lucianbr

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by lucianbr 6mo ago
How many of the billions of people alive have your perspective? How many of our leaders even, given the news in the last... let's say two weeks. But you can look at thousands of years of history and to me it still seems that people and
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by lucianbr 6mo ago
The guy sent the bank a contract. It was the first contract between them, it wasn't a "new contract" (as opposed to the old one? no such thing), it wasn't a "change" to an existing contract. Why did he need to
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
I read it as being able to see the future, which is still bullshit par excellence. The future is just around the corner as it were, but us normal people cannot see it, on account of both it being the future, and around a corner. To be very
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
It's depressing to see how the system works. Sure, now there are different kind of terms in a contract, some are material terms and some are... immaterial? And conveniently, you can change some but not others in such a way that the
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
https://www.rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-2... I can never find an article that mentions the final outcome.
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
Moore's Law. The times for Murphy's Law for computational power are just beginning.
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
The game being reset makes sense - time and resources have been spent to make it happen, and it's best to get as much value from those resources as possible. Of course this means learning the lesson of how the first defeat happened. Yo
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
How does it look? I mean, what do the widgets look like?
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
Can you articulate why you think so? This kind of response "I just don't agree" reads as zero useful information. At least to me.
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
> is a theorized phenomenon I wonder why they put that "theorized" word in there. It would be so much easier to say "it is a phenomenon". Only that sentence would not be true now would it? Come on. The wiki article ju
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
> I'm really struggling to understand what we've grown into and why this rat race is considered 'better' > I happen to like my life in the city Ahh... you struggle to understand why a life you like is considered be
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
> But here we are, thousands of years later, Not like there was a general lack of tragedy, pain, suffering, war, chaos in the intervening thousands of years. Seems so superficial to ignore everything and just say if we're here, we e
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
There's a first time for everything, and an end to most things. The roman empire lasted hundreds of years, and then it ended. Many empires did. The sun will end too, at some point. Ice ages last for thousands of years, then they end. A
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
Textbook ad hominem. If the implication is that nobody sacrifices things for a principle or ever makes hard choices, that is so obviously wrong. Read some history.
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
Looks like this one might be while in general the rule does not hold. Good regulations exist, and so do bad ones. Arguments without nuance often do more harm than good to your side.
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
> Morality is a luxury that only the independently wealthy can afford. No. At least as I understand the word, "morality" means something different than "do the right thing when it is easy". If only those who can affor
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
How can you respect someone who betrays a principle you care about for money? Not to mention that the principles are not being betrayed now for the first time.
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
I get the impression that often it isn't laziness but the concept that error details leak information to an attacker and are therefore a vulnerability. I disagree with this view, but it definitely exists.
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
Did you really make a blog post to tell the world that you don't know some things? That's not usual. If that is true, the only conclusion is that you should learn those things, and I'm not sure what I am supposed to get fro
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
This particular line serves only to highlight the author's limited knowledge. I wonder what they meant by it. Also greyed out options have a point, they only seem "fucking useless" if you don't know it.
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
> The point is show how much you know and how smart you are. I like that this sentence can be read both as a productive, well-meaning view on interviews, as well as a highly cynical one. Also makes me wonder if the person will keep show
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by lucianbr 7mo ago
My read of the story is that the decision to hire was already made, the interviewer goofed but was then set on the right track by his boss.
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by lucianbr 8mo ago
> There will always be sick people and people killing each other. Any given drug or weapon can still fail or not make a profit. As well it could be said that computers will still need memory for the foreseeable future. You're not ke
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by lucianbr 8mo ago
> nobody wants to break international law I was with you up to this point, but my suspension of disbelief has its limits.
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by lucianbr 8mo ago
I think we mostly agree. Just "no RAM factories because we have more competitive advantage elswhere" is different than "no RAM factories because they are not guaranteed a profit". Are pharma and weapons really guaranteed
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by lucianbr 8mo ago
> nobody can guarantee it won't be again I hope we (Europe) can try some things even when they are not guaranteed to succeed and generate huge profits. Otherwise we are toast, though it might take some time to realise it. The concep
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by lucianbr 8mo ago
What makes it manipulation? If 5 companies want to buy a quadrilion ram chips to build datacenters, why is this manipulation moreso than a million companies each wanting to buy 100 ram chips? I think the problem is that both the buyers and
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by lucianbr 8mo ago
If Google and OpenAI and the rest would say this as loud as they praise their models, I would never write comments like that. But this is the fine print, buried somewhere. And so we need to bring it up, because, lo and behold, it matters.
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by lucianbr 8mo ago
> https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity Search for "review": 0 matches. Of course the fine print says to review, just like the ultimate control of the "full self driving" rests with the hu
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by lucianbr 8mo ago
That's how AI is supposed to be used, no? That's what the providers advertise - it increases development speed, a lot, it replaces devs and so on. But I guess it's only ok when you work on regular joe facing projects, where t

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