tessierashpool

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by tessierashpool 3y ago
sure, let me spend my Saturday going on Google for you, to find the overwhelming evidence that has been gathered for the past several decades, which you somehow missed. or claim to have missed.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
the law is always complicated
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
100%. The War on Drugs was always in contradiction of the spirit of the 21st Amendment, which ended Prohibition. It needs to be formally acknowledged as such, and further as fundamentally unconstitutional, but these kinds of victories take
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
it didn't happen to a company at all. it happened to their customers. if the CEO faces criminal or civil penalties, or the company does, then it happens to the company. what makes it worse is Comcat's quasi-monopoly status as a no
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
If the worst of climate change predictions turn out to be true, this could make him one of the most beneficial humans of our time... Not really. Methane from cows causes more harm to the environment than cars do. If he had gotten the worl
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
everywhere
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
it's more likely a failure of translation from scientist to journalist than from Japanese to English.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
The things that increase people's mental well-being are well researched and often obvious: lose weight, find a church, get a girlfriend, make more money, call your mom, join the Army. Hilarious to imagine a ton of highly-trained psyc
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
I'm talking about the period from 2006 to 2008 or so. source: that's when I met Tobi and a few other early people.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
Executives at companies do not give a fuck about the landlords of their buildings. It's an annoying expense that they complain about. you spend $2B on a brand new office campus. you work directly with the architects and talk about ho
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
this is just meaningless ageism. you could just as easily argue that older people benefit more from WFH, since they're more likely to have nicer places to live that are further from the city centers.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
It's more than three years since most people started working from home. a lot more than three years. remote work goes back decades before covid. GitHub, Shopify, and Stripe all started as remote companies. the really annoying thing i
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
Those investments in office furniture, remodels, etc. are already sunk costs though. Why would they be used to justify RTO? you answered your own question. sunk costs fallacy.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
AIs will be convincing long before they are smart ELIZA and PARRY proved this all the way back in 1966 and 1972. ELIZA was a silly AI hack which mostly just repeated back what users said to it, turning users' statements into question
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
this is an inappropriate response
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
not the person you're replying to, but seemed pretty obvious they were rejecting the idea that Japanese programmers are somehow unique in being good in some cases and bad in other cases
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
I remember when José Valim first came up with it. I thought it might just be a fad, or a toy language to test out some ideas. that was in 2012.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
those quotation marks around "understanding" are pretty important. to save people a click, and in the hopes that the comments might stay relevant to the OP, the OP means this by "understanding": if the video is about a r
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
there have already been puff pieces aiming to rehabilitate her. example: “Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/business/elizabeth-holmes...
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
you’re right, it’s like inverse survivorship bias
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
I get why this idea is appealing, but by that metric, Adam Neumann of WeWork also already passed. Occam's Razor. This is impulsive firing, with impulsive hiring on the way.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
well, that's one of the things OpenAI is known for
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
they really are not. you can use language as a proxy for knowledge in some cases, but doing so guarantees generating bullshit, which is the entire point of the OP.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
Do humans generalize outside of their training data? Absolutely not. Never. If that happened, you'd get programmers thinking they could solve every type of problem in the world, based on wildly oversimplified mental models. It would
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
does that really count as improving? another way to make sure nobody gets hurt by the robots flying randomly around the space is to not set robots flying randomly around the space
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
there are, I am, and it's not (sorry). some languages have the ability to comment regexes, and that would be very useful here.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
it's a fantastic feature in theory. in practice, it's imprecise and error-prone, and I believe these regular expressions are probably why. I hadn't looked at the implementation before, but I approached it from the other end:
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
These things are not even alive Citation needed.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
that 1989 thing is just Eternal September on the generational scale. we’ll probably see it happen on the centuries scale too. (we as a culture.)
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
I got through the first couple paragraphs. I would say the writing is bad, and self-satisfied, but not as bad or as self-satisfied as you say. It’s just much too long. If he’d pared it down a little, it could have been quite good. His big m

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