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by ryandvm 3y ago
I agree that the United States should rework the tax incentives that make large cars cheaper than they ought to be. That said... Vehicle size is a classic prisoner's dilemma. In a two-car accident, the larger car is likely to fare bett
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by ryandvm 3y ago
True, but the same can be said of almost anything. There are a lot of ways to be influenced and to have your priorities changed. The original post reads like someone explaining why they don't read books.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Indeed. I'm wondering if this guy avoids looking out windows too. God forbid you see something that changes your perspective...
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by ryandvm 3y ago
He is our wayward cousin. Elon is a cautionary tale about what can happen when a slightly clever, asocial, ADHD, internet troll finds himself with more money than God. He is the archetypal HN user gone off the deep end. This is like a vis
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I think he's come to peace with the fact that he paid $44 billion for an unprofitable messaging platform and he's not going to be turning it around. He's now giving up on the concept of short-form pub/sub text messaging
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by ryandvm 3y ago
This is how big orgs ALWAYS work. You have to get used to it or go back to the startup trenches. The startup pace can be grueling, it can have terrible hours, it can be unrewarding, but at least you're always working. At big orgs with
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by ryandvm 3y ago
If you can't tell then why would you care?
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by ryandvm 3y ago
LinkedIn is the social network your current and future employers/clients will see and as such, it's every bit as anodyne and synthetic as that would entail. It's a social network in the same way team-building excursions are r
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Reality Is Your Brain's Best Guess(nautil.us)
4 points by ryandvm 3y ago|0 comments
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by ryandvm 3y ago
What about meditation? Fasting? Adrenaline-inducing activities (sky-diving)? All of these alter your brain chemistry. Are they immoral?
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by ryandvm 3y ago
This. I was one of the founders in a software development co-op and the unfortunate truth was that almost all of our work came from connections one of us previously had. The good news is that if you do good work, and we did, that web of con
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Because, like guns, it's obvious that the despite the fact that the actor _should_ be responsible, the consequences for failure to do so fall on everyone else. If my car has been destroyed by the driver behind me because they were look
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by ryandvm 3y ago
It's like a button that takes $5 from the person behind you. Of course you're incentivized to press it. Doubly so if your victim has the option as well (except for the poor schlubs in the last row). Maybe we should all just press
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Eh, that's great for you (according to you), but for the millions of folks that are driving around staring at their phones, I am beyond thankful for this technology. I've been driving a Honda with the all the safety assists for se
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How far can an EULA go?(hackaday.com)
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by ryandvm 3y ago
That is a powerful metaphor.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Fair enough, but better than a human is supposed to be the point of all this. Who needs self driving cars if they're going to be mowing people down while they check their Instagram?
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Mmmm. That's the case with programs, but it's definitely not the case with neural nets. Much like you or I, NNs do things based on training, experience, and data.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
As Diogenes would have said, live like a dog.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Maybe they should put CoPilot in charge of ops...
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Yeah, it's sadly predictable that OP is seeing this play out in the workplace. People who cheat to get hired are also likely to scheme and manipulate their way up the corporate ladder. This happens at almost every company, every day. I
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Funny that we never quite understood how intelligence worked and yet it appears that we're pretty damn close to recreating it - still without knowing how it works. I wonder how often this happens in the universe...
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Indeed. These companies reaped record profits during the most locked down period of the last 100 years and now we have to hear them piss and moan because they're afraid the proles are spending too much time in the bathroom while they&#
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Worse, the LLMs will have all that access (email, text, conversations, viewing history) and they're going to be put to use advertising to you. Political ads that are custom tailored to every single one of your fears/interests. Pro
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Agreed. Seems like an excellent PR deal for Tesla but beyond that, it's just silly. I'm completely lost on how Las Vegas compared modern subway systems with an underground version of that amusement park ride where they put you in
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I always bomb the whiteboard coding portion. I've been doing this for over 20 years. I've been a senior engineer since before the iPhone existed. Fortunately, I interview well and can discuss many, many technical concepts deeply.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
> If mega wealthy man boys like Musk want to waste money in boys own adventure science fiction instead of making real change here in earth well that’s their decision. The problem is that the space boys aren't bankrolling this Mars d
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Man, they ought to put CoPilot in charge of their ops
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by ryandvm 4y ago
You lay it out so nicely and then rebut with "nah"?
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Bingo. So you're going to have to give your AGI a meta-objective of "don't get thrown in the bin" to get it to work aren't you? Does that not sound like the beginning of the sci-fi story to you?

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