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by nefitty 5y ago
The leak involved information on the calculated ROI of Chapelle's last special. This is more akin to a vegan employee leaking how much McDonalds pays for beef, revealing that it is a loss leader. That jeopardizes the relationship and p
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I definitely had a naive little image in my mind of how things would be, but I see where you're coming from. I think one of the things that would push monetization techniques like the ones you mentioned would be if the hardware doesn&#
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by nefitty 5y ago
I feel a weird sense of loss for Google Glass. I feel like the controversies that set it back also set back the entire AR space. I wonder what life would be like if I could wear a HUD that showed me an AR overlay. It might bubble up an aler
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by nefitty 5y ago
My meditation technique is purely focus-based. I pay attention to my breath, and tether my awareness to it. I fully believe in the power of meditation, which means it can go wrong if used incorrectly, just like any other powerful mind-alter
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by nefitty 5y ago
It's insane! Add to that that his mind is still churning. How much work did he do or how lucky did he get to accomplish that amount of health...
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by nefitty 5y ago
"Hug me! The cameras are pointed at us!"
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by nefitty 5y ago
It is sort of beautiful in a way. It reminds me of how people will look back on a musician's discography when they pass. For programmers, maybe looking through their code and the unique voice they expressed through it is what we do.
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by nefitty 5y ago
I expected something more granular than brain waves, but it's interesting nonetheless. Some of my favorite memories are playing music with my friends. In the moment it has no philosophical flavor because everyone's focus is so pin
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by nefitty 5y ago
What do you consider the potential of cryptocurrency to be? Specifically, which of those potentials excites you?
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by nefitty 5y ago
I wonder if this would work for programming. Closing your eyes, then recording yourself describing an architecture or module.
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by nefitty 5y ago
This is true for all problems people face. Ultimately, the genetic lottery predetermines a wide berth of our experience. Our environment determines the rest. If society wants to change behavior it finds deviant or unhealthy, its main tools
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Thanks for saying that. Sometimes HN makes me feel like I'm a lot dumber than I realize, but I'm so dumb that it's obvious to everyone else here lol
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by nefitty 5y ago
I recently received a response to one of my comments saying that GPT-3 can't predict the future. From a naive understanding of the basic way it works, if it can generate subsequent words and phrases that follow the rules of a language
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Yes, I see I messed up. These types of conversations are so rare here that I didn't stop to think of how my comment would unnecessarily increase divisiveness. I could have conveyed my good faith intent in a more intellectually curious
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by nefitty 5y ago
It's not at all arbitrary. My starting position is that I want to be free of pain/suffering and I want to be able to pursue my desires and preferences. I take those as inherently good. I apply those internal truths to other living
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by nefitty 5y ago
That's not an argument. Sentient beings can feel pain and have preferences. Killing them involves acting counter to at least one of those facts.
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by nefitty 5y ago
Whether plants feel pain or not doesn't impact our responsibility to reduce the suffering of animals we can naturally better empathize with. Plants lack pain receptors and the nervous systems to process pain signals. Whatever their &qu
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by nefitty 5y ago
I'm not sure what your criticism is. There is no way to describe a sentient being without those two words. A sentient? I think it is naive to believe anyone can live a perfectly moral life. The difficulty of the project doesn't me
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What? Yes. Killing sentient beings is objectively wrong.
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I wonder if the government could create a regulatory AI that could be applied to social media companies. As laws and regulations change, the AI would just need to be updated and it would enforce them automatically on the companies.
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by nefitty 5y ago
I hoped it was something that fanciful, but didn't expect it. Your comment brought to kind something. I wonder if GPT3 et al could be used to invent or predict futures. I know AI is being used to work on domains in science and having s
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by nefitty 5y ago
Sometimes I wonder what the effects of increasing cultural segmentation are going to be. When I was younger, people I met at parties or shows were way more likely to share multiple cultural touchstones with me. Broadcasts like Subterranean
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by nefitty 5y ago
Perhaps it's an unordered list of similar items?
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I'm arguing in good faith here. Isn't Russia actively using information warfare to destabilize enemy democracies? Isn't China using cyber warfare to cause economic harm to other countries? What is it about the USA that is wor
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Not sure what your agenda is, but you're clearly ignoring the uniquely fashy things China and Russia are doing.
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That's not the point...
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I discovered this turn of phrase today when I typo'd "hot dog" as "hit dog" in Google.
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by nefitty 5y ago
My parents worked service jobs their entire lives. One of my main memories of my time as a child is my dad napping on weekends while my mom was at work, with me sitting watching TV. As I grew up and learned about "self-actualization&qu
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I've noticed this behavior in high-performing people in the past. I've tried implementing it, but it is so foreign that it's easy to forget to do. The third-person self talk is called illeism. My idea was that illeism combine
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I don't know if it's a shortcoming on my end, but whenever China comes up on HN, my antennae extend a little farther out. I think the more naive belief would be to think that HN is somehow immune to shills and bots...

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