psi75

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by psi75 4y ago
Is it that unbelievable that its role in a years-long effort to destroy a good man's reputation, as well as in a coverup of that effort, has made your organization disliked by more than one person?
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by psi75 4y ago
Crowdfunding only works if you have a preexisting platform. Otherwise, it's just going to embarrass you. It's not zero-risk either, because if you start a Kickstarter and it fails, you can never remove the evidence (and the soci
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by psi75 4y ago
At that level, definitely not in it for the money. At the C level though I got the sense that there was supreme respect for the cultural role of publishers - but it was a narrow second to business concerns, and they would make that tradeof
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by psi75 4y ago
Yep, and how so many publishers want your own platform stats. I know people with large insta followings getting book deals purely because they can market their own books and cost publishers next to nothing, with an almost guaranteed profit
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by psi75 4y ago
There are tiers of what it means to "get published". If you want your book to get a decent editor and maybe get a print run in the three or four digits, you don't have to deal with all the faddish bukkake (social media presen
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by psi75 4y ago
The present reality is that all publishers have been reduced to vanity press, and they don't realize it yet. In theory, publishers provide a real service, because self-publishing well is expensive (four, five digits easily). In theor
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by psi75 4y ago
Entitlement is a weird concept, especially since it is now used as a pejorative only to connote false senses of entitlement (i.e., when people believe they are owed things but have no logical basis for the belief). This deprives us of the l
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by psi75 4y ago
They're immigrating from countries whose victimization by capitalism is complete to one that still has a (shrinking, per Davos protocol) middle class. Life under 21st-century American capitalism is bad, but it's even worse outside
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by psi75 4y ago
Overqualified.
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by psi75 4y ago
The problem is that programmers answer to idiots, but nevertheless those idiots have certain reptilian sensibilities in which they exceed us, and a consequence of this is that they have a knack for zero-sum power grabs and pissing contests.
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Jonathan Blow: Software Is in Decline(youtube.com)
18 points by psi75 4y ago|9 comments
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by psi75 4y ago
It's not that consumer debt "helps to fuel" the economy; consumer debt is the only reason the economy hasn't collapsed in on itself already. Henry Ford wasn't a good person. He was a rabid antisemite. But even he kn
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by psi75 4y ago
"Overextrapolation" isn't a word.
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by psi75 4y ago
This is true. There is no evidence that we're on track for a state in which money is meaningless. Rather, the evidence is strong that we're on track for one in which money represents one's share of the corruptly attained and
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by psi75 4y ago
Housing is (along with healthcare in the US) a big part of why most people in the so-called "rich world" are in fact dismally poor, only one missed paycheck or turn of bad luck away from life becoming unlivable. For most of us poo
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by psi75 4y ago
You're proposing a false dichotomy: that we either go back to an agrarian lifestyle or accept the status quo. Technology is a good thing. Industry is a good thing. We can keep them. What we don't need is the ruling class. They tak
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by psi75 4y ago
This. Corporations are great at imposing mean-spirited personal accountability (i.e., if you're perceived to have fucked up, you get fucked) but that doesn't actually solve problems or change anything. People get fired, careers en
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by psi75 4y ago
The speculation was that we'd all have to become artists or poets, since, obviously creative work would be out of the reach of AI. It's debatable--it goes back to Barthes's "death of the author", whether art'
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by psi75 4y ago
I started looking into this in the 2010s, and the evidence suggests that we're going to see everything humans do as subordinates face a 6-12% annual wage decline starting about now. If you do it as a subordinate, a machine can do your
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by psi75 4y ago
When I have a project I'm really exited about working on I'm productive and it feels great, when it's something I have to do for the business but I don't love the project, I'm slow and doing the work is a grind. T
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by psi75 4y ago
Unfortunately, the only way to prevent hierarchy is to create a limited hierarchy (this is the purpose of constitutions) a priori; hierarchically naive organizations fail on this account. External parties will demand hierarchy simply becaus
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by psi75 4y ago
Academia remains an option even if you don't get into a top-10 ML school, if your research is good. Granted, it's tougher to get published and cited, because you're less likely to know people who can push your work, but if yo
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by psi75 4y ago
I agree with your first sentence. I'm not sure I would recommend SCPD. If you want to do real ML work, you pretty much need the PhD. This is a hard thing for people who have 140+ IQs but do poorly for whatever reason with formal educat
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by psi75 4y ago
I think he meant "real work" from the perspective of the overeducated people who tend to end up in (and resent being in) corporate data science roles. From the boss's perspective, the grungy IT support stuff is closer to real
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by psi75 4y ago
This, 100%. That said, most data scientists don't do what you would consider real work (meaning, I assume, interesting work with significant mathematical/analytical meat). There just isn't a lot that's both interesting a
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by psi75 4y ago
> there will be no putting the toothpaste back into the work from home tube. This is true, but it's also dangerous. The lizardfolk [1] have learned that WFH works, that's the good news. The bad news is that nothing prevents s
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by psi75 4y ago
In an office, you spend 8-10+ hours to work a 3-hour day. You have to commute to the place. You're basically sick with the flu (but working due to social pressures) for half of February. Being visible from behind while working, as is t
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by psi75 4y ago
COVID is not over. I have it (mild) right now. I'm vaxxed and boosted, and I'm very glad for that, but it still sucks. The bosses don't care, of course. They have their own offices, and people who work in open-plan spaces are
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by psi75 4y ago
Oof. Lots of words, and for what? I do agree that "woke" virtue signaling, when performed by bourgeois upper-middle-class people who fail to see (or who have vested interests in not seeing, or at least pretending not to see) that
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by psi75 4y ago
The issue is that while (a) society absolutely needs these programs, (b) they, by definition, can't be made available to everyone. Some people are going to get in, and some are not. No matter what we do, there are going to be results w

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