aaronsimpson

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by aaronsimpson 3y ago
I appreciate you finding a way to so eloquently put your thoughts into words. For the longest time, I always felt like a terrible person or somehow socially or emotionally broken for being unable to respond to others grief. It's not th
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by aaronsimpson 3y ago
I don't know about the previous author or if it's even his best, but I learned about Lars through a Slate Star Codex guest post 2-3 years ago. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-land-...
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by aaronsimpson 3y ago
I think the absolute best pitch for LLMs is a natural language interface to things like PDFs. The vision of being able to "talk to" a book or paper rather than having to scroll and scroll is compelling. The same obviously also wou
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by aaronsimpson 3y ago
This is often brought up and I'm fully willing to be shown that I'm out of touch, but where are people buying these supposed "expensive" eggs and groceries? I'll literally share my last grocery receipt (admittedly s
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by aaronsimpson 3y ago
Predictions for 2024 - Trump/Scott P/VP ticket. - Biden/Trump election is about as close as 2020. Trying to avoid partisanship, but I predict a narrow Biden victory. - Biden loses Nevada, but keeps Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylva
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by aaronsimpson 3y ago
A lot of variables and uncertainty. You have to remember we live in a bubble of people ultra-focused and attached to the news. Many others aren't as focused yet. As we get closer and election season is the top story of the news cycle,
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by aaronsimpson 3y ago
VR inevitably getting smaller and cheaper will give us the "hologram of person in the living room" sci-fi fantasy we've always dreamed of. It won't be a replacement, but similar to the way it's viewed in movies and
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by aaronsimpson 3y ago
This just isn't true, especially in areas where housing costs are the worst. I don't have a citation right now, but I'm pretty sure a city in Canada attempted this (Vancouver?) and the returns were paltry, because the underly
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by aaronsimpson 3y ago
As soon as I deleted the app from my phone and established a "can only view Twitter on my laptop" rule, I basically stopped using it.
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by aaronsimpson 3y ago
I've been on a Twitter break the past two weeks and it's been pretty glorious all things considered. The only thing I really do miss - and will miss if the platform dies - is that ability to be connected to the thoughts of people
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by aaronsimpson 3y ago
The vast majority of COTUS has at least an undergrad, with more than a few having Ivy League credentials or JDs, making them more educated than 70% of the people in the country from some of the highest tier law schools in the country. I kno
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
I think your understanding of how consumers come to the decisions they do is sorely lacking in terms of stripping agency from the people that consume. We're not blank slate robots.
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
Is globalization really the result of corrupt leaders though, or a shift in corporate practice to accommodate the rising demands of consumers? It seems like no amount of corruption really matters as long as we're drinking lattes and ea
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
The question I have - at what point do Instagram and Facebook converge such to the point that it's not even worth having them as separate apps anymore? At a certain point, I imagine Meta would like these apps to all combine into one un
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
That Gilens and Page study has been debunked time and time again by various followup studies. Overwhelmingly the American people get their way. If not that, just look at direct polls from sources like Gallup. Even amongst climate-conscious
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
The amount of Elon charity in this comment section is kind of insane: > In an email, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president, said the letter had made other employees “feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied.” It's literally the sam
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
Not enough people realize this. I was reading Obama's memoir recently and he mentioned this exact concept during the financial crisis, where everyone wanted him to publicly skewer the big banks and talk trash on their CEOs. The problem
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
> Minimum of 14 weeks of severance plus an additional 2 weeks for every year of employment beyond 1 year. This feels super generous to me. Is it standard par for growing companies and Silicon Valley?
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
I always have to adjust for this as an early-career engineer aspiring to start my own startup. It's insanely intimidating looking at companies with multi-million or billion-dollar valuations, but my definition of a "successful&quo
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
That's been my biggest frustration as an engineer reading this - is people seeing "CHANGES TO TWITTER CODEBASE FROZEN!!!" as if it's part of some story of leftist anti-Elon engineers that would sabotage the codebase, rat
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
People seem to think being "constantly gaslit by cable news" is something that news companies do of their own accord, rather than as market agents responding to market signals that we the people send off to them. Fundamentally, th
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
What sort of complete moron would consider the 2008 bank bailout (what I assume you're referring to) as a crime? How is TARP and the repurchasing of toxic bank assets for the stabilization of the US/global financial system, which
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
But these points completely undermine the original OP - how can you blame media companies for pushing things that are "against our interests" when market forces overwhelmingly demonstrate that it's what we want? If the media
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by aaronsimpson 4y ago
It's been Greenwald's MO for a long time now. Take completely uncontroversial statement -> twist it using just the right amount of slippery slope or change/omit one key detail -> make it seem inflammatory and controvers
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by aaronsimpson 5y ago
Exactly. If you believe corporations have too much power today, one of the best tools in your toolbox as a "check" on their power is unions and collective bargaining. It's about having a counterbalance on that see-saw.
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by aaronsimpson 5y ago
> It's hard because "everybody is lying" might be one of the lies. See: the legitimacy that Russia would actually invade Ukraine. While there was definitely a lot of hype and "IT'S HAPPENING!!!" across vario
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by aaronsimpson 5y ago
Even if the future of decentralized ledger cryptocurrency isn't bright, accelerating adoption of digital currencies is a good step forward. If that's all crypto ever accomplishes, I think it'll be a success. Some of course ha
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by aaronsimpson 5y ago
This may just be my confirmation bias, but I started using Reddit in 2012 and that felt like the big heyday and the peak of the site. It had reached critical mass to be interesting, but the new UI design hadn't come yet and it still fe
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by aaronsimpson 5y ago
Especially in the age of AI/ML, doing something like this today is just BEGGING to get algorithm’d into oblivion.
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by aaronsimpson 5y ago
A few years ago at an AI conference (might've been NeurIPS), there was a paper on considering environmental impact as an important facet in AI safety/responsibility. I've been thinking about it for a long time, and this only

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