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by km144 2y ago
The current US Administration does not understand the basic mechanics of American hegemony. I think Trump truly believes that we are getting ripped off and stand to gain nothing from our current position with the EU and other allies. But if
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I think the point about used cars would have to imply that newer used cars are more reliable than older used cars, which would cause the supply of cars in the market to saturate more quickly, thus causing less demand for new cars. Not sure
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I think that's great for work and great for corporations. I use AI at my job too, and I think it certainly does increase productivity! How does any of this make the world a better place? CEOs like Sam Altman have very lofty ideas about
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by km144 2y ago
I'm not convinced that LLMs in their current state are really making anyone's lives much better though. We really need more research applications for this technology for that to become apparent. Polluting the internet with regurgi
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There is certainly something cultural going on—at least in the US, I notice this. Older generations will look at you with puzzled expressions if you ask them about what made them decide to have children and why they thought it was worth it
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I agree with you—destruction of bureaucracy with no plan is a recipe for disaster. I only meant to take the administration at it's word for a moment.
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It is interesting for a targeted campaign like this administration's—which claims to be concerned with government waste and inefficiency—to cut employees for one of the only organizations that we know causes decreased revenues for the
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He also said this, in the same blog post: > Ensuring that the benefits of AGI are broadly distributed is critical. The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most of the metrics we care about (health outcomes, economic
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Congress is also ignoring the principles laid out in the Constitution by acting like presidents have unilateral power when they do not, and were never intended to. Many members of Congress have defended Trump's actions on these issues
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Reasonable take, but to ignore the politics of this whole thing is to miss the forest for the trees—there is a big tech oligarchy brewing at the edges of the current US administration that Altman is already participating in with Stargate, a
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by km144 2y ago
Same as the big tech companies, probably make all of their products worse in service to advertising. AI-generated advertising prompted by personal data could be extremely good at getting people to buy things if tuned appropriately.
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Why does HN automatically edit titles??
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by km144 2y ago
That seems like a very narrow-minded view of the role of engineers in society. At the end of the day we aspire to solve problems that make the world better—I'm certainly not going to fault individuals for following the money, but to di
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Amy Klobuchar is probably the Democrats best example—she just once again significantly outperformed the other national Democratic candidate (Harris) in Minnesota. Personally I wouldn't trust Tulsi Gabbard to win anything. what the Dems
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by km144 2y ago
1. The margin of victory does not matter—If Trump won, the Democratic establishment would have largely accepted the results and if Harris won, the GOP would have fully rejected the results. Everyone knew this was true. There is a fundamenta
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If you work in knowledge fields, I'd imagine it's not too difficult to immigrate to certain countries. But also those fields pay far more in the United States than any other country in the world, so it's a tough thing to comm
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JD Vance isn't president, Trump is. Trump does not care about breaking up big tech. What are we talking about here?
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Another example of Democrats being really poor communicators on specific important issues—they could easily frame renewables as a protectionist issue and make it relevant but instead they don't know how to talk about it so they just av
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I mean considering the degree to which people on this site style themselves as intellectuals, it would be pretty astounding to me to hear that most of them voted for Trump this time around given his fairly disastrous economic agenda. Mostly
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by km144 2y ago
I don't know if variety is actually the most important thing, but it certainly helps. It's probably more like: 1. Eat whole foods—prioritize nutrient-dense vegetables and some fruit in moderation. 2. If you can, vary your whole fo
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by km144 2y ago
I don't think the universe can have "meaning" in the human sense, because any potential "meaning" is outside of our field of observation or understanding. If something indeed created the universe or some definitive
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by km144 2y ago
That's fascinating, and yeah it's just the kind of thing I was thinking of—the concrete example is nice. There is indeed something quite perverse about the fusion of philosophy and unfettered laissez-faire capitalism in the inform
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I agree with you if we're just talking about the people who work somewhere. I would say that the founders I'm referring to certainly at least partially delude themselves into believing that their intellectual prowess encompasses o
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> The combo of intellectual grandiosity and intense competitiveness was a perfect fit for me. It’s still hard to find today, in fact - many people have copied the ‘hardcore’ working culture and the ‘this is the Marines’ vibe, but few hav
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by km144 2y ago
The bleak reality is that most Americans trust private corporations more than their own government. Government-sponsored search is literally 1984. If it's just a competitor, we've seen that unless there is an external force drivin
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I tend to agree—however I think the point of the article is that, regardless of whether this an ethical or "good" practice, it represents a pulling up of the ladder in a social media landscape that most users would agree is not in
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For the explanation of hysteria: 1) Nuclear disasters are acute, traumatic events that can have drastic effects on health of people and ecosystems for generations 2) Nuclear power sounds like nuclear bombs and nuclear radiation, both of whi
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This is exactly how most on this website sound to be honest--people who got good enough in their field to convince themselves that they can speak authoritatively on some unrelated complex topic.
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It doesn't seem like this is really focused on changing "the core of the language" though, is it? I guess I don't even really get that particular criticism for languages like Java and C# which I always kind of see as &qu
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by km144 2y ago
I'm sorry no one got the joke—this website basically just consists of people with high-functioning autism so you probably need a /s on that one

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