cal_dent

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by cal_dent 25d ago
I’m sure the unemployed silent movie person cried about their job loss. Sure they probably got other jobs later but later can be a long time. People who strongly claim tech does not lead to job losses do an awful lot of flattening of time w
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by cal_dent 2mo ago
Awww cute
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by cal_dent 2mo ago
every single city you mentioned there also has significant housing issues. So as per the original comment, the actual solution is more complicated than the debate typically tends to acknowledged. Densifying homes will help, don't get m
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
Social skills. Same as it ever was. That beats talents/smarts every time in a corporate environment
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
This is great and I wish you all the best. A byproduct of the content abundance age (because that's really what is is) is the expectation that not just growth but fast growth is everything is such a race to lower quality on the whole.
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
Everyone needs to revisit William Gibson's the Blue Ant books. Still holds up as the best distillation of our current times culturally. On Cameron Winter & Geese, i think he and the band are great. But I find it amusing that this w
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
But it completely is different. To you point its why a 5 year old's crayon scribble is more powerful to certain people than Guernica for instance. History is littered with gazillions of scribbles, stray notes, meaningless stuff that ju
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
Hole. In. One. I have so little fear of AI replacing true art because its fundamental purpose is to transfer emotions (and its the best way humanity's been able to do this) that can be indescribable in any other way than feelings. AI d
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
Just do it. And remember the old cycling mantra, it never gets any easier, you just get quicker/stronger
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
just maths. if they're as a capable as each other then x product cannot be worth multiples above y unless there's a clear USP. Arguably OpenAi's is brand recognition but given Antrhopic's recent growth that's less c
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
An interesting thing about one facet of how society as developed over the past decade and a half, I think, is that a byproduct of more people being conscious of the quest to monetise almost anything is that it has also raised the level of g
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
exactly. frankly its just a bunch of pissy holier than thou engineer thing. He seems to be pretty good at raising capital and selling dreams which his predominantly what Openai seemingly wants to be right now. New Yorker article less so bec
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
The only relevant lesson is that predictions are likely to be more wrong than right tbh
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
Sort of agree with this but I do find it amusing that this sort of take on it implicitly discounts that the capital still has to live with all these “useless” people on the same rock, whose numbers will grow to an unignorable amount...The i
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
Yeah that's fair point. The closest from that perspective would be the collapse of shipbuilding in places like Sunderland or Hull or maybe textile mills in burnley. But not as significant in terms of global cultural importance i guess
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by cal_dent 5mo ago
The UK did do that to large swathes of Northern England. Changing times comes for everyone in the end
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
This is an interesting post (and also a very well written one!). It touches on something that does slightly irk me about the wider friendship/loneliness conversation that it feels we've been having for a decades now. Its the &quot
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
I agree with where you're coming from. I think its the continuing rise of individualism to a degree; sports team mentality politics/the internet/phones/social media have likely accelerated it but feels to me we'd be
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
Until housing is solved the wealth divide will continue to grow whether ai lives up to expectations or not. Higher wealth taxing funding UBI etc. will be largely ineffective without solving housing. All this new fangled talk about ABUNDANCE
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
My thoughts exactly. I do think people tend to frame things in a developed economies sort of way when the worst fears of ai is actually more akin to a developing/emerging economy framework. And that says when where there's lump of
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
I still don't understand the logic that any job is safe from ai (if it lives up to expectations). Sure, it might not be directly impacted by ai but why is there this expectation that the excess labour from those directly impacted doesn
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
The last thing someone having an argument with anyone is something incredibly knowledgeable (or at least with access to knowledge) that is inclined to agree with you. Yes, it can be good but I suspect for many people it'd more likely l
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
Cloudhiker.net has been doing this for a while too. Great to see more grassroot-ish attempt at expanding the web (or i guess more accurately returning it to its purpose)
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
everyone is vulnerable to it. i think the idea that certain generations are better equipped is more a by product of exposure rather than some sense of immunisation. GenX/Xennials are just more likely to have other things to do than goi
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
Wider society spends an awful long time talking about the effects of social media on young people. I personally think that is somewhat blinkered because its an everybody issue. What do old people and kids have in common, lots and lots of fr
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
Something I was told, very luckily I now believe, early in life is that for the most part we are all as smartish as each other, the only real difference is how much attention & time you're willing to pay to a particular thing(s). Y
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
And people wonder why society failed to embed the idea of being a blessing to say "I don't know" in llms.... That alone would save so much trouble. We, particularly bad workplaces, have a real fear of not knowing so much so
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
Yes! Amazing show, one of my favourite shows of the last decade or two. I think what really does it for me is that they really bring the audience into the world itself. I think that's partly because there's no need to always be pu
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
the comment on the blog recommending "There Is No Antimemetics Division" is also an excellent shout. One of the more original titles I've read in recent years that gives that feeling
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by cal_dent 6mo ago
I tend to agree. I've always thought it would work well as a TV show in the more heady days of streaming (let's say 2012 - 2020) when networks and studios where it still felt like they had some room to take more risk. It's mo

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