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by techorange 2y ago
This is sort of the inverse of the sunk cost fallacy. We are where we are, if we want to move back, it's not implicitly rational to move back solely for the opposite reason that we moved forward. Moving back has additional costs, it d
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by techorange 2y ago
Is there a strategy here, or is this all emotional. Or is the strategy like, we can reduce social security spending if more old people die of the flu? This isn't entirely cynical, I do assume there are some pragmatists who might think
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by techorange 2y ago
What principle are you trying to uphold? Change is bad? I haven't actually seen you present a compelling principle.
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by techorange 2y ago
Here's the thing that bothers me. In opposition to this someone would likely say "You were ok when liberals were censoring everything, and now the shoe's on the other foot, go shove it" But actually, someone deciding to
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by techorange 2y ago
If you're going to convince me that you're "anti-woke" suggestions are better than the "woke" suggestions that got us here in the first place, do so in the traditional way. Make an argument for why moving back
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by techorange 2y ago
Yeah, it's going to be an uphill battle convincing me to go through and talk to my co-workers to convince them this is something we should do, then change all of my branches back, against the defaults of most git providers. All for?
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by techorange 2y ago
I guess I never read deeply on the subject, but Agentforce never felt all that grounded to me. It seemed like a tagline without a real underlying strategy. This I guess gets to Satya Nadella's recent observation that AI is "gene
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by techorange 2y ago
This is a concerning level of politicization.
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by techorange 2y ago
I have a theory that one of the things that drives misinformation/conspiracy theories is that the more passionate you are about being duped, the more vulnerable you are to misinformation.
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by techorange 2y ago
Is this pro-musk? Since this is HN I try to approach situations with curiosity rather than judgement, because I do think the question about like who is the speech that comes from AI and how does our understanding of 'truth' fit i
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by techorange 2y ago
I think part of the problem is that Republicans understand that message matters much more than substance much better than Democrats. This is why a former-reality TV star does so well as president. All I hear from a lot of the sort of old-
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by techorange 2y ago
I guess another question -- Maybe I don't understand how the DNC works, but who are these people specifically? I don't think Obama wants this. Neither Kamala nor Tim Walz ran on this. Mark Cuban doesn't, nor do I think any
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by techorange 2y ago
On the one hand, I don't disagree, and I certainly don't think the right strategy is for Pete Buttigieg to sit on his hands and not say anything. But, Republicans are no better. Like outside of a few key celebrities (and even wit
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by techorange 2y ago
Are you trying to imply that some group of people you are skeptical of supported limitations on free speech with the defense that they’re a private company they can do what they want, and now a different company is doing the same thing and
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by techorange 2y ago
By saying it was intentional are you applying some kind of insider knowledge? Seems like we should wait to judge until we have all of the facts.
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by techorange 2y ago
I’d be more on with this if I trusted someone to take a wide view on these issues, as it stands I’ve observed that personal liberty is heavily biased by some towards personal liberty for the upper classes; but I hope to be wrong.
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by techorange 2y ago
It doesn’t seem like we’ve established ethical norms for AI yet, but like what’s the difference between: Google removing a search result that says Sundar Pichai spreads misinformation Twitter removing a tweet saying Elon Musk spreads disinf
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by techorange 2y ago
PR disaster seems a bit much. I’m trying to think what I would do if something similar happened to Biden or Kamala and I can’t imagine being moved? I would think the right, being more pro freedom of speech, and pro-comedy would let it go.
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by techorange 2y ago
He talked about using Ketamine. Openly.
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by techorange 2y ago
This just inspired my curiosity, How well normalized is IQ, is it persistent over time, or does the curve meander.
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by techorange 2y ago
99 times out of 100 I would say boycotts don’t matter that much, certainly not to 45% of sales. An interesting counter to that though is that Elon Musk’s whole marketing strategy has been to be the lead marketer and do no advertising (until
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by techorange 2y ago
One thing that's interesting about the attention economy is -- I feel like Musk's biggest risk is someone taking the attention away from him. It puts in context some of the crazy attention grabbing things celebrities like Ye have
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by techorange 2y ago
Kurt Vonnegut has this story about a conversation between him and his wife, where he relates: "Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so
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by techorange 2y ago
The thought leadership in this area is strange. On the one hand, I think there's this implication in the UBI and end of scarcity talk that implies that AI will free us up to like have fun be with family and build relationships. At the
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by techorange 2y ago
Right, can't imagine these are regretted attrition (for the administration)
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by techorange 2y ago
fivethirtyeight published a similar article a long time ago, saying that maybe counter-intuitively people turn against their party when their party takes action. I feel like the big government programs, medicare, medicaid and social securit
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by techorange 2y ago
There is a line between DE&I making feel comfortable and like enabling people to talk about gangbang’s at work. Christopher Rufo is doing everything he can to blur the difference, but like everyone should be able to talk about their fam
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by techorange 2y ago
Can someone explain to me why Trump is cozying up to big tech all of a sudden? Has he gave a reason? Republicans have spent the past like 10 years demonizing big tech, and isn't thinking big tech is too powerful bipartisan?
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by techorange 2y ago
I read there's sort of this paradox about dismantling government that people talk about where sure you run on dismantling government, but then, when you get in power, you realize that it's much easier to affect change if you have
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by techorange 2y ago
I often wonder, like was this top down, or was this bottom up? When you have Twitter and everyone gets to make their own opinions, like how do you "control the movement". I think there was some sort of organic sense that progress

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