yishan

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   by yishan 3y ago

   Or, Sam really was the last key thing restraining AI capabilities from exploding upwards, and the AI just engineered his departure.
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   by yishan 7y ago

   Correct, water scarcity is in fact the PRIMARY bottleneck. The main "innovation" in this solution isn't "we must plant massive forests," it's that clean (solar-powered) desalination is now possible at very larg
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   by yishan 7y ago

   I agree and would say the same thing, but slightly less dismissively. :) The key here is that we're out of time. This coming decade is probably the last one we will have where the problem can be solved at a cost less than 10% of worl
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   by yishan 10y ago

   I'm proud to say that one of the authors of this (and the one who apparently was the instigator) was my Operating Systems partner back in college. :D
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   by yishan 16y ago

   Hi, I'm the author. This comment is correct. My intention is not to prioritize tools over thinking about anything else. If you read the essay linked from it, I said "your most talented engineers should be working on your tools." So when
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   by yishan 16y ago

   Hi, I'm the author. Someone alerted me that this showed up on HN, so I figured I should come by to clarify. I believe my statement might be clear. What I mean by that is "it's [everyone's] job to say no-hire," as opposed to anyone feeling
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   by yishan 16y ago

   Thanks Gary and Michael for emailing me about the broken links. Gotcha: It turns out that quoting links using """ (say, if you had previously run a script to do a bunch of search/replaces) works in Safari, which apparently just fix