FormerBandmate

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by FormerBandmate 8mo ago
You can totally say Texas should be independent. A lot of Texans have. You can’t be against the Ukraine war in Russia because Putin is an evil dictator
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by FormerBandmate 8mo ago
A huge chunk of activism is pointless and annoying. Especially when every cause is lumped together into Activism (TM) and the Omnicause. I don’t agree with them and I don’t think they should be in my software, or dealing with anything they
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by FormerBandmate 8mo ago
The thing about this business model is that it inevitably falls apart when things break. Bending Spoons doesn’t care (yet), but they’re not at the point where stuff has proven unsustainable
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by FormerBandmate 11mo ago
Why would that ever happen? Software is too important for people to not sell outside of communism and free software people aren’t as good as making consumer products as capitalists
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by FormerBandmate 1y ago
Whose victory over the “empire”? I think you will find whatever empire comes next will be worse
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by FormerBandmate 1y ago
A similar thing seems responsible for signalgate. The NSA needs better tech tbh
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by FormerBandmate 1y ago
Rhis raises it back to the original level (although entirely based off the absurdly overinflated value of Grok at $80 billion. VCs…)
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
BlackBerry was a huge player. They declined, as with Nokia, entirely because they didn’t use a platform
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
Honestly using it for actual serious violent crimes is way better than speeding
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
Also there are way more women applying, to the point where you’re more than double as likely to get in as a man than as a woman. There’s a huge argument about this but no one actually looked up the data for some reason: https://w
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
It seems like there is actually some affirmative action for men going on at Caltech, the exact opposite of what he claimed. Check out the acceptance rates, it’s double for men https://www.clarkecollegeinsight.com/blog/h
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
Actually it’s the opposite, it’s harder for women to get into college. 4.5 vs 1.9% for Caltech lmao https://www.clarkecollegeinsight.com/blog/how-to-get-into-ca... .
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
They can just date down? A lot of the times those degrees don’t pay better anyway
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
AI safety people literally want the world to be a Fisher-Price version of 1984. It’s the gun emoji writ large
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
We don't know tons of stuff about history because of lost information. The Library of Alexandria had tons of valuable information. The internet should be a way to get around that but...
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
> "AI risk is a concern because less intelligent entities are not usually able to constrain the behavior of more intelligent entities" - A coarse and imperfect model indeed, but certainly a model based on observations of intera
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
The power grid itself
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
All of Uber's investors made money, their market cap is $124 billion. Terrible ROI but higher than all of their rounds
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
Processing coffee yourself takes skill that gangsters who take over a government don't have. The most successful countries after decolonization are meritocracies
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
Colonialism does not justify genocide
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
This thread is about China?
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
he's also probably watched like a hawk in russia. Who knows if that's even still his opinions
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
Academia pays absolutely terribly for an elite job, it's all status. You could make more than 90% of tenured professors as a manager of Buc-ee's
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
> we should just shut up and be content with modern tech automating our creative abilities instead of assisting us with menial tasks This isn’t true. Dalle and ChatGPT are assists, they don’t really replace anything and make being creati
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
It could theoretically be possible, but it's not gonna happen from training a machine learning model off Reddit. SolidGoldMagikarp is the canary in the coal mine if you doubt it's Reddit
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by FormerBandmate 2y ago
Anthropic is very addicted to AI safety to the point where it's bureaucratic and boring, and when you dig too deep it starts showing badly here
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Yeah, that's how corporate tax work
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
This is the general problem with AI safety, it babysits the user. AI is literally just computers, no one babysits Word
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
Twitter Blue was a total flop before Musk. I'd bet Twitter's subscription revenue has grown astronomically (although not nearly enough to make up for $1.3 billion in stupid debt payments and a $3 billion shortfall in advertising r
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by FormerBandmate 3y ago
YouTube and Hulu did it very successfully. Twitter has just done it in a really stupid way, because their management values politics over the actual business of running a social media platform (moreso now than before, but still very much be

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