patcon

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by patcon 4mo ago
I think I agree..! I get the sense you were feeling at odds with my framing? I wonder if it's that you're picking up that I believe "structure" is above any one person or set of people. In my conception, leadership is ju
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by patcon 4mo ago
> But if you think that the courage that Dario has regularly shown would be possible with a conventional "best practices" structure, I think you're kidding yourself. With respect to OP (who has a unique vantage from inside
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by patcon 4mo ago
> faster to go from London to New York in 1881 than Volgagrad the map is for 2026, yeah?
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by patcon 4mo ago
I've come to understand religion as simply a way to share a stabilized consensus reality in the high dimensional space of all possible beliefs. As in, it was easy for us to evolve to see the same physical reality (sight, sound, smell,
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by patcon 4mo ago
Another example of the adult entertainment industry driving critical technology infrastructure forward...? Makes me wonder: Does the adult entertainment industry have its own variant of the military's DARPA, or is it truly decentralize
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by patcon 4mo ago
Great point. It's probably obvious from my take that I build a lot of bespoke software, and have blind spots about the pitfalls of building at scale :)
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by patcon 4mo ago
Doesn't this just mean we need to get better at the active deconstruction and disassembly process? Like it's too easy to build, so we build more things we realize later that we shouldn't. Now, a comparable energy budget we us
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by patcon 4mo ago
Not necessarily the parent's fault, but the energy of this thread is not my favourite...
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by patcon 4mo ago
You're kind of an asshole. No thanks
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by patcon 4mo ago
Task a squirrel with justifying the risk of a fox, but from the biomolecular level. That is the level of the task you are setting out. There can be arms-races in domains that are unfathomable to the participants. A small mammal will die a b
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by patcon 4mo ago
Chad is one of the most high-integrity persons I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. He is not fucking around for clicks in any shallow sense. I agree with the sibling comment that your cynicism is deeply misplaced imho. I mean, you c
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by patcon 4mo ago
Sorry, but I also think you are complacent. This is generational destruction of reputation. As a Canadian, we regularly talk about "fuck American companies" in a way we never did. I still actively avoid buying anything from USA in
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by patcon 5mo ago
> Also, when taking its square root you get a distance Easy conversion into a distance metric is hugely valuable to making the property amenable to KNN-based dimensionality reduction algos (and I'm sure other things I don't und
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by patcon 5mo ago
No, it would be a waste to spend countless millions (nevermind the human capital of "attention") on the campaigning, without first validating that a true quorom of people even want to think about this, rather than a very vocal m
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by patcon 5mo ago
I think it's the fivethirtyeight of of historical significance, and Disney is one of the largest and wealthiest companies on the planet. So it's just kinda like "whoa, this is stratospheric negligence" or "whoa, wha
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by patcon 5mo ago
I feel that part of the insight is that many people reading this story may want it to be true as stated. All the upvotes and it's propagation in networks may lossily lay this claim (of course debatable) The beauty of surveillance is
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by patcon 5mo ago
I say this with respect and appreciation for your thoughtful framing, as I also feel for the author: I'm not a young man, but I believe your this-has-always-been-the-way-ism, is equally clueless, in shared lineage with all the old-dog
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by patcon 5mo ago
A citation is where you derived knowledge... If you haven't checked it and you are submitting something that should represent a ton of labour (and which will consume labour to review), you don't understand what you're doing
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by patcon 5mo ago
This is so true, but I've never heard it framed so clearly. Thank you! As as Maritimer who moved to Toronto (but who came of age as an adult outside the Maritimes), your comment def wakes me up to the moral imperative of resisting the
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by patcon 5mo ago
In case anyone else is wondering if others feel this: yes, i can feel the risk of dopamine overshoot while using AI. As context, I've historically had ADHD that is crippling to a certain normal lifestyle. and I def feel the risk of man
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by patcon 5mo ago
Thanks for engaging the idea! But it feels a bit differently, from my perspective. The lunch-eaters in my imagining are people working in messy collectives. I work in collective intelligence, and build tools for that, for collective introsp
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by patcon 5mo ago
> doesn't explain why it worked so much better for Poland than for Czechia, Slovakia and a few others. It's hard to see the other paths they could be on tho. One person's failure is another's raging success. It might
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by patcon 5mo ago
Ahhh I like that It's nested and recursive cathedrals and bazaars, all the way down. And perhaps the bazaar has finally arrived inside the favourite cathedral of most everyone here EDIT: out of curiosity, does anyone have any good exam
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by patcon 5mo ago
I wish you could have what you want, but I worry you won't get this, because life doesn't give you that, and these systems are tending away from machine precision, and more toward life-like trade-offs. I am almost certain that eve
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by patcon 5mo ago
I fuckin love this. It points toward the parts of "reduce, reuse, recycle" that capitalism has demonstrated no interest in serving
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by patcon 5mo ago
I recognize and appreciate that you likely believe your contribution is one of optimism, but respectfully, I feel ill reading things like this. Ever heard of Chesterton's fence? I don't believe we are more clever than our mother,
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by patcon 6mo ago
You perhaps have a unique neurotype that wouldn't experience the intended positive revelation from the reveal. You are still ruining something for many more others than you are helping. Please consider accepting what your critics are t
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by patcon 6mo ago
That's fucking bonkers that nothing in the system could see this as unusual and worthy of throttling. The embarrassment of this -- that a company LITERALLY SELLING machine learning services and expertise -- cannot spot such a thing...
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by patcon 6mo ago
Yeah, Trump is not normal, not playing normal politics. He's the worst form of opportunist. Like yesterday, does anyone actually think he thought he was posting a meme about being a doctor? No, he was faith testing whether he could LAR
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by patcon 6mo ago
I suspect there might not be love for this angle here, but there's something else that follows this format: God. Spirituality. Religion. I'm not religious is any traditional sense, but I'd argue that it's not always the

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