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Silly question. If an AGI did exist, what reason do we have to believe that it would act in its own best interest? Does an AGI need an ego?

Everyone is courting VC dollars. Think of these claims as grant applications and everything makes more sense.

I’ll concede my point, I think you’re right. Everyone’s a critic.

Boo. Sure it’s probably wrong to call someone “cogent”. But is there such a huge difference between saying “Harry has cogent writing” and “Harry is a cogent writer”? Is the reader …

> The best essay would be on the most important topic you could tell people something surprising about. The premise is wrong (or at least not obviously right) IMO, so I have a hard…

This is not the first time that the whims of the rich have gutted cities. Compared to the explosion of suburbia and white flight in the 50s-80s, the current situation is much less …

On the other hand, you can actually use it to buy things which is nice

There are a few people street lights near me in Seattle and now I probably know why. I thought it was a vain (!) attempt to deter intravenous drug use.

The assumption being that if SE was a licensed field that it wouldn’t have the same outsized impact on people’s lives?

This article tries to out-logic racism (so smart!) but completely overlooks that different cultures have different experiences regarding who is a part, what it means to be a part, …

It’s true that a new change can intriduce more bugs, but I have a suspicion that the excel team is working with brains and a test harness that most software projects don’t have the…

Oh definitely. I think by talent I just meant “not a constant struggle”

Starting a career in something you love is a good way to poison your love and mess with your self image. Starting a career in something you happen to have some talent for is the wa…

Yeah my Rolex helps my mental state. I can read the time with it and it is useful for deep sea diving.

In my experience the less judgement I bring to a situation, the better I will be able to listen. If someone is telling me a story where I feel like they were morally wrong or where…

More proof that the JVM is space-age future technology.

Ok I enjoyed the article as a piece of self-indulgence. I agree it is pretentious and I don’t write like that. But just for funsies: “Once your ‘personality type’ has been found, i…

This is misanthropic tech vision at its finest. I got a job recommendation from an Uber driver. My aunt (against TOS) built a private driver business based on her personality after…

I’m glad that global trends are proving Malthusian arguments about population growth wrong. I do think it is true that people (as a population) will have as many children as they c…

His blog posts are one of the main things that keep me coming back here. Insightful, and he often is able to put into words things about the industry that I can only feel in the pe…

The punks are alive and well tagging freeway overpass signs, dumpster diving, planting flowers in public parks, making their own clothes, and living in communal housing where it’s …

This is a strategy, but your results may vary. After a few years meditating on how much of my psychic energy I could give to my work, I found that programming for work was impossib…

Almost anybody using Smartsheet isn’t paying for the spreadsheet functionality. Otherwise they would just use the cloud version of Excel. Smartsheets value add is all of the eventi…

Also the premise is BS. If everyone had ADHD then we might not use resources efficiently either. Considering that executive function is pretty uniquely human, the title may as will…

Every scientist is painfully aware that their field of science is “wrong”. That’s why they are employed. It’s just the least wrong thing anyone has thought of yet.