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by saulpw 4mo ago
Hoarding wealth is itself quite boring. There are many goals a person could have for their life, and "getting more money" is the least interesting. My question is always, TO DO WHAT? If you can't answer that question in so
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by saulpw 4mo ago
Companies don't serve poor people; they have no money. Companies will pivot to serving the people who have money. If that means they only serve rich people, then that means we'll have more yacht makers and fewer dollar stores.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
But a programmer is born every minute.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
I've been in situations like this, where the cars in front of me turned into circus animals, and let me tell you, I didn't react intelligently.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
I agree that there is some 'higher' intelligence that is about knowledge creation; say, mathematical inventions like RSA, or new philosophy, or coming up with interesting mathematical problems. But I only asked what is 'requ
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by saulpw 4mo ago
90s were a different era. Also encryption is small code. Try printing Fable weights on a T-shirt and see how far you can get.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
I know; if I hadn't experienced it myself, I would have a hard time believing it. Even if we grant that it's "merely" as you say, that it can interpret my loose and often false or misleading rhetoric to identify my ques
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by saulpw 4mo ago
Does it seem like it bifurcates based on the person? I've had both experiences myself, sometimes with the same model and within ~days of each other on seemingly similar tasks. It's almost impossible to deny sometimes that actual
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by saulpw 4mo ago
So are you saying that every podcast should ship two episodes, an "unedited" version and an "umless" version? That's not really viable.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
In cybernetics, the first kind of people are devoted to System 1, and the others are devoted to Systems 2-5. Any functioning organization has all 5 systems. Imagine a school with only teachers and no administration. Who hires the teachers
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Beyond Lenocracy(ecosophia.net)
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by saulpw 4mo ago
> With thought loops this fast even if the models are less smart they can be self correcting to level them selves up. You can't self-correct a model that's been burned to a chip. That seems like it'd be the main problem w
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by saulpw 4mo ago
Rich people become the only consumers.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
The yolk is an energy/vitamin source, not a 'cell'. The division happens outside the yolk. From Wikipedia: > The yolk is not living cell material like protoplasm, but largely passive material
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by saulpw 4mo ago
Concur.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
Just try referring to a fish, alive or dead or cooked, as an 'animal' to your friends. Even if it doesn't sound weird to you, your friends will feel misled in the conversation, even though it's technically/scientif
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by saulpw 4mo ago
"Land vertebrates", #1 is chickens, #2 is humans. But colloquially "animal" does not include ants or fish.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
> coughing fit after every meal (and sometimes during). This might be stomach acid aspirating into your lungs, from GERD or similar caused/exacerbated by Covid, and that may have negative consequences for your health apart from the
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by saulpw 5mo ago
Humans are the second most populous animal on the planet. We are in no danger of extinction.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
Your expectations are wildly off: a month is not enough time for anything meaningful in any domain. If you can't weather at least a year then you shouldn't even start, and you should be prepared to work with little reward for 3-5
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by saulpw 5mo ago
This has happened to me, so I put this in my global CLAUDE.md, and it seems to help (I don't remember getting the response you mentioned for awhile now): **Lead with the answer when asked how/which/whether.** Name the c
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by saulpw 5mo ago
My mistake, that is definitely a different scene.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
> But you can't talk to them about the flow of the code. You can't ask them for their thinking as to why certain things are. You can absolutely do this. It's even right most of the time.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
> The group, which tried and failed to disrupt plans for a WinCo coming to Renton last spring, has no website and is not registered with the state — leading to online speculation about who exactly is behind the group. But Karl Anuta, a P
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by saulpw 5mo ago
../../../../home/different-user/private/do-not-enter/
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by saulpw 5mo ago
It is absolutely possible economically. It may not be possible politically (right now) but that's a very different reason.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
47 releases in 3 weeks. Dozens of meaningless cruft files committed at the project root, like "h .kore_fileformat_source_v0.1.0.zip -Algorithm SHA256" with a summary of "less" commands. 19 deployments, all failed. A+++
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by saulpw 5mo ago
I mostly agree with you, but you couldn't have have meaningful live videochat between continents in 2000.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
But what if those people at the hospital have a lot of money? I'd rather disperse it to healthcare workers than give more inheritance to their children.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
> This leads us to Platt’s Second Law of Computers: People like computers because computers do what they’re told. The job they actually perform is less important than their obedience in doing it. This is why I loved computers as a kid.

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