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by jongjong 10mo ago
I tried that. Pasted that exact prompt after the first response. It gave me a really long response picking out some specific technical aspects of my solutions mentioned in my blog article which kind of make sense but nothing that seems like
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by jongjong 10mo ago
I couldn't find the exact thread but I pasted a summary of my career from my blog to give an idea as it leads to a similar discussion. The prompt above my career essay was simply "What are your thoughts about my career story. I fe
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by jongjong 10mo ago
The utility of stablecoins is to bypass regulations. I suspect it could potentially be even more shady than that; could be some hack which leverages the Eurodollar system to allow EU entities to print US dollars which can be used inside the
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by jongjong 10mo ago
Knowledge and intelligence are wasted outside of the US. You could build great stuff but if you're not in the US, your chance of success is extremely low because the media algorithms will work against you. Not to mention regulations. I
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by jongjong 10mo ago
I cannot say what I'm working on because it will be downvoted. Only pointless gimmicks which do not compete with the tech oligopoly can get any traction nowadays. If I make a really good AI coding platform which saves people hours comp
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by jongjong 10mo ago
I think the second line is touching on something. The implication is that there may be a kind of legal cross-nation counterfeiting happening. Stablecoins likely play a part. When I worked in crypto back in 2017, all the successful people wo
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by jongjong 10mo ago
I guarantee you that blockchain tech can solve a real, extremely important problem, though it's only a problem for some people. If you're connected to the money printers, then it's useless to you. Just like if you worked for
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by jongjong 11mo ago
I solved this problem by not making my project open source. Instead I launched a limited-supply cryptocurrency for it and made it a rule that anyone who owns at least x tokens is entitled to a copy of the code with full rights to use, read
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by jongjong 11mo ago
The problem is that the opportunity you need might be a 1 in 100 lifetimes opportunity... These days once in a lifetime opportunities are getting increasingly rare... This is something that the lucky few do not understand because they may p
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by jongjong 11mo ago
Functionally, they can easily do without Microsoft... I'm more worried about the implications in terms of PsyOps and repercussions... Like they pulled with that ICC judge.
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by jongjong 11mo ago
One thing I learned is that I severely underestimated the power of mimetic desire. I think partly because I'm lacking of this compared to the average person. Anyway, people are hungry for validation because they're rarely getting
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by jongjong 11mo ago
When I started using Linux about 10 years ago, whenever I bought a new computer, I would keep a partition for Windows just in case for dual boot... Nowadays I just wipe it all clean. It's weird to think I'm still paying for the Wi
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by jongjong 11mo ago
Good article. I think the combination of information asymmetries and the fact that a lot of people have bad taste both play a large part. If you produce something of a quality which is above your target customers' perceptual capabiliti
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by jongjong 11mo ago
I was poor and recognizable in a tiny niche related to open source tools and 100% this was true. The recognition creates envy and ambitious people invest extra effort to sabotage you... Often, people who are rich see you as a threat and go
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by jongjong 11mo ago
Wow the Internet is completely broken today... At work we've been having platform issues... Then after work, I decide to test my open source library on the latest Node.js engine for annual maintenance... Dependencies broken... I upgrad
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by jongjong 11mo ago
I think this is not a sure bet because of the relatively high cost of inference. It is likely not suitable for large amounts of data. We don't actually know yet because current prices are so heavily subsidized, we don't know if it
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by jongjong 11mo ago
Yeah the popcorn probably has microplastics in it.
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by jongjong 11mo ago
I have a love-hate relationship with Math. I love the logical aspect and the visualization aspect like writing down a formula and then visualizing/imagining a graph of all possible curves which that formula represents given all possib
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by jongjong 11mo ago
A lot of millennials have had this feeling "I did everything right, but I'm not seeing any results" because the job market is all new to them it's like "Am I supposed to be seeing result by now?" They literall
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by jongjong 11mo ago
Probably. My parents are relatively well-off and their experience of reality is very different from mine and keeps diverging more. It's getting to the point that I can't explain my situation because of how bad it is. What happens
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by jongjong 11mo ago
100% of all revenue, of all companies came from scams because everything is a scam.
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by jongjong 11mo ago
The FBI is conspiring against the owner of archive.is I feel bad for the owner. He must be telling his friends "The FBI is out to get me" and they must think he's insane and they try to get him institutionalized... The psychi
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by jongjong 11mo ago
Yes, and also, being able to perceive the world in high resolution when everyone else is blind has its own challenges. Less intelligent people may be asking you to step in front of a bus because they don't see the bus and you cannot co
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by jongjong 11mo ago
I think it's partly because smart people are hated by society. Consider the negative connotations of the words 'geek' and 'nerd'. I think this resentment is grounded in jealousy. Like Schopenhauer observed, less int
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by jongjong 11mo ago
How does clutching to colored pieces of paper solve any problem? IMO, it only reinforces the pathology which is the cause of many of our problems.
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by jongjong 11mo ago
Yes it's some weird faux-communism with all of the problems of communism and none of its benefits. At least communism must pretend to serve the common man. There's a point where I'd rather live in a system which at least pret
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by jongjong 11mo ago
It could be an improvement but it's not a solution because those in power tend to embody the worst elements of humanity, regardless of the economic system. The real solution IMO is decentralization. Decentralizing power. Any system whi
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by jongjong 11mo ago
Based on my personal experience, I feel like we've already had AGI for some time. Just based on how centralized society has become. It feels like the system is not working for the vast majority of people, yet somehow it's still ho
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by jongjong 11mo ago
What terrifies me most about this is that those in power will keep getting younger, dumber and more complacent. I feel like communism is inevitable at this point. People know communism isn't the solution, but they will still vote for i
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by jongjong 11mo ago
I loke to keep state in the URL. It's nive when you can bookmark any section in an app and it brings you back to the exact same place, all the menus exactly the same. Also it's amazing for debugging. Any bug, I tell the user to se

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