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by pcstl 7d ago
>assuming their difficulty is in the same ballpark It is not. Many mathematicians have said that they don't expect to see solutions to the other 5 problems in their lifetimes. Of course, AI might advance fast enough that the "i
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by pcstl 14d ago
Indeed.
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by pcstl 15d ago
Regression to the mean is pretty nasty. Stumbling into success can make you a car dealership owner or something like that, but being consistently successful in business requires just about as much skill as being consistently successful in,
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by pcstl 15d ago
I find it difficult to imagine an intelligent person who finds it hard to get what they want. The trope of the oblivious genius who is incredibly competent in a single field of inquiry but completely unable to handle day-to-day life is more
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by pcstl 15d ago
I'm not saying any of the people in charge are good people at all. I'm just saying that they are skilled at achieving their own goals, regardless of the morality or lack thereof of those goals.
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by pcstl 15d ago
That's a choice, but the universe has no reason to respect it.
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by pcstl 15d ago
"Capability to achieve goals" seems to be fairly independent of goals.
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by pcstl 15d ago
This isn't about people who just happened to make it big in a market rally, though. You're talking as if I'm speaking about people who just happened to buy some Bitcoin in 2012 rather than leaders of some of the most successf
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by pcstl 15d ago
I really don't find it coherent to call someone who you keep consistently losing to stupid.
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by pcstl 15d ago
I never said it's not worth discussing, I'm just saying that it becoming a charged issue was bad for Zitron specifically because his style of content fell in demand with the most irrational parts of the crowd.
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by pcstl 15d ago
>It's rare that people make the news and build a following by saying a very balanced, down to earth opinions Humans are built for fighting and killing the rival tribe, not for pondering whether the other tribe might actually be corr
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by pcstl 15d ago
It is weakness in the long-term. It's pretty clear in how people talk about billionaires: They must somehow conclude that the people most successful within a system that rewards certain things are not competent because the things the s
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by pcstl 15d ago
Zitron has become the distorted reflection of the very AI boosters he criticizes and mocks. I think the worst thing that happened to him was AI skepticism becoming a political position . This gave him a captive audience - as long as he sa
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by pcstl 2mo ago
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by pcstl 2mo ago
What is real engineering?
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by pcstl 3mo ago
Rule of thumb here is that investments will work fine using doubles, but transfers need to run on int or fixed point.
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by pcstl 3mo ago
Air moves from regions of high pressure to regions of low pressure. Pressure itself does not have a direction.
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Making the fastest phrase search algo with the most unhinged AVX512 instruction(gab-menezes.github.io)
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by pcstl 2y ago
This just seems like a bad idea. Starting things and not finishing them is just... The default. Whoever thinks that our society is too focused on commitment has really not been keeping up with social trends for the last few decades. Most
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by pcstl 2y ago
https://futurism.com/the-byte/phones-listen-theory-debunked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVazBWGgg64 They're sending pretty much everything BUT audio. Main reason is that audio is just tremendo
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by pcstl 2y ago
This is very likely fake. But why would a company say they do this? It's because so many people believe that this happens anyway that there's next to no cost to them in saying it - and the buyers for this kind of technology think
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by pcstl 2y ago
People have. And it's always shown that no apps are opening your mics when you're not using the app, and that if you're using the app they generally will only open your mic when it makes sense to do so. These companies are mo
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by pcstl 2y ago
Can you provide evidence that code which is "as performant as using mutation" is generated? Mutation tends to be very hard to beat.
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by pcstl 2y ago
Mangroves are generally salt-tolerating and perfectly adapted to growing in brackish water.
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by pcstl 2y ago
The majority of the industry is made of people who care mostly about their own careers. If solving nasty distributed system problems is simple, you can't justify having a huge bloated expensive team. If your team doesn't spend a l
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by pcstl 3y ago
That's pretty much what Urbit wanted to be, to be fair, just with a strong networking component powered by a decentralized identity system. It's just too esoteric to have meaningful traction as that.
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by pcstl 3y ago
Is Umbrel just actually usable Urbit? [0] [0] https://urbit.org/
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by pcstl 3y ago
I'd agree with you if it weren't for all the cultish red flags present here. This is clearly a man who wants a cult-like mentality to form around him. If he were just going ridiculously in-depth with his self-research and being
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by pcstl 3y ago
So he's a successful businessman. How does that background translate to any kind of scientific competence? Because his website is heavy on the buzzwords and the Silicon Valley "glorious future"-talk and remarkably light on a
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by pcstl 3y ago
As an entrepreneur myself, I can tell you that "needing the money" stops being a significant motivation after a while, or at least takes a back seat to the thrill of just getting people to buy the thing.

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