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by jonfw 5y ago
Use the phrase 'god' or 'something magical' as a synonym for 'something beyond our understanding and control' and you'll realize we're a lot closer to that level of understanding than we are to having
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> Maybe just like everything in the history of mankind it is a material reality There are at least a gazillion things in the history of mankind that we have not been able to reduce to a material reality.
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by jonfw 5y ago
Opinions without identities are meaningless. We are increasingly living in a society where the only opinions we can attach to a human are from our families or talking heads on TV and social media.
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by jonfw 5y ago
What if our elite 30x productivity person takes a significant risk? If he flips a coin and wins he should rightfully expect 60x And you can be much more than 10x more productive than your average person without being 10x smarter. You can ju
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by jonfw 5y ago
UAVs are under constant supervision... when they say unmanned, they really mean that they're not lugging around the human who is manning them.
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by jonfw 5y ago
You know what they say- the last 20% of the problem is 80% of the effort. I think that these percentages probably understate things, but the point is that getting something to be mostly functional in ideal circumstances really isn't mu
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by jonfw 5y ago
Tesla makes money
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Gas tax is particularly regressive. People with lower incomes have less access to electric cars, charging infrastructure, and real estate with convenient commutes.
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by jonfw 5y ago
I agree that it's nuanced and it's difficult to draw the line. but where copilot sits is way over on the plagiarizing side of the spectrum. Wherever we agree to draw the line, copilot should definitely fall on the wrong side of it
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It would be pretty concerning if people used GPT-3 while they were writing a novel, and it assisted them in plagiarizing a Steven King novel. We already have examples of copilot blatantly plagiarizing code
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by jonfw 5y ago
For anybody who earns more than their expenses- additional cash flow and increases in net worth are interchangeable. Meaning that if you gave me 10k in cash I'd just invest it in an asset that appreciates, so if you give me 10k in home
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by jonfw 5y ago
Housing prices are much stickier up than you give them credit for
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Amazon, Uber, and Tesla have done pretty well by a similar model. They went a long time and spent a LOT of money before they turned reliable profits
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by jonfw 5y ago
Hot tubs are pretty warm. That'd be an extraordinary amount of energy. Would be interested to see data, measuring water temperature is pretty easy
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by jonfw 5y ago
Corporations are led by people and we expect people to be moral. Seeking profit doesn't excuse you from morality. Legislation is a good idea as well
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by jonfw 5y ago
This is ultimately a human decision. The algorithm gives a score but a human decides what a good score is. Doing this at scale is no different than hiring a hundred middle managers to eye ball it. At the end of the day- if your company want
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by jonfw 5y ago
All of the top selling games on switch are nintendo titles
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by jonfw 5y ago
I imagine most interviewees hear things I've never heard during their interviews- interviews can be a very divergent experience based on company, personality, and experience.
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by jonfw 5y ago
You either let somebody tell you their race, or you assign them one. Which one would you be more comfortable doing?
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by jonfw 5y ago
Of course it isn't FU money if you insist on buying outrageously overvalued cars and real estate. There is no limit to the amount of money you need to play that game to receive increasingly marginal returns. You can be a small time bil
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by jonfw 5y ago
A car that you could buy for a few thousand today is much more capable than the cars people bought for a few thousand in the past. New cars are status symbols or toys. I never understood how people could trade a human's full time salar
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by jonfw 5y ago
I'm not sure that self interest is a requirement for intelligence
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If you're building these in large quantities doing it on site would be way cheaper. You can achieve similar economies of scale, and you don't have to design the houses to be mobile and you don't have to actually move them
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by jonfw 5y ago
Putting walls up is incredibly cheap, that's like the least interesting thing to automate. Plus it'd be hard (read: expensive) to move them from the factory to the site, and it'd be hard to get them into place when they'
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by jonfw 5y ago
A house is much more liquid of an asset than most people make it out to be. Old folks qualify for reverse mortgages
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by jonfw 5y ago
If you're retail, it goes down after xmas. If you're a tax company, it goes down after may. If you sell a product, it goes down when you go long enough without releasing anything new
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by jonfw 5y ago
In the southeast it's very popular for new construction. You still see a lot of vinyl as it's cheaper though
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by jonfw 5y ago
A ponzi scheme largely refers to a scheme where you invest capital to get access to the future inflow of capital, where that future inflow of capital comes from other investors who are hoping to access future inflows of capital, etc. The di
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by jonfw 5y ago
We're talking about a computer that costs several hundred times the price of the cable you're complaining about
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The usb-A standard is rated for 15% of the plugs as usb-c. Large is not a feature. And the cost differential vs A is a rounding error on the price of a mac

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