allen_berg

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by allen_berg 2y ago
A lot, most of the people actually who got into software for the past decade or so seem to have been motivated by money. They'd just as easily became doctors or lawyers. And it shows, a lot of software now is just some grey corporate k
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by allen_berg 2y ago
Anything gets old. I feel like a lot of the problems my friends and I have with software work comes down to having to wrangle the same sort of nonsense week in, week out. Alienation of the workers and all that. Profitable but psychologicall
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by allen_berg 2y ago
AI is just a way to market software. In the 70s and 80s we had "expert systems". Knowledge packed into software. Now when you buy hardware such as the new 3d xray systems for airports it can use high and low energy xray and densit
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by allen_berg 2y ago
Cool stuff but I found hard to have to waddle through all the cutesy story telling (techie? really?) to get to the point. Poetic wordplay based on meaning vs sound is quite interesting but not that deep.
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by allen_berg 2y ago
I think you mean blight
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by allen_berg 2y ago
> I really think we do our offspring a disservice by raising them like they're babies until they're 20. Why? People and society in general seem to be doing much better nowadays...
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by allen_berg 2y ago
People are perfectly capable of being self indulgent, asocial and neglect their health outside and develop perfect eyesight. I really don't see how the moral judgement is relevant here.
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by allen_berg 2y ago
Cool trick for knowing when to use whom: if it can be replaced by he/she/they, it should be who. If it can be replaced by him/her/them, it should be whom. In this case, "whom spend more time outside", could not
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by allen_berg 2y ago
It's slavery economics all over again. The geopolitics will shift to controlling select consumer markets and the best geography for keeping production and logistics costs low since globally there will be overproduction and underconsump
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by allen_berg 2y ago
> However for me, the most helpful by a mile was psilocybin. That whole "this too shall pass" thing is a real thing. Also for me two big things. I have over a decade and a half of experience with LSD and psilocybin and it has i
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by allen_berg 2y ago
> it’s not all it’s cracked up to be > this person is beyond my capability to help I think there's something to be said about the difference between "solving other people's problems" and "solving someone'
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by allen_berg 3y ago
What about unintelligent humans is not an argument against stating that there is not intelligence in "artificial intelligence".