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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Personally, I think it's pretty hard to make that kind of comparison accurately without having professional experience in both fields. One could also argue that it's as intellectually stimulating as being doctor, but how do we act
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> Nowadays when it's just gluing frameworks together and configuring AWS services... it doesn't really feel any different intellectually than cleaning toilets. Comparing your six figure white collar job to basic janitorial work
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> The SEC has already hinted at this, while the CFTC has indicated that only bitcoin is likely to be regulated as a commodity. I think any token that gains enough prominence in the market is going to eventually fall under government purv
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> it’s your choice, but you’re definitely missing out on something special. I totally forgot to mention the patronizing attitude that so many people come to this conversation with. Thank for you for heads up.
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Not to mention that this represents a very median case, whereas a lot of parents want to pay for higher status schools and real estate to get access to higher status education, it's a never-ending keeping-up-with-the-joneses pi*-ing co
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> What has democracy ever done for us? The labor movement gave us the 40 hour workweek, weekends off and the minimum wage. They're the reason you have time to opine online right now instead of working. https://www.busines
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> But deep down I get it. Babies are a huge opportunity cost. Financially speaking, they are like winning the lottery but backwards. You can't even think of having one without cancelling your subscription to a good night's slee
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> That means they will need to find a business model that will afford it, and those business models might be pretty terrible in the short term. I think AI is going to enable spammers and scammers in ways that we haven't seen before.
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
It's hard to have sympathy when their "foolishness" involves undermining the existing financial system because they don't like the government and they believe taxation is theft. The irony is that they now have no problem
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
But how do you know that you're talking to a human? This question will become much, much more difficult to answer pretty soon. These models are capable of generating high quality discussion on a variety of topics. I think the days of h
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
The thing that concerns me about this perspective is that it completely ignores human connection and our need to connect as beings. Sure, there are compelling arguments to be made whether or not we're complex state machines responding
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> Do you honestly still think that anything is ever genuinely "trending" on Twitter? On YouTube? On Reddit? No, I never put much stock in those aspects of social media because I've always found those curation features to b
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
I'm personally not as interested in understanding the synthesis involved in the AI. I'm worried about now knowing whether I'm talking to another person right now or not because this is going to fundamentally change everything
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
It absolutely matters. I've been a part of this community off and on for over a decade and this is the first time I'm seriously questioning my participation moving forward because I just can't see the time spent here as valua
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Welp, it's been fun HN.
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Serious question: how are we going to know if we're talking to people on forums like these in a year or two and not some AI model piped in via a script or web service? And what is that going to mean for online discourse moving forward?
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
I think any company relying solely on AI to build a tech business in the future is itself at risk. Where's your moat if your business is built entirely on AI licensed from someone else?
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Ok, but the systems that are responsible for creating those IDs are automated, which means that they can be learned and reverse-engineered. There are lots of passports and bank logins floating around that can be used to train AI. Do you see
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> Online platforms will go towards requiring real human IDs for participants. I just don't see how AI won't be used to manipulate these kinds of barriers. Once AI reaches a point where it can truly equal or surpass humans in te
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
I hope so, but the cynic in me doesn't see this happening because this has long been a problem that isn't going away. The better that computers get at generating content and behaving in ways that only humans used to be able to is
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> Humans are perfectly capable of coming up with crimes, but in good news, they’re bad at planning crimes that won’t get caught. How do we know this? We only know of the failed attempts, there's really no way to track how many crime
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
This is what concerns me. Many people worry about being replaced by AI, but I'm far more worried about AI completely polluting digital communication. I think stuff like this is going to make it harder for companies to assess candidates
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> The diffusion art models make it very clear that these technologies go from toys to replacing people’s jobs very very quickly. Do you have any evidence that art jobs are being replaced now? I was talking with a designer friend of mine
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Somebody screwed up in the sales process then, either on the installer or vendor side. It's not acceptable to request a system in an unsupported configuration like this unless he was explicitly told beforehand "this isn't a s
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Tech has developed a really bad habit of shipping half-baked MVPs as fully fledged products with powerful marketing behind them, and that's an increasingly dangerous combination. I'm not sure where it started but I see it lot in s
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
This is cool, it's always nice to see inertia.js being used.
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
When the hype train is rolling and the valuation is skyrocketing, nobody asks questions.
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
A recent Guardian report accused Qatar of physically abusing gay Qataris and recruiting them as agents to track down gay attendees of the WC[0]. These people had zero problem killing thousands to build the stadiums, do not underestimate the
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> If FIFA was so intent on making history by awarding the WC hosting for the first time ever to an Arab or Muslim-majority country, they could have awarded it to the UAE instead, and they would have delivered a fantastic job honoring the
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
I used to work for one of the largest software vendors in the non-profit space worldwide and it fundamentally changed the way I look at the non-profit world. The big ones have essentially become these weird quasi-think tanks that passively

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