mrhottakes

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by mrhottakes 27d ago
Honestly it sounds like you don't know what you're talking about.
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by mrhottakes 27d ago
So surely there's more demand to hire junior engineers and their salaries have gone up?
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
Are you asking a company to kidnap a child? What's the ask here?
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
So then shouldn't someone be able to see these huge mountains of grains of sand?
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
> Thus, a human would've likely made the same mistake. The AI industry and all of its sycophants in the Trump administration are working very hard to make you believe this.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
Are you sure about that? They're in the middle of a huge marketing push to get people to buy into their IPO. That's "marketing for investors".
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
"Curing" cancer is actually a gigantic societal coordination problem.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
They're the same thing, the "altruists" just lie more effectively.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
He absolutely thinks we're stupid.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
The only thing David Sacks ever calls for is more money and power for David Sacks.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
> As Zuckerberg notes, concentrating power in the hands of an enlightened few has rarely produced the promised results; the practitioners turn out to be less enlightened in practice than in self-conception. Pot, meet kettle.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
This guy has his head in the clouds. He doesn't realize who created and fueled his "crisis of trust".
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
Presumably Wirecutter would need to find a way to make money recommending the universities that they have affiliate deals with. I imagine the results would be the same as the products they rate.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
I'm honestly mystified why anyone ever thought it would lead to some kind of positive outcome.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
Leopard who eats faces surprised to find out other leopard ate his face.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
The US urgently needs coherent national policy; add AI to the (long) list
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
I agree, it is a beat 'em up.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
Bumper sticker with a picture of Count Binface: "Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy!"
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
It's actually pretty easy to read. I wasn't sure how to at first, but I asked my hyperswarm of Claude Mythos bots, and after several hours they recommended I use my eyes to look at the words, and then my brain could read them. As
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
Looking at a kid in his 20s that says "AI will make infinite money" and then loses all his money: > It's generational foresight not available to 99.999999999999999999% of 25 year olds.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
Sounds like a fold to me.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
Hollywood films and 30 second advertisements are different categories.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
When someone makes a prediction but is off by a decade+, that prediction is, necessarily, wrong.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
Reminds me of the engineers/designers who regularly announce they've created a new revolutionary form of bicycle. Turns out the bicycle is a (nearly) perfect design and making it more complicated and expensive and less efficient i
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
I have a bachelor's and masters in engineering and was never taught to "hack it" without regard for how a solution is reached. Documenting and analyzing your solution is an extremely important part of managing risk, which is
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
"Somebody might do <bad thing> and get rich, might as well be me." I just call these people "cowards"
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
This accurately describes a large portion of the people working in "tech", and it doesn't look to be getting better anytime soon.
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
Effectively the same thing that happened to the US: a coordinated right-wing project executed over the past fifty years or so, enabled by a society that looked at the aftermath of World War II and concluded that leftist politics are dangero
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by mrhottakes 1mo ago
Where are all the big world-changing apps that were vibe coded on this platform?
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by mrhottakes 2mo ago
He's one of the best characters on the internet: A 48 year old man who has spent several years and many millions of dollars to look like a 48 year old man. I guess that money also built him a big, stupid business along the way.

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