PittleyDunkin

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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
"Parameterizing complexity" is probably a better way to say it. There's no isolation when it comes to software.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> As Carmack pointed out the problem with AR/VR right now - it's not the hardware, it's the software. The third option is peoples' expectation for AR/VR itself: it could be a highly niche and expensive industry a
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Maybe eventually. Based on this quality I don't see this happening any time in the near future.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> No VC would want it and there’s not a wealthy user base to bootstrap it. More to the point, VCs invented these apps specifically to disenfranchise workers and vaccuum up the lost cost as a bullshit "service fee".
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Well something must have changed if they're having to show up at a job fair.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Well if we aren't going to get the actual fruits of capitalism I'm for damn sure going to fight it tooth and nail at home. Shit sucks and I can't think of anyone I trust less than an American capitalist.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
How do you refer just to the sort of alphabets that do have vowels and not abjads?
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I saw a photo pop up a few months back from a hiring fair at Yale. I guess Skull and Bones isn't pulling them in like it used to.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
China is not a geopolitical adversary to me. Why would I want to beef with China when China has never done anything to treat me poorly?
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Tbh I think this has a lot more to do with sympathy for Palestinians and the last year of protests on college campuses. Besides, who cares if China is listening to us through the app. China and I have no beef with one another. China feeds m
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
While the greek letter names are derived from phoenician (e.g. aleph/alef/alep and bet), my understanding is that the term was first coined in reference to the greek script (e.g. alpha + bet-). It does, however, seem increasingly
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> this could just be the beginning of our society beginning to scrutinize these platforms. I think politicians have scrutinized american social media and they're 100% fine with the misery they induce so long as they are personally e
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Yes, exactly. Linear A was the first alphabet, and greek gave "alphabet" its name. I almost get the sense that people are interpreting abjad as "lesser-than" an alphabet. It's just a distinction, it's not a val
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> This is a modern distinction. Well, the actual scripts were distinguished semantically all along, and "alphabet" is also a word newer than the scripts in question. We should probably just use the words that make most sense to
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
They have money and want to make more money? This seems like a straightforward question to answer.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I'm not really convinced he's on "the wrong side"—we're entitled to strong opinions about the role of film in society and this is either value-oriented or subjective. But I emphatically do admire his willingness to
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Does it even need to be that analytical? Conservatism can also also be general skepticism of change. And I don't know if you've ever tried to quit nicotine before but it's very good at convincing you it's a relatively ha
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Why not the Volcker shock? I think there's stronger evidence for persistent effects there. Regardless, I see systems analysis as more productive here than root cause analysis.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I want to push back on the surreal end slightly. It's true that his movies are extremely resistant to analysis, and it's true that much of his imagery is de-facto surreal. But his movies still have narratives assembled from humans
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I find it interesting how much Ebert hated that movie. I'm not sure how I feel about it myself, tbh, but I am certain I don't have his conviction to state it clearly and unambiguously. The film certainly made me feel things no oth
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I see what you're saying in the sense of passive energy collection, but perpetual motion strikes me as a terrible metaphor. Perpetual motion would imply so many thing about the universe that solar can't deliver.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Humans engage in confabulation but they’re mostly aware of it. I'm not sure this is the case at all. Some awareness of this doesn't imply full awareness. In my experience, most people are unaware of how incoherent their world
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> An AI that has enough sense of self-awareness to not hallucinate It's not entirely clear that this is meaningful. Humans engage in confabulation, too.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
The divorce of wages and productivity is real. You can pick any year in the last 40 and the trend will be very evident. I'm actually curious if this continues through he 2020s. It could have gotten worse or better or been the yardstick
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Frankly we don't even need currency to begin with.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I doubt that it's a single action that sustained four+ decades of impacts. More likely this is the concerted effort of capital to continually reign in threats.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Is there a risk that cloud providers cannot meet the demand? Waste? Cloud providers are super expensive and can't generally justify this expense with the benefits of outsourcing.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
How about we cut the AI bit and just get a nice C02 decrease, i.e. the actual thing that will support future humans? THat's one more coal plant we can shut down.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Yea but gpt-4 is also only very slightly marginally useful in terms of productivity as it stands today. I highly doubt we're going to get returns on this without huge structural changes to how chatbots work.

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