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by asdfman123 3d ago
Public perception is another big one. But I think with the way AI is slated to grow exponentially it's going to hit electricity limits very soon. Big tech can build a huge data center in 5 years but scaling up the electrical infrastruc
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by asdfman123 3d ago
Actually, one of the major challenges they'll face is getting enough electricity. That could stop AI growth in its tracks.
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by asdfman123 4d ago
Anthropic spreads AI doomerism; asserts only they can be trusted.
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by asdfman123 5d ago
"We're just happy it was solved"
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by asdfman123 5d ago
What people don't understand is that dictators don't kill everyone because they're just monsters. Well, they are monsters, but the reason they do it is because it's kill or be killed for them. You have to eliminate threa
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by asdfman123 5d ago
I felt this way too. But I think it's because we've lived through so many hype cycles (3D printing, IoT, crypto, etc.) which have either been modest improvements or busts. However, game changing technology DOES come along from tim
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by asdfman123 5d ago
I've always been interested in making my job easier first and solving business problems second :)
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by asdfman123 5d ago
Or generating spreadsheets, or sitting in meetings, or operating any other kind of software. That can all be replaced with AI. Carpenters, flight attendants, etc. won't yet, because robotics just isn't there yet. You need humans t
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by asdfman123 5d ago
I'm not being a doomer. But knowledge workers are going to be replaced en masse. Maybe you can't see it because you don't have to watch the computer do more of your job every year, but it's here. If you feel gleeful beca
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by asdfman123 5d ago
We live in a society that respects property rights because the elites have demanded it. Magna Carta, democratic reforms, yadda yadda. But if you don't need the elites, you don't need property rights. The guy with root access to th
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by asdfman123 5d ago
Dismissive, uninformed, and in denial is not an attractive combination of traits to have.
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by asdfman123 5d ago
I was in denial for a long time too. Now I see it everywhere, among very smart people, too. They say "AI just hallucinates" or "your fear is overblown" or they have a general sour grapes attitude towards it. But I don&#x
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by asdfman123 5d ago
The problem is that in an AI powered future, there is no elite class. In every regime in history, elites have been a threat to state power, but needed to keep things running. If the state can run itself, you don't need elites anymore.
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by asdfman123 5d ago
I feel like this is a rational response. Personally, while I'm becoming increasingly convinced there's going to be a wave of SWE layoffs, another part of me doesn't grasp it yet. I don't feel it. I was an AI skeptic for
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by asdfman123 6d ago
High intensity by far gives you the best gains for the time you put in, but there's only so much you can do without overtraining. The way to really maximize your potential is to do high intensity 30 mins 3x/wk and then intersperse
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by asdfman123 6d ago
I'd bet money he's talking about... men's issues
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by asdfman123 6d ago
You probably spent all that time training your cardiovascular base, which takes a long time to do. Then, you capped them off with anaerobic gains that were only possible with that prior work. For optimum gain you should mix moderate exercis
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by asdfman123 6d ago
The proper Latin term for someone throwing away your big box of cables is cabula rasa .
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by asdfman123 6d ago
There's no need to worry about how much CO2 these systems can either capture or accidentally leak. I estimate they use less CO2 than is released when burning a tenth of a gallon of gas. Not significant carbon sequestration, and an insi
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by asdfman123 6d ago
It's because you have to be fearless as the challenger. As the established player you have more to lose.
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by asdfman123 6d ago
That's still a topic of active debate
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by asdfman123 6d ago
I'm going to steal your idea. What ziploc baggie size have you found is best for cables?
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by asdfman123 6d ago
My problem is I can skip all those steps and 8 separate meetings by applying a little common sense to software design. Unfortunately, orgs often treat devs like this as indulgent or wasting time. They need it to be done the inefficient way
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by asdfman123 6d ago
That's true, but greater efficiency isn't going to sell more software if the users don't know they need it. At some level in your management chain there's someone who cares about selling more software above all else, and
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by asdfman123 6d ago
Much of Hacker News seems to be incapable of understanding the average user doesn't care about memory use at all, beyond a few extreme examples. You don't need to argue with me about it: I'm not the average user. But they rea
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by asdfman123 7d ago
Not many people in their 50s are trying new technology. No, what usually happens is a distrusted corporation just keeps sweetening the pot until the users come crawling back. I distrust Meta but if I'm being honest, if their tools were
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by asdfman123 8d ago
No, after seeing how powerful AI is at my job, I definitely want AI to help plan dates, book flights, generate spreadsheets, do all the things. The only problem is, like someone else pointed out, that I don't trust Meta.
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by asdfman123 18d ago
Focusing on how other people designed it might be good to generate momentum for political activism purposes but it's not good for your own personal self improvement. And if you're getting mad about the world and not doing a signif
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by asdfman123 18d ago
Meet a lot of Gen Zers. Far too many of them are.
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by asdfman123 18d ago
It's so weird. I used to consider myself a fringe internet addict in the 2000s but now everyone is like me. Like many of you, I deal with stuff like depression, anxiety, ADHD. Back in the 2000s it felt like I was the only weirdo out th

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