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by parpfish 2y ago
Don’t things decompose underground as well?
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by parpfish 2y ago
Especially because it wasn’t like target came out to say “we hate DEI now”, they just realized that any corporation that had a DEI program was going to open themselves up to legal issues so they just can’t say things out loud anymore.
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by parpfish 2y ago
Why do you have to bury them? Can’t you just let the logs sit on the forest floor?
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by parpfish 2y ago
How do you know we’re not just completing the next token? It seems eminently plausible that the way cognition works is to take in current context and select the most appropriate next action/token. In fact, it’s hard to think of a form
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by parpfish 2y ago
the founder has so much more control over the direction of the company and what an exit looks like that it makes sense for them to want equity. As an IC, there’s little I can do to affect the company valuation because I’m just executing the
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by parpfish 2y ago
My take on stochastic parrots is the similar to the authors concluding section. This debate isn’t about the computations underlying cognition, it’s about wanting to feel special. The contention that “it’s a stochastic parrot” usually implie
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by parpfish 2y ago
I wouldnt be be surprised if there’s already a “relationship free” movement/group/trend similar to “childfree”.
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by parpfish 2y ago
Or maybe the porn gives them everything they need from a relationship and we’re seeing that there’s a larger segment that genuinely doesn’t need/want to be in a relationship.
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by parpfish 2y ago
The label “single” is weird. In most cases it just means “not in a relationship” and doesn’t tell you about marital status. But if you’re in specifically asking about marriage, it can mean unwed (and I’m sure it gets even trickier for pol
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by parpfish 2y ago
For me it’s not that I want to have a ton of friends like they do, it’s more that I worry about how we each perceive the relative importance of the relationship. E.g., they are one of five friends to me; I’m one of 50 friends to them.
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by parpfish 2y ago
I think that’s just insecure people in general, unless extroverts have an ability I don’t know about that makes them immune to charming sociopaths
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by parpfish 2y ago
As an introvert that’s been consciously working to make new friends, I’ve noticed a couple phenomena: - I’d love to be friends with other introverts to enjoy quiet times together. but… int-to-int pairs will rarely form in nature, however ex
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by parpfish 2y ago
When you leave a startup like this, do you have to leave all your IP behind? If you leave on bad terms and start another similar company, could a vindictive former partner come after you legally because they own your old work?
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by parpfish 2y ago
“Tyranny of the the marginal user” https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi...
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by parpfish 2y ago
Should’ve just gone with calling it Al. Seems friendly and you’ll mistake it for actual AI until you look closer
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by parpfish 2y ago
Isn’t that the crux of the question? Figuring out what all the maintenance stuff our bodies need to do every night and how it works seems useful
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by parpfish 2y ago
It was a mistake to use the term “hallucinate” in AI. It’s a decent metaphor but it’s best to avoid terms prone to anthropomorphism.
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by parpfish 2y ago
as long as we're floating what-ifs... what if UBI led people to think "i can go live wherever i want, regardless of job/market conditions"? herds of young idealists and artist-types deciding to take over cheap realestate
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by parpfish 2y ago
in this particular case you're probably right, especially for the people opposed to DG on 'local character' grounds. but it's not like YIMBYs literally say "yes" to every development. there's also DG oppo
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by parpfish 2y ago
> I get that government subsidies tilt the scales it's not just the subsidies that tilt the scales, its also efficiency of scale with the chains being able to do more/cheaper because they are a big chain. and it's really h
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by parpfish 2y ago
> "we're not against change, we're not against business, if you want to open a nice little coffee shop and bookstore, but Dollar General just isn't quite a good fit." this line stood out to me because it mirrore
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by parpfish 2y ago
i think that the factor determining which jobs get usurped by AI first isn't going to be based on the cognitive difficulty as much as it is about robotic difficulty and interaction with the physical world. if you job consists of readin
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by parpfish 2y ago
I was thinking about this and realized that if we want an AI boom to lead to UBI, AI needs to start replacing the cushy white collar jobs first. If you start by replacing menial labor, there will be more unemployment but you’re not going to
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by parpfish 2y ago
Doesn’t the US already have direct bank transfers with Zelle? I don’t know why cashapp and Venmo took off but Zelle stayed unknown
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by parpfish 2y ago
How does spanefeller and g/o have enough money to keep buying properties? All I ever hear about are his decisions that take unprofitable-but-beloved brands and turn them into detestable slop. Is slop actually that profitable?
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by parpfish 2y ago
but i think all of those universes with the random string would branch off from teh same 'root' universe with the same history up to the point when you decide to generate it, so things like the x86 instruction set should be consis
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by parpfish 2y ago
but this replaces "an infinite amount of time" with "an infinite amount of universes" so why not wake up every morning and make a random string because it guarantees at least one of you out in the multiverse just got som
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Ask HN: Can you use a quantum RNG to create all possible programs?
1 points by parpfish 2y ago|6 comments
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by parpfish 2y ago
The hope would be to get an intro like “This is parish, a normal 1x coder that makes a normal amount of money so please be forgiving when he doesn’t understand something”.
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by parpfish 2y ago
And now that so many jobs require hours of take home assignments, it’s even harder to align interviews at the same stage.

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