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by throwaway132448 5mo ago
I’ve met some very interesting people on flights. I’ve done some great work. I’ve had some great ideas. Don’t be so scared of variety. You just keep subjecting yourself to more of the same. The unending familiarity makes you dull.
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by throwaway132448 5mo ago
Funny how that happened, isn’t it?
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by throwaway132448 5mo ago
Because the more we reject our shared reality and substitute it with each our own, the less humane we become.
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by throwaway132448 5mo ago
You have it backwards. The person didn’t change, they were always like that, long before money. Our system selects for them and rewards them, and when they attain those rewards they use them to further express themselves as the person they
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by throwaway132448 5mo ago
Good point well made.
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by throwaway132448 5mo ago
Unaffordable housing turns entrepreneurship into a rare privilege. Whether you think that’s a good thing or not depends on whether you _actually_ believe in meritocracy or not. I’ve found most people don’t believe in it as much as they say
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by throwaway132448 5mo ago
2007 called they want their free-market philosophy back.
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by throwaway132448 5mo ago
Google loves this pattern. It's what pushed me away from them.
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by throwaway132448 5mo ago
Privatize the gains, socialize the losses. I miss actual capitalism with actual competition and anti-trust enforcement, not the oligopolies, regulatory capture and government-picked survivors we have now.
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by throwaway132448 5mo ago
The same reason Palantir does: Its their brand - it’s just marketing. Glad people are finally catching on.
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
Why did the title get editorialized from the original to omit key facts? That’s some sleazy modding HN.
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
This is pseudo-intellectual drivel. Creating value and then charging for it is not creating “artificial scarcity”, any more than doing nothing is creating “artificial scarcity” by absence of value. There was no “infinite resource” that just
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
Congrats you just invented someone for you to be mad at. Maybe lay off the rage bait for a little bit?
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
Talking about South America as a homogeneous unit is… weird. Even neighbouring countries speaking the same language can be entirely different in this regard.
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
It’s funny how much people on X resent the freedom for alternatives to exist. As always it’s because it’s never actually about free speech, just freedom of consequences from their own choices and behaviour.
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
Are you proud of this comment? Is this the person you wanted to be when you were a kid? Disputing whether a Nazi salute was actually a Nazi salute because the executor of the Nazi salute doesn’t have the skill to execute it correctly?
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
Ok, so remove “these articles” and replace with “this” and my point still stands.
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
There are over 8 billion people on earth.
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
Hopefully this time we can keep going for what we can do for engineering instead of what we can do for science.
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
The stupidity that makes depriving one of your senses seem like a sensible thing to do in a busy chaotic environment. I don’t actually mind people doing that though. What is annoying is the entitled attitude that there should be no conseque
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
I don’t know what this means.
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
Literally PR.
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
There’s been enough divergence between words and actions from Amodei for me to also consider him deceitful, if that’s really the low bar you want to set. I’m not saying he’s worse than Altman, just to be clear.
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
I don’t need to convince you, we’ve been through enough cults of personality, time will tell. But I’ve been right enough times to back myself. Maybe it’s because I grew up around a lot of people like them? They can’t hide that they would sa
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
> I mean he quit what he considered to be a problematic company Problematic why though? For the reasons publicly stated? Then why isn’t Anthropic just what OpenAI was “supposed” to be then? We know what that was from their charter, and A
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
If you think Amodei is significantly different you’re going to be disappointed. There is nothing he has done that can’t be adequately explained as furthering his own interests. Remember how Musk doesn’t like Altman too? It’s because they’re
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
Division and distraction are the actual issue though. And I didn’t say you have to go after anyone, only be mindful of them (see my reply to another comment). I left plenty of room in my words to project your own approach, because I care ab
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
I couldn’t know, but generally speaking, older billionaires don’t typically interact with the world in the same way most of us do (well, those without a social media addiction anyway). The device is someone else’s problem.
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by throwaway132448 6mo ago
> Is there really less "fat on the bone" though? What metric are you tracking for that and what are the historical norms? It’s just my experience over the last 15 years. If it doesn’t align with yours, that’s nice to know. >

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