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by serverholic 4y ago
I’ve found that there are a confluence of factors that make “built in rust” important to me. First of all, Rust is relatively new so this tells me that the codebase is likely new. Secondly, I think rust tends to attract smart people who lik
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by serverholic 4y ago
Still feels gross to look forward to advertising.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Why does it have to be a trade off?
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by serverholic 4y ago
I don’t think he actually cares about mimicking humans, I think he just wants a truly intelligent AI system that can learn in a sophisticated way like humans do. I think that’s actually pretty doable. Take for example flying. We don’t build
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by serverholic 4y ago
A good analogy is perhaps a config file for a computer program. My interpretation is that Carmack is essentially confusing a config file for the computer program itself, then saying "look how small it is, this shouldn't be that ha
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by serverholic 4y ago
I'm not even talking about culture. DNA is only useful because the laws of physical reality are built a certain way. Without that context the information within DNA is meaningless.
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by serverholic 4y ago
You can’t just say that a human comes from a gigabyte of information. That info is fed into a massively complex physical system, which he is ignoring.
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by serverholic 4y ago
I’ve come to strongly resent the techno-utopian mindset that unfortunately plagues the tech world. Tech for the sake of tech with zero thought about how it will affect humanity.
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by serverholic 4y ago
You know taxes can be viewed as socialist because it's a wealth redistribution system. Same with social security, Medicare, etc. Not everything "socialist" has to be extreme.
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by serverholic 4y ago
This feels like a bad faith comment. You could have commented on systemic issues with these corporations but instead you fixated on one example.
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by serverholic 4y ago
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by serverholic 4y ago
Likewise, I hope some day you’ll be able to handle nuance instead of regurgitating what the blue team tells you.
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by serverholic 4y ago
No that's a common far-left cop-out. I don't follow many right wing sources, I closely observe how people talk and act, offline and online, and think for myself. In-fact I follow mostly left-wing media and I consider myself a true
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by serverholic 4y ago
I think it's just as strong on both sides, the difference is intention and outcomes. The right uses this to reinforce their own power. The left uses it to try and correct injustices but ends up creating problems because of it. Take a l
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by serverholic 4y ago
I don’t think it’s limited to religious people or republicans. I see it on both sides. I do agree that it’s partially due to programming. If you look at movies for example you’ll see this black and white thinking. There’s a good guy and a b
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by serverholic 4y ago
What I’ve realized is that people in general are largely incapable of nuance. - Things are either bad or good. - Only one side can be right which means the other side is automagically wrong. - Multiple things can’t be true at the same time.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Spare me. Life being shitty yesterday doesn't mean it shouldn't be better tomorrow. Btw, that 5 day work week was fought for by people who were ALSO likely called spoiled children at the time.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Now do the same for corporations. I'm sure it'll come out to more than that per person.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Only if we keep everything the same. Then yes, you’re right. Surely you have more imagination than that.
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by serverholic 4y ago
> We can't just all work 4h instead of 8h and expect to maintain our standards of living Do you really think we are using our resources and technology efficiently? Because that’s the implication here. I think that’s frankly absurd.
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by serverholic 4y ago
People programmed from childhood to obey authority and do what other people ask have issues when those things go away. Big shocker. Perhaps we can raise people to create their own paths.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Why do we have to keep chained to them though? Why shouldn’t the goal be to liberate people so they can do what they wish with their time?
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by serverholic 4y ago
There are a lot of assumptions going into the framing of your question. Just to start, you’re assuming we are using our resources and human labor efficiently.
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by serverholic 4y ago
I disagree that we’re undoing the moral underpinnings of society. I think humans have an in-built moral compass but sometimes that compass gets warped and distorted by our environment. Name a society that hasn’t valued love, friendship, fam
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by serverholic 4y ago
I think you’re right. Religion isn’t the only answer, it’s just the answer that people are most familiar with.
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by serverholic 4y ago
I understand that but it doesn’t justify why it had to be a bad work environment.
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by serverholic 4y ago
I find it interesting how quickly people will defend their own exploitation.
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by serverholic 4y ago
You don't become super wealthy without doing something shady or being a greedy asshole. It's just not possible to beat out the competition and accumulate that much wealth without taking morally questionable shortcuts. Here's
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by serverholic 4y ago
Thank you. I purposefully tried to make my comment as easy to agree with as possible but apparently there are a LOT of people in denial because it got downvoted to oblivion and flagged.
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by serverholic 4y ago
I’ve noticed a distinct lack of caring regarding social responsibility in the tech industry even though we are some of the most privileged workers in the entire labor force.

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