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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
The things we called AI back then would not get that label today. Maybe “decision tree” or “expert system”? Or simply “algorithm”?
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Or fire the PM?
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
You missed the speculated motivation: unrestricted prediction markets, which are an open and broad incentive to do whatever actions might provide a slight edge in betting. Webscraping is among the more benign things that gambling-on-anythin
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Sure, but many a hobbyist has discovered the need for that the hard way.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
The justice system works in binary: legal vs. illegal, guilty vs. innocent, admissible vs. not. The whole process is dominated by driving uncertainty into binary certainty, with threshold tests at every turn. Reality as experienced in the m
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Maybe they were poisoned, had malaria, were stabbed, and also suffocated and drowned, all at the same time? "solves" is a silly thing to ask for in matters of probability. I think this test result adds data which shifts probabili
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Present company excluded, of course.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Wow, that's bold! I'd never say that...or maybe I'd only say it to a good friend when I knew that he knew that I didn't actually mean it.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
I suspect he’s telling a story and chose to personify his own feelings into the words of another person.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Well if it’s anything like where I am, the crap that the managers are asking each other to do is “do more AI stuff.”
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Is your manager really asking about your self-improvement? Or are they asking about you improving what you can do for them, your team and your company? Your job description is a baseline but if you’ve nailed that, there’s usually more you
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Delivering on that is what I’m doubting, and the website isn’t helping. They have to revive some tech that is now outmoded, and that’s not a small problem. But hey, if they pull it off, great. The economics of the industry are built arou
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
This flimsy website and company is banking on your excitement and prayers.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
How would I check the parts of my body for that?
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Ok, sure, windows. But here’s one I heard literally two days ago: we counted three engineers (out of many) who knew that physical memory was not actually a giant flat space of contiguous addresses, and that there were multiple layers of add
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
I encountered juniors straight out of school who don’t know what tar is, or rsync, or what a symlink is. It’s all learnable and everyone starts somewhere. But you’d think natural curiosity would kick in and they’d have picked up some of th
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Possibly Cousin Andy? https://curb-your-enthusiasm.fandom.com/wiki/Andy_David Played by the great Richard Kind, who my wife swears she saw on the Highline in NYC.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
sure, but that's my point. People doing objectively bad things all day think they are doing just fine. It's the inverse of the essentialist fallacy. Faced with a bunch of evidence (if they cared to look) that they are consistent
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
They might agree that they would be a better person if they returned their shopping cart. But how many would sincerely state "I won't return the cart because I don't care about putting any effort into being a good person&quo
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
But someone that susceptible is likely going to have a bad reaction to many possible unexpected things. How would they react to a minor traffic accident? a family member getting hurt? a letter from tax authorities asking questions? Having
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Do you think people look in the mirror and say “I’m going to be a terrible person today?” They look in the mirror and say “good job playing the hand you’re dealt - keep it up!” even while what they do is objectively terrible. Humans have an
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
from another thread > I actually am a top 1% writer Ah, i see.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Interesting! how did you come to know three dozen authors? I know 2-3 published authors --- published at all, not fulltime authors, just people who got a book published. In my history of acquaintances I know of one mildly successful fantasy
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Add forward-cursor and back-cursor, and maybe we can embed a Turing machine in a string.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
This all sounds informed and authoritative. And it’s believable. But can I ask how you came to these conclusions? Did you attempt this? Do you know authors getting 500k every two years?
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Yes.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Finding a label for personal problems typically results in a honeymoon of self-acceptance and relief. The honeymoon usually ends and the problems remain, but now there are possible paths forward.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
“Broader economic purpose”? It’s all betting. If someone wants to dress it up in jargon or talk about beneficial second order effects, they can. But if putting money on an outcome you can’t control isn’t gambling, I don’t know what is.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Okay, I read up on iroh. It has some really interesting stuff in it but I see an uncanny valley here. It’s not simple enough to debug a connection failure easily, but it’s not magical enough to guarantee connectivity. Straight tcp with dn
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Check out Amazing SlowDowner. And AnyTune Pro. Plus lots of yt player websites that allow for looping.

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