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by sdwr 2y ago
"Mountain out of a molehill" is better than lots of other possible approach angles. The core behaviour is grappling with the problem and looking for solutions.
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by sdwr 2y ago
Following from "truthiness", coined by Stephen Colbert in 2005 to describe the state of politics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
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by sdwr 2y ago
That point about competitiveness resolves the consciousness "paradox" pretty much completely, and explains all the moving goalposts. Judging something as conscious means believing in its agency
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by sdwr 2y ago
In the article, it says the sun
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by sdwr 2y ago
Why do people install these parts? Do they improve performance somehow?
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by sdwr 2y ago
Yeah, that hit me too, felt like a missed opportunity to not link those units. The whole thing feels like it's almost telling a story
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by sdwr 2y ago
That's the dream! There's the "cold" self-referential I, and the "warm" embodied self that persists. Hormones go a long way towards building that second self.
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by sdwr 2y ago
I feel like the answer to almost every single codex post is "it's political, stupid".
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by sdwr 2y ago
There are plenty of situations where majority approval shouldn't be accepted. Matt Levine talks about one a lot, where a company in bankruptcy agrees to honor the claims of 51% of its creditors and blow off the others.
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by sdwr 2y ago
Good advice wrapped in some really, really, devastatingly bad advice. A good, experienced manager can give each person the tools and space they need to thrive. But that's only because they already: - retain authority - maintain a consi
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by sdwr 2y ago
The concept of agency is tied to the concept of responsibility + liability. A big reason why we even have someone at the top is so we have a finger to point when something goes wrong.
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by sdwr 2y ago
Let's say the task is automatically aggregating customer support info. First step is collecting incoming emails Second step is summarizing each one Third step is batching by issue/severity Notice how there is tolerance for devianc
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by sdwr 2y ago
This is the single worst HN comment thread I've seen in 5 years.
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by sdwr 2y ago
ChatGPT itself is eager, or plays the role of an eager companion. Why? - it's conversationally-aligned with dumping large amounts of information - it's an easy emotional state to hold unilaterally (without factoring in the other p
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by sdwr 2y ago
If you liked that, you'd really like the book fragnemt, by a guy who writes disturbing sci-fi snippets on twitter https://www.amazon.com/Fragnemt-ctrlcreep/dp/1795354437
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by sdwr 2y ago
I actually liked that poem! Funny to think that the Olympics started out as LARPing ancient greece. Tradition old and new at the same time
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by sdwr 2y ago
Just reading the opening paragraphs, this is a guy with personal insight. He reads, he knows about reading, he's felt the double-edged sword of escape vs isolation.
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by sdwr 2y ago
"LLM is intelligent like a human, but it's not, and don't pretend it is" is probably the best summary I've read on the topic
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by sdwr 2y ago
The "yes" force in companies is there as the antidote to the many reasons we all might say no. No, this chunk of work is too difficult, I have other things I'd rather do No, this person is too challenging to work with, I&#x27
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by sdwr 2y ago
State management is the only difficult problem in computer science Or something like that
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by sdwr 2y ago
I've noticed a similar feeling recently. Like I'm operating at max capacity without realizing it, and just a few minutes is enough time to unwind and reframe.
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by sdwr 2y ago
Yeah, this, paired with a social scorekeeping system that literally kills old people if they are less useful (lonelier -> general health problems)
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by sdwr 2y ago
The Olympics are anti-war in at least 2 ways. - The message, that people from around the world come together to compete safely and peacefully - Practically, nobody can be thinking of war when they are laser focused on that last tenth of a s
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by sdwr 2y ago
Gotta rep the tangentially-related bolt from the blue https://youtu.be/ruAi4VBoBSM?si=5g0lfyUEEE6jfLnv To me, what's enchanting about this is how unpolished the leader is. In a lot of organizations the polish comes fir
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by sdwr 2y ago
Good people get stuff done, sometimes by calculating the politics, and sometimes by just doing it, image be damned. The idea is, if you have enough street cred, and enthusiasm from the public, and genuine shit to do, you can get up on stage
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by sdwr 2y ago
It's leisure-class over-analysis. For it to work, you have to be revealing something profound about the world, or analyzing the class gap itself (why some people don't have time to analyze). This bit from Camus' The Plague ha
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by sdwr 2y ago
Fear has a dramatic effect on cognition. Like in Dune, fear is the mind killer.
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by sdwr 2y ago
Life can be a lot like a hologram, where the little things show the whole picture. The marshmallow test is not really testing hunger or self control. It tests how willing people are to align with authority/the bigger picture. The ideal
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by sdwr 2y ago
Cocaine is present in coca leaf. Coca-Cola is not present in coca leaf. Coca-Cola contained coca leaf contains cocaine (in small amounts?) Cocaine is made from coca leaf (which does not contain Coca-Cola)
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by sdwr 2y ago
Old New York was once New Amsterdam...

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