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> Dr. Edelman distinguished between primary consciousness, which came first in evolution, and that humans share with other conscious animals, and higher order consciousness, which …

I got GPT-3 to take your story and complete it. It's slightly terrifying. ----------------------------- Short Story In the not-so-distant future, we’ve trained AI to predict the pr…

Pakhi means bird in Bangla. Bangladeshis also used to be Pakistani, so they're probably fine. ;)

One thing that isn't captured nowadays is that a lot of what "couldn't scale" before - i.e manual work, the type of which you described - is now much more scalable due to how much …

I'm impressed people keep making the "option not to use it" argument. Our lines of communication are monopolized. "Just don't use Facebook/Twitter/Amazon" is an irrelevant argument…

Short term economic damage is a) hard to measure and b) meaningless Sweden’s betting on long term recovery in light of second/third/etc waves. As much as it detracts from the catas…

YC is a crapshoot. We had the most impressive metrics in our interviewing class and killer recommendations and didn’t get in. The ones from our interview group that did were astoun…

Yes, except we’ve replaced beans and rags with Big Macs and Nikes “Essentials” is flawed in your argument. Americans in 1919 actually had to struggle to survive.

Obviously the context of the discussion is regarding the monopoly of political information by the FAANG. Why would software engineers at banks have any relevance here?

You would have to live in a ridiculous echo chamber to disagree on the political leaning of the industry based almost entirely in San Francisco

No, jacobush, the majority of people in the US will not die of obesity.

If you were building an end-to-end product analytics/BI tool ala Mixpanel today, thinking future scale in mind, what stack would you start off with?

So a rigorous 4 year degree in a highly technical engineering stream doesn’t make him an engineer, but the script kiddie high school dropout making crypto apps is? Give me a break.…