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by palmotea 7mo ago
>> One of the things I've loved most about HN is that it was real — grounded in observability, empirical evidence, not bias or feelings. > That has never been the case, because HN is frequented by humans and humans are biased.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
Apparently Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman were classmates at the original 2005 Y Combinator class. This article has a picture of them literally standing next to each other: https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/throwback
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> You’ve already rejected the advocacy why would I be trying to convince you of anything? Dude, you need to step back and carefully re-read this thread. You have no idea what's going on, and seem to be trying to compensate for your
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> Maybe the volume of AI content will finally get people to advocate for media awareness training, rather than the current strat of trying to scold platforms into only showing the manipulative content they side with. Not gonna happen. Th
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> The good news is that the Trump regime is unpopular, and doing crazy things is making them more unpopular. Actually, that's bad news too. It's the cope that's convincing Democrats to stick their head in the sand and avoi
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Look in the mirror as well. You started with the “punishing you just because”. You actually introduced the "punishment" framing, which I think was unhelpful so mirrored it back to show that. You should also note that I scare-
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> I am increasingly in belief that more of the world will be split into the cattle camp and the cattle with agency camp. "Cattle camp"? Seriously? FYI: you're off the rails if you use terms like "sheeple" unironi
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> That is your parent’s fault that it was bad for you. So don’t punish me or anyone else because you never learned control. I think you're suffering from a lack of empathy. That doesn't mean OS age verification should be implem
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by palmotea 7mo ago
Go for it!
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> Sam lost the plot for me. He took too many interviews which led me to not trust him. Last straw came with him standing by Anthropic one day then throwing them under the bus the next. He showed little awareness on why that is problemati
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Why is it anti-human to suggest that an underwater basket weaver should not make the same amount of money as a neurosurgeon? Because that's a hyperbolic exaggeration to make you feel fine about ignoring the plight of others? The m
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Pieces like this all seem to be written with an unspoken assumption that anyone who wants to make a living wage from being an artist should be able to, as if it's some sort of right. Comments like yours seem to be written with the
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Furthermore, I contributed to brainstorming the early Overlake cards in 2020-2021, drafting a proposal for a Host OS <-> Accelerator Card communication protocol and network stack, when all we had was a debugger’s serial connectio
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Elon is a social dumbass with the emotional maturity of an edgy 14 year old boy, but calling him a fraud I'd say is false and unproductive. Given the massive string of lies he spun about "full self driving" over the last
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> This has always been the case with the massively wealthy. They may be incredibly smart in their specific line of business, which leads them to an enormous amount of wealth and fame. ... Their own egos get inflated as a result, and a fe
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> Why do they always feel like they need to pull stuff out of their butts to make themselves sound like they know what is going on? Massive, unconstrained egos? They think they're hot shit, because they surround themselves with yes
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Electron get insane volumes of hate I don't know about the others, but I "hate" Electron more because I don't think the the devs of the software I use should have chosen it. It doesn't have anything to do wit
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Do you think the US has idle capacity that can be activated at a moment's notice? I'm sure some very smart MBA increased profits by eliminating spare capacity or making cuts that would make it much harder to spin up. That&#x2
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I've worked in these environments too, and I think the modern "open" office without assigned desks give a far greater creepy "liminal" feeling that old suburban cube farms. When you have assigned desks, people perso
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> Zen Z doesn't types to store knowledge. They would rather record the lecture or the meeting. I put aside my fone and put it on record while I am carefully listening to the meeting. I'm not even zen z. I would rather write tha
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> For folks with long wait times, maybe the advantage of "immediate access to AI radiologist" beats out "wait for human radiologist"? Would be interesting to weigh those harms against each other. The harm of getting s
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> I feel that fatalism, especially when people treat it as some sort of personal philosophy, is kind of lazy. I think a lot of fatalism is fake. It's really someone saying "I like this, and I want you to believe you can't
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> Right but then you don't need to change anything, simply measure how many people act the opposite way to what they were raised, and then you'll know. That's presuming the only influence on a child's development are
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> It's very easy to upset a human. Is it learned behaviour? Would a kid ever take "offense" to something like this... probably not, we must have learnt this at some point Are you human? You're talking like you're
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> The premise is flawed, humans learn from their environment and there's really no way to put a human in a coffin until they're 20 and see what they do then. Yeah, but you can also find that rate if you remove the trigger (abus
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> The top 10 percent of incomes pay 76% of all income taxes, the top 5% pays around 55% of all income tax. > I would say it’s pretty progressive. That's a lesson in misleading statistics. Inequality has risen to absurd levels, an
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by palmotea 7mo ago
>> 1. Let's be clear: what you're describing is faith. > And what I am countering is not? You can easily argue technology generally improves lives. Is it optimal? Beyond abuse? No. Does it have unintended consequences? Ye
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> Only cheap labor can bring manufacturing back to the US. Are Americans willing to work in factories for the same wages as the Chinese and Indians? I don't see it happening. Under conditions of free trade with low-wage countries.
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> It's unethical (if not outright fraudulent) to publish LLM work as if it were your own. I disagree on that. It's really a gray area. If it's some lazy vibecoded shit, I think what you say totally applies. If the human di
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by palmotea 7mo ago
Hooray! This is the future we've all hoped for!

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