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by randomsearch 4y ago
I have only one resolution: to do the greatest year of work of my life. With that in mind, I bid you a very fond farewell, HN.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Tip for anyone suffering from viral fatigue - I had a bad case a few years ago and it was only strength training that turned it round. That's as simple as learning to use the weight machines at the gym.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Crazy as it might sound, you can literally do this by listening to your feet!
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Yourself or others may find _it is exactly what has fallen apart_. Exercise is magical, it gives you superpowers of focus and confidence that you can solve all problems. If everything is going wrong, it's the first place to check - are
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by randomsearch 4y ago
What you’re missing here regards diversity and volume. Diversity: because language models are in some sense capturing an average (even if that average can be from a subset of training data), its comments will not be very diverse. I suspect
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Does that mean murdering people in the cause of climate change prevention is ok? I don’t think literally everything else matters less. I don’t think there’s a simple “matters” scale. Most crucially, an important cause in itself does not jus
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Merry Christmas everyone, even those who argued with me despite clearly being incorrect :-) thanks for continually challenging and educating me, HN. I know of no better way to keep track of trends and hear other opinions.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Also note that the cultural change around advertising within an AI chat interface could then lead to similar monetisation within human conversations too, ie WhatsApp -> WhatsAd
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Bit OT but generally speaking if you care about company culture and want to build something great, acquiring mature companies is not the way to go. You end up with an alien culture you can’t integrate into your own. This is why Apple only b
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by randomsearch 4y ago
I think the more generous reading here is that “usual” = “net positive for the world”
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Interesting, but is the “date flexible” approach really workable? How does the rest of the business work if the deadline is May, then August, then the following year? At least with the fixed date method you know that a bunch of stuff will b
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by randomsearch 4y ago
PG left because of censorship. Now he’s back. He’s a smart considered guy so it’s interesting to ask why he went back. We all have to make similar decisions, and one way we do that is to look to leadership. There are always ethical compromi
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Is there a list of universities that don't do this kind of thing? I wouldn't want to send my kids to a university that published this, I want them to think for themselves. I certainly will strongly discourage them from applying to
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by randomsearch 4y ago
How do we know if this is a joke or not. Some of them definitely read tongue in cheek.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
The Startup way: make a list of features you want to build for your next "release" / deadline. Make that really minimal, what really matters to your users? Tell people you're doing the next "version" by that d
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by randomsearch 4y ago
What is the difference between copying and pasting an essay from the internet and copy and pasting an essay from Chat-GPT, which is a sample from a large training set of essays from the internet?
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Following up - according to the FT today, Turnitin (widely used academic anti-plagiarism tool) are developing a detector.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Not sure his recent behaviour ruins his legacy. It’s likely far more will be remembered of say SpaceX than of this Twitter debacle. At least - to date. But overall yes agree a great achiever (never sure about that genius tag) who has lost t
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Whilst I strongly disagree with the banning of links and accounts without good reason, it is true for me that Twitter has greatly improved since Musk took over. Part of that is that interesting voices like PG’s are not so drowned out by bac
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by randomsearch 4y ago
A useful metaverse is already here and it’s called Google Maps.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
I think that position confuses ethics with condemnation of an individual. You can be ethically against stealing, but still see the positive elements in the life of a thief. It is absolutely not necessary to turn the discussion around Musk i
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Because the OP had taken generalised from that issue to a general polarised Musk fanboys vs haters debate.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Incidentally, one of my heuristics to avoid this: if your team are not contradicting you on a regular basis, you are probably not a good manager. They should feel free to float opposing viewpoints.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Thanks. So essentially: stereotypes are shortcuts? Good point. That’s an instinct we can and should avoid in general debate though.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
> I don't think the parent was calling people people cheerleaders merely for defending him on any level. Ah, I definitely read it that way. The use of “cheerleaders” leaves little room for ambiguity, I think. I was watching a brilli
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by randomsearch 4y ago
I don’t think that’s how such a system would work, right? It would most likely mean higher taxes all the way up. Otherwise you’d get all sorts of tax avoidance tricks.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Thanks for engaging in sensible discussion. I think it’s self evident that very rich people have more capacity for both good and bad, as they have more power in a capitalist society. To debate further there is a debate about capitalism, and
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Well, this is somewhat circular but I think you’re making a genuine point that doesn’t apply in my case. I was following the other way around… people are dismissing Musk as a whole and turning this into a binary debate, so I felt the need t
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Genuinely curious and open, not sure why downvote. So if I read right, you think being a billionaire is unethical. Don’t know if I agree or disagree. Say you’re right, how do we prevent people being billionaires? Should they give up their w
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by randomsearch 4y ago
This is my main concern. Twitter seems like such a waste of time. Either Elon’s judgement is way off, or there’s a bigger picture he can see. But in the short term at least, this circus just seems like a waste of time.

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