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by ketzo 3y ago
“maximize the available land” Part of the author’s point is that single-stair buildings can be built economically on much smaller pieces of land. This increases the number of plots — especially in urban environments — on which you can build
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by ketzo 3y ago
I agree about the derivation bit, but “File a takedown notice for every NYT article ever published after proving GPT can reproduce each one” is not what I would call a clean solution. That’s basically a regulatory DDOS attack. Current copyr
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by ketzo 3y ago
Where are you located? Not specifically, but urban, suburban, rural, remote? Anecodtally: I am in a super-urban location. I order Prime 2-day, on average, twice a week. It has been late maybe once in the past year; often, it comes a day e
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by ketzo 3y ago
Don't you have to put some amount of trust in an idea to even consider verifying? And have even more trust in the idea to perform your experiments in the first place? Even in medicine, there has to be someone willing to challenge s
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by ketzo 3y ago
This is great context and I really appreciate it. I honestly thought of Discord as being super stable even in 2020; interesting to hear things felt rickety, internally. My sense is that Discord was exploring a lot of different ideas for mon
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by ketzo 3y ago
They have been trying a lot of different routes for monetization, and over a pretty short time period. Adding lots of little things to Nitro, more community server monetization features; at one point, Discord was even trying to sell games
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by ketzo 3y ago
I'm sure their userbase grew in a big big way during the pandemic, but honestly, by the beginning of 2020 Discord was already a massive operation. How much more headcount could pure scaling explain? I think you're more on the mo
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by ketzo 3y ago
Fair question, but there's a pretty direct line. ZIRP means that huge capital managers (sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, 401k managers, etc.) get very, very little money on the super-safe stuff they like to buy. They need to make
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by ketzo 3y ago
Eyeball test with zero context, but honestly? I doubt a 17% layoff will cut deep enough. That still leaves them with more than 4x the employees they had in 2020 (when the product had already reached massive scale and, IMO, very high quali
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by ketzo 3y ago
I think it’s worth noting that actually, they pay the most of the FAANG companies, and they pay all cash, no RSUs. They also have some extremely generous benefits - one that comes to mind is 6mo fully-paid parental leave. Netflix compensa
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by ketzo 3y ago
I don't think it's necessarily just true that there is something wrong with how we handle stress. We also subject ourselves to different types of stress. A peasant farmer was dramatically more likely to experience violence in a
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by ketzo 3y ago
That's a great idea, I think I'll start doing that. Sounds super worthwhile for very little effort.
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by ketzo 3y ago
What a great resource, both for self-reflection and for a student who wanted to chase a similar career. I should really do something similar for my history of paid work. It’s not like I have a crazy illustrious career or anything, but it ca
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by ketzo 3y ago
Not to be the “have you tried AI?” guy, but I feel like this could be a GREAT use case for some kind of LLM-powered search! “Show me good options for displaying dense data” or something would be sooooo cool.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Oh man this is an awesome talk, thanks for linking! Quick excerpt: > The player said “I lost a 2:1 battle, and I get that, I know I should lose that sometimes.” > I said, okay, so what’s the problem? > He said “well, I lost a 20:
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by ketzo 3y ago
Intuitively, yes; factually (looking at the last 30 years of tech), categorically false. Tech begets tech, tech jobs beget tech jobs. Personally, I think we are not remotely close to “peak software” in particular.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Some people claim AGI will. If you believe in the heights of “singularity” talk, we should expect some pretty fundamental changes to the basics of our lives. Not sure how much stock I put in that, though.
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by ketzo 3y ago
I mean, very broad strokes, but I can see GP’s point. - people eat plants and animals - people pay money for goods and services - there are countries, sometimes they fight, sometimes they work together - men and women come together to creat
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by ketzo 3y ago
I went to a university with a great computer science & video games major, and while I didn’t finish out all the credits, I took a couple of the videogame classes; holy shit, you will never learn more about how to abuse geometry and data
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by ketzo 3y ago
The article talks about the dependency ratio in depth, including why it's not a perfect metric: aging people tend to disproportionately do work that is not tracked, e.g. volunteer work and caregiving.
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by ketzo 3y ago
It's funny because there are careers that have figured out the kind of lower-work senior roles you're talking about -- doctors and lawyers come to mind right away, with surgeons who work 1-2 cases a week and senior partners who
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by ketzo 3y ago
I do think it’s a little lacking in palm trees, though.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Many videogames are fun for me personally, and I think that’s about the most complete answer anyone can give!
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by ketzo 3y ago
I think the author is broadly correct: I think basically everyone can agree that we're in an AI investment bubble, and it is important and interesting to try to evaluate what, if anything, will be left when it pops. But it strikes me
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by ketzo 3y ago
I mean, I think they’re intentionally avoiding any interaction with the traditional financial system. Super not a lawyer, but if you’re not even interacting with dollars, let alone acting as a custodian for customer funds… does KYC still
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by ketzo 3y ago
This is pretty cool. I know people are generally cynical about crypto at this point — I certainly am — but I’m also enough of, I guess, a techno-optimist to believe in the possibility of a new “payment rail” for the internet. Good luck!
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by ketzo 3y ago
It really thrills me to imagine that someone, a hundred years from now, will have a collection of their WhatsApp messages distributed as evidence that they were “one of the early 21st century’s wittiest minds.”
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by ketzo 3y ago
> and the only reason Apple operates this way is to lock people into the ecosystem. Honest question: is there anyone who doesn't already think that? Even at, like, a legislative level?
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by ketzo 3y ago
What do you do for work? Where are you in your career?
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by ketzo 3y ago
It is a shame that this could never, ever happen politically, when from an outside, dispassionate perspective, it just seems obviously and objectively correct.

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