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ffwacom

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    Comment #35295667

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    Comment #35247007

    The world is not a friendly place and some people do want to use ai against you and your interests. If the model is open source it makes this harder.

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    Comment #35244587

    How did you manage/avoid burnout over 35 years in the industry?

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    Comment #35217425

    Great take

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    Comment #34931454

    what about the money printing

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    Comment #34931448

    Yeah great idea we will be safe once the government starts dictating progress gotta stay safe.

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    His DSLs fail because he doesn't know how to use DSLs. There must be one for each level of abstraction for each little problem, all built on top of a single host language so that t…

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    Comment #34893923

    The money printing and lockdowns curbed many ambitions I once had. Inflation in particular is so incredibly destructive and an inexcusable injustice, it might be a psychological ef…

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    Comment #34733357

    For years I used to prepend site:reddit.com or site:news.ycombinator.com to Google searches but these are tapped out now as the communities have fully reverted to the mean along wi…

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    Comment #34673919

    You see, if you squint hard enough it’s actually all just lisp…

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    Comment #34664537

    Get a job and do it in your spare time like every other struggling artist who eventually made it.

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    Comment #34528401

    This makes so much sense

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    Comment #34288564

    Fair enough, it must be inevitable and the algorithm is irrelevant.

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    Comment #34288389

    Yeah, is the top only fans girl really 10x or whatever more valuable than the penultimate only fans girl? Same for the arts. Same for most market segments whose products are artful…

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    Comment #34288294

    Can the algorithms be changed to prevent Pareto outcomes from occurring? Most content is arbitrary anyway so no real cultural value discovery is occurring with these algorithms IMO…

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    Comment #34268175

    Well the old installed the fed and regulated the housing market. Will probably take violence to fix.

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    Comment #34268094

    My dad was an electrician his whole life, retired at 65 still going out to job sites.

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    Comment #34257481

    I blame: the currency and inflationary environment

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    Comment #34236929

    No, nothing I’ve tried in the last 16 years of professional life has worked, other than legitimately good opportunities which do not inspire procrastination.

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    It's more up to Elon as the man in the arena, rather than Maciej Cegłowski who would be the timid soul in this case.