techfeathers

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by techfeathers 2y ago
This person seems to have intentionally tried the break the algorithm by posting like 6 different controversial views in one post. They were not intentionally trying to engage in discourse. Trolls often have common views, that’s what make
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by techfeathers 2y ago
“These odds do not reflect a lack of confidence on Gary’s part” Then what else could they possibly represent? “Reliably construct bug-free code of more than 10,000 lines from natural language specification or by interactions with a non-expe
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I think Trump is weak and Musk is making his move. There was talk of Trump being tired on the campaign trail, and I notice most of the voices attacking musk are out of the circle. Loomer, Gaetz. In retrospect I wonder if Musk is the one
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I think that some of the change in outlook for programmers has to do with the difference between now and ten years ago. Ten years ago you could go to code school for 6 months, do a mediocre job and land an entry level job making 90k a year,
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by techfeathers 2y ago
As someone who grew up in the 90’s and partied the way they did in the 90’s If there is a switch from drugs to social media I find that incredibly dystopian.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I really found it interesting that in the engineered society of Brave New World, everyone got a drug. I guess my personally opinion is that I disagree with you, that in a world where you know about drugs, drugs are a sort of need.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I fucking love the 19th and 20th centuries, the speed of innovation and change has been amazing with rapid development of entire new forms of media and experience, but it makes me wonder, are we kinda at the end of that? There’s only so ma
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I was kinda wondering, if your goal is to knee-cap the government, why even re-open? Can it just be in perpetual shutdown?
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I wonder if a reluctance to change fundamental government programs, or congresspersons feeling beholden to their constituents has obstructed these things in the past? If you have the richest man in the world willing to run ragged over. We
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I do find it interesting that people seem to talk about perplexity and Anthropic as having the better products but openAI, but OpenAI is perceived as the obvious winner
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I always wondered about why the truth that Kamala Harris worked at McDonald’s seemed almost less authentic than the sort of cosplay of Trump working there. And it makes me wonder. I myself worked a blue collar job for a few years, I was in
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Somehow not surprised that the CEO who went viral for being awkwardly anti-woke has bad employment practices.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I know there’s a lot of nuance to the idea, but the general principal that an exit is something for entrepreneurs to aspire to, and not like building and running a service for the benefit of your fellow folks is depressing to me.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
It makes me wonder, is there any way to stop enshittification? Like Google was great when it maintained its goal that their best users should be on the app as little as possible. Ev said so much here about his new app. Is there anyway to
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I’m curious how they’ll distinguish between say “factual” political bias — it would be a left leaning bias to say we should teach evolution in schools alone vs teach evolution and creationism side by side — and other stuff. I don’t know how
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I wonder how much this issue is oversimplified by being held at the national level. I’m certainly pro tracking in general, and I’m certain there are plenty of people who philosophically think that putting people in the same class is “equit
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by techfeathers 2y ago
How thick is the ice that Elon Musk is on. At some point he’s going to impact an agency that someone who matters (I.e. a Republican) cares about. Not that money doesn’t matter, but is there something more substantial then money keeping Mu
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Makes me wonder if high income people (probably correlated with people who are benefitting from the institutions) trust government more or less than low income people. This from 2014 suggests yes: https://harvardpolitics.com&#x
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Are there absolutist anti-AI alignment folks? Is aligning AI not to tell teenagers to kill themselves problematic? If I let the devil's advocate part of my brain run wild it can go pretty crazy here.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Ok, maybe I still don’t agree with arresting her, but I feel like maybe the headline should actually point out she said “ you people are next”. Which seems the more threatening part of the threat.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
This sort of intuitively makes sense to me, it’s not the cost of transit that’s the limiting factor, it’s the convenience. The transit center closest to my house is hardly in walking distance of anything and has a parking lot that fills up
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Here’s an interesting statistic, over the past 50 or so years, we trusted the government the most(9/11) when arguably we should have trusted them the least: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/24
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I think these analysis are optimistic but get the chicken and the egg wrong. We look at our institutions badly because we’ve lost trust in them, not the other way around and we’ve lost trust in them because there is a lot of power in being
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Ok, you missed my point, but also the Wikipedia link shows that often US Presiddents don’t often get it. Eisenhower won in 1952 and the person of the year was Queen Elizabeth the 2nd The endangered earth won in 1988 HW bush got it in 1990.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
There’s something weird about naming Trump person of the year this year. It’s close to the end of the year, but I’d almost wonder if Luigi Mangione would be a better person of the year, Which leads me to my point which is it feels Trump le
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I'm sure these people exist, I find it interesting that in my 20 year career in tech, including a short stint in FAANG I don't feel like I've hardly run into one. This would almost feel like a caricature if not for books wri
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by techfeathers 2y ago
What are you trying to say?
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Except the person I responded to specifically said he was responding to the headline. If it really is the PayPal mafia taking over and not them subservient to them as a part of the Trump Administration, that would be bad. Them being appoin
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I dunno, the elected representatives of the American people? Or are we done with the pretenses we still have a democracy?
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by techfeathers 2y ago
This was somewhat interesting, but it would also be interesting to look at long-term impact. Short term you may not have certain skills, but do you make those up in the business world and end up getting back to where you were at after a nu

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