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Isn't having something that can solve general problems based on prior art without the requisite effort in learning the prior art completely antithetical to education in general? Not saying they aren't useful tools, but asking a an AI to write bubble sort isn't learning bubble sort? The point was never to write bubbles sort it was to learn how and why.

A lot of people have jobs that aren't limited by how much "stuff" they generate.

That was a great read.

I'll add my favorite. The Anvil of the World. rip Kage Baker.

It's a really bad look, I saw that Proton issued some sort of half-baked apology. But nothing from Andy.

Hilariously this was also around the time that the Ferengi started being written more sympathetically.

Depends on how you frame it I suppose. If your experience is that every candidate in the last 20+ years has been a different flavor of awful for the average jane you could say it's zen-like acceptance.

I mean, some of the richest most influential people of our time are operating from a handful of science fiction books. Star trek is at least tonally more humanitarian than Snow Crash.

People need to see their lives improve materially within a reasonable period of time before they will trust politics again I would wager. I don't think people aren't voting due to apathy, they aren't voting because they don't trust the system.

Not a lot of casuals have a 3 million dollar rack drawing 120 kW

That would be an impressive display of a survival instinct.

This is what I've been getting at, China is on a razors edge.

EDIT: which sucks, we need to move all of their unitree stuff here ASAP, also move the drone stuff out of ukraine. I have a vision for a unified defense framework, but no one listens to old men yelling at clouds.

> All this talk of "truth" and "duty" implies some larger context in which such abstractions would be evaluated.

I suppose not engaging with these principles however vague would reduce down to an immediate, might makes right cause-benefit analysis for any given situation. I think it's probably good that people still hold themselves to some standards, regardless of how universally comparable they are across different people.

I think he means polticians lying, being trecherous, compromising until nothing gets done and no ones career is hurt, etc is a skill. It would be better for the people if people with these skills were not in public office. Anything that takes away from being a servant to the constituents and become self-service needs to be removed from Politics.

Is resignation because nothing was ever fixed or done about it because it wasn't "economically viable" considered not caring?

I literally can't wait.

As a long time paid Proton user I'm looking for alternatives. Nothing I've seen from Andy Yen these past few days has given me a shred of confidence in the leadership there..

That works great in a utopian ideal where money isn't an issue. The Andy Yen's of the world become because being a petty tyrant in pursuit of profit is celebrated in some circles.

It's an excuse for people to strip away the fig leaf of meliorism.

Definitely taking a closer look at this after work, awesome job.

I've been doing more networking recently. But any skill building is probably worthwhile.

This kind of thinking is how you get trump 3.0 after you blame and alienate people who want their lives to improve.

Well, in some ways that would mean the "running the government like a business" people would get their wish. They allowed the business to get so big, it failed, they are punished alongside the company for the failure.

In case anyone was curious about where the economy is right now.

idk, you tell me, I can tell from your blog that you've adopted the trend. I'm probably much older than you, so I've seen the progression of these things since the internet as we know it existed. So I sort of understand the roots of the styling that people are adopting and can see it for what it is, which is trying to signal a minimalism but missing the point in the process.

No? There is originality between a fetishization/bastardization of minimalism on one side and cookie cutter LLM web design on the other.

If you have sources I would be curious, even the Chinese language ones I've found have seemed, lacking, for want of a better word.

> It has always struck me as absurd that America is so accessible to Chinese nationals.

The US as a whole is accessible to a ton of foreign nationals because there was a push in like the 70s-early 2000s to offshore as much as possible to developing nations and exploit the arbitrage of wage labor back home. That was coupled with a foreign policy that was essentially trying to assimilate the cultures through that trade relation. Obviously China didn't reciprocate that, and many other places didn't either. But the America side of that open door policy (sentiment really) hasn't really gone away, even with the more recent immigration stuff.

I was responding to the claim that "China" or "Chinese as a whole" have higher IQs, that's not really what's happening. Which is why I brought up India, because it's a similar situation, lots and lots of people, plenty of those people are really smart. But it's a measure of a distribution, not really meaningful when talking about the people as whole themselves. Which itself is reductionist.

I think it's hard to get a good read on China's actual economic situation from the outside. Which, in itself, speaks to larger issues as we would understand them in the West.