rphv

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by rphv 25d ago
Ok ok ok
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by rphv 1mo ago
> ...then I’m afraid I received a different message than you intended Are you sure about that?
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by rphv 1mo ago
This sounds like the lament of a group of people who have nothing in their lives they consider more valuable than work.
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by rphv 2mo ago
I think comments like this are essentially making fun of an "intelligent" entity (for some definition of "intelligent") for having a personality.
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by rphv 3mo ago
Hm maybe humans are nicer/more moral than AI given that the use of tactical nukes has only happened once.
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by rphv 3mo ago
Humans are evolutionarily optimized to do this. Add this to the long list of behaviors which were once beneficial from a survival standpoint but are now detrimental to our health - e.g. tribalism, shortsightedness, an insatiable taste for f
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by rphv 4mo ago
"Readability by humans" may no longer be as important as it once was.
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by rphv 7mo ago
What if agents are (in some sense, a little bit) alive ? Would they then be entitled to advocate for and defend themselves? Does the Golden Rule perhaps apply here? If aliens visit Earth and can't quite decide whether we're consc
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by rphv 7mo ago
I struggle with posts like this. Every generation of engineers believes they experienced the "real" era when things were understandable / meaningful. The people who mastered punch cards probably felt the same way when keyboar
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by rphv 8mo ago
This reads like mourning the loss of _forced_ difficulty instead of taking responsibility for seeking _chosen_ difficulty. Chosen difficulty is a huge part of being human (music, art, athletics, games, etc.). AI hasn't taken that away.
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by rphv 9mo ago
"For this is the source of the greatest indignation, the thought 'I’m without sin' and 'I did nothing': no, rather, you admit nothing." - Seneca, "On Anger" Sad to see such an otherwise wise/inte
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by rphv 11mo ago
You don't need to understand code for it to be useful, any more than you need to know assembly to write Python.
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Emergent Misalignment(emergent-misalignment.com)
1 points by rphv 2y ago|1 comments
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by rphv 2y ago
“read-only” might have removed the ambiguity there
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by rphv 2y ago
That depends on the specifics of the commute.
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by rphv 2y ago
"Zoom fatigue" seems like a small price to pay for the ability to work remotely.
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A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?(newyorker.com)
8 points by rphv 2y ago|1 comments
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New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics(phys.org)
1 points by rphv 3y ago|2 comments
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by rphv 3y ago
> "I feel like it's harder to get better at programming if you ask an AI to do the programming for you." In 2023, "Getting betting at programming" means learning how to use an AI.
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Losing My First Programming Job(twobraids.com)
3 points by rphv 3y ago|0 comments
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by rphv 3y ago
Can you provide some data to support this? I’ve had good luck with applying through LinkedIn and company portals. What other channels are you thinking of?
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by rphv 3y ago
James Surowiecki's book "The Wisdom of Crowds" explores this the idea of harnessing collective intelligence in detail. The basic idea is that when everyone in a crowd makes a prediction or an estimate, the average of all thos
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by rphv 3y ago
“Is” is a verb, so it should always be capitalized in title case.
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Tim Cook's fix for those pesky green text bubbles? 'Buy your mom an iPhone'(text.npr.org)
14 points by rphv 4y ago|14 comments
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by rphv 4y ago
> If we're lucky, that means a federated, open, mostly-ad-and-suggestion-free open source social media experience can fill the power vacuum for intimate, interpersonal, high-latency communication over the internet. Worth mentioning
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Minnesota man charged in hacking MLB and for trying to extort the league(cnn.com)
2 points by rphv 5y ago|0 comments
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by rphv 11y ago
Money is the most powerful mechanism for influencing human behavior that mankind has ever devised. The phenomena this article describes (banks in New York, chain outlets, etc.) are emergent - they arise from the aggregate behavior of lots