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by lasky 6mo ago
How many people actually do this? My point is if the sycophancy helps drive user engagement, how does that impact the incentive labs and AI product builders have to counteract it.
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by lasky 6mo ago
Thought experiment: If you could turn off all the sycophancy in your chatGPT / Claude account forever, and have it tell you all the ways it was previously blowing smoke up your ass — would you do it? US Policy is too weak of a tool to
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by lasky 7mo ago
Noone seems to have mentioned that Gstack has "Telemetry" on your usage data. Is this not a backdoor way for YC to get signal on what people are building and find more startup ideas?
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by lasky 7mo ago
Other forces that contribute to the "AI is taking our jobs" narrative: - Layoffs due to insufficient demand in uncertain economic times - Companies selling AI need to claim "we are so great with AI we don't need as many
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by lasky 7mo ago
The laws of supply and demand don't apply to housing in the Bay Area. We need affordable housing, not more housing for rich people, made by rich developers. Just because my house is worth $3M and I have $3M in stock options doesn'
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Ask HN: Anyone here at a startup with leadership they respect and admire?
3 points by lasky 1y ago|3 comments
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by lasky 2y ago
This is incredibly impressive. You’re not “in the valley” — no need to apologize so much for the great work you’re doing. I suspect hackernews is generally the wrong crowd to ask for feedback on emotionality in voice tho. Some of these folk
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by lasky 2y ago
Read between the lines in all my interactions… what is the most important thing for me to focus on or blind spot that will “set me free” to living life from a place of empowerment, confidence, ease, thoughtfulness, values alignment, and dee
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by lasky 2y ago
From our interactions, it seems you’re highly ambitious and goal-oriented, with a strong drive for both professional success and personal growth. You’re insightful about your strengths, particularly in sales and relationship-building, but y
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Ask HN: Seeking Realistic Code Base for Product Demo
2 points by lasky 3y ago|1 comments
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by lasky 4y ago
Let me ask you an honest question. If you had to wake up tomorrow, as either a foxconn iPhone factory worker, or a Berkeley graduate student, which would you pick? How different do you think those experiences are?
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by lasky 4y ago
“This is not an identical situation to the delayed bonuses discussed in the article.” Not even close my friend. I would trust that instinct. People working 6-7 days a week, doing labor, in a factory, in shit conditions. Desperately clinging
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by lasky 4y ago
I have doubts you or anyone would actually follow through on such a ridiculous claim. I (and I have to believe many) would be thrilled to interview and work with folks who decided to stay at Twitter during the Elon takeover. In an era of wa
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by lasky 5y ago
yeah, well, we might have our heads up our asses when it comes to housing people, but at least we can order shit online that shows up the next day!!!
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by lasky 6y ago
/strums G, D, C on guitar/ “If I had a billion dollars...”
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by lasky 6y ago
Lean into and leverage your genuine curiosity about the worlds of the people whom you’re building for, and keep coming back to it. Be willing to explore your curiosity for the problem(s) your product will be solving, and the natural/un
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by lasky 6y ago
I was motivated to quit smoking cigarettes because the girl I started seeing said they were gross. The way I quit was by purchasing a brand new pack, unwrapping it, and placing them in the glove-box of the truck I worked out of all day, doi
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by lasky 6y ago
need to add to their TOS: “if we think you are a dick we reserve the right to make emotionally overreactive decisions like canceling and refunding your account” also, to OP.. maybe try being nicer ?
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by lasky 6y ago
Are anyone’s rights to free speech actually threatened? Or is there just backlash from the public. I’ve noticed how this “You take away my free speech when I get backlash when I speak some idea that is now interpreted as X-phobic or harmful
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by lasky 6y ago
dynamics: “oh shit, the public is now aware of how broken my moral compass is. let’s continue to frame this internally as a “PR” problem rather than address the difficult reality: a light being shined on our apathy toward our users and our
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by lasky 6y ago
“I want to do something that makes this not just about trusting us.”. Is that because deep down inside you know the public would be foolish to trust your company in its current form?
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by lasky 6y ago
“oops we forgot to NOT do the plainly shady wrong thing and make your private data public, for our benefit - thank you SO much for reminding me. Shady shit will never happen again. I promise. ;)”
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by lasky 6y ago
this is so much fun.
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by lasky 6y ago
I think the biggest problem is all the enthusiasm / money / speculation around every piece of “tech” being the next “big thing” I’m wondering this for you and myself: could you be happy and fulfilled letting go of the “tech” dream
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by lasky 6y ago
stop worrying about VC’s. trust me, it’s a rabbit hole of pain and perpetual disempowerment. better to focus on figuring out what perspective you’re currently missing to how you can better help your customers THRIVE.
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by lasky 6y ago
it’s all downhill from here.
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by lasky 6y ago
Javier Soltero has a long history of getting useful shit built well and in people’s hands, quickly. Nice to see him still at it, not hampered by even Google’s bureaucracy.
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by lasky 6y ago
hairy internet troll here. What’s most interesting to me is that even an immortal software founder such as PC can find themselves in situations where their company has deeply rationalized actions that, to both the general and technically so
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by lasky 6y ago
this kind of "journalism" makes me sad. In my view it's plainly an attempt to scratch an itch to validate our disappointment with the lack of empathy we see in GOP politics; but instead of expressing that, the author stokes h
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Association of Daily Step Count and Step Intensity W Mortality Among US Adults(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by lasky 6y ago|0 comments

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