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by joquarky 9mo ago
> LLMs could convert every company into a "flat" one, bypassing the manangement hierarchy It sounds like you're describing Manna by Marshall Brain
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by joquarky 9mo ago
> There is never a cannabis shortage Citations to the contrary: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5576607/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_endocannabinoid_defic...
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by joquarky 9mo ago
> That's because the loudest voices don't really get how the technology or the science works. They just know how to shout persuasively. These people have taken over the industry in the past 10 years. They don't care anythi
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by joquarky 9mo ago
That short story has been highly influential on my projections of the future. The ending is fantastical, but not impossible with enough time. BTW: The author recently passed away; grab a snapshot while you can.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Check out the short story Manna by Marshall Brain. It covers all of that.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Slaughterbots https://youtu.be/HipTO_7mUOw
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by joquarky 9mo ago
I like the walking videos with minimal editing. They feel more genuine and I get to see places I'll never get to see in person.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Temporarily
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by joquarky 9mo ago
As I enter my 50s, I've had to start consciously stopping to make notes for everything. It's a bit fascinating/unnerving to see similarities between these tools and my own context limits and that they have similar workarounds
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by joquarky 9mo ago
I'm sure a lot of shady activity can be found if someone does some kind of bulk analysis on IRS 990 forms.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Temperature can't be literally zero, or it creates a divide by zero error. When people say zero, it is shorthand for “as deterministic as this system allows”, but it's still not completely deterministic.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Elsewhere in this discussion someone pointed out that each Tesla robotaxi in Austin is being directly followed by a supervisor in another car. That resource constraint could explain the low number.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
> I went through this Ford engine plant about three years ago, when they first opened it. > There are acres and acres of machines, and here and there you will find a worker standing at a master switchboard, just watching, green and ye
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by joquarky 9mo ago
UBI will become at least as complicated as federal taxes. Perverse incentives will creep in.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
But why would a species that built an Apache helicopter want to waste its resources on attacking a termite mound?
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by joquarky 9mo ago
There is a certain type that loves to be contrarian, and they keep a whole mental library of "unintuitive factoids" at the ready for the topic to arise.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
It's like the old Sim City game where you can cheat in unlimited funds. This causes you to get bored and suddenly the disaster menu starts to become interesting.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
I was the same for decades until I moved somewhere with black widows.
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Just make sure you stretch several times throughout the day. Especially if you're an anxious person. Otherwise when you reach your mid-40s, you may find that you'll have to spend years painfully breaking up a lot of adhesions.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
God hates being anthropomorphized.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Centralized power + sentient beings who occasionally produce sociopaths = atrocities. This is why no one person should have so much unilateral power.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Not in the real world. Religions are inherently centralized, and sociopaths are always drawn to centralized power.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Ever notice how it's always "far left"? It's never just a simple leftist. It's never just a regular centrist dude who thinks things might be a little aggressive. It's always {extreme adjective} far left. Every
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by joquarky 9mo ago
I wonder if those who have come to realize that their thoughts are an unreliable narrator are less prone to be upset by the confabulations of genAI.
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I find it interesting that waterfall is becoming popular again.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
> I often feel like our industry has lost its sense of whimsy and experimentation from the early days, when people tried weird things to see what would work and what wouldn't. The gold rush brogrammers took over. They only care abo
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by joquarky 9mo ago
With decades of education cuts, top STEM researchers leaving the country, and immigration coming to a halt, I think you overestimate the future competitive position of the US.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
What good is blame going to do right now? Let's stop the bleeding before bike shedding over who done it.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
« According to the New York Times, the president told a campaign meeting last year that if it was up to Miller, there would only be 100 million people living in the US – and all of them would look like Miller. » https://www.thegu
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Yep, I got a three day ban from Reddit for directly quoting JFK (and nothing else) in my comment. I even attributed it.

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