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RyanAdamason The number line freaks me out (2016)

You can't show me zero of something which is why you can't divide by it. Zero is a placeholder for what we can't show which is also why negative number exist on the opposite side of it. Zero isn't a number, it too is a name.

RyanAdamason The number line freaks me out (2016)

Math is the study of futility. Futility to calculate, to understand, to define, to rationalize. 1 is the only number. Everything else is a name.

RyanAdamason Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

The chat interface modality is a fleeting one in the grand scheme. Billion token context windows with recursive Ai production based on development documentation and graphics is likely the next iteration.

RyanAdamason Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

Sure you're not thinking of Grooveshark which was the original Spotify?

RyanAdamason Large Enough

Considering Googles progress and censorship history, I'm inclined to take their assessments with a grain of salt.

RyanAdamason Large Enough

Multiple input and output processes in different languages has zero effect on associative learning and creative formulation in my estimations. We've already done studies that show there is no correlation between human intelligence and knowing multiple languages, after having to put up with decades of "Americans le dumb because..." and this is no different. The amount of discourse on a single topic has a limited degree of usability before redundancies appear. Such redundancies would necessarily increase the processing burden, which could actually limit the output potential for novel associations.

RyanAdamason Large Enough

Yeah clearly, OpenAI is rocketing forward and beyond.

RyanAdamason AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data

This reminds me of Lord of the Flies. The real version of the events turned out very differently.

https://www.newsweek.com/real-lord-flies-true-story-boys-isl...

RyanAdamason Large Enough

Personally, language diversity should be the last thing on the list. If we had optimized every software from the get-go for a dozen languages our forward progress would have been dead in the water.

RyanAdamason Reflections on Luck and Skill from the Part Time Poker Grind

Wasn't if Phil who said something to the effect of, "If it wasn't for luck, I'd win every hand!" Which seems pretty much the thesis of this writing (though without the arrogance); ultimately resolving in, process as a better indicator of skill than results, and the best deduction of process in luck skewed results is consistency over time which essentially requires more data to deduce.

RyanAdamason Ask HN: What martial arts do you recommend?

Learn how to get hit. How to absorb punches, turn them into glancing blows, and disengage grapples. Escaping is the best martial art.

RyanAdamason Panic at the Job Market

Kinda hard to have a SWE sector worth protecting when its all H1B Visa applicants. You guys realize these companies have to be unable to find suitable candidates in order to import workers who will undermine labor, right? In addition, the mass influx of illegal migrant workers are reducing the otherwise buoyant wage effect of menial labor.

The idea that a mass influx of Indian workers taking top-tier STEM jobs is good for the USA is absolute self-accepted denigration of our society. But, Hacker News doesn't care, YCombinator has led the way in undermining high-end domestic labor for over a decade. Drink the Kool-Aid to get the funding, ammiright?

RyanAdamason Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever

The truth of the premises do not require empirical evidence as you seem to require, they require the premises be true.

- Oncology is a for-profit business

- Curing customers reduces profits

- Treating customers increases profits

- Curing cancer is bad for business

Do you understand how logic works or is your brain fried by "where's the study bro..." Give me a break, man. Do you have any interest in sincerity or is your job at stake otherwise?

RyanAdamason Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever

A cure is something that solves a health condition 100% of the time. A treatment is a prolonged procedure with only a chance of success. One is a profit generating machine, the other loses customers.

You know, a cure - like what they pretended the vaccine was that somehow was forced through the almost impossible system of medical approvals that has stalled real cancer research for decades.

RyanAdamason The rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age privacy

Exclusion through technological adherence.

RyanAdamason AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach

Criminal charges need to be filed and class action lawsuit for fraudulent services for all the customers duped into renewing monthly services ignorant of the fact the service is not secure as plainly stated it must be in federal law.

RyanAdamason 'It's All Happening Again.' The Supply Chain Is Under Strain

Really? Which group did that land belong too before it was occupied by semitic pretenders?

RyanAdamason Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

>Be me, have iPhone 6s

>Can't get many apps these days

>Can't use AI apps at all

>Battery last about 2 hours

>Never used iCloud, barely used iTunes

>Apple announces new "free" Ai Assistant for everyone

well...not everyone

RyanAdamason The Age of the Drone Police Is Here

Fight fire with fire. Those of us who oppose mechanical oppression will do everything we can to set your dogs against you.

"The Age of Drone Police" is not acceptable, at all. Red line, for complete destabilization. The fact people on this forum seem to be nonchalant over this only shows how detached from reality everyone is becoming, mostly due to massive waves of propaganda and political bullshit creating a never ending stream of "us versus them".

When clearly the US are those subject to drone police actions, while the THEM are foreigners and the 1% who somehow get to dictate the lives we all live without physical consequence or fear.

Anyone who thinks this is just "business as usual" or the never ending procession of progress is truly lost to the world of safety and possessions.

RyanAdamason Craig Wright Lied About Creating Bitcoin and Faked Evidence, Judge Rules

So glad to see this guy finally outed as a complete fraud. Can't believe he was able to get as far as he did with it all being bullshit. A true testament to the power of abject lying.

Edit: Though now that I say this, considering the extent of Wrights fraud, lies and likely debts to get this far there is a very high likelihood of suicide.

RyanAdamason America's Colleges Are Reaping What They Sowed

The only question that matters as a citizen of any nation is, "How much does changing the status quo really matter to me as an individual?" If the answer is, 'not enough to go to prison or die' then the change will likely stay as it is, otherwise it will simply be subject to morphing into an amalgam of power broker sentiment.

There is a reason individualism and market segmentation work hand in hand to disempower everyone as very few issues have enough disruptive overlap in the populace to create a real powerbase to threaten the ruling class.

RyanAdamason Sam Altman: I don't care if we burn $50B a year, AGI is worth it

>I don't care if we burn $50B a year...

Neither have any other tech loss leader businesses designed to create barriers to entry though sheer size of war chests. Amazon lost money on retail for decades, Google lost money on tons of side projects as a means of hiring talent away from would be start ups.

Wall Street doesn't care about fundamental value, it cares about capital gains realized through 'too-big-to-fail' structures which require high barriers to entry and require gross revenue to justify overinflated valuations (which have zero restrictions).

RyanAdamason Show HN: Anonymous chat service with no registration or installation required

https://app.cannon-chat.online/#/newcontact?deviceId=jealous...

contact for testing at your own risk...

Just a heads up for those testing it out on iOS: "Why can't I reply directly through the push notification? Because your browser that doesn't offer this capability. For example, Safari on iOS doesn't support this feature."

RyanAdamason AI Chatbots Have Thoroughly Infiltrated Scientific Publishing

"Science" isn't somehow immune from human need for recognition or be the best. That's why "trusting science" is the absolute lowest common denominator method of feeling secure.

RyanAdamason US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

"may have an affect on legal charges" - for which there are many levied that don't directly correlate to a drug offense; such as the Texas cannabis tax stamp requirement. If you don't pay taxes on your illegal cannabis in Texas they can charge you with tax evasion. Making it federally "legal" in a certain context, may have an affect on states ability to make jackass laws like the Texas cannabis tax stamp law.

Banking, isn't necessarily limited by the UN treaties - but since huge amounts of cash are flowing into cannabis businesses that are unbanked, it means Wall Street is without a massive influx of investment capital and return opportunities. Allowing the DEA to make changes to a schedule may help remove domestic barriers so banks can capture what they don't directly control.

RyanAdamason US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

That's because you're intentionally missing the first point where I said that's under a different treaty. Probably because you aren't actually interested in learning the complexity of international drug laws, but simply buying into political nonsense.

Edit: It makes sense you think I'm being hostile by pointing out facts since that's what you took issue with to begin with.

RyanAdamason US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

That's under a different treaty. You're falling for the bamboozle.

This is the origin of what you're talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_...

Which is what this was based on: https://www.who.int/teams/health-product-and-policy-standard...

Which was the impetus for what you're talking about.

RyanAdamason US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

I answered your question in the other comment.

RyanAdamason US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotropic_Substances_Act_(U... The above link is the Act that governs the USA's international obligations based on our treaty with the UN to schedule specific drugs and under those terms only allowed to reschedule Schedule 1 drugs with the approval of the UN; often after a review of the drugs medicinal purposes by the WHO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Drug_Abuse_Preve... The above is a "DEA" schedule of drug classifications that the government can play around with and bullshit us on. Many of Cannabis schedules have already been reduced based on specific compounds of THC under other treaties enacted before the 1978 alignment from above. These domestic rescheduling may have an affect on legal charges or banking, but cannot address the overarching classifier of Schedule 1 drugs which is the UN based on the 1st link.

RyanAdamason US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

Utter bullshit. Reclassifying schedule 1 Drugs requires the approval of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the UN. Otherwise, they are just reclassifying it under an already reclassified treaty structure as a red herring.

The Psychotropic Substances Act modified the existing schedule, but left other acts in tact - those other acts are the ones being modified by this nonsense circus.