pj_mukh

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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
How does a government express "anti-feminism". Surely you're not suggesting a reduction in voting power for women. So what else would make it seem "fair" to men in your mind?
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
FWIW, I'm not saying we are at full employment for all possible specializations and geography's , clearly some are out and others are in and we have some of the most immobile labor we've seen in a while [1]. The problem, as
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
Just to cut through the headline here. The largest chunk of Oracle layoffs were in India [1]. In comparison, they've barely fired any American workers. Contrary to popular opinion, IT workers aren't interchangeable and there exi
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
"returning to the moon in a more sustainable way" Isn't this the point of this mission? If your point is "it shouldn't take this much money", then I agree. But also point to almost everything else.
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
"Just like oil prices and the global economy, fundamentally everything is getting better." (implied /s) I remember having to pay a pretty penny to have a 3 minute conversation with my dad working half way across the world. No
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
"typically own the houses and they obviously don’t want the prices to go down." I've never understood this: If I replace a single home with 20 apartment homes, I've raised the value of the whole property at purchase time
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
I moved away to Europe where there are none of those things and my child can walk himself over to a park 10x the size of an American backyard. The chaos and noise (especially the car noise) are just an explicit choice American cities have m
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
This is the right answer. I have a child, work remotely and while I appreciate the flexibility, I kind of hate it for my career. The article is mostly vibe-y without any digging into why people with children need to commute from so far. I
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by pj_mukh 8mo ago
"This is a problem with a known solution that unfortunately still happens despite the best efforts to prevent it." Great, let's just apply that logic to Waymo as well and call it a day (see how silly that sounds?). Waymo has
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by pj_mukh 8mo ago
Yea but this feels like when a Waymo ran over a cat, and a Human driver ran over a toddler and both got the same level of coverage in the media (actually the cat got more follow-up coverage). And I'm supposed to believe both issues are
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by pj_mukh 8mo ago
all accountability need not be punitive, we can certainly talk about systemic guardrails. What I find disbelief in, is someone saying the Chief of Police saying "We are not going to talk about that today?" is not the biggest scand
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by pj_mukh 8mo ago
I'm sorry but this is a piss-poor excuse. When I Claude code broken features, I'm responsible 100%. Why are cops not treated the same way? OP is right, AI is totally irrelevant in this story. If the point is "cops can't
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by pj_mukh 8mo ago
"A lot of that comes from parental involvement and having a critical mass of engaged students and parents, not the dollar amount spent on each student." FYI, parent engagement is also heavily proportional to parent income/pro
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by pj_mukh 8mo ago
Bingo.
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by pj_mukh 10mo ago
Personally haven’t met any parents who don’t know this already. The problem is childcare not knowledge.
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by pj_mukh 10mo ago
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
On a Sidenote: I’d a love a list of CLOSED journals and conferences to avoid like the plague.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
“If people keep stabbing each other with knives then we shouldn’t make that trade just to be able to continue to cut vegetables at home” Tale as old as time itself. “But on balance it’s a negative!!” By what measurement? That’s simply a mea
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
“ technology that has some legitimate uses, it doesn't need a huge boost” That’s what I’m disagreeing with. “Legitimate uses” isn’t something just hanging out in the ether to attach itself to useful technology it happens via a grinding
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I think this is exactly the right intuition. I think people hopelessly underestimate the human tendency to do nothing. We have this idea that if an innovation is good enough it should “sell itself”, and that’s almost never true because acro
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
Their investments in robotics over the long term will lead to massive unlocks in productivity that hasn’t moved in some industries for decades eg sim2real tech leading to construction robots being used to build housing with 1/3 of the
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
Except NVIDIA is turning the roundabout investments into real silicon, data centers and extraneous software investments (see: IsaacSim, autonomy stack etc). They may not have the returns all the investors are expecting but they are an extre
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I don’t think speculation was the right word. Scarcity exploitation (something current investment firms love doing) is better and building new housing is not that.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
That’s what regulations are for. If AI was known to have the destructive capabilities of strip mining, with real evidence of harm then it should be regulated and would have much lower returns regardless of your morals.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
“I do believe there are better investments outside the AI bubble.” Then make them! I don’t have the confidence you have in this “scam”. For sure the valuations are inflated but I don’t think this infrastructure investment will be a waste.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
Happy to wield the hammer of Lina Khan to stop the monopolizing and rent seeking.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I think if you want the public to accept that the government will be a better shepherd of this money than a decentralized smattering of individuals then the government should provide evidence for this, once it actually opens up from a dysfu
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
But that’s not how investing works? It’s money looking for returns not social good (that’s what taxes are for). In that way AI is 1000% better than crypto or real estate speculation.
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I’m not saying don’t tax them or let them influence politics. I’m saying letting them go to space or turning sand into intelligence is infinitely better than buying land and charging us rent (what most rich people have done in history).
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by pj_mukh 1y ago
I see this take a lot, but it confuses me. There is no guarantee that LP’s would take that money and instead invest it in <tech I respect that is not AI>. They would just as likely hoover up housing around the country or some such ins

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