orthoganol

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by orthoganol 9y ago
Will be buried, but fantastic "fear and loathing in WeWork" kind of article. Loved it. WeWork basically parodies itself.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I think "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" basically applies here. Short answer is: no; it's devoid of any aura.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I read for a full 5 minutes and the author had not said anything substantive, just their own thoughts about pigeon love based on some pigeons he saw in his backyard once. Ok.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
> I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing You're reading too much into Sam's quote. This is almost certainly because East Asia has zero PC culture (homogenous populations; nothing in history), so he do
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I think fact that you get fired if you bring up biology at your company's brown bag on diversity (a la Damore), means, just maybe, that you can't actually say some of those things.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
You know Sam, if you stopped censoring controversial positions or posts from hacker news I might take you seriously. Coming from someone who is now almost automatically moved to the bottom of threads or the ridiculous "See More" s
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by orthoganol 9y ago
The effects of vehicular pollution? If sitting in your garage with a running car kills you, obviously being surrounded by traffic all day in the cities we live in must be absolutely terrible for you.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
How is there nothing on the front page of HN, slack being out for almost an hour now? Given timeframe and upvotes, how is this not the top of HN?
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by orthoganol 9y ago
What an absurd straw man position. I open my statement with "those who should get rich". What do you think?
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by orthoganol 9y ago
You're still extremely optimistic about the 'intelligence' of state of art data driven approaches, even if they aren't general intelligence. I'm not sure where that optimism is coming from. The chess example... &quo
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Out of curiosity, we would need ~500 of these stations in their current form to offset a typical coal power plant (7.5 thousand tons co2/ year, a claim from Climework's about video, v. 3.5 million tons co2 / year), or about 5
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by orthoganol 9y ago
What about the world of contracting? You can also be someone who has flexibility on where/ when they work and for who, and it's probably a more viable 'path' in tech than in any other industry. Since the vast majority of
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I'll throw a line to Zizek. In his serious works, he does set out a systematic ontology of reality. I don't fully understand it, if there is even something to fully understand, but along the way he without doubt makes you think, a
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I believe everyone should give critical theory a fair shot. But I find the majority of the thinkers to have pretty simple ideas that are heavily dressed up and typically exhausting to get through, with little personal benefit, except perhap
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I wouldn't be so sure, within the last year it's now "Hechy Hech mixed with groundwater", you may have seen the pre-emptive advertising on buses when they rolled it out. My feeling is that it is probably worse than it us
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by orthoganol 9y ago
The HN algorithm seemingly took it off the front page fast, so no problem by me.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Wow, The Game I had totally forgotten about. Along with the 4 Hour Work Week, those are two books that gave me totally new measuring devices for success and attractiveness when I was in my early 20s. 4HWW redefined 'elite' as youn
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by orthoganol 9y ago
TL;DR "No, trust me." Prepared to take the hate too. Answers seem fake under the question about relation with parents, and your voice does not strike me as a 13 year old, in particular seeming too controlling of situation. I don&#
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by orthoganol 9y ago
You're going to have to elaborate on complex tasks. I would argue the majority of successful, money generating software based in NLP/ NLU, i.e. the majority of the industry, is "rule based" (used in a general sense to me
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Ok but I am talking about general human intelligence when I say AGI and 'recently emerged', not mollusks. You could easily argue we will find out how higher-order intelligence emerged one day, as some researchers already have mode
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by orthoganol 9y ago
An anthropology textbook in college called "Culture as given, Culture as choice" - basically the good parts of Sapiens minus the preachy, questionable aspects. Another college textbook, "Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise i
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by orthoganol 9y ago
It's interesting how people come out of the woodwork with their personal theories on AGI. Do you/ we even really know how general intelligence works, or even how it emerged i.e. incrementally, or in a dramatic mutation more recent
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by orthoganol 9y ago
That tier distinction is way too fluid in my experience to claim it as a real thing; a large (not small) number of people I know who've worked at or work at Google easily belong in the 'minor leagues', but it's just an o
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Fair, I guess I meant comparatively to alternate cheap living destinations of digital nomads.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Well for one, they are now letting you stay for 4 years without needing an actual job at a Thai based company :) I think it's just more exotic. Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, they are pretty US-like in their own ways.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Do you really expect an uncomplicated answer given the range of people we're talking about? I mean of course there's a subset of heterosexual young men who weigh women high in their travel decisions, and that's across every e
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Prerequisites for 'the zone' (why not call it flow? isn't it the same thing?): a) You have to be interested and eager to get started. If you're not happy with the project, if anything else going on in your life is taking
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I had non melting ice cream in Shanghai, at a relatively overpriced/ touristy, outdoor seating restaurant. It felt like I was eating some weird synthesized product from a lab. It didn't taste very good either. There is no reason f
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by orthoganol 9y ago
How? It's not randos, it's your actual connections. It's engineered and marketed as a replacement for FB, as the way to stay connected and engaged with your personal network, that erases what gets people depressed about with
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by orthoganol 9y ago
We need to build the "social network for people who are intelligent, non attention seeking, and want to discuss, socialize, and organize things". a) no profile picture albums; no one gets to evaluate you based on what you choose t

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