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by unsui 29d ago
"sarcasm" is a cop-out. The writer can simply say "it was a joke!", cuz we all know someone who uses this pattern regularly when they are trying to squeeze in a non-popular but highly lucrative (to the messenger) positio
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by unsui 1mo ago
The fact that, on HN, you can't be sure of that, tells you all you need to know.
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by unsui 1mo ago
sadly, Poe's law scales exponentially on HN
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by unsui 1mo ago
No, this is not good, in any way, except for AI shareholders (of which I assume you are one, else not rational to support this position). Paperclipping here, greedily optimizing for shareholder value above all else. Please stop.
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by unsui 6mo ago
Gonna put out a blanket assertion about my preferences, to get a read on whether these are shared or not: As humans, we have directives (genetic, cultural, societal, etc.) to prioritize humanistic endeavors (and output) above all else. Hi
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by unsui 7mo ago
Thank you for your new substack, very illuminating (and scary) reading. It's as if someone was watching the show "Person of Interest" as a guidebook for how to build (and weaponize) the all-seeing eye of sauron that we have t
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by unsui 10mo ago
> Oracle will be the first to freeze one can hope
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by unsui 1y ago
the whataboutism is strong in this one
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by unsui 1y ago
There are a lot of things that are "perfectly legal" to do. Doesn't mean that, in practice, law enforcement would necessarily take the most extreme legal action possible. This is a new development (well, new-ish for many com
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by unsui 1y ago
>Our PMs don't like making things opt-in That is an implementation detail. What matters is the outcome: Notion leadership has signed off on this being opt-out. The calculus here, as you indicated, was that opt-in has little buy-in.
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by unsui 1y ago
Subnautica in VR (with the Submersed VR mod) is easily the most immersive environment I have ever encountered.
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by unsui 1y ago
not entirely. The risk raised in the article is that AI is being promoted beyond its scope (pattern recognition/creation) to legal/moral choice determination. The techo-optimists will claim that legal/moral choices may be not
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by unsui 1y ago
On HN, you have a significant subset that think it is akshually cool, unironically Move fast and break things, right?
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by unsui 1y ago
I naturally went down a rabbit hole to see if I could find why those characters weren't printing properly. https://www.atarimania.com/mags/pdf/Antic_Vol_7_No_4.pdf On p. 31, you can see the intended character
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by unsui 1y ago
> Cool business No it isn't. It's predatory (actually, parasitic) by its very nature. I'm all for innovation, but that's just not cool.
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by unsui 1y ago
My favorite was the "TYPO II" ("Type Your Program Once") application, which was part of every Antic! Magazine program listing: https://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n9/TYPOII.html https://www.
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by unsui 2y ago
I've called this out numerous times (and gotten downvoted regularly), with what I call the "Cult of Optimization" aka optimization-for-its-own-sake, aka pathological optimization. It's basically meatspace internalizing a
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by unsui 2y ago
> That this has not been historically true in the United States is the notable outlier. So, bootlicker, got it. And yes, it is very much a character thing...
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by unsui 2y ago
We've crossed the Rubicon, where sarcasm is no longer indistinguishable from reality.
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by unsui 2y ago
This is what frustrates me to no end, re what's going on with DOGE and the indistriminant shutting off of legacy systems. As Joel Spolsky once commented, , all non-trivial abstractions are, to some degree, leaky. This is because realit
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by unsui 2y ago
accountabilty and role-based permissions based on least-privilege. None of that matters with what DOGE is doing. That should worry you.
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by unsui 2y ago
This is key. If this were pushed by Apple, people would be responding much differently, since there is an inherent level of trust in regards to Apple's privacy protections, vs Meta. So, not so much the technology, but rather the trust
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by unsui 2y ago
> This is hacker news. Hackers generally do not like authoritarianism. disagree. While hackers traditionally do lean anti-authoritarian, I am consistently disappointed by how many folks here generally side with CEOs and tech leadership
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by unsui 2y ago
> The HN response to all this has actually been very strange to me. Are you surprised that folks are generally dismayed that disruption-for-its-own-sake, particularly for governmental institutions that were never intended to either (a) r
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by unsui 2y ago
is it? Depends on your definition of "fine" I'm thinking more of "this is fine...."
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by unsui 2y ago
> if it can only ward off the manipulations of the yacht class. The inevitable enshittification of goods and services once they reach a certain level of maturity (i.e., profitability) basically guarantees that the yachted-classes will be
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by unsui 2y ago
> It does not lead to obsessive/compulsive behaviour if you simply optimize your emotional and awareness skills first. I don't think you understand what optimizing entails. Optimization is inherently antithetical to balance, in
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by unsui 2y ago
therapy will generally recommend removing the need to optimize entirely, in order to achieve an emotional homeostasis (particularly given that the need to optimize often leads to obsessive/compulsive behavior). so, no
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by unsui 2y ago
ha, you think they give a damn about that? If you speak spanish, you're a "mexican", regardless of whether you're from el salvador, ecuador, cuba, whatever. nevermind what they think about "indians"..... JFC in
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by unsui 2y ago
Do you think that having a default of "Delay, Deny, Defend" is a good-faith approach to healthcare? Cuz sure seems like you're on the side of DDD by default.

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