willguest

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by willguest 1y ago
Well, the name is not the thing named, so ultimately there is no such thing as anything. See also "ceci n'est pas une pipe".
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by willguest 1y ago
no mention of any system-level strategy on the website. this may as well be another lobbying group. pumping more candidates (even good ones) into a busted system is like increasing the flow rate into a cracked bucket. good metrics showing h
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by willguest 1y ago
My guess is that you're either a dev or an orthopaedic surgeon, well-versed in managing the machinistic aspects of systems, but with little motivation to go beyond them. There is decent experimental evidence to demonstrate that we are
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by willguest 2y ago
I guess what i wanted to get across was that ICP is considerably more than a database, but tbh it's a massive rabbit hole, unless you're already into cryptography. I'm impressed by the foresight and scale of it though. I thin
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by willguest 2y ago
Yes, the hype waves have been painful. I am still annoyed by the lack of good tools and content for VR lovers. I am personally trying to do something by offering a toolkit for building VR websites in unity. My website has a few examples on
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by willguest 2y ago
It is wise to be suspicious - spending even a small amount of time near the "web3" space will make attentive person suspicious of scams and parlour tricks. I use the network to host the webxr experiences, which are bundled wasm fi
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by willguest 2y ago
I absolutely love this. I make VR experiences that run on the ICP, which delivers wasm modules as smart contracts - I've been waiting for a combo of node-friendly, wasm deployable tools and webLLM. The ICP essentially facilitates self-
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by willguest 2y ago
I think it depends on the word and the context. If the person speaking is your boss, there might be situations where 'moving on' isn't an option and the words might have wider implication in your life. Germany actually has se
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by willguest 2y ago
I think it's related to the perceived centrality of identity in the world. I see this as a natural consequence of individualism, which itself is championed by both modern capitalist and libertarian thinking, to pick two. As the focus o
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by willguest 2y ago
> Female students might object if someone said something they considered sexist, but no one was getting reported for it. It seems that the defining factor is that there was no actual authority attached to the morality of the situation. H
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by willguest 2y ago
And so the dance takes on a new rhythm. These well-meaning advertising execs, working diligently to support their struggling stakeholders, now have a new string to their bow. And the rest of us, the targets of their magnanimous demand-creat
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by willguest 2y ago
I agree with your abstraction of the problem, but I think you stopped half-way. Regulators, producers and consumers are all following the same interconnected incentive structures, many of which have been designed with efficient production a
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by willguest 2y ago
Really nice collection. I will definitely have use for these. I like that they walk the line between square and bubbly
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by willguest 2y ago
This seems to amount to asking an LLM how it feels about Cheryl, discovering that it is performatively happy about her existence, and then deducing that the LLM has no capacity for genuine emotion, expressed in the form of logic. The faulty
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by willguest 2y ago
I'm working on https://exeud.com . It's an open-source VR framework, including a Unity toolkit that includes character control and interaction, and a Web3 template that allows you to self-host your VR scene on the Inter
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by willguest 2y ago
I love the word 'megabomb' as much as the next guy, and I'm about all threat escalation, but isn't ammonium nitrate also fertiliser? Since this is one of the main (and historic) exports from Russia, I would imagine that
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by willguest 2y ago
So, objective science is untrustworthy and subjective testimony is easily explained away. Let me guess - only your opinion is the one that matters. You have a poorly-crafted answer for both sides of the coin, but also fail to read the detai
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by willguest 2y ago
This doesn't deserve to be downvoted, it is very legitimate point. I think there is a role for public organisation, with political groups being one type. I am, however, critical of the prevailing agenda, since they often exist in a sys
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by willguest 2y ago
Doubt is not a strategy and nay-saying rarely moves a conversation forward. My comment was not intended to illicit the abdication of responsibility - quite the reverse. Where was my petitioning? Your response is combative, seemingly intende
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by willguest 2y ago
This sentiment, that each is entitled to a life of choosing, resonates strongly with the spirit of individualism. Within it there is a disregard for obligation or belonging that, I think, is connected to the desire for mindless occupation a
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by willguest 2y ago
Given that the vast majority of people go to work to earn money for businesses that exist either to exploit natural resources or appreciate in value in the eyes of an economic system that prioritizes increasing capital valuations above all
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by willguest 2y ago
I suppose it comes down to using the metric as the measure, whatever makes the company the most money will be the preferred route, and the mechanisms by which we achieve those sales are rarely given enough thought. It reflect a more timeles
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by willguest 2y ago
Leave it up to a human to overgeneralize a problem and make it personal... The explosion of dull copy and generic wordsmithery is, to me, just a manifestation of the utilitarian profiteering that has elevated these models to their current s
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by willguest 2y ago
When all you've got is a hammer, but then remember that you're carrying a 9mm...
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by willguest 2y ago
This is super depressing, but probably on point. I agree that the article has good points. I think the spirit that the author is trying to capture is that there is a better way. I just think that they don't go far enough. There is a te
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by willguest 2y ago
I suppose memecoins represent a form of this, but I was really referring to financial instruments, in particular those that exist based on a derived sense of value, rather than an actual quantification of it, such as: Stock and, to a lesser
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by willguest 2y ago
It's there three times, which is partly what triggered the comment, as it came across as something of a theme. Certainly this article is less dogmatic that many, but I still got the sense that author was using effects like causes. The
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by willguest 2y ago
I think the term 'social engineering' gets right to the point. We aren't machines but we have found very effective way of hacking our rewards systems so that we can manufacture demand, modify behaviour etc. The author describ
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by willguest 2y ago
> "... how the world works" This is the most generic trap of all. Get good at something and then extrapolate to claim that you know how everything works. I suggest that, given the insane proliferation of valueless derivatives a
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by willguest 2y ago
> The glasses are too good for pure market thinking. A demonstration that the economy isn't economical at all, when it comes to resources.

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