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by jodrellblank 5d ago
You should make use of Cunningham's Law[1]. Instead of posting an "Ask HN" asking if it's impossible to disable, post a "Show HN" claiming that it is impossible to disable. Then people will flock to tell you ho
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by jodrellblank 8d ago
Or a different way around, Asimov's The Machine That Won The War, 1961: https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/machine-that-won-the-w...
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by jodrellblank 13d ago
Now take away the chore of 'focusing on riding'. Genetically or chemically calm the horse so it does not get flustered or moody. Metabolically tweak the horse so it does not get tired or thirsty. Robotically till and smooth the gr
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by jodrellblank 13d ago
And if they liked optimizing transport, but now the box is self-driving and the logistics are planned by machine? The farm is automated and humans get in the way. The vet is a robot. Also any other suggestion you have is automated - AI is n
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by jodrellblank 13d ago
In the analogy where a “world ending nuclear bomb” “did already go off” and someone could cover it up and nobody noticed, in what sense is it a “world ending” nuclear bomb?
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by jodrellblank 14d ago
If we strip away all the layers of onion, we are not left with a Platonic ideal onion, we're left with nothing. Removing every chore, task, craft, friction from life does not leave an ideal perfect life, it leaves nothing. Some people
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by jodrellblank 14d ago
Although Peter Norvig thought they should https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3096922
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by jodrellblank 14d ago
Ahh, I am just looking at 1Kg consumer/household bags, maybe commercial huge bags are different.
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by jodrellblank 15d ago
> " at best, the protein can sometimes be inferred from the nutritional information. " I looked at some recently in the UK and the nutritional information is always per 100g and says e.g. 11.5g protein. Is there something wrong
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by jodrellblank 15d ago
Why are you saying that you love Hitler[1]? (that isn't what you said? what's your point?) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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by jodrellblank 16d ago
And a Futurama moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxu7z7hfVns
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by jodrellblank 16d ago
That is not "Microsoft goals", that is "one employee's LinkedIn comment of his personal goal".
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by jodrellblank 16d ago
> " public transportation operates at a loss almost universally. " So do highways! Nobody makes a profit from a $50,000 crossing or a $250,000 4-way traffic light intersection, or a $1M road resurfacing, or a $100M bypass, or a
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by jodrellblank 16d ago
Why does "supporting a bus line" mean the bus needs to make enough revenue from riders to pay for it but the area can have roads, traffic lights, roadsigns, etc. subsidised by the taxpayer without needing to make a profit from veh
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by jodrellblank 16d ago
The streets of the future are an unbroken conveyor belt of fast moving death machines; existing outside of a car or building will become illegal by lobbying "to keep people safe".
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by jodrellblank 16d ago
(2) I didn't think that, it was an example. I didn't want to pick a technology as an example and have my comment be dragged off into whether my pick was good or bad so I tried to pick something away from tech. As in "be the c
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by jodrellblank 17d ago
National Safety Council says passenger vehicles are 0.46 per 100M miles, trains are 0.01 and busses 0.009. https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...
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by jodrellblank 17d ago
And the original AirPort Express in 2004 had a headphone jack! Well, a speaker socket. And it showed up on your mac laptop so you could play music to it wirelessly with iTunes. Utterly brilliant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by jodrellblank 17d ago
Best phone since 1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Communicator A whole market of 1990s/2000s folding devices in similar categories, clamshells, PDAs, microPCs, palmtops, subnotebooks, handheld PCs: https
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by jodrellblank 17d ago
I think you're missing the point. Predictable outcomes are desirable, but they aren't addictive or gambling. People quickly get used to opening the faucet and seeing water come out and stop doing it, whereas people scroll TikTok o
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by jodrellblank 17d ago
> " Everything is variable reward. Is everything gambling? " well, no. If you work overtime and get paid overtime, you are not gambling and that is not a variable reward. Humans engage more with rewards that are intermittent an
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by jodrellblank 17d ago
Don't worry, Reddit/Facebook/Gmail et al. still transmit that draft reply to their servers, store it against your profile, and train on it. Probably.
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by jodrellblank 17d ago
You can, but this is public and maybe you should post. If "you are what you repeatedly do" then we all collectively are what we all do. If we each stop arguing with racists because we're each tired of it, then what we are is
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by jodrellblank 17d ago
> "if walk monster manually trolls the map" Casey Muratori has a 50 minute video on "Killing the Walk Monster" which is about how they started looking for glitchy game geometry by pretending to be a player walking aro
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by jodrellblank 19d ago
Capitalism is not "when someone pays for something". By that logic when the USSR launched the Mir space station in 1986, because the state paid for it that made them capitalists. > Capitalism would let them fail. and yet ... He
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by jodrellblank 19d ago
Imagine claiming undue credit for the works of Euler, Einstein, Michaelangelo, and hundreds of huge Cathedrals all over Europe, while disclaiming the constant bailouts from the taxpayer so that Capitalists never actually risk or lose money,
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by jodrellblank 19d ago
Worker and parasite? https://youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI (The Simpsons)
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by jodrellblank 20d ago
> " we’re supposed to believe that social media is no different than extremely powerful drugs that have severe withdrawal syndromes and wreak havoc on their user’s bodies " For someone nitpicking on details surely you noticed t
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by jodrellblank 20d ago
> " My revolt is against the cognitive stress of reading generated text. " I saw a comment on HN that that was roughly "re: ChatGPT, when I write one sentence and I get back three screens of lecture, I don't consider
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by jodrellblank 20d ago
My guess is that if you were betting on a race, you would put your money on the swift to win, and "sometimes fast runners trip over" wouldn't seem as smart. The rewrite stinks of a consultant's report where humor is frow

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