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Re:OpenAI is working with the US military now on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @04:50PM (#39034015)
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
source?
Re:Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:36AM (#38546155)
More expensive things cost more money, not a surprise imo
Re:Two Tier Architectures Are Anachronistic [video] on Friday November 24, 2023 @02:49PM (#38407496)
So this is only relevant for personal developer environments?
Re:OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @03:27PM (#38384655)
That is owned by a non-profit organization. It seems like a lot of the employees are chasing money, and forgetting that it's fundamentally not trying to maximize profit. Of course, Sam seems to have perverted its mission to be the latter (serving as the latest high-priest of mammon, like Elias served Lillith)
Re:OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:32PM (#38351153)
If your goal is to work for a profit-sharing company, then don't work for a non-profit.
I'm curious if bamboo/wood plates/bowls/cooking utensils (spatula, ladles) also have PFAS.
Re:Vim Boss on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:39AM (#37089932)
It's like the phial of Galadriel: a light for you in dark places when all other lights go out
Re:Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:48PM (#37078534)
Thanks for linking that; seems like it's a bit of both:

on one hand he notes that "computers were expensive in those days and it took me years of nagging before I convinced my father to buy one, a TRS-80, in about 1980", but later during his adult years "wanted to go back to RISD, but I was now broke and RISD was very expensive, so I decided to get a job for a year and then return to RISD the next fall."

Re:Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:36AM (#37072004)
Another dimension is access to money and financial knowledge, which I find strangely missing from the context.

Assuming you have to pay for schooling, that along with the disproportionately increasing cost of rent and property factors into people being less ambitious due to the necessity of settling for a job that pays enough to support oneself. I'm curious how Paul Graham did it, given that he has multiple higher education degrees in philosophy, attended art school in Italy, and what capital he could rely on from his parents.

It would be disappointing if they both come from money yet miss this point, given the emphasis of progressive politics on socioeconomic or cultural privilege. Of course one doesn't have to agree with it, but shouldn't it at least be discussed?

Well done! It reminds me of my OS textbooks. The ending graphic with the bird yelling about E gave me a good belly laugh