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by hedgew 1y ago
>Why bother playing when I knew there was an easier way to win? This is the exact same feeling I’m left with after a few days of using Claude Code. I don’t enjoy using the tool as much as I enjoy writing code. My experience has been the
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by hedgew 2y ago
My experience from these projects is the opposite. The projects are always secondary priorities for participants, and the difficulty of coordinating some dozen entirely separate organisations towards something actually productive is immense
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by hedgew 2y ago
A hallmark feature of psychosis and schizophrenia is lack of "insight", meaning that the patient can't recognize that they are having delusions, nor the fact that they are suffering from the illness. The belief that you are a
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by hedgew 2y ago
There is a market for technical due diligence consulting, but the work is typically done by friends of investors; it's a difficult and tiny market to get into.
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by hedgew 3y ago
What exactly do you think you can learn at that point, that'd give you market value?
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by hedgew 4y ago
Pinboard was nice and simple once, but nowadays doesn't seem to be maintained and is broken in many ways. I've been trying to export my archive backup for almost a year without success.
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by hedgew 4y ago
One reason why EA takes AI risks seriously is exactly because of how hard it is to define what is "good" or what "utility" makes humans happy.
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by hedgew 4y ago
Ability to bullshit on bullshit questions is a good test of both intelligence and subservience!
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by hedgew 6y ago
I'm in a similar situation. I think if you read a lot of HN and are reasonably successful, your expectations for life can get detrimentally high. And what happiness and meaning you experience largely depends on what you expect. You&#x2
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by hedgew 6y ago
OODA loop is often hyped, but really it is just a description of how humans (and animals) behave in almost any situation. "Look, Think, Decide, Act" in other words. It's not valuable in the sense that you can "practice&q
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by hedgew 6y ago
> "There is not even complete agreement about the causal relationship between the swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome" > "Studies suggest that it is more likely that a person will get GBS after getting the flu
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by hedgew 6y ago
Try finding out how many people have died from vaccines that have passed phase 1 & 2 in the past few decades. The number seems to be closer to zero than anything else. Even one of the worst vaccine disasters, the Cutter incident in 1955
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by hedgew 6y ago
Every day vaccines are delayed costs thousands of lives. Bioethicists who have forbidden challenge trials in vaccine trials have firmly taken the no-action stance in the trolley problem. A normal phase 3 trial gives the vaccine to volunteer
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by hedgew 6y ago
This seems like a hostile interpretation of what he said. Cummings said he had warned about the dangers of pandemics. The original archived version of his blog post obviously warns about pandemics. Archived version from 2019: https:/&
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by hedgew 6y ago
I wouldn't place too much trust in the Finnish IFR estimate. Their IFR estimate a month ago was 0.05% - 0.1%. At the time there was no data to support that, and it turns out that they had simply taken their estimates from a ten year ol
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by hedgew 6y ago
Finland and Norway have also had much stronger responses than Sweden.
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by hedgew 6y ago
All the Nordic countries underestimated the pandemic. Norway switched their goal from mitigation to suppression a few days ago, Finland is still teetering somewhere in between, and Sweden is solidly in the mitigation camp. Government offici
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by hedgew 7y ago
I don't have enough need to memorize anything.
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by hedgew 7y ago
It's probably one of the better government programs, though as a programmer you'll pay the entire grant's €2500-5000 value in one month of taxes.
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by hedgew 7y ago
I worry that if the "keep them talking" -heuristic becomes widespread enough, we'll experience a cultural evolution where people flat out refuse to talk. If you know the main strategy of your opponent it to get you talking, y
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by hedgew 7y ago
The surest and most effective way to align developer interests with company interests is to give equity. Bonuses in software engineering get very complicated and messy very quick, and probably shouldn't be used outside of some specific
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by hedgew 7y ago
Like so many studies about bias and heuristics, this one probably does not generalize well beyond trivial tasks. I trust that the research was executed well, but I doubt the results say anything definite, other than that in trivial tasks pe
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by hedgew 7y ago
I bought the PO-33 thinking it would be a fun musical toy I could occasionally play with. To be honest, I was disappointed with how much repetitive labor was needed to do even the simplest things on it. Something about it just did not enter
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by hedgew 7y ago
I don't think that we're prepared at all for how much, and from how little, machine learning might be able to deduce about us. Combined with how our behavior is tracked in high resolution by Facebook, Google, and the rest, we&#x27
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by hedgew 7y ago
This is the kind of important explorative research that probably hasn't been done extensively or truthfully before, and yet shows deep insight into how the human mind works. It's worth noting that this only contains subreddits wit
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by hedgew 8y ago
6. You don't need to publicize your IP address by default.
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by hedgew 8y ago
I had the same experience. I'm in the correct target demographic because I'm interested in meditation and not yet doing it actively, but the ads have reduced my interest in meditation more than anything has increased it.
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by hedgew 8y ago
No. This is dangerous advice. An intensive, torturous retreat away from friends and familiar places is one of the worst ways to start meditating. https://www.google.com/search?q=vipassana+psychosis
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The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth(conradbastable.com)
192 points by hedgew 8y ago|258 comments
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by hedgew 8y ago
ManicTime and Leechblock are two solutions that work entirely locally, on Windows.

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