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by madrox 4y ago
I don't think any professional community is aligned on how to think about ML-generated content yet. We don't know how to apportion rights between the data owner, the model owner, and the end user, and I don't think existing c
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by madrox 4y ago
I have no basis for this other than human insight, but I suspect it didn't happen sooner because Jack didn't want to compete with Ev. It makes sense too if you believe that the internet is an ecosystem and you want to support comp
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by madrox 4y ago
Indeed. The bulk of the article is about how few local residents actually knew about the drone plan. The only real concrete thing in this article is from one man who was concerned the drones would be capturing imagery of his backyard.
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by madrox 4y ago
I remember when that memo leaked. I was an EM at Amazon, and that wasn't my experience. I didn't feel any more pressure to PIP there than anywhere else. Maybe I wasn't there long enough to feel it.
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by madrox 4y ago
Yes, their comp plans have changed in the last couple years because the stock isn't as exciting as it used to be. A couple years ago, it wasn't like this.
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by madrox 4y ago
If that's the attitude you want to take then I wish you luck. It sure sounds good and principled to say such things, but there comes a point where you're no longer building a better society and simply witch hunting. Being guilty b
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by madrox 4y ago
In my experience there, PIPing wasn't any more aggressive than anywhere else I've worked. The fighting was certainly real, though.
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by madrox 4y ago
This isn't a secret. Engineers are treated this way as well. At my time at Amazon, it was explained to me that this is why their comp structure is so wrapped up in stock and salaries are so low. Unless you keep getting promoted and get
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by madrox 4y ago
I tend to agree, but I think that's because people want to see these cult members fired and are working backward from there to find grounds. That's an easy lawsuit at best and illegal at worst.
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by madrox 4y ago
We like it when businesses take a stand on things we agree on. We don't like it when it's about, say, making a gay couple a wedding cake. What stand, exactly, are we saying Google should take? That they don't employee people
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by madrox 4y ago
I think the point was that you can't really go after nepotistic hiring practices alone without also throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Nepotism happens all the time, and it's usually benign, like Stanford grads hiring Stanf
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by madrox 4y ago
I don't think there's anything in the wording of the Lindy effect that means it's only a one way inference. It says the life expectancy of a thing is proportional to its age. That makes sense to me. If a product is going to d
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by madrox 4y ago
Only because the comment I originally replied to started it billionaires should not exist at all .
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by madrox 4y ago
I mean it in the dictionary definition of the term: a person advocating or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas. I'm aware there are conservative billionaires. I don't think that negates my view that you're more l
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by madrox 4y ago
And yet we think we'll get all phones on USB-C before too long
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by madrox 4y ago
Soon(tm) I'm reminded of a slide show on the metric system I watched in science class in the 80s. I have a vivid memory of hearing it say "soon everything in the US will be on the metric system" with a picture of a woman stan
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by madrox 4y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm more comfortable with wealth in the hands of progressive billionaires than a government that's likely to go on a regressive tear every four years.
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by madrox 4y ago
We’re going to keep doing Web++ until we learn to stop worrying and love the mess that is online identity. The fact is that the distributed data model will never be clean because, in aggregate, people don’t really care and don’t neatly fit
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by madrox 4y ago
This was discussed a bit in the original post [1] but I believe this comes down to the problem being sufficiently deep in the stack that there was an assumption that this wasn't something that could be improved on. I'm sure the lo
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by madrox 4y ago
I agree with everything you've said. I suspect this also applies to many criticisms of crypto and NFTs as bad for the environment. The impact is simply easy to calculate...not outsized to other industries. We certainly don't evalu
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by madrox 4y ago
> It's because Chinese define democracy by whether they believe their government works for their interest and whether they yield good results, not by how their government is elected. I'm going to be thinking about this sentence
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by madrox 4y ago
While I ultimately believe you're correct (along with open borders and travel) I wish there were more rigorous proofs that this were the case. I think about the line in West Wing: "Free trade is essential for human rights...the en
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by madrox 4y ago
The moral lens people apply to deepfakes feels myopic to me. There are lots of tools that have been built that have arguably done more harm that no one talks about, like port scanning tools. Perhaps because the the negative consequences are
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by madrox 4y ago
Then the question becomes whether Instagram would’ve become Facebook if they kept going. I believe they would have once they hit Facebook’s scale. Ironically, I believe you could take that Jobs quote, swap Apple for Microsoft, and you’d be
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by madrox 4y ago
I’ve heard this floated for a decade. The current product of that line of thinking is mastodon. It’s a profile you can host on your own server (or someone else’s) that has sharing functions.
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by madrox 4y ago
I’m not sure how we go from serotonin to pacification. That seems like a leap to me based on the role serotonin plays in the body. Regardless, I find the whole jump from product experience to neurochemical behavior a bit silly to begin with
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by madrox 4y ago
I've worked in social for over a decade and even attempted a startup in the space. If we're taking the dopamine hit mention in this article seriously, then the western world has completely fried its dopamine receptors. I've o
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by madrox 4y ago
I’m not convinced anyone else would have done anything different. I don’t believe this is a case of “the wrong people in the right place” since any unregulated massive opportunity in history has gone this way. Saying the wrong people were i
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by madrox 4y ago
Silicon Valley is great at rebranding things that already exist. Everyone talking a big game about the metaverse never played an MMO.
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