Viewing profile — silenced_trope

True, the first third had some mystery to it. The rest was kind of mediocre as far as sci-fi goes.

> We should instead restrict the franchise by exam to provably non-ignorant, non-evil critical thinkers so that we get representatives who are non-sociopaths that we can respect. H…

they came up with that phrase to put the british at ease

They're never going to be far enough in the lead, they had a first mover advantage a couple years ago but the gap is never going to be that large again. Once a major player just de…

> I’m not a big Thunberg fan either but I cannot replicate the thought process that would lead to mentioning her as a potential Antichrist prototype. And that wasn’t even the weird…

> The key is really this - all LLMs that I know of rely on entropy and randomness to emulate human creativity. This works pretty well for pretty pictures and creating fan fiction o…

Neat! I like the concept, cool that everything is just one page

I'm also a hobbyist gamedev that struggles with the art side. Can I ask what AI tools you've been using most?

I don't think it's just that. - Amazon's back-loaded vesting costs them top talent. - Amazon's pip culture is notorious. When Amazon managers get hired at other companies people im…

Is GDScript really less efficient than C# in Godot? What bottlenecks are you experiencing? I'm a developer experienced with Python (GDScript-like) and C#, but am new to Godot and s…

I started consuming Beet Chews recently. I'm not convinced of it though. I think it's just one of those things where I see a YouTube video and go to Amazon to add a new supplement …

Mavis Beacon disagrees!

nice, anyone who provides links with their recs is top-notch!

Nice! Did you read the rest of the Sprawl Trilogy too? What do you think of the other books?

This. Character.ai reached out to me for an opportunity, but they've already been carved up. I think it's great that the rank and file got some of their equity cash-out (based on t…

Relevant: Nathan Fielder's show "The Rehearsal" on HBO recently released season 2, the entire season is about airline cockpit dynamics between the first officer and the pilot.

These types of comparisons are always annoying. I saw another one recently that said something like "ChatGPT has 350 millions unique visits per month, if it were a country, it woul…

yea I used to work for an advertising network and every game that implemented the Android SDK ended up with this permission, it was a way that we used to not show ads for games tha…

Jason is my least favorite of the four. Last year he was suggesting the democrats run Jeff Bezos as a candidate saying the party would rally behind him. The dude realized he was co…

Are you in the Bay Area? Do you know if Meta requires all employees to commute to their S. Bay campus? I have a recruiter pestering me from them. I'm open to Meta but not commuting…

Why do take T in this manner? Won't it cause your hormones/sperm/hairline to get messed up?

This looks great!

> I actively dislike Neal Stephenson Why is that? I really liked Snow Crash and Anathem. Reamde was okay. I don't remember much about Diamond Age or Cryptonomicon.

PDS?

This was in the thread for useless programs just now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894765