mycologos

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by mycologos 2y ago
I think there are a few categories of people: 1) People with rich and deep social networks. People in this category probably have pretty narrow use cases for AI companions -- maybe for things like therapy where the dispassionate attention o
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by mycologos 2y ago
> I would suggest to drop "Amateur" from the title in the sense that languages are useful both professionally and privately - you never know in what language your next deal will be signed, your next networking acqaintance bumps
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by mycologos 2y ago
Hopefully the Simons empire has enough people who will keep executing his vision and stave off bureaucratic rot. Making money is one thing, but circulating so much of it back through math and science is a great legacy.
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by mycologos 2y ago
A somewhat cynical take is that "smart people" is doing a lot of work here. If you get to restrict your hiring to people who have proven themselves to be world-class in something, they are probably much more likely to respond to f
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by mycologos 2y ago
People kept flagging threads announcing Kobe's death when it happened back in January 2020, claiming they were irrelevant to HN. In the end, I think they all got deleted. In contrast, Terry Jones got his own black bar a few days before
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by mycologos 2y ago
I think there's a lot more pent-up demand to live in New York than (even pre-decay) St. Louis.
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by mycologos 2y ago
I never played any of the arcade games he designed, but the photos of them making nice physical objects for people to enjoy are inspiring. Stuff like this always tempts me into thinking about picking up making furniture or something, but ma
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by mycologos 2y ago
Another complication is that boredom was easier to come by in 1932. There are far more things competing with far more sophistication for our attention today. Boredom is underrated!
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by mycologos 2y ago
Who do you think should make the content decisions for these platforms?
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by mycologos 2y ago
I think your explanation is missing a competitive element that drives the $500 price. Two similar examples: 1) Maximum City is a book about various people in Mumbai around ~2000. One of them is a sort of stripper (she dances and sometimes
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Why you can't get a restaurant reservation(newyorker.com)
17 points by mycologos 2y ago|21 comments
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by mycologos 2y ago
> They do criticize the role of corporation and money in the development of AI power, but in a liberal statist way Rather than a revolutionary queer automated communist way, which is indeed disappointing. It's disappointing that the
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by mycologos 2y ago
What? It gives at least a partial answer in the first paragraph: > An expert has a track record and has had to face the consequences of their work. Failing is part of what makes an expert: any expert should have stories about how things
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by mycologos 2y ago
I don't know why there are all these ex-NYC residents who all but cross themselves and shudder when remembering their time there and then it turns out that they never tried to live anywhere other than the busiest parts of Manhattan or,
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by mycologos 2y ago
The instinct to shame people into being nicer to kids is in a way noble, but the confidence and vehemence of this comment is misplaced.
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by mycologos 3y ago
And here's yet another step: most other markets aren't as resource-constrained as housing is. If the Yankees win the world series and more people want Yankees caps, manufacturers can just make more. Demand goes up, supply goes up,
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by mycologos 3y ago
In my limited experience as somebody whose friends and family are all pretty well educated and pretty well off (for better or for worse, I work at a big tech company), gambling seems pretty class-specific. I don't know anybody who gamb
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by mycologos 3y ago
Yes, skiing and gambling are very similar, that's why there are all those hotlines you can call for help quitting skiing
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by mycologos 3y ago
> Unless you have an addiction to it there's no inherent difference between spending a $50 on a night out with your friends of losing the same amount at the casino. I dunno, people who do the former seem a lot happier the next day.
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by mycologos 3y ago
One quarter thought out software project, mild overthinking conspiracy theory, and a non sequitur misspelled reference to Dunning-Kruger. This is like a parody of a Hacker News comment
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by mycologos 3y ago
"unforgivable level of puffery" seems like an overreaction. Apple's total sales in 1978 [1] were only 30% higher than Vector's in 1979 [2]. Yeah, the industry growth at the time means comparing even consecutive years get
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by mycologos 3y ago
IIRC that's the name that friends and colleagues used to refer to him. It pops up in a lot of their quotes.
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by mycologos 3y ago
Fair point. I think a lot depends on how "real" the protagonist is. I have read and enjoyed several works with protagonists who make choices that extremely different from my own. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson comes to mind. H
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by mycologos 3y ago
Ramanujan is an interesting comparison. He was an outstanding mathematician, but it feels like his prowess came from a deep love of math and concomitant time spent on it. There's an anecdote somewhere about child Ramanujan working his
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by mycologos 3y ago
Deliberately making art that people think sucks seems like kind of a low bar?
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by mycologos 3y ago
Few things are as matter-of-factly depressing as an old person shuffling down into a seat, working blank-faced through a stack of garish little scratch-offs, and then throwing them all away
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by mycologos 3y ago
Sequoia put out a PR piece about SBF [1] a few months before it all blew up, and it's pretty amazing, and has made it a lot easier for me to believe that VC partners are maybe not necessarily that smart: > [Sequoia partner Michelle]
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by mycologos 3y ago
> Hence the angry replies and downvotes. Nah, I downvoted because "I didn't read the article, I just want to say the little rant I always say about this broad topic" is a comment genre I want to see less of.
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by mycologos 3y ago
I've now watched several dudes go through this process by following their blogs: 1) Build a small to medium size following writing about technical or entrepreneurial stuff 2) Make it to some kind of financial success (sell a company, a
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by mycologos 3y ago
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