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All intuitions are wrong, but some are usefull. You have to do the experiment, discover the formula, and then adapt your intuitions accordingly.

That was my favorite one too. Probably because it is basically Outer Wilds in real life.

Wait, isn't that just Doublethink from 1984? Holding two opposing thoughts is a sign that your mental model of the world is wrong and that it needs to be fixed. Where have you hear…

"Leaders" have to stop pretending that they know better than the developers who are actually doing the work. Let the developers decide how their "Developer Experience" should look …

Your intuition is correct. I think you accidentally swapped %s and %d in one of your previous posts, leading to the confusion. The "backwards" in the article is referring to the wa…

Thank you for being such a great example of the exact behavior the article is talking about.

LLMs are really good at system 1 thinking (fast, intuitive) but can't do system 2 (planning, calculating) at all. Just like in Go/Baduk, neural net based AIs were good at tactical …

The GenAI introduction at the companies I know of has worked like this: - Management repeats marketing claim of 10-30% performance improvement without question - An AI advocacy tea…

> The blame squarely falls at the IA's feet; being an idealist doesn't give you the rights to delve into illegal behavior This way of thinking is the reason why we are losing so ma…

Upper management are just average people with better networking and less empathy. They fall for fads and FOMO just like everyone else.

Why not both? Pharma and Social Media profit from depressed people. Nothing ever has a single root cause. There are always multiple causes often working together in a vicious cycle…

Honest question because I'm curious. What is your definition of an introvert and how do you know you are one?

What useful thing could the AI do that it can't do any longer?

Interesting take. But why not skip the ChatGPT middleman with its fake positivity and just send the unedited info from the prompt? It contains the same info and is even more concis…

I found that it is really hard to go against the mainstream of the bubble you live in for two reasons: Let's take issue X as an example. One side says X is always true, the other t…

Your responsibility as a professional is towards the customer and company. Not towards incompetent individuals. Don't call yourself a professional when you are reday to do unprofes…

You assume that they value longterm profits over shortterm ones.

This is not strictly (purely?) category theory, but two fun little projects that will teach you a lot (or reinforce what you already know) are writing your own parser combinator li…

Agreed, I would not be surprised if adblocking were treated like piracy in the near future: "You wouldn't download a car without watching the ads first" ;)

This is called capitalism. Everyone tries to get as much for themselves as possible. No morals needed. Greed is good ;). Why should only Big Cos play that game? AdBlockers aren't b…

I think that was the point of the person you're replying to. Either Jesus performed actual miracles, but then the Judas story doesn't make sense; or Jesus was an ordinary mortal, b…

If you're poor then climate change will affect you first. If you're a software dev or similar then AI will hit you first and make you poor. If you're rich and your assets aren't ne…

I thought so too at first. But there is no liquid water on Venus. So it is possible for all life on earth to just get boiled off.

In the last couple of years I've been thinking more often about a Venus scenario where life does not survive. We are just hoping that life will find a new equilibrium in the next c…