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by jongjong 2mo ago
I don't trust the legal system. They could cover up the evidence, get me blocked on HackerOne, claim that my screenshots are AI-generated, hire top lawyers then make the judge to charge me for the lawyers' bill. The big company al
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Last time I reported a DoS bug to HackerOne, the company behind the bounty tried incite me to commit a crime against them by DoS'ing their servers using the hack I had reported in detail! I literally showed them their server taking ove
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Software industry is the same. Main difference is that it is not new in that case; it has always been that way since the dawn of that industry. The software industry is worth trillions but nobody knows anything about what's going on ex
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Yes, it's a spectrum. The best test to figure out the extent of your own bias is to make a list of ways which in which a particular ideology benefits you. For most of my contrarian ideologies, they are harmful to me in most ways except
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by jongjong 2mo ago
I do this already with all of my beliefs. That's not to say my beliefs are exhaustively battle-tested and correct; maybe other people have information that I'm missing but in my role as a software engineer working across multiple
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Rational people will pick the ideology which has the fewest contradictions. Irrational people will choose that which serves them best. People who benefit from a system are unlikely to look for problems with it and unlikely to notice any con
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by jongjong 2mo ago
This article reflects my values and philosophy exactly... However I think the author is underestimating the cost of not following incentives. It's torture. In this society, I'm a loser precisely because I ignored incentives. I thi
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Yes, the full extractive structure is much more visible now. Used to be discussed as "conspiracy theory" but now it's obvious that such structure exists and it doesn't require any conspiracy; shared incentives suffice. S
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by jongjong 2mo ago
I think the statement "code was never the hard part" is true but it's relative. Programming is not easy and it takes years to master. Some people became really good at solving complex programming puzzles and 'Code Jams&#
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Whenever I hear some big AI CEO say that AGI/ASI might end humanity, I imagine it doing so by conditioning people to commit suicide or some kind of massive-scale manipulation. Probably setting people up into complicated bad situations
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I think the part that's hard to absorb is that software engineering was a brutal path. You had to restructure your entire identity, ego, personality, social relationships around that career choice. People didn't expect their caree
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AI can uncover certain issues and resolve certain problems but it also has its blind spots. I've been using Claude to create a software architecture diagram. It came up with a lot of useful functionality that we had neglected to show b
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But how many new ones did it introduce?
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Especially true now with AI coding. But I would push back on the idea that sciences or other engineering disciplines are not affected. Several of the people I met who were especially guilty of this in software sector had a PhD in mathematic
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by jongjong 2mo ago
This article highlight a huge problem which permeates every aspect of society. The entire education system is built around the assumption that speed = merit. Any time a person has to sit a test under time constraints, the most significant f
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Sure, but you can only solve a problem that you are aware of. My concern here is about the unknown unknowns. The task at hand is exceedingly complex and requires extreme precision, with many unknown variables... And the people solving the p
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Makes me think. I can't be as confident there as I got lucky in that respect so my perception is distorted towards "it's easy". Based on what I observe from other people, I would think so as well. I think relationships a
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by jongjong 2mo ago
The framing that there is some unknown particle affecting the results is probably an understatement. Probably there are a LOT of unknown 'forces' affecting the results. Look at the size of the machine, the aging components, the nu
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by jongjong 2mo ago
My biggest mistake in life was thinking too big and aiming too high. Now I absolutely hate the saying "If you want to reach the moon, aim for the stars." This belief ruined me. The people who were writing desperate emails and bend
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by jongjong 2mo ago
I think that by the time AI can fully automate software engineering, it will be able to fully automate physical electrical work. The challenge in both cases is all the invisible, hard-to-describe stuff that people are doing which business p
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by jongjong 2mo ago
I don't see the need for MCP for most use cases where it's currently used. You can get better results with skills SKILL.md + linked .md files with curl commands inside... Just plain HTTP(S). I say this as someone who often prefers
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by jongjong 2mo ago
These are all valid points but not strong enough to warrant banning open models IMO. This is a new reality we have to live with, with new dangers we cannot avoid. Best solution is improving the social system, lowering the incentive for peop
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by jongjong 2mo ago
I guess in both cases, it's the result of the mind adapting to a strange environment. Once the strange environment becomes the new normal, the old (previously normal) environment seems strange. Probably in the first few days in the sub
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by jongjong 2mo ago
I feel like democratizing wealth and retirement has become harmful. Now we have a small number of extremely influential people who are essentially bribing and propagandizing the masses into voting them more money... Each win gives them even
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by jongjong 2mo ago
My position is that prediction markets are bad and harmful but so are all mainstream stock markets. They're all prediction markets. People collaborate to pump up the value of specific assets or contracts, leading to undesirable outcome
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by jongjong 2mo ago
This is true. Math is more abstract. Some aspects are more tangible; this is what they teach at school and undergrad university... But once you get to master level and PhD, it tends to become increasingly abstract... The utility is only vis
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Yep, about 10 years ago, the security of most major systems was relatively robust; I could not have hacked them. The people who worked there knew much more than I did and they didn't leave many gaps. Now I could hack essentially any sy
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by jongjong 2mo ago
You're right, I was typing each term as it came to my mind. Helm chart is the correct term but DevOps people would know what I meant.
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ETag is the HTTP response header which provides the shasum (hash) of a resource in order to allow the client to check if the resource has changed without having to load the resource. It's for client side (browser) caching. SAML is Secu
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They could drag it out by telling stories of situations they faced but information density would be low and repetitive. As someone who cleaned boats professionally for a year in my early days, I'm pretty sure I could convey all I know

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