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Dumblydorr
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Comment #49238175
Might be a reference to the story at the beginning of A Brief History of Time, attributed to Bertrand Russell’s audience member. Full story in the book
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Comment #49122259
Price point: they’ll be very low volume and very high price. There’s enough inequality and plenty of cash at the top to support such luxury robots. Everyone else will be doing thei…
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Comment #49122148
“Never” is a bit presumptuous. Sure you didn’t use them that way, how do you know for sure others didn’t?
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Comment #49034335
You don’t necessarily want to daydream. If you’re not careful, it becomes Negative rumination and mind wandering and that wouldn’t be as useful as an actual nap or a workout or med…
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Comment #49005309
Wow! Can I ask how Kagi is best for your uses? Would love to try myself
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Comment #49005291
Yeah that one was praising in a non-specific way. Whether or not it’s genuinely a user, it did feel like astroturfing, which is sad if it’s a real comment that they can’t complimen…
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Comment #48919595
Are many folks on HN using Facebook? To me, most tech savvy folks I know left it a decade ago. All the FB users I know are 60+
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Comment #48880538
We should normalize taking gap years and doing public service before undergrad. If a kids uncertain about their future, should we push them into school at 18, or push them into nat…
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Comment #48880526
What about 17 year olds? Many kids have to decide before their 18th birthday. Even then, most kids turned 18 just months ago. Are they mature enough to sign?
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Comment #48871375
Actual feces
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Comment #48817013
Either they underestimate, which is ignorance, or they estimate properly and are anti-truth. What use do propagandists and fascists have for research? It only stands to continually…
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Comment #48815858
“Brought on by government edict” No, brought on by a novel pathogen that killed 10 million people. It would’ve been much worse without government action.
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Comment #48811134
Thin post with more ads for their company than arguments. Many pursuits are worthwhile, yet almost no one does most pursuits. Coding is going to become a niche activity like portra…
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Comment #48810134
Jeff doesn’t care what you do period. They’re in another plane, it’s some poor schmucks now with only a few million fighting for table scraps of the billionaires who don’t care.
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Comment #48793781
You can’t. All you can do is realize every trip you take and every bite of beef is yet another drop in the bucket. Every vote for a denialist is probably worth 100s of burgers too,…
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Comment #48793714
You seem to forget about hydrogen bombs. War can 100% end everything.
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Comment #48793624
Keep in mind total emissions grew much much faster in our lifetime (let’s say 1980-2026) than in the prior 200 years, which was before most of the recent huge growth in Chinese and…
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Comment #48746587
They never mention they could’ve been wrong. The author assumes they’re always right, but that trying to convince others and argue them to their right side is not valuable. How abo…
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Comment #48706729
Problem is no one visits those sites. Everyone visits the same sources of content robotically, they need to be taken on a random walk by something to find new sites.
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Comment #48700210
They don’t like heat? That seems incorrect. If true, Then why are they a huge problem in TX and other southerly areas, and are only now spreading north?
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Comment #48700185
Do not do so if a cat will be anywhere near the clothes or compound. It’s super harmful to cats.
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Comment #48700174
It’s so they don’t train on AI data, right?
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Comment #48685117
Sounds like he was reading something he enjoyed in the last few weeks, I hope.
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Comment #48685104
It’s a fair point about the valley’s tremendous wealth and problems, but what would Om say? It’s a little off the topic of remembering his life and work?
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Comment #48674208
Randomized trial. Half of them pledge to use AI freely and liberally, half of them to never use it, compare via surveys and off-AI tests after X months. Could even flip it so then …