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A lot, most of the people actually who got into software for the past decade or so seem to have been motivated by money. They'd just as easily became doctors or lawyers. And it sho…

Anything gets old. I feel like a lot of the problems my friends and I have with software work comes down to having to wrangle the same sort of nonsense week in, week out. Alienatio…

AI is just a way to market software. In the 70s and 80s we had "expert systems". Knowledge packed into software. Now when you buy hardware such as the new 3d xray systems for airpo…

Cool stuff but I found hard to have to waddle through all the cutesy story telling (techie? really?) to get to the point. Poetic wordplay based on meaning vs sound is quite interes…

I think you mean blight

> I really think we do our offspring a disservice by raising them like they're babies until they're 20. Why? People and society in general seem to be doing much better nowadays...

People are perfectly capable of being self indulgent, asocial and neglect their health outside and develop perfect eyesight. I really don't see how the moral judgement is relevant …

Cool trick for knowing when to use whom: if it can be replaced by he/she/they, it should be who. If it can be replaced by him/her/them, it should be whom. In this case, "whom spend…

It's slavery economics all over again. The geopolitics will shift to controlling select consumer markets and the best geography for keeping production and logistics costs low since…

> However for me, the most helpful by a mile was psilocybin. That whole "this too shall pass" thing is a real thing. Also for me two big things. I have over a decade and a half of …

> it’s not all it’s cracked up to be > this person is beyond my capability to help I think there's something to be said about the difference between "solving other people's problem…

What about unintelligent humans is not an argument against stating that there is not intelligence in "artificial intelligence".