roflc0ptic

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by roflc0ptic 1y ago
Fair point, though I think “did I accurately summarize a conversation” is much harder to check/get away with vs “did I piss off the person on the other end”
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by roflc0ptic 1y ago
I’m inclined to believe that call center employees don’t have a lot of incentive to do a good job/care, so a lossy AI could quite plausibly be higher quality than a human
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by roflc0ptic 2y ago
Pretty sure this is out of date now
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by roflc0ptic 2y ago
The claim here is that the tech innovation is occurring in the US. It adds value globally, but most of the profits from that value are being realized in the US b/c the innovation is by US companies. There’s no natural law that says t
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by roflc0ptic 2y ago
I work with a bunch of functional programmers. We went through most of “category theory for programmers.” We had support from a math PhD. Broad consensus was it was a waste of time. Functional programming has taken the useful bits, and some
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by roflc0ptic 2y ago
Yeah the subject of my sentence was unclear. I was responding to the comment about IO in particular.
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by roflc0ptic 2y ago
(Tries to fight the urge to explain, fails) it’s a construct to sequence async interactions, one after the other, without blocking. It’s very similar to c# or python’s await
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
The simple answer here is that the boards actions stood to incinerate millions of dollars of wealth for most of these employees, and they were up in arms. They’re all acting out the intended incentives of giving people stake in a company: p
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231112101006/https://www.nytim...
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
Kudos to Krystal for trying this out. As I've been working on a globally distributed team lately, I've been reflecting that while I only get 4-6 good hours of programming in a day, the value of everyone working the same 8 hours is
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
I shared this understanding. I'd be curious to hear where GP's understanding differs.
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
yeah, definitely. "Drugs are bad, actually" is decidedly an over simplification. For the record my drugs of choice are SSRIs, caffeine, and mushrooms. Full agree with everything you're saying here. The less oversimplified rea
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
I used to share a similar position until I realized: drugs are bad, actually, and there should be substantial friction in making them available to people. Disincentivizing drug consumption is a good thing. The war on drugs obviously leads t
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
well, that's pretty damning. I got irritated and stopped reading, shame on me.
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
That makes sense - I certainly see how “I’m doing this for your own good” opens up a bit of moral hazard.
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
> Fashioning himself as a cultural preservationist rather than an opportunistic pilferer, Latchford knowingly purchased looted statues and stones from ancient sites of worship Honestly, I think buying and selling looted artifacts from th
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
It’s remarkable how much sympathetic pain the phrase “stepping on a Lego at night” causes
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
Therapists aren't supposed to use you for steady income. From a good therapist's perspective, if their clients continue to need therapy, they're failing.
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
I believe you! I just don't understand what you meant, then.
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
"right" and "wrong" are normative statements: quite literally they're statements about how things should be. IMO it's a reasonable read of your comment
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
That’s a perspective I haven’t heard; I’ve generally heard the opposite. Would love to hear more about that - any reading recommendations?
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
> their decisions have huge penalty for incorrectly saying "yes" but zero penalty for incorrectly saying "no". The FDA acting out this incentive scheme _is_ the problem. The issue is the opportunity cost: "I defa
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
Not in the face of such overwhelming evidence; it’s literally their job to make sure things are effective. It turns out medical studies are weaker evidence than anyone would like, but here there was quite compelling evidence that it was use
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
No. There was a drug released that targeted that pathway, but the approval in and of itself was a scandal - I spoke with a pharmacist last night who said people at her hospital were disgusted by the FDA’s decision. It was removed from the m
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
Idk man my public elementary school gifted peers all went on to be pretty successful - head dramaturge at a Broadway playhouse, doctors, poker champion, etc. I manage software developers at a dev shop with a bunch of ivy and prestigious eur
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
Take a long tube with an osmotic filter on it. Put it in the sea with one end out. Pressure is going to fill the tube up, no, just like a snorkel? Probably back up to sea level, possibly minus whatever force reduction caused by the filter?
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
the math checks out
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
Do you think I would disagree?
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
Why should being born Asian so drastically negatively affect your ability to get into an elite college? It’s discrimination. They did the same thing with Jews - they introduced standardized testing, found that too many Jews were making it i
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by roflc0ptic 3y ago
I like the humility

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