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by wskish 4y ago
people who share intense experiences and endure hardship together will tend to be very open to communicating again in the future. This is based on my past experience, not fantasy.
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by wskish 4y ago
I didn't quite follow, what are folks giving into?
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by wskish 4y ago
i guess we all have to judge the value of such human connections
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by wskish 4y ago
Of all those, "advertising" is the only fundamentally evil one, and he is chipping away at that one.
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by wskish 4y ago
I agree with you in ideal circumstances.
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by wskish 4y ago
historically, yes; but might that be a function of both the platform incentives (advertising, engagement) and poor technology?
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by wskish 4y ago
> what about his actions leads you to believe he's more capable of that than the thousands of people who were already working on it? My sense is that the 1000's of people who where already working on it have been working on it
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by wskish 4y ago
I am curious about what you think could be the most relevant differences.
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by wskish 4y ago
I like to turn it around an ask what opportunity I would show up for at 1am.
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by wskish 4y ago
sorry I dont quite understand what you mean by "acceptable one" and "give them one". Which one are you referring to?
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by wskish 4y ago
crazy situation; all the more reason to draw a map to see where we are all at.
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by wskish 4y ago
There is a more simple explanation: that these are the folks who actually want to go "hardcore" and build to some actual vision.
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by wskish 4y ago
I am just imagining how to start a meeting with the remaining 25% skeleton crew of technical folks. Seems like drawing a map of the system and allowing various folks to contribute their part would be a super positive experience all around.
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by wskish 4y ago
I see that whiteboard as a mechanism to help build a shared mental model for all assembled. Everyone there has seen some previous unknown revision of architectural diagrams, and has their own partial model of the system. Due to the urgenc
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by wskish 4y ago
> so that he can create the American Weechat, or whatever he's got in mind. What if what he has in mind is attempting to undo the negative effects that social networks have had on our society and democracy and instead attempt to reb
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by wskish 4y ago
They are going "hardcore" with EM at a critical time. You could be looking at the "twitter mafia" of 2030 something.
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by wskish 4y ago
I am amazed by how polarizing this seems to be. Some of my best memories are from previous startups with this exact 1am energy. This is how shared mental models are built, shit gets done, and shared suffering cements lifelong bonds.
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by wskish 4y ago
Here is the system that the Grateful Dead developed to bypass Ticketmaster BITD: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/gdead/faq/tickets.html
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Programatic augmentation of GPT3 prompts improves performance on date extraction(twitter.com)
2 points by wskish 4y ago|0 comments
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Using GPT-3 to extract scheduled dates from chats(twitter.com)
2 points by wskish 4y ago|1 comments
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by wskish 4y ago
I have been playing around using GPT-3 to parse chat streams between 2 people and extract the date of a scheduled activity. It didn't work very well until I added a small lookup table of upcoming dates to the prompt.
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by wskish 4y ago
actual data: https://www.weather.gov/media/safety/Analysis06-19.pdf
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by wskish 4y ago
Obligatory Helen Keller quote: Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring
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by wskish 4y ago
Is there no better way of communicating climate conditions in 2022 than an arbitrary suffix of an arbitrary noun?
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by wskish 4y ago
I was taught that the 2nd knot just provides quick visual proof that the tail is long enough to not pull through under load.
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Free solo climbing with Alex Honnold(youtube.com)
3 points by wskish 4y ago|1 comments
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by wskish 4y ago
Norwegian rock climber and YouTube video blogger Magnus Midtbø free solos a nontrivial route with Alex Honnold in an intense video. Alex's unique personality and humor carries the day.
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by wskish 5y ago
Isn’t that how feedback loops work?
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by wskish 5y ago
the bar is "less wrong"
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by wskish 5y ago
once the global climate gets sufficiently inconvenient we will definitely figure out a way of regulating ocean albedo via microorganisms or micromachines or something similar. human ingenuity will find a way. yes it might be a bit messy fo

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