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by gretch 8d ago
It is because you know this and you continually choose to keep using it. It’s be like if your 2001 BMW car was super fuel efficient, and then for whatever reason the 2028 model guzzled gas and you chose to buy it anyway Just because the thi
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by gretch 29d ago
This really isn't a new problem. That's why the mantra in running restaurants has been "location, location, location". Location was a proxy for marketing and attention, based on foot traffic. So yes it does need to be up
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by gretch 2mo ago
I agree I only wish I could convince some humans in my life to slow down and do things with care.
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by gretch 2mo ago
This is not the bar for societal adoption, and we can already see a demonstration that it is false. A waymo is basically an industrial strength robot. It operates among inherently unpredictable humans already. There is no guarantee that it
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by gretch 2mo ago
I feel like people who have high EQ should actually grasp the infinite depth and complexity of even the median human. Just imagine, there’s a woman Alice who cleans your home once a month. On this particular day, she had a fight with her hu
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by gretch 2mo ago
Family member gossips "that crazy [deejaaymac] always burying secrets in the backyard..." Or straight up betrays you (you slighted them at some family event)
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by gretch 2mo ago
No technology in the world can protect you against every threat model and unlikely scenario. What if the robber hits you in the head and you get brain damage and forget your password?
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by gretch 2mo ago
What the law says and enforcement of the law are sometimes 2 different things, but generally employees should not be shorting their own stock, lock up or no lock up. The issue is that this creates a conflict of interest. In the worst case s
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by gretch 2mo ago
> Now add 30 or 50 or 100 other topics you dip into on any given day. In a world without YouTube/LLMs, you weren't going to learn these things anyway. Today, you also don't learn them. So how can you argue that something i
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by gretch 2mo ago
I definitely retain it. In the case of the gardening - I pretty much immediately go outside and practice it. In other words, how I get the info doesn’t matter (book, video, llm) because I’m locking in the skill by doing the thing in the gar
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by gretch 2mo ago
> Do we actually have any measurements of if AI helps you learn something better? To me this is intuitively true based on anecdata. 2 examples 1) learning spanish - when I hear or read a phrase I don't know, I type it into the LLM a
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by gretch 2mo ago
Also earthquakes
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by gretch 3mo ago
You compared “companies in the US” to this 1 thing that 1 company did in Japan. Why don’t you cherry pick the compensation at 1 company, maybe nvidia or openai, and do the comparison.
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by gretch 3mo ago
> Anyone who holds bonds in this market will likely lose money. Yes, you lose money (or more precisely you lose opportunity) but you gain certainty. Which is what you want for retirement That’s pretty much the definition of risk premium.
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by gretch 3mo ago
Turns out you don't have to bet your whole career. Do you think if AI turns out to be a dud, most of us will permanently lose our career as software engineers?
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by gretch 4mo ago
> This is happening despite the fact that both public and private school teachers strongly discourage math outside of school! Do you have more info on this? Where is it coming from and what does it look like? Because this is actually cra
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by gretch 4mo ago
Or maybe this guy was always going to reach the endpoint of shooting up a school, and he happened to talk to ChatGPT along the way. These people have existed long before llm chats and they had no problem committing horrific offence in the a
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by gretch 4mo ago
> The bases got attacked and destroyed with basically zero effort whatsoever, local militaries had to step up to defend the US bases on their own dime and with their own people putting their lives on the line As a US citizen, I hope more
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by gretch 5mo ago
Let's look at Almonds which _could be_ produced where water is not scarce, maybe, but instead is grown in central valley CA based on quickly depleting ground water. Each almond takes about a gallon of water to grow: https://
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by gretch 5mo ago
Presumably you care about the quality of your marketing. Otherwise why do it at all. Worst case scenario, your marketing turns people off to your music, who would have otherwise been listeners. Actually there’s some interesting problems her
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by gretch 5mo ago
I've always found it ironic that people who distrust software from Mark Zuckerberg instead trust software from... 3 guys in a garage. "Those 3 guys in a garage would never sell us out! They are paragons of virtue!"
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by gretch 5mo ago
That's right. And also just like the missing epstein footage. Because it's a social problem, not a technology problem. At the same time, just because these instances of "missing" tape happen, does not mean that body cams
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by gretch 5mo ago
> Or the people who absolutely refuse to give up Chrome, despite the whole adblock situation. "But I don't like the way Firefox tabs look!" Or have yourself a learning moment and recognize that how things look matters to a
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by gretch 6mo ago
I'm ~30 years old and would like to plea to others in my generation: Please take the mantle of adulthood, whether you feel ready or not. If you do not, those who who have no 2nd thoughts about this will run our world into the ground wh
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by gretch 6mo ago
It should not be automated but it should be heavily augmented. One of the failure modes should not be “guy forgot thing”.
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by gretch 6mo ago
Why blame Reagan? He was president 35 years ago and has been dead for 20 years. Why not blame any number of people who held the same office between then and now who have equivalent power to fix the system? If we assign blame to this dead gu
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by gretch 7mo ago
> At some point you need to treat people as adults, which includes letting them make very bad decisions if they insist on doing so. That's right, it's your decision to use Android. If you choose to do so, that's on you.
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by gretch 7mo ago
I agree with you that parents should be responsible, but your argument is clearly flawed. > you can get in trouble if you recklessly leave around or provide alcohol/guns/cigarettes for a minor to start using In the example her
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by gretch 7mo ago
> There needs to be a legal means for property owners to keep drones off their property I agree. It should be the same one we use for helicopters and airplanes.
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by gretch 8mo ago
According to this source, united healthcare profits were $14B in 2024. https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/unitedhealth-unh-2024-re... So yeah, money out not matching money in is exactly the problem.

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