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by tivert 2y ago
> Over 50% met online. Is that actually true? I read something recently (in an recent article in a major publication about how online dating sucks and people are getting tired of it), that the proportion is much lower. Like people put al
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I don't think I can disagree strongly enough. Creeping changes are something you can adapt to and get used to. Nuclear war was (and still is to an extent) a looming boogeyman whose simultaneous distance and nearness, slowness and quick
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> Thinking about and watching climate change can't be good for, say, a teenager imagining their future. That doesn't make sense. Kids in previous generations had to grow up with things like the omnipresent threat of nuclear ann
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> This is why it's so hard to design for cultures and contexts that you're not a part of. You don't even realize all the skewed perceptions you have about the objects surrounding you. That's something all technology p
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> It appears to work for people-based processes. Machines aren't people, and workarounds based on the affordances given to people should not work for machines, because machines should not be given those affordances.
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This version of Forklift Driver Klaus is much clearer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJYOkZz6Dck
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> You're using the word weird a lot, but I don't see what's so weird about the concept of "put your money where your mouth is" (or "put up or shutup", or "wanna bet?", or other variations on t
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[Let's see if this works] Hi
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Not exactly. KYC laws are focused on mitigating certain known problems. "Know Your Supplier" regulations would address newer problems that haven't been an issue until relatively recently.
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> As someone who doesn't know what subculture you're talking about... Bets like the one discussed here are a rhetorical tic of the "rationalist" community. > ...parent's argument sounds reasonable to me. Kinda
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Come up for air. I'm not part of that subculture and I feel no need indulge it or to prove myself to members of it by participating in its rituals.
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You need to come up for air. You seem to be stuck so deep in that weird subculture's "logic" that you're having trouble imagining someone who isn't. I don't gamble, and even if I did I certainly wouldn't t
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> The author of the article refused to take this bet when it was offered to him several times https://x.com/JeffLadish/status/1817999232105627722 . So what? No one has participate in the "rationalist"
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Yeah, exactly. The incentives in capitalism aren't to make consumers happy, it's to keep them from being so unhappy they switch to a competitor, which is a very different thing. There are huge incentives for all large businesses
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> ...only tech bro enthusiasts seem to enjoy what AI is doing... You can say that again. The current AI hype train is like the one for blockchain, except it's also fueled by certain tech enthusiasts semi-religious belief in scienc
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> I think the negative petception is more cultural in the last 50 years than recency. > AI has rarely been shown as good in all media. I disagree. The negative depictions in past media were typically very capable, and nearly perfect A
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> So is the benefits of the AI revolution really going to be captured by the ultra technical domain experts ? No. What kind of crazy idea is that? The "benefits of the AI revolution" will be captured by the owners of big comp
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> Parrots can speak much better than this but they do not understand language. Isn't that untrue, and there are parrots that have been trained to understand and follow simple instructions (e.g. move a specific object from a collecti
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> Part of the problem in AI is the lack of useful benchmarks that show progress is being made in skill areas where AI will truly be useful and transformational. There also needs to be discussion if the transformations AI can make possibl
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https://archive.is/pZEwN
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> For me, it's already replaced the work I'd send to interns and I get BETTER results than those interns. So it's already a huge win. It's a huge win to pull up the ladder? How shortsighted.
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> This entire article lacks substance. It just feels like I'm reading a lot of vague nonsense. If the guy generates 90% of his code with AI, do you think he's doing anything else without it? His writing is probably AI slop too.
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> but by god does it generate me a lot of boilerplate and comments. Why would you have it write comments? The core of most useful comments is understanding that's not directly reflected in the code (hence the comment), and things th
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> Interesting discussion recently, I forget if it was on here. Those lithography machines are built with the worst spaghetti code imaginable and the engineering is so close to black magic that development is painfully slow. It sounds lik
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> Off the top of my head, probably the millions of people who have a pension through one of Apple’s institutional investors like CalPERS. The effects of Apple’s profitability goes far and wide. That's like a member of the working po
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> It’s a short term paradise. You’re not going to be able to keep it that way when the rest of the world is more technologically advanced and you slip into poverty. I think you're failing to make important distinctions. Being &quot
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> What an interesting point of view. Very European. I wonder what will those Europeans do that do need the high-performance computer chips to create something new, to innovate. You mean the ones fabricated with European photolithography
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> to be exact, San Francisco ideology shaped by the images of their limitless compassion now spreading world wide and raising questions. Are you talking about the homeless encampments? I suppose that's another part of it. But I was
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> While it may be beneficial to have support for apprenticeships and vocational training, it's controversial that the decision point is made so early. At that age, it may be less about the child's ambitions and abilities and mo
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> If Google or Facebook is in your country, they do not share your country's interest and instead pushing their own American ideologies. > More and more countries should reject American tech companies that seek to interfere and s

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