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by keiferski 3d ago
A useful term here is “instrumental reason.” The Ethics of Authenticity is a good read on the topic: https://jaredhenderson.substack.com/p/the-modern-malaise?r=5...
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by keiferski 3d ago
Most people don’t reach self-actualization and never have. This has nothing to do with AI. With regards to technology specifically, new tech has been making high-investment skills useless for the last 500+ years. The printing press, the loo
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by keiferski 5d ago
Yeah seems pretty obvious to me that most people are not going to be using a search engine in 5 years. In the sense of searching for something and combing through the results to find the answer.
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Tech Billionaires and Science Fiction(theatlantic.com)
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by keiferski 5d ago
I know you’re trying to be clever and critical (boy am I tired of this trope on HN) but no, I don’t agree. Being curious about a lot of things doesn’t mean you’re willing to invest 15 minutes every time you have a question. AI makes the cos
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by keiferski 5d ago
I'm not a programmer so I can't really relate directly, I was replying more to the idea of using AI as an information-gathering tool. I guess the analogy could be: with AI you should be doing more complex and more (quantity) progr
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by keiferski 5d ago
I can buy the idea that AIs are making people a lot lazier intellectually, on average. But I do think that for the atypical user that is "information-hungry," AIs are a massive productivity booster. I've probably asked ChatGP
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by keiferski 5d ago
Yup. If current-gen AIs were capable of writing articles, but not code, then devs wouldn't care at all. None of these articles would exist, and some new variation of "learn to code" would be the snarky reply to nay-sayers. In
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by keiferski 7d ago
No, because people talk to each other even when using their phones. This is easily observable in literally any social situation.
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by keiferski 7d ago
Big difference between being at an event and recording it via your phone, and using ChatGPT to make an AI image of it. Images are not all the same.
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by keiferski 7d ago
It kind of depends on your definition on high-performing people. The definition you seem to be operating by might work for the sort of the lone, cantankerous academic genius, someone who’s work is largely dependent on their ability to focus
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by keiferski 7d ago
This is such a contrived imaginary situation that is pretty divorced from reality. No one wants a fake AI photo to commemorate a real event.
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by keiferski 8d ago
They really missed an opportunity to use Chinese, and have the robot be in a hotel room.
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by keiferski 9d ago
Do you only read autobiographies, and by extension, blog posts/novels/etc. by people you morally agree with?
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by keiferski 9d ago
Yeah it does seem like he picked his story structure in 1984 and decided, “well, that’s done, now on to the interesting parts.”
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by keiferski 9d ago
The tone of the comment is sarcastic and snarky, not the content.
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by keiferski 9d ago
I read a ton so I can’t really relate directly; but I will say to try out thrillers. Most are written to keep you reading, because you want to see what happens next. Personally this usually means 20th century detective fiction (Chandler, Ha
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by keiferski 9d ago
William Gibson is one of my favorite writers, and it's funny because I think he has the exact opposite problem. Most of his novels open on the action, in some interesting location. But gradually they get weaker, with a few (Mona Lisa O
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by keiferski 10d ago
Ah right. Well normal restaurants are all open too. Personally I would let grocery stores stay open, but having Zabka, Carrefour Express, etc. open is a decent compromise.
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by keiferski 10d ago
I try not to reply to snarky comments, but - it's not noticeably worse than other days, unless you want to go shopping in the biggest mall in the center of the city.
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by keiferski 10d ago
Not sure I understand your comment. On Sundays, you can send packages via paczkomats (outdoor lockers) and convenience stores (Zabkas) but the post office, DHL, UPS, etc. offices are closed.
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by keiferski 10d ago
Most non-restaurant stores are closed in Poland on Sundays. At first I found it a bit inconvenient, but as I've lived here longer (going on ten years) I really appreciate it. It's a forced "slow down" day that's soc
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by keiferski 10d ago
1. Maybe because making life easier isn't always a good thing? That there are certain things which benefit from being difficult, or at least not as easy as possible. Especially for children. 2. There aren't billion-dollar corporat
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by keiferski 11d ago
Check out a book called Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? It’s looking far more likely that traditional approaches to these questions will become more popular with time, simply because the people that have kids don’t have the opinions
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by keiferski 12d ago
Is that runway based on US expenses? If so, I’d seriously consider going abroad to a cheaper country. $24,000 saved is poverty level ~9 months in America but could last you a frugal 2 years in many places. After that I’d figure out what you
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by keiferski 12d ago
Could be useful for hub and spoke type systems, where you fly from a smaller city to the main hub, and catch a connection from there. Even then there are lots of flights in Europe that are between cities less than 1 hour apart. This idea ge
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by keiferski 14d ago
If this viewpoint resonates with you, I highly recommend the Japanese film Perfect Days. It is about a man living a very simple life as a public cleaner in Tokyo, and after watching it (it’s been three times now) I have the desire to throw
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by keiferski 14d ago
If you want stuff to exist in the world, pay for it. Work is work, and expecting things to be free, or to never raise their prices, is a good way to ensure that they don't last.
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by keiferski 14d ago
This is essentially just Ontology applied to mundane topics like salads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology It might seem trivial when debating silly topics, but when you get to the actual structure of reality, deb
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by keiferski 14d ago
The fact that you haven’t been in central or Eastern Europe might be the key. I haven’t seen an actual countdown timer, but many of the public toilets in Poland have time limits that are displayed on a sign, and announced by the computer vo

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