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by madrox 1y ago
Is it really those things, or is it that as we get older we have something to lose? I could go live like I'm 20 again...reduce my spending to nothing, work all day on whatever I believe in...but that would cost me my family's comf
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by madrox 1y ago
I don't see how what you're saying is at odds with the author. At no point did they say Vonnegut was a failure before Slaughthouse Five. Only that he, like many others, didn't produce their opus until later in life. This isn&
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by madrox 1y ago
I think the people who need to hear this message are not in their late 40s, but are in their 20s thinking that they have to do it now or they never will. I see a lot of ageism on X from people who are clearly young and inexperienced, but wh
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by madrox 1y ago
I don't assume that at all. Investors absolutely know, but investment is predicated on returns. You can't do that if you can't give a timeline for when value will be generated unless your investment is so small it's prac
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by madrox 1y ago
In any field where there is a creative element, progress comes in fits and starts that are difficult to predict in advance. No one can accurately predict when we'll get the cure for cancer, for example, in spite of people working on it
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by madrox 1y ago
Well said
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by madrox 1y ago
It depends on who is creating the definition of evil. Once you have a mechanism like this, it isn't long after that it becomes an ideological battleground. Social media moderation is an example of this. It was inevitable for AI usage,
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by madrox 1y ago
Software engineering in general is pretty famous for unironically being disdainful of anything old while simultaneously reinventing the past. This new wave is nothing new in that regard. I'm not sure that means the people who do this a
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by madrox 1y ago
The web doesn't need gatekeepers the way you don't need a bank account, driver's license, or a credit card. You can do without it, but it sure makes it harder to interact with modern society. The days of the mainstream intern
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by madrox 1y ago
Maybe lucrative isn’t the right word but it’s more profitable than the alternative. Call it simple but there’s only so many ways to monetize people that feel entitled to digital works and refuse to open their wallet.
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by madrox 1y ago
You’re totally right, and that’s why I think this era will fail. Web 2.0 failed because eventually people realized to make money they needed to serve ads, and to do that they needed to own the UI. Making it easy to exfiltrate data meant swi
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by madrox 1y ago
Every time there's an industry disruption there's good money to be made in providing services to incumbents that slow the transition down. You saw it in streaming, and even the internet at large. Cloudflare just happens to be the
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by madrox 1y ago
There is a difference between blocking abusive behavior and blocking all bots. No one really cared about bot scraping to this degree before AI scraping for training purposes became a concern. This is fearmongering by Cloudflare for website
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by madrox 1y ago
How long before we hire psychiatrists instead of engineers to debug AI
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by madrox 1y ago
I don't think what you said negates anything I said
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by madrox 1y ago
I've read LessWrong very differently from you. The entire thrust of that society is that humanity is going to create the AI god.
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by madrox 1y ago
Managing is a hard job, which is why so many managers are bad and yet, in spite of the efforts of C-levels for decades, the role hasn't been eliminated. There's some wisdom in here, but I would not give this article to a new manag
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by madrox 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37626877
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by madrox 1y ago
I've been saying for two years that "any sufficiently advanced agent is indistinguishable from a DSL." Rather than asking an agent to internalize its algorithm, you should teach it an API and then ask it to design an algorith
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by madrox 1y ago
Absolutely
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by madrox 1y ago
I also found this take interesting coming from someone at ILM where they grafted Hayden Christensen into Return of the Jedi. Though in this day and age I can’t help but ask “why not both?” It feels easy to add a choice to your viewing exper
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by madrox 2y ago
Nothing the author said is wrong, but I don’t know how much it matters or if it would’ve been better if it handled all this out of the gate. I think if MCP were more complicated no one would’ve adopted it. Being pretty close to OAuth 1.0 an
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by madrox 2y ago
I'm reaching for ChatGPT almost exclusively now, but if I talk to others I say I "googled it" because if I say I got it from ChatGPT the uninitiated don't trust it
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by madrox 2y ago
A very fair and reasonable point
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by madrox 2y ago
As a supervisor I didn’t resonate with this until I remembered in some jobs I have communicated the company attendance policy but didn’t enforce it unless someone was a poor performer. I trust adults to manage their own time until they give
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by madrox 2y ago
Had the privilege of watching him receive an award from EFF years ago at ETech. Gave a brief speech. Struck me as a gentle man who really did what he thought was right and for no other purpose. It took moral strength to do what he did. I ho
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by madrox 2y ago
It's on DirectX's wikipedia page with citations. Indeed, the way DirectX got received caused Microsoft to change their stance, but it really was the work of three engineers who didn't take no for an answer.
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by madrox 2y ago
As much as I'd like to give Microsoft credit for this, I don't think they deserve it. There's multiple historical writeups documenting how management had written off Windows as a gaming platform and did not support the origin
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by madrox 2y ago
I think anyone who is afraid of AI destroying our field just has to look at the history of DevOps. That was a massive shift in systems engineering and how production is maintained. It changed how people did their jobs, required people to le
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by madrox 2y ago
I find it easy to believe. If Russia can run a psyop to sway opinion towards supporting their interests why can’t China? HN is hardly some tiny unknown forum.

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