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by rhelz 3y ago
Sorry, it's hard to get across a very subtle point without making a wall of text. Can I refer you to my youtube playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztKlsAXBtE&list=PL2A800505A... where I have a series of sh
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by rhelz 3y ago
Thanks for digging out that definition. Alas, the author has inadvertently presupposed the existence of agents with free will by the very way they phrased it. Let me try to explain, without creating too much of a wall of text. For one t
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by rhelz 3y ago
Whatever free will is, this can't be the definition of it. Consider two computers, build for one and only one purpose: to compute the first 10 digits of pi. They do this without any external input. But one computer is made of vacuum
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by rhelz 3y ago
I’ve been a professional programmer since the Reagan administration, and interviews have never changed. Think of them more like fraternity hazing during pledge week. The reality is you have to be good at leetcode-style programming. It’s ha
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by rhelz 3y ago
I wish those who deny we have free will would give us a clear, precise definition of free will. What, exactly, is it that they deny we have?
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by rhelz 3y ago
:) they do. And if I could go back, I'd do it all again. A father's role is to provide the opportunities, and that obligation does not go away even if you know your kids won't take full advantage of them.
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by rhelz 3y ago
A college education for my kids...who dropped out before they got their degree.
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by rhelz 3y ago
chuckle I had Apple stock pre iPhone. What did I have to do in order to be rich? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. If I would have just quit working, hung out on a beach, and not sold any Apple stock, I would have made far more money than
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by rhelz 3y ago
As long as companies keep interviewing us as if we were ChatGPT, we'll have to be good at answering leetcode-style questions
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by rhelz 3y ago
I can give you some tips to help; Tip #0 ..,.
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by rhelz 3y ago
It's like buying a used car: it's not the years, it's the miles.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Lets not forget that we have universal health care and guaranteed basic income already--you just have to be >=64 years old to get it.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Some very good advice, which he gives very persuasive arguments for, but which I no doubt will go on to disregard ;-) Therefore, my very existence is proof that he is correct.
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by rhelz 3y ago
How about software engineers collude for bigger salaries? It's not even against the law, its called 'unions'.
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by rhelz 3y ago
sigh perhaps this was an overreaction. How about we nuke clickbait titles?
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by rhelz 3y ago
Anybody within hundreds of miles of New York, London, Frankfurt, and Shanghai would be dead. That's just 4 h-bombs, and thousands would be exploded. Get a grip man, any war between any two nuclear powers simply cannot be priced into
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by rhelz 3y ago
This article is insane, there's no other word for it. If anybody even survived WWIII, it would be to a life which was not even worth living. There wouldn't be anything like investors after WWIII. To all those billionaires buildi
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by rhelz 3y ago
Useless as a guide to predicting the future, but quite useful for future Elon Musks, who looked at the inevitable end of cheap fossil fuels and saw a business opportunity. If something is a must-solve problem, well, tautologically, that mea
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by rhelz 3y ago
Can you clarify? Seems like if a company is making accounting profit, that would ipso facto, in a free market, represent an opportunity for another company to come in, under bid them, and take some of that profit for themselves....and so
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by rhelz 3y ago
Isn't this just tantamount to admitting that we are not going to be able to control AI?
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by rhelz 3y ago
In any free market, at equilibrium, all prices for any good decreases to the absolute minimum required to produce that good. There is no profit--it is all competed away. If you want profit, you can't be in a free market at equilibrium
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by rhelz 3y ago
Since "knowledge" has been so hard to explicate, most people who still need a concept like that have moved on to a subjective Baysian model of belief. We can represent degrees beliefs, we can model how those degrees of belief sho
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by rhelz 3y ago
they are the kinds of things which invariable accompany visual experience. Other things which are in this kind are colors, spatial extension, and shape. They are a sub-kind of 'kinds of things which unfold in time'. That's
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by rhelz 3y ago
From the op: "there is still no complete and unambiguous explanation for what concepts are". Well, there's your problem. If you pick any related concept which you are clearer about, the problem vanishes. e.g. let's us
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by rhelz 3y ago
The economy didn't tank because they started raising interest rates, because the economy didn't tank.
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by rhelz 3y ago
I can kinda understand the bad call on inflation; after all, inflation hasn't been a problem during the professional lives of virtually all policymakers today. But how could anybody could have thought that the economy would tank, onc
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by rhelz 3y ago
Great News!! Like any big company, Bloomberg had its inertia, but it is way better than most. It has a surprisingly engineer-centric culture.
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by rhelz 3y ago
sigh why is this even news anymore? Executives will always ignore the brute facts of reality (after all, we just spent all of Covid working remote, to no perceptible detriment to productivity at all) in service of making excuses for earn
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by rhelz 3y ago
When I was working at Bloomberg, one of the problems I faced is that JavaScript doesn't have a decimal numeric datatype. This is a drawback which even Douglas Crawford has pointed out. Every time you want to display a price on the ter
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by rhelz 3y ago
I really wish I could take results like this at face value like I once did, but after the ongoing reproducibility crisis, I am very skeptical. Olfactory sensation decreases dramatically with age, so even if I bracket the above concern, ther

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