Mesopotamia,
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
the penrose-lucas argument is the best bet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Lucas_argument the basic idea being that either the human mind is NOT a computation at all (and it's instead spooky unexpla
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
things like this are so much fun. I mess around with projects like this too. I have a little "status" app that that's a web UI embedded into a Go binary that shows my current WIP and it updates my slack status with what my WI
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
I learned about it in school, I took some anthropology and archeology electives. and what I was told was since there were no defensive structures nor evidence of any security apparatus at all (such as an army) there isn't any evidence
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
mostly because all the bones of all the dead were mixed in with all the others. implying no concept of "this guy was THE guy in my lifetime". but they presumably still had a meritocracy because while the bones were mixed in with a
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
as far as I'm aware, we have no idea other than that they didn't do much at one time. we can only deduce little modifications were done semi-regularly by the ancient pre-historic version of open source contributors. they had to li
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
just to nitpick: the Tepe sites definitely did not have forced labor. they had no social hierarchy at all. hunter-gatherers were fairly egalitarian. definitely sedentary neolithic people had forced labor. all the Sumerian legal texts that w
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
it was definitely a festival ground for (relatively) nearby complex semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers to meet up occasionally. I had a professor describe it as a pre-historic UN where these clans would meet up and feast but I think festival gro
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
I wouldn't call these guys civilization. the Tepe sites are more like an ancient UN for semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers than a settlement. they visited seasonally for a feast and then left. the only evidence we have is that they were par
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
I think the other guy is talking about things like this: https://archive.ph/7IPxL since 2022, there's been many times a recession has been declared but commentators have said it was all "vibecession" and the
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
but it is strange that people have bought into the Sam Altman AGI marketing so much that this moderately useful but (in my opinion) not revolutionary tech we're calling AI is so controversial. it'll all good and well to talk about
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
ha I honestly don't have that strong of an opinion of the author because the few tidbits I've seen I didn't even read all the way because the info on the surface was so flawed. this was the first article I've actually re
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
separate from this article, I don't have a very high opinion of the author. he has an astonishing record of being uninformed and/or just plain wrong in everything I've ever heard him write about. but as far as this article, t
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
I think about this when it comes to the internet and AI all the time. all of this knowledge we have access to required a very complex global supply chain and surplus of people with specific technical skills to maintain. if the USA has any m
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
the problem is he's made the military complicit already. they're already doing Duterte-esque extrajudicial killings of random Venezuelan people in the Caribbean. For anyone unaware, Duterte is currently imprisoned awaiting trial a
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
obviously not the same
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
this seems kinda silly, especially given their previous app store flop. but I'm just happy there's some spark and competition in tech again. it's felt like the industry has been pretty stagnant since web 2.0 (more stagnant th
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
my spouse and I used a spreadsheet for this purpose when we were house shopping. it also included local income and property taxes for all of the localities we'd choose to live in so we knew the full financial pros and cons of buying a
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
robber barons gonna robber baron.
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
I think humans having a platform to tell the masses to "be worried" is as troublesome these days as AI content. mass media that can be manipulated has been around for 100 years. I don't think AI is unique.
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
how is it both a bootstrapped company slow to hiring devs (due to AI) and also a company that's been in business 15 years? if you were going to hire devs to scale out, you would've done it 10 years ago?
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
I treat it pretty much like bash. it's good for scripts. and it's great for serverless tasks like running as an AWS lambda. if you want to run some simple script that queries a DB and/or hits an API on a schedule or triggered
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
the modern world as we know it only exists because of "performative bs". if it weren't for "performative bs", most of humanity would be helots working subsistence farms
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
the flaw in the article is acting like engineers always have a choice. the writers presents the contrasts of "fair delegation vs mollycoddling" mirroring "ai-driven development vs vibe coding"... but that sacrifice for s
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
what's missing from the blog is the fact that these decisions that are announced publicly are made a long time before they're announced publicly. so I would have already voiced my opposition (and presumably failed to sway leadersh
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
hey, man - I understand this is a stressful time for you. but you're not doing your people any favors by denying the suffering your government is causing. in fact, the bold faced unapologetic nature of these atrocities is why people ar
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
well, and let's be honest - most CEOs and boards get the same advice from the same advisors and peers. and the advice since Elon took over Twitter (not that I can say he "started it" but it was around that time I started hear
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
This blog was essentially my exact strategy over the last few turbulent years. I know it helped my people and I don't regret it. but, man, did it take a lot out of me. I've seen a quip out there before about the perfect recipe for
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
the oldest discovered buildings for continuous occupancy are actually Tel al-Qaramel near Aleppo (not far from Gobekli Tepe) and they're 1000 years older than Gobekli Tepe the oldest continuously inhabited city is Jericho (Ariha in Ara
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by itsnowandnever 1y ago
this would be more like an autonomous knife stabbing machine than a knife. palantir automates the use of weapons. they don't make weapons themselves

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