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Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by jpadkins »

ramraj07 wrote: post #259
hombre_fatal wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think HN needs the top comment to be a vague attack on someone in response to a blog post that the comment doesn't even interact with.

Not everyone knows who geohot is and even if they do they may not see the url handle. They may (like me) think why is a glorified shower thought tweet on top of HN. They may not know that this dude was an anti-masker (with nuance) for example. This could really make them decide not to even spend too much time thinking about the passage which in theory is profound for 10 seconds but no further. As much as ad hominem a…

what's anti-masker?

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by dchftcs »

auggierose wrote: post #239
sfn42 wrote: post #227

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I just do my job to the best of my ability. If I can help a colleague I do. I don't expect to get explicitly credited for everything I do. If my employer can't see or don't care about the value I bring, I simply go to one who values me higher. I refuse to participate in office politics and that kind of BS.

If you are employed, by definition you have outsourced the worries about the return on the value you create to your employer.

This. First, the employer has to worry about the returns from which they draw some money to pay you. And for you to even get paid for doing a job, the company has to fear that you won't do it if you don't get paid - in most cases, it's not from the good of heart, but an implicit or explicit threat made by you or on your behalf by other people.

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by IanCal »

georgehotz wrote: post #197
bananaflag wrote: post #170

> Always has been, and if you paid attention in CS class, you know the limits of those things. I don't remember ever learning a theorem stating that computers cannot surpass humans.

Haha that's not what the post (or the post it links to) says. Every CS student should know there's no free lunch in search and optimization. There's tradeoffs between random search, evolutionary algorithms, and convex optimization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_in_search_and_op... There's an AI "smell" to things that are generated. Why is that? Mode collapse is impossible to see from a small number of s…

> Every CS student should know there's no free lunch in search and optimization

The no free lunch theorem is so absurdly limited because of the constraints that it's IMO a tautology and fundamentally irrelevant outside of exceptionally tiny areas. You can't have one search algorithm that's better than others on average when searching entirely random things with no structure? 1. Yes, obviously. Nice to have a formulation but it's not exactly a surprise and 2. That's not what we deal with in the real world.

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by denverllc »

jpadkins wrote: post #261
ramraj07 wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everyone knows who geohot is and even if they do they may not see the url handle. They may (like me) think why is a glorified shower thought tweet on top of HN. They may not know that this dude was an anti-masker (with nuance) for example. This could really make them decide not to even spend too much time thinking about the passage which in theory is profound for 10 seconds but no further. As much as ad hominem a…

what's anti-masker?

Some people thought that surgical masks wouldn’t stop you from getting Covid

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by YCpedohaven »

10xDev wrote: post #179

You will get laid off but you won't if you create value and you will create value if you don't care about money and it will go recursive but it won't go recursive because there are limits. It won't change anything but it will change everything. No one knows what he is actually saying (see comments) but at least he managed to compress the entire discourse on AI impact into a blog post.

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Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by mvcosta91 »

jpadkins wrote: post #261
ramraj07 wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everyone knows who geohot is and even if they do they may not see the url handle. They may (like me) think why is a glorified shower thought tweet on top of HN. They may not know that this dude was an anti-masker (with nuance) for example. This could really make them decide not to even spend too much time thinking about the passage which in theory is profound for 10 seconds but no further. As much as ad hominem a…

what's anti-masker?

Thank God I lived long enough to forget COVID-era terms.

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by pelagicAustral »

jpadkins wrote: post #261
ramraj07 wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everyone knows who geohot is and even if they do they may not see the url handle. They may (like me) think why is a glorified shower thought tweet on top of HN. They may not know that this dude was an anti-masker (with nuance) for example. This could really make them decide not to even spend too much time thinking about the passage which in theory is profound for 10 seconds but no further. As much as ad hominem a…

what's anti-masker?

I'm taking, Covid-era anti-masker (?)

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by zurfer »

10xDev wrote: post #179

You will get laid off but you won't if you create value and you will create value if you don't care about money and it will go recursive but it won't go recursive because there are limits. It won't change anything but it will change everything. No one knows what he is actually saying (see comments) but at least he managed to compress the entire discourse on AI impact into a blog post.

I liked how it read. Not as a perfectly thought out post but more an ongoing conversation.

These are confusing times for engineers as the automators can now automate themselves away at even greater speed. Reminding ourselves to play positive sum games seems relevant.

The cake is too small to divide with humans and AI. We all feel that. Time to make more cakes :)

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by ludston »

denverllc wrote: post #264
jpadkins wrote: post #261

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what's anti-masker?

Some people thought that surgical masks wouldn’t stop you from getting Covid

They didn't. The point is that they stop you from giving covid to other people.
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