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by sandoooo 7y ago
The criticism is that it is made by and caters to low status people.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
It's remarkable how much of the criticism aimed at SV can be summed up as: # they're 20-something. # they're white. # they're male. # and this is low status.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
This is exactly Prisoner's Dilemma and all relevant literature applies. Iterate a few times with a large population and the optimal strategy goes to all sorts of weird places.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
So what you're saying is we should build a browser inside the browser sandbox?
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by sandoooo 7y ago
A barista is never going to make as much money as a CS major, but not everybody wants to spend all their time coding, and not everybody will be good enough at it to get paid. Lots of people want to be baristas and are capable of getting pa
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by sandoooo 7y ago
It is terribly verbose in Chinese too. It is verbose because it's straight-up copying the style of ancient books talking about formulas for magic, without trying to optimize for ease of use. A less verbose (but still mostly gramatial
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by sandoooo 7y ago
It's an esolang. I don't think it has much practical application over, say, Brainfuck.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
I think getting four years of head-start would make up for it a lot. Plus, not everybody is suited to the career focused college degrees and not everybody should be in them.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
As a society, a portion of the workforce has to do the plumbing, make the furniture, serve coffee, and do all the jobs that don't require college. The people doing those jobs shouldn't need to spending four of their most producti
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by sandoooo 7y ago
I see a parallel between this and the pushback against Electron, and the counter-argument is the same: more choices in software in general is a good thing, and lowering the cost of entry by dropping requirements in accessibility or performa
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by sandoooo 7y ago
>There's a difference between a one-off command-line utility, and implementing elderly unfriendly software. Say I released my console utility publicly. Say I make money off of it, one way or another. Am I obliged to make it work f
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by sandoooo 7y ago
In fate/go there's this meme that the devs are tracking 'greed', i.e. how much people want some rare reward, the idea being your chance of getting something you want from the lootbox system is lower if they think you can
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by sandoooo 7y ago
I'm excited about future applications that strap this onto some relatively simple, logically consistent, non-AI number-crunching program. As a toy example, Scott Alexander trained it to output chess moves in a consistent manner that a
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Until they get demonetized and deplatformed, at least. On that note, I've always found the continual survival of 4chan rather suspicious.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
The total number of billionaires in the US will drop to zero a week before this is passed into law (or maybe one or two, the remaining being people who have decided that ultra-virtue-signalling-slash-conspicuous-consumption is worth 6%&#x2F
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by sandoooo 7y ago
The context matters. Seen the democrat primary speeches? UBI is on the table. There's people in this thread right now advocating for it. The article is indirectly advocating for it. The whole thing is like advocating we drive 200mp
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Can they handle it now? Today? For the whole country? Because the problems are already here and people are advocating UBI so ideally we need those magical robots yesterday.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Concrete. Medicine. Fertilizers. Fuel. Plastic. Electricity. Water. Trucks. Wheat.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Do you have the robots today? Do you see them happening by the time the next government rolls around and UBI becomes a real choice? As a reminder, suffering the problems of UBI for just a few years without an actual, functional, non-vapore
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by sandoooo 7y ago
>More inefficiency than we already have? Yes, more than there already is. This is the standard thing that happens whenever there is massive redistribution of anything by government fiat. Stuff gets redistributed arbitrarily, people w
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Of course it is already here. I think this is in fact the core problem of Medicare and why costs are going up and up with no end in sight. In the same vein, all that a UBI / UBH would do is shift around allocation of actually-limited
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by sandoooo 7y ago
You're right, of course. We're actually faced with a choice between a world where some can defend themselves against injustice, and a world where some can defend themselves against injustice and also I write thinkpieces about how
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by sandoooo 7y ago
What's a better world, one where some people has the means to defend themselves against injustice, or one where nobody does but at least we're all equal?
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Let's say we have machines that will produce an unlimited quantity of any good that is currently on the market today. We put one in every house, since that machine can also produce copies of itself. Does this mean nobody have to work
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Have you done the math, though? Consider the not so extreme nonhypothetical of how many Zuks it would take to make Medicare/Social Security solvent. The only way to make an amount of extra taxmonies actually worth getting up for is to
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by sandoooo 7y ago
On a tangent on giving medical subsidy to the poor: this likely gets lumped into Medicare, yes? And Medicare is close to insolvency. The only way to prop it up is, of ocurse, taxpayer dollars. The difference between goods and services is
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Everybody is focused on the superrich, it's a convenient target. But how many Zuckerbergean fortunes does it take to balance the books on medicare? What's to stop him from migrating to the EU if it saves a few billion dollars? T
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Notice that it is basically impossible to extract a significant amount of additional wealth from the 0.1%. It is both well-defended (politically and legally) and tied up in complicated structures that are difficult to liquidate by force.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
What exactly is a body suppose to do with this revelatory revelation? Wallow, maybe? Is wallowing being suggested here? Maybe with a side of anger at the unjustness of it all? If only somebody would pay me a living wage for my great wallo
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by sandoooo 7y ago
On the other hand, this suggests there are low-hanging fruit in those areas. The trick is to find one that will produce money for you as a researcher/investor even if it's an unpopular opinion (i.e. not reliant on investment &#x2

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