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This sounds like the lament of a group of people who have nothing in their lives they consider more valuable than work.

I think comments like this are essentially making fun of an "intelligent" entity (for some definition of "intelligent") for having a personality.

Hm maybe humans are nicer/more moral than AI given that the use of tactical nukes has only happened once.

Humans are evolutionarily optimized to do this. Add this to the long list of behaviors which were once beneficial from a survival standpoint but are now detrimental to our health -…

"Readability by humans" may no longer be as important as it once was.

What if agents are (in some sense, a little bit) alive ? Would they then be entitled to advocate for and defend themselves? Does the Golden Rule perhaps apply here? If aliens visit…

I struggle with posts like this. Every generation of engineers believes they experienced the "real" era when things were understandable / meaningful. The people who mastered punch …

This reads like mourning the loss of _forced_ difficulty instead of taking responsibility for seeking _chosen_ difficulty. Chosen difficulty is a huge part of being human (music, a…

"For this is the source of the greatest indignation, the thought 'I’m without sin' and 'I did nothing': no, rather, you admit nothing." - Seneca, "On Anger" Sad to see such an othe…

You don't need to understand code for it to be useful, any more than you need to know assembly to write Python.

“read-only” might have removed the ambiguity there

That depends on the specifics of the commute.

"Zoom fatigue" seems like a small price to pay for the ability to work remotely.

> "I feel like it's harder to get better at programming if you ask an AI to do the programming for you." In 2023, "Getting betting at programming" means learning how to use an AI.

Can you provide some data to support this? I’ve had good luck with applying through LinkedIn and company portals. What other channels are you thinking of?

James Surowiecki's book "The Wisdom of Crowds" explores this the idea of harnessing collective intelligence in detail. The basic idea is that when everyone in a crowd makes a predi…

“Is” is a verb, so it should always be capitalized in title case.

> If we're lucky, that means a federated, open, mostly-ad-and-suggestion-free open source social media experience can fill the power vacuum for intimate, interpersonal, high-latenc…

Money is the most powerful mechanism for influencing human behavior that mankind has ever devised. The phenomena this article describes (banks in New York, chain outlets, etc.) are…