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by sp1nningaway 7d ago
I hadn't thought about it like this, but I think I want the grassroots version of the PR campaign. Society was finally able to rein in smoking when we collectively realized how dangerous secondhand smoke is. People who smoked indoors a
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by sp1nningaway 14d ago
Frighteningly, I've also found that you can be in the cave together with a group of people. I went to an MMA gym for a long time, and it was very common to see overconfident 'experienced' new members start sparring and get th
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by sp1nningaway 21d ago
Reading I, Asimov as a kid immediately converted me from a Southern Baptist to humanist/atheist. I'm sad that atheist discourse has moved away from Vonnegut/Sagan/Le Guin-style humanism. Starting with Hitchens, promine
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by sp1nningaway 1mo ago
hell yeah
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by sp1nningaway 1mo ago
I don’t understand why all of these companies need to frame it like this. Why not a large amount of people doing an even larger amount of science?
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by sp1nningaway 2mo ago
>> HN comments are _NOT_ going to help debugging your mental state. > Nice paradox you've created there. This is a "...and don't call me Shirley" level of logical interpretation of what they're saying.
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by sp1nningaway 2mo ago
Is DOGE gone though? https://xcancel.com/spikebrehm/status/2072422555101561154 I'm very curious about how many other projects like this OPM retirement processing overhaul there are. I also wonder how this out
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by sp1nningaway 3mo ago
If TFA says "only humans can be conscious," you may know many more humans that have a virtual body made up of virtual organs than I do.
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by sp1nningaway 3mo ago
I like this bit from the wiki article: Speaking through Zarubin, Dneprov writes that "the only way to prove that machines can think is to turn yourself into a machine and examine your thinking process", and he concludes, as Searl
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by sp1nningaway 3mo ago
I'm surprised at the largely negative sentiment HN has for this essay. He stakes out his claims in a refreshing and readable way. Most of the criticisms here, and general "philosophical" LLM writings that pop up on HN are den
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by sp1nningaway 3mo ago
His certainty seems like a rhetorical style rather than a series of facts. It would be very annoying and not persuasive if he started every paragraph with some variation of, "I think" or "I believe." I like that he makes
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by sp1nningaway 3mo ago
Are you saying that a sufficiently advanced version of sentence continuation is indiscernible from actual understanding? He isn't saying sentence completion is what keeps LLMs from understanding, he saying that's all they do (rega
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by sp1nningaway 4mo ago
I like the Hebrew syntax of the golden rule! I've never seen it before. I've always like the idea of taking it a step further and trying to do unto others as they would like done unto them. However, the current state of the world
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by sp1nningaway 4mo ago
I unironically love arguing on the internet, because you're replying to the author of the essay, but I think the text supports your comment and not his hahah. "We lose any sense of economic purpose, and with that, social status an
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by sp1nningaway 4mo ago
Sim City 3k is my least played Sim City game, but this is inspiring me to take another look. I really like the sweaty micromanagement and bigger scope of 4, but maybe I will prefer 3k's simplicity in my old age. The picture caption wit
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by sp1nningaway 4mo ago
Your comparison just helped me understand how I feel about AI a little better. I too own a car but don't like driving, and don't like how my environment is shaped by what cars need. I use AI daily and I'm excited about it, bu
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by sp1nningaway 4mo ago
I find this kind of research and political science to be ill-equipped for explaining how people and society work. Fiction like Nabokov's Bend Sinister is able to get much closer to the truth of totalitarianism because it isn't sha
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by sp1nningaway 4mo ago
A new high watermark in absolutely content-free marketing webpages. - Annoying startup animation (at least it's skippable) - Minimalist copy that is that is also very hard to parse for meaning. - Elements jarringly appear and disappear
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by sp1nningaway 4mo ago
This made me wonder about Boris Cherny's professional career pre-Claude Code, so I did a customary "Boris Cherny wiki" Google. I'm shocked to learn he doesn't have a Wikipedia page! Is this my Hacker News bias? He&
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by sp1nningaway 6mo ago
>> wordpress is valuable because it allows very bad developers / marketing people to write very bad code and get away with it, driving extremely low cost solutions for clients who are cost concious. > You've sort of naile
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by sp1nningaway 6mo ago
I bounced off of this article because I didn't like the conclusion, then provided myself a rationalization that it was probably mostly AI generated. What inspired you to engage with the article more deeply? You agree with the conclusio
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by sp1nningaway 6mo ago
The shear volume of writing, the false rigor and vestigial artifacts (preface, interactive charts, MORE filler hidden behind accordion dropdowns) are a tell. I would be more annoyed but I'm fascinated by this kind of false productivity
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by sp1nningaway 6mo ago
"The US has been acting powerful recently..." sure_jan.gif I can commiserate with this person cooking up a rant based on a faulty initial premise but it's a doozy. Kidnapping heads of state and indiscriminate bombing campaign
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by sp1nningaway 6mo ago
This is so good I want to believe AI had no part in writing it other than the scripts.
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by sp1nningaway 6mo ago
What a strange thing to post on a corporate CEO blog - proof that AI is making it too easy create things without asking why. How does it serve Fivetran to post open letter about why Slack sucks? This only happens if it's easy to write
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by sp1nningaway 6mo ago
Those are just examples of academic/progressive jargon that I hear often in the Bay Area and in progressive circles. "Decolonizing," could mean for instance changing world history curriculum to cover non-western civilizations
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by sp1nningaway 6mo ago
I've managed to go my whole career using regex and never fully grokking it, and now I finally feel free to never learn! I've also wanted to play with C and Raylib for a long time and now I'm confident in coding by hand and st
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by sp1nningaway 6mo ago
I think this also explains some of our political climate. Everything the current administration says sounds like gibberish and equivocation to me, but to its intended audience it is a clear communication about wielding power and grift. Conv
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by sp1nningaway 7mo ago
Yes! "Does an AI know how to do that? Does a coding assistant know that an app is really a giant collection of details?" There are just so many small decisions that add up to a consistent vision for a piece of software. It doesn&#
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by sp1nningaway 7mo ago
May I suggest a driving demo in a parking lot with a mannequin instead of a real world video where it drives way too close to a pedestrian? Otherwise, very cool and exciting!

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