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by jrowen 1y ago
Maybe let's not leap to medicalizing large swathes of the human condition and just accept eccentrics as part of life. I agree that a healthy dose of skepticism and acknowledgement of our rudimentary understanding is warranted, but it
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I don't really talk about it, I don't go around telling people I'm autistic, whatever it is is minor enough that I'm able to mask easily, if anything I casually reference "my ADD." I sometimes jokingly refer to
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I too experience many of these things, and I have been called autistic by numerous people independently, but in that tongue-in-cheek manner of our generation that has watered it down a lot. I'm nothing even close to the people on Love
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Doesn't that make it an even more important case study? I remember learning about the Therac-25 in CS undergrad specifically because it killed people.
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Just to clarify, I was the one that asked you, this was not my response.
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I just don’t understand that assertion when there is very clearly still a massive proprietary closed-source software industry. How are you measuring? A lot of people use open source packages, because they’re free and easy, to build closed s
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This doesn’t really seem to touch on the problem I have with news, which is that it is all doom and gloom, FUD and outrage. The headlines I saw: Trump, Congress deadlock as shutdown deadline nears Taliban cuts internet nationwide, flights g
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The default settings are interesting. Are there people doing this every 15 minutes, daily? And otherwise live a "modern" life? I don't meditate or actively practice mindfulness, the thought of it kind of gives me anxiety in a
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It was compelling and original when the concept didn't exist, or at least hadn't been successfully brought to market like they did. In a world where Twitter exists, and has the network, there is nothing compelling about a Twitter
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In fairness to you, I had originally skimmed the article and did later realize that some of my points had been addressed. In fairness to me, in this subthread I was responding to other commenters and asking them questions rather than commen
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the entire economic foundation of social media is predicated on high exit costs No I think it's predicated on creating a product that people like to use. That's the Step 1 that OSS zealots miss when they focus entirely on these
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I think a lot of people treat their own content as disposable also though. I don't know if most people would really care to save or dig through their entire Twitter history, for example. The rise of Stories is evidence of this. We&#x27
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So mysterious, so edgy. Hope you at least feel better, because you've utterly failed to communicate a coherent idea.
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I'm not sure what that means, can you give examples of good and bad incentive structures in this context?
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I am deeply concerned about the apathy people have towards the idea of ownership, openness and interoperability. It gives the idea that people just want to be fed TikTok and Instagram reels. Can you expand on this feeling? Why is it deepl
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Open source has clearly won. This is clearly a wild claim that almost undermines the rest of the argument, but to the extent that we can accept that there are open source software packages that decision-makers deep in that industry will r
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That's a fallacy, you've not studied logic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority Besides, I was largely agreeing and building on what you said (with a quibble over one word choice), so I&#x27
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I wouldn't say words are metaphors, I think of a metaphor as like a pointer, words are the actual mapping of arbitrary sounds to concepts that are relatively universally relatable to human experience. Children can learn language easily
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Why have none of the major players tried integrating a case? Making a ruggedized version? They could probably do a lot better and find ways to innovate with something integrated. Why do they ignore the fact that so many people use cases (an
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I think continuing to go for the classic Ray-Ban look is a mistake. I don't think this product is enticing to the Ray-Ban crowd at this point. Ray-Bans are for looking effortlessly cool, not maybe secretly filming people, it's a w
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With each generation things change, the goalposts get moved. What was cutting edge for us is the default state of the world for them. And things are definitely moving faster than ever before. But human nature does not move that fast. It&#x2
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Unlike social media, few of these forums have mechanisms to "like" or upvote posts so there is no reward for posting just to attract attention, whether it be positive or negative. Those types of forums are great, but just as a c
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We used to use our curiosity to find stuff we liked, which felt more satisfying than any algorithm's statistically-determined aggregation. Today's kids will still do that, in their own way. I'm not convinced there's an
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I'm gonna be that guy - was this article written by AI? Where were the actual clever/funny/bizarre anecdotes that the (IRL) Darwin awards are known for? This feels like a regurgitated summary of a run of the mill story...Taco
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A while back there was a "roast my Instagram" fad. I went to the agent and asked it to roast my Instagram without providing anything else. It confidently spit out a whole thing. I said how did you know that was me? It said somethi
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It may not be for you, then (and I don't think it's for me, either), but that seems consistent with the idea. You're supposed to let go of any kind of editing and just go go go. You can edit it later.
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I'm wondering if there's a connection between large number hunters, unwritten rule proponents in sports and games, and modular synth collectors. There's a sort of satisfaction derived from finding and defining order according
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Infinity is aspirational. Infinity is a concept, simple and self-evident, yet paradoxical and oxymoronic. I get kind of intrigued by these large number things at first but ultimately it feels like kind of a less elegant version of the same
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I think the biggest issue with the thought experiment is that there's never going to be one person sitting there that can press a button that irreversibly dooms humanity. There's never even an attempt at a logical sequence of even
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Someone brought up the point that more people will be doing more reviewing as more code is written by AI. If your job description is reviewing the codebase and every change that goes into it, you will be actively engaged. Whoever the most f

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