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by keiferski 6d ago
I'd be pretty skeptical that the number of people that think this way is a few hundred, tops. Don't take the bizarro HN opinions to by representative of anything than some very isolated people. And no, most of the things you'
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by keiferski 6d ago
Viewing AIs as gods is the wrong analogy and mostly just signifies that the user of the analogy doesn't understand religion very much. For 99% of believers, religion is a cultural system, not a question of omnipotent beings existing or
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by keiferski 7d ago
This is one example of how knowledge is still useful, even in the world of AI. If you know about different art movements, aesthetics, etc. you can prompt images using them, and make stuff that doesn't look like the generic slop that us
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by keiferski 8d ago
Buffett has been planning this since at least 2011: CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Warren Buffett has told the CBS News program "60 Minutes" that after he dies, he wants his son to become non-executive chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. H
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by keiferski 8d ago
From what I understand, and I might be oversimplifying here; many of the differences between Indo-European languages today are a result of the languages that were there before. So the reason Proto-German and Latin were different is in part
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by keiferski 10d ago
Oh yeah I’m sure it was already a thing. Just cool to see that it’s become more mainstream.
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by keiferski 10d ago
Hey I predicted this awhile ago. Although it is kind of an obvious solution so I can’t claim much insight hehe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135416
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by keiferski 10d ago
Architecture built today is mostly optimizing for the developers’ budget and the local regulations.
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by keiferski 12d ago
Shopify is a public company and thus subject to far more regulations and expected behavior of the CEO. I also specifically did not merely say that being controlled by one person was bad, but that it was bad in the context of also being slow
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by keiferski 12d ago
I hope someone eventually does a deep-dive on the organizational structure of WordPress and how much of a mess it is. As someone that’s pretty much worked in/with WP for my entire career, it’s always seemed like the worst of both world
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by keiferski 13d ago
A useful term here is “instrumental reason.” The Ethics of Authenticity is a good read on the topic: https://jaredhenderson.substack.com/p/the-modern-malaise?r=5...
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by keiferski 13d ago
Most people don’t reach self-actualization and never have. This has nothing to do with AI. With regards to technology specifically, new tech has been making high-investment skills useless for the last 500+ years. The printing press, the loo
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by keiferski 14d ago
Yeah seems pretty obvious to me that most people are not going to be using a search engine in 5 years. In the sense of searching for something and combing through the results to find the answer.
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Tech Billionaires and Science Fiction(theatlantic.com)
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by keiferski 15d ago
I know you’re trying to be clever and critical (boy am I tired of this trope on HN) but no, I don’t agree. Being curious about a lot of things doesn’t mean you’re willing to invest 15 minutes every time you have a question. AI makes the cos
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by keiferski 15d ago
I'm not a programmer so I can't really relate directly, I was replying more to the idea of using AI as an information-gathering tool. I guess the analogy could be: with AI you should be doing more complex and more (quantity) progr
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by keiferski 15d ago
I can buy the idea that AIs are making people a lot lazier intellectually, on average. But I do think that for the atypical user that is "information-hungry," AIs are a massive productivity booster. I've probably asked ChatGP
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by keiferski 15d ago
Yup. If current-gen AIs were capable of writing articles, but not code, then devs wouldn't care at all. None of these articles would exist, and some new variation of "learn to code" would be the snarky reply to nay-sayers. In
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by keiferski 17d ago
No, because people talk to each other even when using their phones. This is easily observable in literally any social situation.
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by keiferski 17d ago
Big difference between being at an event and recording it via your phone, and using ChatGPT to make an AI image of it. Images are not all the same.
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by keiferski 17d ago
It kind of depends on your definition on high-performing people. The definition you seem to be operating by might work for the sort of the lone, cantankerous academic genius, someone who’s work is largely dependent on their ability to focus
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by keiferski 17d ago
This is such a contrived imaginary situation that is pretty divorced from reality. No one wants a fake AI photo to commemorate a real event.
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by keiferski 18d ago
They really missed an opportunity to use Chinese, and have the robot be in a hotel room.
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by keiferski 18d ago
Do you only read autobiographies, and by extension, blog posts/novels/etc. by people you morally agree with?
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by keiferski 18d ago
Yeah it does seem like he picked his story structure in 1984 and decided, “well, that’s done, now on to the interesting parts.”
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by keiferski 19d ago
The tone of the comment is sarcastic and snarky, not the content.
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by keiferski 19d ago
I read a ton so I can’t really relate directly; but I will say to try out thrillers. Most are written to keep you reading, because you want to see what happens next. Personally this usually means 20th century detective fiction (Chandler, Ha
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by keiferski 19d ago
William Gibson is one of my favorite writers, and it's funny because I think he has the exact opposite problem. Most of his novels open on the action, in some interesting location. But gradually they get weaker, with a few (Mona Lisa O
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by keiferski 20d ago
Ah right. Well normal restaurants are all open too. Personally I would let grocery stores stay open, but having Zabka, Carrefour Express, etc. open is a decent compromise.
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by keiferski 20d ago
I try not to reply to snarky comments, but - it's not noticeably worse than other days, unless you want to go shopping in the biggest mall in the center of the city.

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