hax0ron3

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by hax0ron3 3d ago
I think that a chance of getting things like material post-scarcity, age reversal, possibly even biological immortality... might be worth a 10% chance of human extinction. I mean, we already know more or less how things are going to go with
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by hax0ron3 4d ago
I coded for fun before I ever coded for money. However, at this point I've been a professional software engineer for enough years that the interest in software that I once had has almost entirely drained out of me. I find professional
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by hax0ron3 4d ago
Interesting idea. Only problems for me are: it sounds dangerous and physically straining for someone like me who hasn't done manual labor in many years and has no experience relevant to oil rigs. And also, there are almost no women. I
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by hax0ron3 4d ago
I lost interest in writing elegant code many years before AI. Professional software development doesn't reward it much. Most customers don't care about it. And I don't have much emotional attachment to or ego investment in st
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by hax0ron3 4d ago
It's more like calling the restaurant and giving them a description of a custom meal that you want them to prepare for you.
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by hax0ron3 4d ago
> AI generated creative works have zero value. Then how have I gotten value from some of them?
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by hax0ron3 4d ago
I like using my mind too, just usually not on software engineering.
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by hax0ron3 4d ago
>It's also well understood that the act of writing is when thinking actually happens. For me the more interesting and productive thinking happens when I'm trying to understand what I want the code to do, not when I'm think
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by hax0ron3 4d ago
If I could get paid a Bay Area software engineering salary to clean the bathroom instead, I think I would actually prefer to clean the bathroom. Software engineering requires me to actually use a large part of my mind. Cleaning the bathroom
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by hax0ron3 5d ago
Wait. I didn't say anything about making people miserable. And I'm not talking about some weird kind of pressure like yelling at people. I just mean the normal, almost inevitable kind of pressure that comes from the business situa
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by hax0ron3 5d ago
The existence of the websites that use 100% CPU probably has more to do with the fact that humans spent years building software ecosystems and business practices that make websites that use 100% CPU than it does with any inherent limitation
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by hax0ron3 5d ago
I enjoy working on personal projects, but I have never enjoyed coding in professional contexts, so AI doesn't actually reduce my level of enjoyment at work at all. It actually increases my level of enjoyment, since it does a good job o
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by hax0ron3 5d ago
I code to make money, and the kind of stuff I work on doesn't kill people or lose massive amounts of money if it has bugs, so to me velocity to a solution is much more important than velocity to understanding.
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by hax0ron3 5d ago
The pressures from management and the company environment are not always a bad thing. It really depends on whether the pressures are coming from a logical business perspective or whether they are just coming from stupidity or ignorance. In
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by hax0ron3 5d ago
It isn't necessarily the more expensive choice in the long run. Let's say that companies A and B are direct competitors who start from the same point. Company A quickly codes a bunch of buggy software and ships it in a month. Comp
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by hax0ron3 5d ago
I mean, it's not surprising. I think that most people on here are software developers. AI is fundamentally transformative to the software development industry and threatens to put large numbers of software developers out of a job. Fabl
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by hax0ron3 11d ago
I think that vegan diets never took off primarily because the vast majority of people do not want to follow vegan diets. Money factors such as subsidies are secondary. There are also potential health impacts. I followed a vegetarian diet fo
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by hax0ron3 14d ago
Was Hofstadter ever arguing that intelligence requires self-referentiality? I haven't read his stuff in a long time, but from what I recall he was saying more that something about consciousness and the sense of self is based on self-re
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by hax0ron3 15d ago
I think that even back in early farming days, there were usually some guys who were good at using spears and didn't know much about farming who would go around taking part of the farmers' output. If the farmers were relatively luc
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by hax0ron3 15d ago
Good point. Except, the problem is that at AI prices similar to current ones, it would cost someone thousands of dollars to make the game for himself.
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by hax0ron3 15d ago
>They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game, and then everyone else somehow buys it without a job. If AIs get just a few times better than they are now, the CEO probably actually will be able to press a button tha
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by hax0ron3 17d ago
What kind of solid evidence could there possibly be that anything other than myself (or, for you, yourself) has consciousness? I believe that other people have consciousness, I feel other people's consciousness strongly and directly, w
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by hax0ron3 21d ago
So if I write a book that your kid just can't stop reading it over and over again because I deliberately made it compulsively re-readable, and then your kid develops some kind of issues because my book is so interesting to him, you can
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by hax0ron3 23d ago
Sometimes I wonder what fraction of America's economic dynamism is based simply on people's desperate desire to make enough money to not have to live around street violence and other kinds of in-your-face social unpleasantness.
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by hax0ron3 27d ago
It is possible for many people to learn how to be happier, but this skill doesn't automatically emerge just because one is smart. Being smart doesn't automatically give you the skill of riding a bike, either. It doesn't autom
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by hax0ron3 1mo ago
It is a funny quote, and probably true. But I imagine that few people who are willing to read a serious article about Anton Chekhov these days actually have much interest in rejoicing in seeing his weaknesses.
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by hax0ron3 1mo ago
>The not-so-quiet goal of the LLM push by big tech was to homogenise intellectual labour such that it can be made fungible. When labour is fungible you can swap it out whenever you like for an alternative, decreasing the bargaining power
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by hax0ron3 1mo ago
What next, FedEx will be ordered to pay a billion dollars to address harm caused by the fact that some people mail child porn using FedEx? Movie studios will be ordered to pay a billion dollars each to address harm that movies caused kids b
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by hax0ron3 2mo ago
>However, unlike China, the electorate does not support him. His election is also almost certainly due to aggressive campaigns to destabilize the US internally for this exact purpose. What are you claiming here? That China hacked the vot
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by hax0ron3 3mo ago
Yup, I can definitely imagine that it's different if you're working directly for customers and have the freedom to do things however you want to do them as long as you still make a living.

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