krageon

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by krageon 4y ago
Torture is not the same as murder and by implying that they are you make it harder for people to advocate for less torture. Nobody wins in that case, not even you.
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by krageon 4y ago
A real conversation is generally not possible anywhere. Your boss has enormous power over you and the reality is that even if you are somehow special, they won't see you that way. It sounds hopeless, but if you approach your boss in
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by krageon 4y ago
And yet it's not, so clearly you are making a thought error somewhere along this heavily elided process.
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by krageon 4y ago
Managerial class is not that strange as a concept, they demonstrably do collude and perform favours behind closed doors. Legal class is a little strange, as that is a group of people that are mercenary: They won't really be in on anyth
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by krageon 4y ago
You might work for one that contributes directly to preventing the downfall of humanity. Sadly, that is non-profits / research mostly - and hilariously they will generally treat you like absolute garbage (which to me feels almost as ba
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by krageon 4y ago
Almost every corporation and startup is cartoonishly evil (in that it stupidly and persistently refuses to look at people, except as a vehicle to increase the high score - money). If I may ask, is there some sort of sector you've worke
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by krageon 4y ago
That's most of Enterprise application dev as it is. We can have that run by robots and have actual people do things that actually matter.
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by krageon 4y ago
If you put less detergent in the packs, they are cheaper per package. This is good, because that means the price can stay the same for more profit.
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by krageon 4y ago
Are you sick? No? Then what is the issue here?
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by krageon 4y ago
If they only cooled it down, the water wouldn't be so incredibly disgusting
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by krageon 4y ago
And more dangerously, whenever they are trying to influence you it will be more subtle. People get used to them being "clean", where that state is essentially impossible due to the input. It creates a false sense of security.
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by krageon 4y ago
It is a fact that this is a widely held belief that has been expressed by many philosophers. That you dislike it is another matter entirely. Why is it relevant that you feel that is controversial? More related to your actual problem with it
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by krageon 4y ago
> This is the point I am specifically disagreeing with. I think a language model that is just mocking human speech will not be able to accurately represent emotions and goals in a way that cannot be detected. It would be more interesting
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by krageon 4y ago
You assume that your personality cannot be (semi-)successfully simulated as something that only barely diversifies from everyone else.
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by krageon 4y ago
That is already far above most people, so I think I agree :)
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by krageon 4y ago
> There's so much DEMAND for friends, that people will gobble up your supply if you offer it This is true, but only if you're attractive and somewhat charismatic. I would say that means it doesn't apply to the majority of
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by krageon 4y ago
Thank you for the detailed response! Given all of the context you give I can see why you could arrive at a conclusion that it is bad. You and the other post seem to agree it is (summarised by me, correct me if I misunderstood) about subvert
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by krageon 4y ago
The bit about original wording I can follow, thank you. The bit about it having to resonate is kind of a problem because it just does not :) Even if I know people find it great it just doesn't inspire anything in me. Perhaps I have to
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by krageon 4y ago
I've never been able to distinguish bad from good poetry. Over the years I've asked many people (including teachers) to explain it to me and they cannot. Can you? I would really enjoy understanding. To address your criticism: To b
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by krageon 4y ago
This is a problem that is so incredibly solved it has spawned a giant industry of SaaS providers preying on the fact that a lot of engineering managers don't really understand simplicity. Raking in the cash without doing much of anythi
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by krageon 4y ago
Most people's lives don't rely on software to continue in any material way, outside of some extremely specialised circumstances (e.g. medical equipment). Just because someone's life is impacted by software doesn't mean t
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by krageon 4y ago
Money will never compensate fun. It's just what you do so you can eat at all. I have not met a single person who on their deathbed thought "I could have had more fun, but that's fine because I have money".
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by krageon 4y ago
> To imply that Costa Rica's education is somehow superior to India's is misrepresenting the situation. You fail to explain why it is a misrepresentation. In fact, you don't address it at all outside of this statement.
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by krageon 4y ago
Exactly this is the reason, but I'll go even further and say that no corporation will advertise something "green" that might require actual effort on their part. The clear fact is that environmental impact is almost entirely
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by krageon 4y ago
This sort of fundamentalism isn't what stimulates societies to make peace, which you ostensibly want. The way to peace is tolerance and getting Russia to see that too, not drawing lines in the sand and beating your chest. That leads to
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by krageon 4y ago
As with javascript a lot of PHP's problems are not inherent to the language but rather to the culture around it. It must be avoided for that reason, but it is hard to state that in full every time. So folks use the shorthand you see.
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by krageon 4y ago
It's not weak as such, but there are gotchas in this faq (mostly related to metadata and key file caching) that effectively mean a casual user won't have end to end encryption. That said, I do not know of a cloud provider that doe
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by krageon 4y ago
We can't have rules that aren't governed by nationality, because the US basically only sees nationality. TikTok is called "an issue" not because of what it does, why it does it or how it does it. It is called that becaus
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by krageon 4y ago
Everyone says this, but in terms of discoverability of the actual apis I have found the opposite is true. Azure tends to have docs with small mistakes, but they are extremely thorough. With AWS it seems to be a tossup: You can be lucky and
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by krageon 4y ago
You can perform very strong cryptography on a 70 cent microcontroller. While that is more than 50 cents, the considerations are quite simply not purely cost (and certainly not to the extent that you quote). Given your explanation, I do not

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