ljw1001

Everyone is less valuable than they think, especially in a tech startup

We don’t really know how harmful this stuff will be, but we’ll keep on making it more powerful (and keep on bragging about it) until we find out.

If you don’t consider the difference in kind between a human vulnerability and an automated vulnerability that derives from the essentially unlimited capacity of the latter to scale, your comment makes a lot of sense. If you do consider that, the argument becomes irrelevant and deeply misleading

Exactly. Only an amateur criminal steals from the rich.

It’s a “full” capability they’re incapable of delivering. It’s really hard to see how your distinction has any meaning.

You lost me at calling AI an “advance”. I think that’s a speculative statement that has yet to earn the positive bias it entails.

How many? So many. And that’s not just my opinion; it’s my strongly held opinion

Everything that matters, including how much money you have, but more importantly when you and the people you love become sick or die accidentally is governed by chance.

If you think money gets you a pass, maybe recheck your understanding of the issues and the stoic solution. The shallow packaged version produced by Ryan Holiday isn’t a good source

Given that the mean salary at google is probably driven by people making 7 or 8 figures, I’m going to suggest that laying off 10,000 people will not change that one bit

What is the average salary at TCI?

Yeah. Or Ma Bell

I think the fair comparison is: if you’re living someplace with any given level of economic opportunity (and the other things you mention) would you be happier if it was on the water than if it was not.

It seems for you the answer is no, but that’s not necessarily the typical response.

I suspect it’s because they have a near monopoly in high-quality, next-gen sequencing. They’re trying to grow the market for their machines rather than take business from a competitor.

What’s your evidence for massive interest in business markets? I use a quest for gaming, but find the idea of interacting with colleagues for corporate stuff to be just hideous.

Thrill of the Fight is one of the best, as long as you’re careful to avoid repetitive stress injuries.

>To show me things that I want

That’s an extraordinarily generous interpretation of Facebook’s motivation.

The real difference is in scale. Automations can be coordinated to produce self-affirming bullshit at a scale that drives real discussion out of view. You already see this on twitter with troll farms and primitive bots. Now it will be a tidal wave

Only management should be able to impose their will on employees and should be able to do so without competition. On the job, and during their “free-time”.

More seriously, imagine where not everyone is required to be in the union and think about how easy it then becomes for management to manipulate the environment to the detriment of union employees until the union is wiped out.

I think your characterization of unions is a propaganda driven falsehood, and your argument ignores the fact that Most people see less and less of the fruits of their labor.

A less benevolent take is that VC money is primarily used to buy market share by selling below cost until other competitors exit and the company is left with a monopoly.

A human calling beavers destructive is ironic.

What is the state of dart for cross-platform development? I looked a few years ago and it seemed like progress was being made for web development and desktop use, if I remember correctly.

I think this worked well.

Instead of conversation about how Elon would use twitter to undermine democracy, civil discourse, whatever, everyone is talking about what’s a fair price to pay him to undermine democracy, civil discourse, whatever.

Unlimited conspiracy theories and Russian trolls - free

First it was twitter. Then it became mainstream

Aside from some mistakes, twitter already erred on the side of no moderation: when did they ban trump?.

What people don’t like is the idea of the world’s richest child turning it into Hate Central and a megaphone for Putin.

That said, his solution has only the advantage that in a decentralized world, it’s harder for a motivated bad actor to have a global impact.

Ultimately decentralization is a techno attempt to fix a political problem. It doesn’t work

Someday I want to own a company that fails like blockbuster

In my opinion, Jetbrains IDEA was a better tool ten years ago, before they decided to make versions for every language imaginable. In some ways they’ve improved and occasionally still delight, but in others their Java support is remarkably weak or non existant. Support for working with JNI is one that comes immediately to mind

I also had no side effects of the latest booster. Earlier doses have me some arm ache, but that seemed irrelevant vs the benefits.

I get a flu shot every year and have no concerns over repeated Covid shots.

Also, never had Covid, In part because I don’t want to be responsible for giving it to someone with a weakened immune system. People who look at vaccination only in terms of their own risk/reward calculus are failing the communities they're part of

Telling your legislator what you want while being a billionaire is one of the main reasons why we can’t have an actual democracy