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I remember reading somewhere that Yudkowski said that he had been convinced to "let the AI out of the box" in a conversation with someone, or maybe it was the other way around, but either way the convincing arguments were not reve
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Part of the problem is that businesses treat reviewing as a second class citizen. It's not "actual work" so shouldn't be given preference, which excuses the LGTM style reviews. I've been out of the industry for a
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Your indignation here seems a bit unwarranted. You definitely did bring the arguments about recognition and money into play and then basically gaslit someone for responding to them. You could have simply said that you misspoke.
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Even more hipster: A nicely machined piece of walnut and bespoke pre-rounded cards: https://ugmonk.com/collections/analog I love it! There's a disc-bound version for on-the-go as well.
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What perspective are you coming from where that is a crazy amount? If it works for one it will become a part of their daily life. Seems pretty reasonable to me. Most pairs of pants cost at least that much unless you're of the "I o
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Managing the line between daily and long-term tracking is one of the toughest parts. I have a flat list of files in Notes analogous to yours, but I'm not working in every one every day, some will sit dormant for months. Do I maintain a
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I'm also a fan of the minimalist approach, having settled on a combination of Notes app and temporary paper lists. When I'm feeling overwhelmed and really need to knock out some tasks, nothing beats pencil and paper for me. I rece
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* less joy of doing hard things Have you tried to fabricate such a box? I wouldn't be so sure.
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It's actually 338 years. I turn 38 today and was born in 1987. TIL Newton published the Principia exactly 300 years before I was born.
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I'm really not big on advertising. I dislike ads as much as anyone, especially when they're obnoxious and intrusive. But I feel like a lot of people, on here especially, have this "all advertising is the devil period lalalala
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Very thoughtful contribution, thank you. I'll just say this: make the algorithm work for you.
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This is completely wild to me. I honestly do most of my clothes shopping through Instagram/Facebook ads. I enjoy that targeted advertising shows me new products and companies that I'm interested in, often very niche stuff that I d
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The article does a good job of explaining that it's still a non-trivial problem even if you are allowed to distribute the weight unevenly, but I do agree that what is happening here is much more specific than a "shape," which
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But people used to manage those satisfactorily even before the advent of instant long-range communication systems. They still managed to keep each other updated and alerted about important events. There's got to be a logical fallacy
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I can relate to the common man that's just never been able to muster up the energy to give a crap. I use what the people I know use. I've felt way more annoyance towards that one friend using some obscure platform than I ever have
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Losing friends over choice of messaging app is crazy work.
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That's kind of Vegas in a nutshell, right? It's first and foremost about superficial glitz and glamour. Nothing wrong with that really, and they sure are good at it. I saw Eagles at Sphere with my family (part of the fun of that t
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I was certainly surprised when I saw images of the inside, and upon reflection wasn't sure exactly what I had had in mind or how that would have worked with the realities of infrastructure needs for a venue like that. But still, it fee
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It might seem a little bit deceptive that an attraction called the Sphere does not quite pull off even a hemisphere of "payload," but the same compromise has been reached by most dome theaters. This paragraph is bizarre to me, f
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It's still gonna be hallucinatory AI slop. For the same reasons it makes uninteresting quests and boring planets. It's lazy and it can't replace actual writing and art. AI is great for getting tasks done where you can pull th
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That's interesting. I didn't consider that it was AI at any point while reading it, and I don't use it very much. Going back I see what people are saying but I think it's more cohesive and compelling than what AI would w
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This is an extreme overreaction to usage of a regular word that literally describes what they are doing. "Compress" would have been less accurate. Say what you will about the website but the video is a pretty reasonable sales demo
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Oh I've seen Wild Wild Country, that made sense to me and there's a logical thread to follow. Osho was also (for some time) a legitimately intelligent and charismatic leader/writer/philosopher able to rally smart people.
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Very cool. Interesting bit about Heaven's Gate. I was young when it happened and have a vague memory of reading a Time magazine article with a cross-sectional drawing of the building with people in beds in different rooms. Reading up o
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Anecdotally I've never heard anyone say "VRBO." Maybe they are using it but just saying "yeah we stayed in an Airbnb" kind of like if you use Lyft but call it Uber cause that's the more common noun. So I feel l
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I think the core value prop of Airbnb is (or should be) to provide a different experience than a hotel. It may have been "cheaper than a hotel" at one point and idk what the numbers are on how people are using it but in my experie
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Just seeing the number of different ways people have typed the name in this thread reminds me that "Airbnb" has got to be the ugliest, most confusing, and least riffable name of any startup to achieve unicorn status. I would guess
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This is the story of life in a nutshell. It's extremely far from optimized, and that is the natural way of all that it spawns. It almost seems inelegant to attempt to "correct" it.
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This whole subthread - arguing about "the best songs in human history" without even the slightest attempt to define one of the most subjective things ever - is patently absurd.
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The realization that you achieved as much as one could hope to achieve and you still didn't find contentment. That's honestly, to me, the saddest thing about the mega-rich. They don't know when, or how, to stop. There's

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