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by paytonjjones 4mo ago
This point is very similar to the core plot of Watchmen
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by paytonjjones 4mo ago
Very cool! Many people don't know this, but all kids can learn perfect pitch before age ~5-6. So if you have kids, use the perfect pitch trainer function :) For a more complete training program, shameless plug for an app I built /
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by paytonjjones 4mo ago
You created the surveillance state to fight the surveillance state lol Edit: it's a joke people
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by paytonjjones 4mo ago
Yes that's a very good point. Even people who say they are deontologists often slip back into utilitarian arguments when they're not careful — for example, when arguing Kant's categorical imperative against lying, they slip i
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by paytonjjones 4mo ago
I think it's also worth noting that EA is closely linked to utilitarianism. Most of the pitfalls that people see in EA are the same pitfalls that are classic to utilitarianism, a la "we're going to do this thing we know is lo
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by paytonjjones 4mo ago
I'm generally more bullish on Musk than the average person online, and I still am completely baffled by these valuations. I'm hoping the market knows something I don't, because otherwise my total market funds are going to fee
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by paytonjjones 4mo ago
The low level foundations of intelligence, both human and machine, are just not well understood in general. It's totally plausible that different architectures could be capable of superintelligence at far fewer parameters than current
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by paytonjjones 4mo ago
Monarch Money is incredibly smooth and functional considering the complexity. Maybe it benefits from the comparison with the mess that was Mint though, haha.
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by paytonjjones 5mo ago
Very cool concept. A dictum that always sticks with me is "the value of a software engineer is the model of the code that lives in their head". I've been trying to square that with the AI revolution and I'd love to see m
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by paytonjjones 5mo ago
> walk around Japan Ok and then go into the average person's living quarters. There are many non-trivial differences that make these comparisons complex; GDP is about as good as you can get.
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by paytonjjones 5mo ago
Maybe I'm missing something but aren't PWAs pretty dead-simple on both iOS and Android? Maybe it's the "reliable storage" part that's the gap?
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by paytonjjones 5mo ago
Sorry but you lost me at this section: > When an agent writes code, the solution space is open-ended and tests catch hallucinations. Analytics is the opposite. "There's often only a single correct answer using a single correct
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by paytonjjones 5mo ago
dang this makes me want to reconsider WFH
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by paytonjjones 5mo ago
What they said was "until we figure out privacy" but what they meant was "until we figure out [the ten thousand byzantine regulations about] privacy [that could get us sued]"