zkmon

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by zkmon 3d ago
That's normal human behavior when they are in survival mode. Aren't the AI agents supposed to learn and act like humans?
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by zkmon 3d ago
Nope. The medical advances created the inverted pyramid of demographics in the western world, filled by old people.
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by zkmon 3d ago
It shows that the human quest has been in wrong direction since the industrial age began. Domains like math and other inter-connected or inter-dependent domains - all exist in modern times only to keep people employed outside of basic work
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by zkmon 4d ago
We shouldn't condition ourselves to keep transforming these tools unto our masters. That's the point I was making. We don't the "goal horizon" that is reachable to machines but too far away for humans. There is no p
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by zkmon 5d ago
You assume that everyone eats bread, like most westerners do. The rural families a few decades ago in most Asian countries did not need millers, bakers or any other salesmen.
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by zkmon 6d ago
>> You realise the extent to which the world around is sometime quite precariously perched on these supply chains. As s child, I lived in a world where there were no supply chains, no marketing and no advertising. Profit-based busines
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by zkmon 6d ago
Game engines, AI, robots and machines in general are establising a "goal horizon" for humans. This is unnecessary and counter productive way of using tools. Tools are supposed to work for us, not set goals or direction for us.
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by zkmon 6d ago
I guess Apple is done. It had its time. Great company.
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by zkmon 6d ago
The same way as we talk about it's speed and travel etc - using higher level human perceptions.
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by zkmon 7d ago
Light doesn't have a "speed" as in the usual meaning of the word "speed". Talking about speed requires defining spatial distances and time durations, which are in turn defined or created by the phenomenon of light.
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by zkmon 8d ago
>> US domination of "tech" is near total. Not quite when considering China having the tech freedom they wanted. Also switching internet services is far easier than switching physical supply chains. The only thing that might
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by zkmon 9d ago
The standard strategy of a security salesman since 1945. Develop dangerous weapons, show the damage they can do, and sell security cover to the terrified people. Every single piece of technology did this. As a side effect or direct effect,
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by zkmon 9d ago
Complexity (the opposite of simplicity) has nothing to do with the size of a program, but usually there is a high chance that a large program is more complex than smaller one, purely because the complexity multiplies, not just adds up. A si
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by zkmon 10d ago
Unfortunately, the mass of people, in general, have very little self determination or descretion. People go with trends and crowds. That's a low resistance path, which does not require you to support your decisions. The trend will supp
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by zkmon 10d ago
>> We need to find ways to preserve human agency and enshrine an intrinsic value to being human.. Evey politician, salesman and conmen alike, utter some lofty ideals as goals for "We", just to obscure their private goals tha
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by zkmon 11d ago
In India, I remember many government websites that allowed form submission only during office hours.
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by zkmon 11d ago
Being loved is not a weakness. But a strong requirement to be loved is a weakness because that means you don't have strength to be happy without being loved.
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by zkmon 11d ago
Desires are OK as long as they don't make you unhappy when you can't have them. But that's not usually the case, which means they became crutches, making your happiness to depend on achieving them. As an example, there are pl
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by zkmon 11d ago
Time, quiet mind, slow mornings, rest without guilt, calm and boring days - are all the same thing - escape from being busy. This assumes being busy is common, which is actually not that common for an age of 60+. The real luxury, for any ag
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by zkmon 11d ago
Wasn't that the idea? Withe cars on roads, didn't we literally lose the touch with the ground? I guess the desire was to "lose" touch with all dirty and hard work areas.
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by zkmon 14d ago
Depends on what you define "internet" as, and what you expect it to be. So if it becomes a garbage, probably that's the equilibrium state it could get to, due to the forces around it. There are no isolated phenomena.
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Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3(axios.com)
5 points by zkmon 14d ago|0 comments
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by zkmon 14d ago
When you buy something from a medium-sized shop in India, they would insist for your phone number, as their POS app have that field as almost mandatory. I had to fight at a pharmacy checkout, holding up the queue behind me, as I refuse to g
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by zkmon 14d ago
It's amazing to see Qwen3.8-27B occupying a respectable central place among the giants.
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by zkmon 15d ago
> the percentage of the U.S. labor force that does not have a full-time job ... What is the "U.S. labor force" defined as? Is it a age group thing?
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by zkmon 16d ago
Skillful people did amazing things in the past because of 3 reasons - they have ample time available (slow world), don't have the basic struggle such as thinking about next meal (must be in a peaceful country), no technology to divert
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by zkmon 16d ago
We are in the era of techfluenza that suffocates and removes normal ways of living.
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by zkmon 17d ago
"Hacking" when used in the context of furniture actually means breaking it with an axe.
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by zkmon 18d ago
The observations appear like disconnected pieces or isolated trends. They are not. You need to step back and look at the full picture. It's just one trend with multiple manifestations. It doesn't require lengthy essays if you look
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by zkmon 20d ago
This is for immigrant visas, not non-immigrant ones. H1B is a non-immigrant visa which is mostly used for work. So I think this is a click bait culture affecting all media houses from top to bottom.

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