jimbokun

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by jimbokun 4mo ago
The vast majority of people suddenly become ethically challenged narcissists and sociopaths if given too much power.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Most currently poor people would have the exact same failings if they suddenly found themselves with vast power. One of the most important political developments in history was the realization that you can’t just replace a bad king with a g
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Too many tech people only focus on developing enhanced capabilities and find philosophy, let alone moral systems like religion, useless or absurd. But with powerful AI models the philosophical and moral and religious questions have become i
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Well the most optimistic outcome is that our democratically elected representatives start acting in the interests of all they represent, not just those with a lot of money. Ok, you didn’t need to laugh that hard.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
You give the answer then skip past it. We are looking at a foreseeable future where machines do all the work. You are saying all the benefits from those machines should go to those who invested their capital to create them, forever. And th
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
How much do you trust the current US administration to guide us into a future where no one needs a job in order to get health care, food, shelter, etc?
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Indentured servitude implies they still need us for something once they have superhuman robots doing their bidding.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
When exactly in history was this utopian age?
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Git?
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
This description feels like how jQuery unified all the disparate JavaScript implementations behind a single framework.
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Now we replace both with prompts.
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These are your 10x programmers. Maybe 100x or more in Bertrand’s case. It’s not about putting in 19 hour days or spitting out more lines of code or PRs or whatever. It’s coming up with elegant solutions with broad impact that no one else ev
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
And knowing how old Geena Davis is.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Sounds like you could have a successful product.
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Like being the one who brought the dog home from the shelter and feeds it, and the dog still prefers your partner.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Soon it will be like Jack Black in High Fidelity, preventing you from listening to music that’s currently too hip for you.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Fun article, but the sea of pop ups and advertisements battling to distract you from the text ironically exemplifies the point being made about Google Home.
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It’s the only path for being able to pay your rent or mortgage without leaving the technology field altogether.
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Well fuck the charitable personality of it doesn’t result in actually giving to people in need. I’ll take the charitable actions over that any day.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
That bureaucrats can kill any kind of progress with the best of intentions.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
> If they're so common, why not incorporate into the construction project? If it's the same one I read about, they did.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
You're not wrong. But annoyingly pedantic.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Now compare human on bicycle to human driving a car for energy efficiency.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
This is what originally made Microsoft the most lucrative tech company of its day. Android succeeded at this to an extent with phones, but Apple has been able to keep its products differentiated enough in the minds of consumers to maintain
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Is Google behind? The general opinions I read suggest Gemini is very competitive with Anthropic and OpenAI's top models.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
Suggesting nerds were never interested in electronic payment systems seems like a very No True Scotsman argument to me.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
But much less than most doctors make.
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
You say this like it's a recent development. Creating a society where the unscrupulous are not unduly rewarded has been a long, painstaking slog over millennia that still hasn't been solved. And whatever progress has been made is
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by jimbokun 4mo ago
I think hyper focus on anything is more likely to be classified as "nerdy" today. People will say "I'm a huge guitar nerd" or "I'm a huge gardening nerd" or whatever.
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> The whole 'charity' persona he put on afterwards is just PR. What do you mean by "persona"? Do you mean he's not really giving money away?

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