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by csallen 1mo ago
How different is "mapping supermassive black holes" from "mapping galaxies"?
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by csallen 2mo ago
People react negatively to this, because they fear a dystopian society of the sort we've seen in plenty of movies, and rightfully so. But it's also worth pointing out that "consequences and reputations stemming from one'
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by csallen 2mo ago
1. Vocal minority will be, by definition, the loudest. And complainers/haters tend to be more vocal. Studies have looked at which emotions lead people to share, and outrage tops the list; satisfaction barely ranks. 2. Speaking of sati
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by csallen 2mo ago
It just violates my expectations, and thus feels frustrating. And there's almost no benefit. It would be like if my shoes suddenly made me take steps at perfect widths, and no matter how/where I tried to step on my own, they forci
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by csallen 2mo ago
I think this argument is jumbled, or at least way too complex to have such strong and simple conclusions. There are at least four issues at work, all of which are complex to measure and understand: wealth concentration, the conversion of we
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by csallen 2mo ago
Why do you care so much about the divide between rich and poor, as opposed to say, just the quality of life of the poor? If rich people got 10x poorer, would that make you equally as happy as if poor people got 10x richer? If rich people go
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by csallen 2mo ago
It's not that hard for AI to generate images of handwriting.
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by csallen 2mo ago
> - Society needs a strong middle class and social upwards mobility. The middle class is shrinking and this is by design. If we continue to vote in Billionaire backed politicians, who rig the system so it favors them and screws the rest
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by csallen 2mo ago
What do you think is being proposed, exactly? Some sort of alternative sun that's going to shine on the entire earth, that we'll all be forced to look at?
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by csallen 2mo ago
> Your response is basically 'Works on my machine!'. The majority of people in Western countries are not in the lower income brackets, but in the middle and upper brackets. Plus extreme poverty has been in decline all across th
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by csallen 2mo ago
Solar panels aren't nature. Shining lights on solar panels is not going to be an environmental disaster.
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by csallen 2mo ago
> You're just not someone who has to deal with these problems. Are we solving them? Not sure what you're [basing] that of. Almost every major measure of human progress and prosperity over time? What are you basing your doom and
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by csallen 2mo ago
Life is better for the poorest in society than it's ever been, thanks in large part to the nonstop proliferation and cheapening of technology in the past 200 years, esp. the past 100. I can't for the life of me understand why you
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by csallen 2mo ago
> But do you really think life has been getting better in the last 10 years say? Uh, yeah. My TV's much better, my video games are better, programming is easier and more fun with these new AI options added on top of better framework
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by csallen 2mo ago
What's your point? Progress is not perfection. There will always be human suffering. Acknowledging that there's progress is not the same thing as ignoring the fact that there's suffering. I don't know what sort of cult m
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by csallen 2mo ago
Uhhh, I don't know what you're reading, but the comment I was replied to was complaining about the "subscription economy" and not having enough time to watch movies as evidence why life is getting worse. > A lot of pr
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by csallen 2mo ago
A gigantic source of light in the sky that lights up a part of the Earth and is too bright to look at is... the sun. I think we're all used to the sun.
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by csallen 2mo ago
*spoiler alert* It seems clear to me that the Tallyman itself is the AI in this allegory, a man-awoken sentience that's mechanical and mathematical in its behavior. It's also bound by rules it can't violate. It won't s
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by csallen 3mo ago
You're on Hacker News. This is a site full of developers who are convinced that "proper software engineering" is 100% of what makes a business successful, and everything and everyone else is useless. You can't just waltz
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by csallen 3mo ago
> … ephemeral stimulation you can't even remember 30 seconds after seeing it. I know 50 year old adults who can spend entire hours just in this mesmerized state of flicking through these random feeds, seeing but not seeing, like so
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by csallen 3mo ago
We have a world built for humans, designed for humans to walk around and get things done. How, exactly, would it not be useful to have a robot that looks, walks, runs, jumps, lifts, carriers, pushes, pulls, twists, bends, steers, and labors
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by csallen 3mo ago
> There's no risk because, like you said, "I could have easily gone and gotten a job at Google and made a lot more money very easily." You can always go back to selling your labor on the market. The risk is the opportuni
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by csallen 3mo ago
I'm intentionally off the startup grid, for now at least. Happy travels, though. Seems really fun! I did the same after leaving SF
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by csallen 3mo ago
What's your definition of exploiting someone? What's your definition of "through their own work/talent"? What's your evidence that somehow up-coding medical charges was some crucial part of what led to Epic&#x2
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by csallen 3mo ago
I didn't say that AOC said that things were better 70 years ago. I said she makes it sound like people have decreasing power due to income inequality, so I'm comparing to times where income was vastly more equal, and I simply don&
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by csallen 3mo ago
I feel like you should read about systems thinking. You're ignoring so many potential side effects, so much history, so many statistics, incentives, human psychology. The idea of capping wealth in order to try to prevent certain power
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by csallen 3mo ago
I think she's wrong in almost every way. AOC is a demagogue who focuses on getting her constituents to dislike people with money, and in order to do so, she massively oversimplifies things. First of all, the average person has more pow
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by csallen 3mo ago
I do remember! I'm always happy to come across you and other IHers on HN occasionally. I left SF long ago, though
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by csallen 3mo ago
Significantly so.
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by csallen 3mo ago
Can you not join an intentional woodland community? What about moving to another country and living in the woods? If almost everybody you know would rather do this, it sounds like you've got quite the group. Why not pull together and m

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