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ethn

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About ethn

https://aethn.com

Interested in: - epistemology - social/financial structures. - startups

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    Comment #43843007

    Good work, there are plenty of businesses like this for the pickings exactly because they are not VC investable.

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    Comment #43786564

    Thanks for the constructive feedback. I'll work on it.

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    Comment #43786530

    I disagree here, being the founding engineer of a unicorn is quite a different experience than being a core contributor to a mid-size startup.

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    Comment #43779423

    I don't think it can ultimately be escaped but the cited Vegh et al exactly proposes that, the bioinspiration, as a means to surpass those limitations. However, in this article I c…

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    Comment #43779311

    Great feedback, it's my first blog. I wanted to avoid my experience but I worked at FAANG and helped create a multi-billion dollar corporation (from a handful of people to 1,500 pe…

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    Comment #43779294

    For some industries such as chemistry and biotech there is little change to be expected. The self-employed is now able to rapidly develop their ideas while employed reducing their …

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    Comment #43779269

    Good idea. Again, I'm sure you can ask a GPT or use one of those services designed to detect that usage.

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    Comment #43779265

    I try to address this in the article. I think the same could have been expected of plumbing, electricians, landscaping, etc but through a different means, standardization, the corp…

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    Comment #43779238

    If so, that's a mistake of mine, I wrote the whole text in one go.

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    Comment #43779230

    Again this piece is not written with GPT, feel free to ask any GPT. Ironically, maybe I should have to increase the appeal of my ideas. I chose my words carefully to communicate my…

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    Comment #43779184

    The article is not written by claude code...only the website. And the article is not praising AI.

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    Comment #43764817

    We would see neither squirrels nor crows since these criticisms miss the forest for the trees. But we can address them. > This is irrelevant for AI, because people throw more hardw…

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    Comment #43756882

    A welcomed development in these consumer subscription services.

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    Comment #41758071

    ‪ZIZEK: that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are f…

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    Comment #41207271

    Sure however the vast majority of costs come from the government regulation in the first place. Consumers of course bear the cost, however this doesn't necessarily mean we should r…

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    Comment #40850811

    I agree, however the author is convinced about current popular solar panel technology. Indeed even theoretically we can do 86% multi and 99% with quantum dots——in the current state…

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    Comment #40850777

    Sure there are many novel solar technologies that subvert the SQ assumptions thereby avoiding the conclusion. However, the author of the parent post believes that existing technolo…

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    Comment #40806838

    Schockley-Quiesser limit

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    Comment #39764922

    Fatty cell infiltration occurs when the stem cell niches don't fully convert into its end cell both Glia and Neuron. This would then indicate that TZDs can be effective in promotin…

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    Comment #37463828

    Yes Walter Pitt's proposal, which he disproved. But we know the prefrontal cortex is capable of simulating a turing machine, or any machine for that matter.

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    Comment #36888076

    They made a synthetic a priori prediction proven by experiment. In science, that's the strongest type of claim.

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    Comment #36676800

    It's not relational. There's several rigorous proofs against Spinoza's relational theory. Namely that of Kant and Einstein: "even if space is composed of nothing but relations betw…

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    Comment #34733734

    Searle's Chinese Room