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by timeagain 3y ago
Silly question. If an AGI did exist, what reason do we have to believe that it would act in its own best interest? Does an AGI need an ego?
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by timeagain 3y ago
Everyone is courting VC dollars. Think of these claims as grant applications and everything makes more sense.
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by timeagain 3y ago
I’ll concede my point, I think you’re right. Everyone’s a critic.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Boo. Sure it’s probably wrong to call someone “cogent”. But is there such a huge difference between saying “Harry has cogent writing” and “Harry is a cogent writer”? Is the reader confused about the meaning? I might use “prosaic”, “flowery”
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by timeagain 3y ago
> The best essay would be on the most important topic you could tell people something surprising about. The premise is wrong (or at least not obviously right) IMO, so I have a hard time taking any of the rest of it seriously. Could the b
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by timeagain 3y ago
This is not the first time that the whims of the rich have gutted cities. Compared to the explosion of suburbia and white flight in the 50s-80s, the current situation is much less dire. My hometown of Minneapolis lost 30% (!!) of its popula
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by timeagain 3y ago
On the other hand, you can actually use it to buy things which is nice
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by timeagain 3y ago
There are a few people street lights near me in Seattle and now I probably know why. I thought it was a vain (!) attempt to deter intravenous drug use.
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by timeagain 3y ago
The assumption being that if SE was a licensed field that it wouldn’t have the same outsized impact on people’s lives?
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by timeagain 3y ago
This article tries to out-logic racism (so smart!) but completely overlooks that different cultures have different experiences regarding who is a part, what it means to be a part, and how their culture meshes with the whole. And the sudden
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by timeagain 3y ago
It’s true that a new change can intriduce more bugs, but I have a suspicion that the excel team is working with brains and a test harness that most software projects don’t have the time or money for.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Oh definitely. I think by talent I just meant “not a constant struggle”
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by timeagain 3y ago
Starting a career in something you love is a good way to poison your love and mess with your self image. Starting a career in something you happen to have some talent for is the way to go.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Yeah my Rolex helps my mental state. I can read the time with it and it is useful for deep sea diving.
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by timeagain 3y ago
In my experience the less judgement I bring to a situation, the better I will be able to listen. If someone is telling me a story where I feel like they were morally wrong or where “one easy trick” would have solved their problem, it is ver
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by timeagain 3y ago
More proof that the JVM is space-age future technology.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Ok I enjoyed the article as a piece of self-indulgence. I agree it is pretentious and I don’t write like that. But just for funsies: “Once your ‘personality type’ has been found, it feels like you know something definitive about who you are
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by timeagain 3y ago
This is misanthropic tech vision at its finest. I got a job recommendation from an Uber driver. My aunt (against TOS) built a private driver business based on her personality after driving Lyft from the airport. I had a great conversation w
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by timeagain 3y ago
I’m glad that global trends are proving Malthusian arguments about population growth wrong. I do think it is true that people (as a population) will have as many children as they can easily support. But what Malthus missed IMO is that with
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by timeagain 3y ago
His blog posts are one of the main things that keep me coming back here. Insightful, and he often is able to put into words things about the industry that I can only feel in the periphery of my heart.
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by timeagain 3y ago
The punks are alive and well tagging freeway overpass signs, dumpster diving, planting flowers in public parks, making their own clothes, and living in communal housing where it’s always someone else’s turn to do the dishes.
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by timeagain 3y ago
This is a strategy, but your results may vary. After a few years meditating on how much of my psychic energy I could give to my work, I found that programming for work was impossible. Understanding systems enough to update them, debugging,
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by timeagain 3y ago
Almost anybody using Smartsheet isn’t paying for the spreadsheet functionality. Otherwise they would just use the cloud version of Excel. Smartsheets value add is all of the eventing, reporting, and product management tools that are baked r
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by timeagain 3y ago
Also the premise is BS. If everyone had ADHD then we might not use resources efficiently either. Considering that executive function is pretty uniquely human, the title may as will be “development of non-ADHD humans critical in evolutionary
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by timeagain 3y ago
Every scientist is painfully aware that their field of science is “wrong”. That’s why they are employed. It’s just the least wrong thing anyone has thought of yet.
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by timeagain 3y ago
There’s that old joke that computer scientists think any numbers within a power of two are equal, physicists think any numbers within a power of 10 are equal, and mathematicians only distinguish between finite numbers and infinity. Edit: an
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by timeagain 3y ago
That echoes the good old quote “the only people that call their customers ‘users’ are tech and drug dealers”
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by timeagain 3y ago
Working for a company that has mixed paper/electronic documentation. I can’t overstate how useful it is to highlight, circle, and/or cross-out sections of a form. Also to see /what/ was crossed out to know the history of
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by timeagain 3y ago
This is a central theme in Vernor Vinge’s Deepness books. Space travel is slow (100s-1000s of years), so travellers are forced to calculate the likelihood that their destination will have experienced societal collapse by the time they arriv
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by timeagain 3y ago
Right. So there might be some set of numbers way out there that are like the “sporadic simple group(s)” of the collatz conjecture. Following the same rules as everyone else, you end up with something otherwise unclassifiable.

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