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by sp527 1y ago
"You could parachute [Sam] into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king." http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
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by sp527 1y ago
Literally the founder of Y Combinator all but outright called Sam Altman a conniving dickbag. That’s the consensus view advanced by the very man who made him.
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by sp527 2y ago
Somebody please explain Dunning-Kruger to Hotz. The secondhand embarrassment reading this is nearly unbearable.
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by sp527 2y ago
The real scam was all these Silicon Valley "geniuses", who are lately outing themselves as total morons. Never have heroes.
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by sp527 2y ago
Mine was horrendous scroll jank in response to a moderate amount of highlighting in Notes. Mfs trying to harness AI and they can’t even render text properly… in 2025.
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by sp527 2y ago
Flouting?
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by sp527 2y ago
> Legally enforcing every social norm is dystopian Persecuting people for their beliefs by exploiting loopholes (e.g. blast on social media, bully their employer, etc) is also pretty dystopian, don't you think? And it's not lik
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by sp527 2y ago
That’s not a sensible analysis, given how NATO works. It isn’t even difficult to see how misguided that thinking is because you could simply recall the mounting hundreds of billions we’ve lately been sending to two non-NATO nations.
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by sp527 2y ago
> It does not provide for or look after its citizens in the ways other developed countries do It's worth asking why. > NATO nations have cut back on troops and military hardware since the Cold War. But Europe has cut far deeper t
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by sp527 2y ago
In your fictional utopia, you would need practically every single company in the world to agree to pay labor in excess of the rate dictated by market forces. Any company that deviates from that would have a considerable competitive advantag
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by sp527 2y ago
None of what you said is relevant to the core point that labor compensation is determined primarily by substitutability. As for why we "accept" that, it's because it makes rational sense. Why would anyone offer more to someon
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by sp527 2y ago
The value an employee creates is a function not only of their labor but also the *lever they are given by the company* It's amazing how often I see this asinine argument that assumes an employee is generating value in a vacuum. Labor c
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by sp527 2y ago
Try redoing your comparison in units of stress per dollar
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by sp527 2y ago
What's wrong with being anti-union? I'm extremely anti-union principally because they drive up costs to consumers while yielding a product or service of at best comparable (but usually degraded) quality. Some easy examples are UAW
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by sp527 2y ago
> I wonder why it caused so much negative reaction? On the surface it shouldn't matter much, since it does not appear to harm ones who found a way to maintain healthy body without drugs. Yet it reliably causes a quite noticable numb
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by sp527 2y ago
This argument has so many holes you could drive a Cybertruck through it. There are ample used phone markets selling iPhones and top-of-the-line Android devices (e.g. Back Market). No one needs to be on the latest and greatest. I still use a
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by sp527 2y ago
> SCOTUS has said that the chief executive of the note-holding institution (in this case, the President of the United States) cannot use discretion in deciding who he gets to forgive for loans It's really amusing how the unitary exe
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by sp527 2y ago
> Firstly the 60% have chosen iOS. They are not "hostage" they can leave. And this is not new behavior- it has existed since the iPhone shipped. Consumers are voting for this. [1]. Are you assuming users would still feel this w
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by sp527 2y ago
Arguing that a random homeless drug addict with negative net social utility is entitled to housing on some of the most expensive land in the world is completely bonkers.
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by sp527 2y ago
Which is why the United States trusted them to extract and hand over Bin Laden from within their own borders. Oh wait...
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by sp527 2y ago
> I don't understand how someone would take any chance to live in a world where a terrorist nation run by religious fanatics have the nuclear bomb. Are you unaware of Pakistan?
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by sp527 3y ago
I'm going to assume that what they're trying to imply is that some sizable share of genetic information is shared across all humans and the information that is typically used to separate us into racial and ethnic categories is a v
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by sp527 3y ago
It's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. JC is about 15 minutes into the West Village and only a little more into Greenwich Village and Soho, which arguably constitute the best parts of the city. And on top of paying top dol
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by sp527 3y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/296974/us-population-sha...
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by sp527 3y ago
Beff is a late-stage capitalism incarnation of the useful idiot, sucking off the landed technogentry in hopes of securing a life raft in the economic apocalypse e/acc is attempting to usher in. When 89% of US stock equity is owned by t
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by sp527 3y ago
Because Netanyahu wanted it to be that way. Here's the Times of Israel debunking this propaganda line: https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up... .
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by sp527 3y ago
Found the Boeing executive.
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by sp527 3y ago
> I always find it striking that many teams try to reinvent the wheel while Twilio provides a suitable solution with a relatively favorable ROI. This was not my experience. The gulf in pricing between Twilio's raw STUN/TURN sol
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by sp527 3y ago
How can you be sure that RLHF doesn't induce a more global/translatable kind of discrimination in favor of higher quality information? This should in theory be possible in the same way highly adept humans discriminate between sour
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by sp527 3y ago
Speculating here, but carbon dating is potentially one useful vector for protecting against forgery/manipulation. Conversely, once something is digitized, you cannot incontrovertibly authenticate the origin time of the relevant bit fli

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