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by mlsu 10mo ago
You know, I think you may be onto something. Perhaps we all should just live in a massive prison. The cameras should be on us 24/7. Society is nothing without hard rules, by just rulers. Ideally, kinetic enforcement applied for any mis
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by mlsu 10mo ago
Everyone who would have said no, every leader, with self-respect, has been removed or fired, at least in the executive branch. Every person with a spine who resigns or gets fired is replaced by someone a bit more sycophantic (and craven&#x2
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by mlsu 10mo ago
From a straight business perspective it's not a waste of time, since the candidates you reject may be candidates you want in the future. It's always good to be polite. It would be an advantage to send a form letter nowadays, since
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by mlsu 10mo ago
I can think of an easy way to have the controls accessible no matter what's going on on the touchscreen, but then again that's probably what disqualifies me from being the CEO of a big car company.
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by mlsu 10mo ago
Private equity goes to housing because there is a return there. A housing can either be an investment or be affordable. It cannot be both. Those two things are completely at odds. When something is an investment, it must become unaffordab
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by mlsu 10mo ago
Y-yeah. HYPOTHETICALLY, this is something an adversary to the USA might attempt to do, and it would really kneecap the US if they were successful. But would only happen if USA decided to totally financialize all sectors of its economy and m
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by mlsu 10mo ago
Moves like this should be illegal. It's becoming increasingly clear that OpenAI is going to get lapped by Google on technical merits. So this is the "code red" solution? Supply shenanigans? They are getting beat in the develo
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by mlsu 10mo ago
Netflix was still competing with blu-ray/DVD/cable at that point. "why should I watch TV on the fiddly computer when I can just pop a disc in?" or "why should I turn on Netflix when there's clearly stuff on cab
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by mlsu 10mo ago
I had to google Landian to understand that the other commenter was talking about Nick Land. I have heard of him and I don't think I agree with him. However, I understand what the "Dark Enlightenment" types are talking about.
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by mlsu 10mo ago
That's a great metaphor, thanks.
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by mlsu 11mo ago
You don't speak Cantonese. How can you possibly call yourself an intelligent person if you cannot speak Cantonese?
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by mlsu 11mo ago
I think this is true to an extent, but it's actually far deeper and more basic than that we fear being watched by others. "the self" is formed in relation to others, it is not formed by itself. The way that people think of th
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by mlsu 11mo ago
Engineer: “It crashed on an assert…” Pointy haired boss: “… well, what are you waiting for!? remove all the asserts so it doesn’t crash any more!”
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by mlsu 11mo ago
We are just very sharp when it comes to seeing small differences in images. I'm reminded of when the air force decided to create a pilot seat that worked for everyone. They took the average body dimensions of all their recruits and des
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by mlsu 11mo ago
I agree. Good movie characters are good because they act like real people.
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by mlsu 11mo ago
No. It's not the subscriptions or lattes. Those are markets that have real competition. It's the sectors of the economy that have become consolidated. Food, insurance, banking, healthcare. There is very little competition in those
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by mlsu 11mo ago
I think this is because Anthropic has principles and OpenAI does not. Anthropic seems to treat Claude like a tool, whereas OpenAI treats it more like a thinking entity. In my opinion, the difference between the two approaches is huge. If th
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by mlsu 11mo ago
I did. But also, it's instructive. This mindset is everywhere.
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by mlsu 11mo ago
I think there’s not much you can do other than placing it very far away from the house. Those big packs just have way too much energy.
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by mlsu 11mo ago
I want my whole life to be optimized, so that I can consume far more but get nothing out of any of my consumption. Anything that requires art, ingenuity, and human effort can be compressed to a simple bullet point summary. I don't care
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by mlsu 11mo ago
Lots of people do all kinds of things that are not explicitly written down at their jobs. Those things cannot be tokenized, they cannot be taken in by AI no matter how intelligent and sophisticated it gets. They are judgement calls, made
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by mlsu 11mo ago
They remind me of the apparitions in Solaris. They have this like mechanical, almost player-piano like quality to them. They both connect with and echo us at the same time. It seems crazy to me and very intellectually uncreative to not thin
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by mlsu 11mo ago
BTW. how do you explain this without invoking 'back in the day'? I sound like a retiree!
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by mlsu 11mo ago
Back in the day, when you went onto the internet, you exited the Real World and went into the Internet World. I remember when like, there was one internet-connected device in the household, it was a computer with a keyboard that you sat dow
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by mlsu 1y ago
You can think of the hypergolic fuel as a type of spring. The chemical energy stored in the bonds of the fuel is what pushes the fuel products apart when it reacts. This is what pressure is, it's nothing more than KE of molecules. The
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by mlsu 1y ago
Yes, speaking from USA perspective. For everyone else, some win some lose I'm sure.
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by mlsu 1y ago
it's just incredible. Internally, these huge corporations behave exactly the same as a good old fashioned USSR bureaucracy: endless meetings where no work gets done a huge class of bureaucrats (manager, senior manager, VP, senior VP,
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by mlsu 1y ago
Yeah, of course. But the argument is, at this future point, you must adjust policy to meet your obligations: either you can print more money, or you can cut services. But you must choose one or the other of those things. The issue I think m
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by mlsu 1y ago
This is it. and: true across the board, not just restaurants...
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by mlsu 1y ago
He already has. Firing Jerome Powell and pushing rates lower, in spite of reality on the ground, is effectively a form of soft default. (That, plus the laundry list of other things, which is too long to fit into a single HN comment) The US

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