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by qgin 3y ago
In his recent interview with Lex Fridman, Beff Jezos / Guillaume Verdon compared Effective Accelerationism with Effective Altruism in a way that was really striking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fEEbKJoNbU > (02:
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by qgin 3y ago
X is an un-ownable name/word. It's the 2023 version of the artist formerly known as Prince.
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by qgin 3y ago
I should have been more specific. There's no technical reason for binary apps to be the dominant form of apps on phones, given that most apps are pretty simple experiences.
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by qgin 3y ago
It's true, but a current version of a native app has minimum OS version requirements that make running on an old phone impossible. If you're just willing to have the same hardware requirements for mobile web, you've got hardw
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by qgin 3y ago
The vast majority of apps are just text, images, and buttons. Maybe a video player if you're getting wild. Not really anything that requires processing speed except to just render stuff on a screen and wait for touches. They don't
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by qgin 3y ago
There's no technical reason this needs to be true though. It's wild that I can use a full-featured spreadsheet instantly on the web on my laptop, but on my phone someone wants me to download a 100mb binary to order a pizza.
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by qgin 3y ago
It's not outside the realm of possibility for web apps to have as good of an experience as binary apps for most use cases. But Apple has no motivation to make "the good stuff" easily available to web developers. Letting a web
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by qgin 3y ago
It takes 2-3 weeks to get products from Temu. It takes 1-2 days to get products from Amazon.
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by qgin 3y ago
Each issue is unique. We can evaluate training of AI models on its own without needing to accept child labor.
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by qgin 3y ago
Things are about to get a lot worse for generative AI in the United States They are about to be infinitely better for generative AI in China.
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by qgin 3y ago
Whether that's fair and livable is a separate issue to consider. If it's not fair and livable, it doesn't mean that setting a lower minimum wage is the answer.
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by qgin 3y ago
Think of how many employees you could have if you didn't have to pay them at all.
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by qgin 3y ago
I will say HN is a site that I regularly use my /etc/hosts file to block myself from accessing to take breaks. The prevailing vibe of HN is eminently logical but punishingly severe and kinda depressive. But then there’s also a lot
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by qgin 3y ago
What sort of things don’t work well? Phone actions or knowledge / info type questions?
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by qgin 3y ago
There's a lot going on in this comment
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It's wild to imagine that 40 or so years from now, someone will have a drawer full of cheap plastic boxes, each with more power than the fastest computing cluster of 2023... promising to themselves that one day they're finally goi
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by qgin 3y ago
We need to bring back computer seating
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by qgin 3y ago
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2023/11/buick-ranks-first-in-j-...
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by qgin 3y ago
Historically speaking, the end of tyranny or dictatorships is almost never due to the person at the top dying of old age.
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by qgin 3y ago
You can make your health in older age worse by not exercising. But no amount of exercising can fight aging.
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by qgin 3y ago
>inappropriate care by catching unsafe or low-value care, or care not consistent with the latest clinical evidence Part of the issue is that doctors use clinical guidelines as baseline best practice document (but then have to care for pa
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by qgin 3y ago
In what way are doctors a monopoly?
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by qgin 3y ago
Just to clarify what I meant, it's the regulatory aspect. The FDA wouldn't even accept a new drug application for the indication of "longevity" or "lifespan" or anything like that. It wasn't considered a v
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by qgin 3y ago
This is the first time the FDA (any part) has allowed a drug for the indication of longevity / lifespan. That's a big deal.
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by qgin 3y ago
This post is a data point about the definition of “healthy diet”.
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by qgin 3y ago
Also in that same video: “The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything.”
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by qgin 3y ago
Science is just about solving the problem of ignorance. Engineering is about applying the science to real world problems. We’re mostly in the science phase right now.
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by qgin 3y ago
It would be hard to find a single human who could handle nearly any/all economically valuable work. Getting good enough to get paid in one field is an achievement.
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by qgin 3y ago
I would take pretty much any bet that it's less than 10 years max
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by qgin 3y ago
There will come a day when 50% of jobs are being done by AI, major decisions are being made by AI, we're all riding around in cars driven by AI, people are having romantic relationships with AI... and we'll STILL be debating wheth

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