robinhoode

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by robinhoode 8mo ago
If we lived in a sane society, AI would actually be used for good. AI is literally trained on by humans, used by humans. If humans are doing awful things with it, then it's because humans are awful right now. I strongly feel this is re
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by robinhoode 9mo ago
> This is a bad deal. Capital makes the marginal worker more productive, not less. Why should workers care about being more productive if they do not reap the rewards in terms of wages? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by robinhoode 11mo ago
Railroads need repair too? Not sure if it's every 4 years. Also, the trains I take to/from work are super slow because there is no money to upgrade. I think we may not upgrade every 4 years, but instead upgrade when the AI models
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by robinhoode 11mo ago
Of course they can. Republicans (well MAGA in particular) don't are about hypocracy. They make exceptions for Trump on everything.
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by robinhoode 1y ago
This is the thing with AI: We can always come up with a new architecture with different inputs & outputs to solve lots of problems that couldn't be solved before. People equating AI with other single-problem-solving technologies ar
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by robinhoode 1y ago
> Yes, and where do you suppose experienced developers come from? Almost every time I hear this argument, I realize that people are not actually complaining about AI, but about how modern capitalism is going to use AI. Don't get me
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by robinhoode 1y ago
> In this world people become more like pests. They offer no economic value yet demand that AGI owners (wherever publicly or privately owned) share resources with them. If people revolted any AGI owner would be far better off just deploy
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by robinhoode 2y ago
It's a hypothetical deployment but it's reasonable to expect. These robots will be very valuable, and everyone will want one. It's not going to become a housemaid in a few years. But will they be making car parts? Almost cert
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by robinhoode 7y ago
> You could self-publish and use it as an "in" to working for a PI over the summer This. Publishing is not an end onto itself. Think of it as a chance to get your foot in the door of the research community.
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by robinhoode 7y ago
That sounds awesome! However, I don't quite see how the volunteering is connected to your startup.
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by robinhoode 7y ago
Reading that line made me cringe. Memorizing APIs come in handy for interviews or perhaps fixing bugs in production but not so much for day-to-day work. Now, math equations or the minute details of data structures and algorithms.. Those can
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by robinhoode 8y ago
This seems really cool! Unfortunately I can't seem to get the live compiler to work properly. I get this message when I check the JS console: Failed to execute 'postMessage' on 'DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope': DOMExcep
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by robinhoode 11y ago
Nice to see someone name drop Bigger Pockets! That was my first big project as a Rails developer.
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by robinhoode 11y ago
Is anyone doing old-fashion landlording these days? I'm trying to break into that space, but I have no idea what I'm doing and could use some advice from someone who's done it before.
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by robinhoode 11y ago
> An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Even when this regression is finite, it has a name: anxiety.
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by robinhoode 11y ago
In my experience I've found that you can automate a lot of white collar work if the rest of the business will become organized enough to make that happen. If they aren't collecting or ingesting the right data already, then the har
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by robinhoode 11y ago
What books can I read to, at the very least, attempt address the questions in your 3rd paragraph, given how unique every business is? Isn't anything you find a book on sales or marketing so abstract that it's 2 or 3 layers of assu
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by robinhoode 12y ago
Reposting is one thing. It's another when it's been reposted dozens of times and it somehow gets voted to the top.
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by robinhoode 12y ago
> Agreed, and it's shocking that this Washington Post article does not raise these points at all Dude, the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos. Of course he's going to attack Apple and Google for their phones, while his phon
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by robinhoode 12y ago
> The statistics from places with lax drug laws, decriminalization, partial legalization, etc suggests that everyone who actually wants to do drugs long term already does, and that most (if not all) of the rise in drug use you see at a l
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by robinhoode 12y ago
In my mind, this is a feature and not a bug. The greatest cybermancy spells technologists can create are inherently safer than an AI with potential to go rogue. Why do we want to create a god when we can become gods ourselves?
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by robinhoode 12y ago
And if you notice, they aren't ignoring Bitcoin's role, they're attacking it! So in a sense, they are helping crypto by admitting Bitcoin's faults and attempting their own solution.
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by robinhoode 12y ago
If you're getting bored after 6 months, you might be better off chasing contracts than settling on a full-time job. It can be stressful sometimes, but it beats being a cog in the machine. Perhaps if the company you were working for bel
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by robinhoode 12y ago
> This is said to be the world's most expensive Starbucks coffee featuring 60 espresso shots and costing $55 (£33). That's a lot of shots! How many espresso shots is enough to kill someone?
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by robinhoode 12y ago
What exactly is meant by this? Is there a source behind it? > The fate of reddit may have been very different if Comcast had discriminated against our little two-person-startup in favor of the NBC.com news portal and the sites of other n
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by robinhoode 12y ago
Seems like a good idea. How do they plan to do it?
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by robinhoode 12y ago
I'm curious if this is comparable to Rails rates.
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by robinhoode 12y ago
Do you have any more information on this? I'm definitely curious what the problem looks like when stated in specific algorithmic terms (big-O and all that).
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by robinhoode 12y ago
You are correct that "functionally" there may be no advantage. The value is not the functionality but the architecture. It is resilient to some very powerful attackers, both actual and theoretical. _That_ is where it derives it&#x
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by robinhoode 12y ago
> So the trust issue reverts into trusting that the creators + early adopters to not abuse the system. This is the exact argument used against single-authority systems that the authority may abuse the system. This is not exactly true. Lo

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