OrigamiPastrami

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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
El Salvador.
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
If you're willing to accept small changes as a win in a fundamentally broken system (in the sense the incentives aren't aligned and there is no real accountability feedback mechanism) then the problem is you aren't cynical en
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
> Being jaded and cynical will not help in the long run. This sounds like it's better to work within the system rather than try to overthrow it. You need more than a little angst to completely reset cultural norms. Maybe you'
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
> There isn't anyone that would argue that a single or a group of firms dominating a sizeable amount of market, enough that they could, not that they do, influence and undermine the competitors is a desired status quo. There are man
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
I'm not saying there isn't progress. I'm saying progress is slow relative to the work that needs to be done. I've also worked at enough robotics companies to be skeptical of anything they publish because there is a st
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
> Doesn't it seem like in < 10 years there will be dozens of autonomous, affordable home-robots? If you buy the hype, sure. I know many startups that have already gone bust working on this. I've also seen lots of similar a
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
Why do you think you could ever trust them?
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
Is there somewhere the general consensus is generally right?
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
I remember when Guitar Hero came out I didn't understand why anybody would play that instead of just buying a guitar. The point is the videogame itself is designed to be fun and remove plenty of other elements from the real life equiv
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
It seems pretty obvious the H-1B system hurt him.
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
Are we just going to ignore the negative externalities of AI? From my perspective, the main product of AI is bots spamming social media with misinformation - largely with a goal of swaying elections. I'm not saying that AI is inherent
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
It's more the fact that you're willfully ignorant which makes you annoying. Numerous people have already explained to you why you're wrong and you just keep repeating yourself. You're a hypocrite and you don't eve
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
Your analysis assumes collateral damage is irrelevant.
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
I strongly wish we had more comments like the one you're responding to. I find most comments here to be obnoxiously polite and I wish more ignorant opinions were publicly demolished as they should be, rather than continue to spread mi
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
I don't believe you, but you can always prove me wrong and share your proof.
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
Fair enough.
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
So your point is that if we fundamentally change society, ignoring the fact that this is integral to human nature itself, then we can fix this problem? That's about as helpful as saying we can have peace in the Middle East if we all j
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
I never said cheating is moral. I said cheating is advantageous. You think cheaters care that they're hurting society? You can't be a cheater without being selfish.
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
You're a caricature of my original point and you don't even realize it.
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
Hating cheaters does nothing to change the reality of it being an effective method for getting ahead.
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
> Not sure if it was the lesson he meant to impart though since I think most took away from it that to win you need to lie, cheat and steal. Better to teach reality than ideology, assuming you want to be a practitioner instead of a theor
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
Call me naïve, but I actually suspect Brin started out believing in "do no evil" and changed over time after becoming ridiculously wealthy. Having the misfortune of actually knowing some of the other people though, I firmly belie
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
You blocked 50k people? Don't you have to block people one by one? How did you even do this?
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
> If it's business - we had a solution deployed for the customer in less than an hour. Boeing was good at finding cheaper solutions to business problems as well. In the end it's society that suffers for our tolerance of late s
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
You actually think people are familiar with most, if any, of your hints? You mention Susanne Trimbath like most people have any idea who she is. If you construct an argument instead of throwing out a buzzword salad of ideas, people are mo
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
> jetBlue provides more legroom through all of coach, and even I as a very tall person, don't go out of my way to book them. How tall are you? I will literally skip a family vacation if I can't get a better seat on an airplane
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
Thank you for the reply - I'll give them a shot.
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
No, I cannot prompt ChatGPT and get a response that sounds human. You may think that, but in my experience ChatGPT is fucking awful and I was asking if there an LLM that doesn't sound obnoxious. Obviously this is all subjective, but O
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
Is there an LLM I can interact with right now that doesn't sound like a chat bot? I'm very interested in a chat bot that sounds like a person - hell I'd pay money for it.
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by OrigamiPastrami 2y ago
I realize this is off topic but I always wonder what causes stories to bounce off the front page. It was on the front page, then suddenly it wasn't in the top 300 posts (I didn't check any further), and now it's back on the

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