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kilgnad

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About kilgnad

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    obviously he's talking about the part of the brain that matters. Nobody is comparing anything to say the part of the brain that controls your heart rate. You're just being pedantic…

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    Comments like this should be banned from HN. It's used deliberately and manipulatively to characterize the other person as "unhinged." It does not promote useful discussion and is …

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    It's describing an LLM. When we start to lose our minds the unguarded core functionality of the system becomes more and more exposed. And as it becomes more exposed it starts to lo…

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    >Even regulators are regulated. There are laws that prescribe what the Fed can and can not do, and how. I mean sure, you can say that. The US government is regulated too. But in ge…

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    You're not dealing with the geniuses. You're likely just dealing with people smarter than you. I can assure you geniuses are rare, and people of the same intelligence level tend to…

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    Here's another controversial opinion: It's the genius programmers who write the shittiest code. In my experience clean code tends to be a waste of time for geniuses because shitty …

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    > I have great sympathy for your argument, and agree with the gist of it. I'm not making an argument. I'm stating the current status quo of the US. No argument was ever made here a…

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    If I get a loan from Bank A, then I use that loan to pay a person who deposits the IOU into Bank B. Bank B will go to Bank A and demand the money in cash because it's a competitor …

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    I still disagree. It's just not that hard. I can explain by comparing it to art. Artistry is hard and artistry is basically the same thing as design but harder. Let's take somethin…

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    > As I mentioned before, heterosexual male teachers are not automatically viewed with moral suspicion in all-girls schools (second example: https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archiv…

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    Male leaders tend to have daughter(s) or family in the troop thus the incentives are aligned. A single male is rarely the troop leader. There is a reason to suspect a single hetero…

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    >and more success in life. There's merit in the idea that stupidity correlates with success. Anecdotally you see the correlation among academia and celebrities. Celebrities are ric…

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    The true death of silicon valley will come as a slow burn. Arguably the burn has already begun years ago.

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    This is true. Banning does work though when coupled with extreme capital punishment. See Singapore. There is also the argument of whether usage reduction is the objective goal thou…

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    >This was attempted before by Russel & Whitehead before Godel proved that any sufficiently complicated system can produce non-truths and false statements that cannot be verified by…