hasbroslasher

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by hasbroslasher 7y ago
> You're free to define experience differently but usually it devolves into defining unknown by unknown. Many philosophers would suggest that we don't bother "defining" anything at all, strictly because of the tendenc
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by hasbroslasher 7y ago
> Experience = event that changes the model of the world you have in your brain So if I don't have a brain, then I can't have experiences? What if we find aliens out there that don't have brains? Or computers? Are they a-e
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by hasbroslasher 7y ago
Parable: Company wants to move "into the cloud" and adopts AWS managed services or Kubernetes to recreate and re-platform existing and functional, though sketchy, on-prem services. "Agile coaches" and "Solution Arch
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by hasbroslasher 7y ago
> You cannot experimentally decide if atoms experience anything, the fact that they do or don't doesn't change any prediction for how they behave over time. It's meaningless, like wondering if magic exists but is actively
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by hasbroslasher 7y ago
> this sentiment is illustrative of the world that the internet has created. on the internet, you never have to deal with something that bores you -- you can always open a new tab and do something else. Don't get me wrong, it's
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by hasbroslasher 7y ago
Yeah, this is one tired trope. I'm especially bored of the "Facebook causes the rise of nationalism/fascism" rhetoric - I think it's pretty convenient to scapegoat the Zuck (who is an asshole, oblivious, naive, etc.
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by hasbroslasher 7y ago
In theory battery tech can fuel Industry, though the ironic chicken-and-egg of the situation should be clear. Obviously we should invest in updated, safer, more efficient nuclear tech, but the public image is so bad that we might as well us
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by hasbroslasher 7y ago
This is some great advice in my opinion. Every project starts from a base - give it a shitty base, and you're always going to have problems. Spend the time to write an OK base that doesn't try to do anything clever but organizes c
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by hasbroslasher 7y ago
I think your point about the personal aspect of work is most relevant. I personally would be mortified to work at a company that was always in the news for various scandals and generally being full of shit. Not that I'd assume anyone w
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by hasbroslasher 7y ago
Just a note: they do "read" your messages, for example to suggest Spotify music to you. Not sure if that's still a thing, that came out around the same time I stopped using FB. https://www.theverge.com/2017&#x
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
I'm not necessarily advocating for socialism, I'm just suggesting that the USA government spends more on incentivizing technological innovation in areas that have real payouts for humanity. It's almost a tautology that if you
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
I think thesis is absolutely ridiculous: "we need a group of new businesses to rise up and make money off of solving tech addiction" There's not a lot of money to be made in stopping people from self-abstaining from pleasure.
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
1. Yeah, sure we have a lot of minds working on AE, but are you really going to argue that working on Farmville is even comparable to the task of establishing the infrastructure and social changes needed to make AE universally solvent? No w
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
I believe Western imperialism has something to do with it... While it's true that capitalism has improved outcomes for some nations, it's also true that capitalist exploitation in Africa and South America really messed up the way
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
This person is saying is that our economic system incentivizes profit, not that it mandates it for every agent. So while a few relatively well-off, well-educated, and principled Googlers can quit over perceived injustice, many people either
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
As far as "the price paid" that you mention: the price is not paid in any way. The price is being put on a high-interest credit card and we're paying the minimum. Someday those cans we've kicked down the road (carbon emi
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
I completely agree. It's not tech's fault at all - tech companies prey on our basic neural hardware as much as fast-food companies do, as much as predatory banks do, and all for the same reason: to generate capital. Luckily, I thi
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
Just saying: you can and should find a job that aligns more with your moral interests. I worked at a socially meaningless music startup for the last couple of years before moving into a job in Alternative Energy. While I still don't ha
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
It's true that ultimately there aren't a whole lot of morally "good" things you can do with your compsci degree at the moment. You can work in adtech or building corporate software, ecommerce, etc. to sell plastic trinke
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Burning Men: Consumption, Destruction, and Creation in a Capitalist Wasteland(medium.com)
1 points by hasbroslasher 8y ago|0 comments
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
This guy completely (intentionally) misses the point to mislead the reader. He does nothing to address actual concerns of organic food enthusiasts like: 1. GMO food is a monopoly owned by a couple of megacorps who claim rights on the seeds
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
> While I dislike most postmodern philosophy and a good chunk of Foucault's, the core of the article is based on the concept that if you can define how pieces of an industry are named and grouped, you will hold power over how that i
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
This is like 3 Foucault quotes and the rest is an overview of Alphabet, AWS, and other tech firms. It would've been interesting to hear about how his other theories relate to the business world. Not that the article isn't correct
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
Anecdote: I've discovered features with Alexa on accident before. I was watching Jeopardy at my parents house and someone yelled that Jeopardy was on, and Alexa was like "let's play Jeopardy!" and booted up a game for us
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
What the hell is this? "There are two kinds of people" reductionist nonsense with some "10x engineer" nonsense AND some "you should let people play video games at work" nonsense thrown in to boot? Anyways, this
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
I think there's a lot of hate in this thread for the bot concept. Yeah, most of these text-based bots are bad and useless. Expecting to chat with a computer over text and get meaningful results is a big request, and without the best of
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
r/iamverysmart - funny screenshots of the Dunning-Kruger effect and people generally thinking they're God's gift to intellectual life. r/holdmyredbull - extreme sports cousin of "hold my beer". Other fun ones i
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
I actually disagree with this. I find that customized Reddit leads to the same feedback loop/conveyer belt feeling that made me quit Facebook out of annoyance with always seeing the same ideas propagated out again and again. Browsing R
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
A mass conspiracy is a kind of a disingenuous characterization of classist/racist oppression. The Ku Klux Klan is, by definition, involved in racist conspiracy - they are famous for meeting together to plan and execute racist acts of v
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by hasbroslasher 8y ago
The costs of calling the police to your own restaurant are wayyyyy higher than you seem to be thinking. Everybody in the building will remember their time at your restaurant as "that one time the police showed up and took that guy in w

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