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I prefer my car to having a horse. But the car did eliminate the horse.

There is a speed at which people can train for new jobs X, and a speed at which new jobs displace old jobs Y. If Y is twice X then your talent pool is half what it could be.

If Y shrinks to only days and X plateaus then the human body becomes just robotic hands that the computer tells what to do. Unthinking meat, incapable of making a decision, never aware of the implications of the decisions that are made on its behalf.

The ratio of the population chanting "Butlerian Jihad now" is currently small. How can I capitalize on a belief that this number grows fast?

If high IQ jobs offered in-building day care as a perk this trend would completely reverse.

Convert the parking garage in the basement into a day care and you'll have phd-level employees for life. Changing jobs for even double the pay would be completely unaffordable.

The negative correlation between education and family size is a function of the cost of raising children in a city. If the cost is reduced then the correlation becomes nuetral or even positive. There is no such correlation in a rural setting. This is a bottleneck in the talent pipeline.

Consider this paper (from Indonesia) in which concluded that the relationship can change over time, as a function of policy:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831397/

My latest newborn has to have two bracelets and never leave the room. I understand the concern, but would like to push back on the increase in cost and restrictions.

Safety-maximalism will maximize expense, we agree on that?

As a customer can I opt into a safety/cost ratio from 20 years ago? With today's technology and medicine that would result in affordable abundance.

safe for you, not the cow

People are social animals.

Besides, wireheading will soon be possible. Best to re-evaluate your pleasure from time-to-time, while you can.

Mixture of experts: Make each model world-class within a single domain. If adding one more common-sense QnA makes the calculus-bot even slightly worse at caculus, don't do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixture_of_experts

> Are you saying Linux is intrinsically better?

Can we say that the market has spoken?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

I look forward to the day that windows is mostly a UI over WSL and things like the regsitry become a distant memory.

At some point your new ventures compete with your old successes.

What would you and others have payed for a Unreal Tournament monthly subscription? Not much I assume.

If you are a land lord you want the home-owner slice to shrink and the renter slice to grow. Gross, right?

I was interested in their Verse programming language, but it's future looks grimmer now.

This aligns with their "do things that don't scale" message.

Better to discover the widgets your customers actually want rathe than to build the ones that you know how to build, and then hope you can sell them.

> But it's not as obvious as you think.

If a person or organization calls for violence or the destruction of property, they are a terrorist organization. If the reasons they give for this are based on identity they are additionally a hate-group.

Seems pretty clear to me. A world with less moral clarity here is one with more (necessarily?) violence and destruction. Why do you think this line of argumentation is either morally permissable, or even virtuous? What argument convinced you?

Organizations that call for violence. Harming people or the destruction of property. Specific organization would include KKK and ISIS. I would also include organizations that use terrorism to further theier ends of environmentalism and animal rights.

What is your goal with this line of argument. This looks a lot like devils advocacy. Like, what good comes from someone saying: "There's actually no such thing as hate-organizations." (Something you never said).

Would you accept a definition that includes the KKK and ISIS? If the majority of an organizations public rhetoric is hate for other groups would you agree that makes them a hate organization?

What is the purpose of this line of argumentation? Would you take the position that there are no such things as hate-organizations or hate-speech?

The world is plainly better off with fewer organizations like the KKK and ISIS. Do you agree? That seems like as milquetoast as one can get.

Are there organizations that you feel are labeled as hate-groups but are not? What hairs are we trying to split?

The teacher writes the test to evaluate the students they just taught.

Who else is better equipped to evaluate the students learning?

Some other random teacher, unfamiliar with what has been taught?

As long as propagandists pay where is the problem? That's why 4chan has user-hostile captcha and a convenient payed API.

Enshittification as a service. Are users demanding a bot-free social network? I don't see that.

I just did a search on "blind person using computer" most used keyboards, some also used voice tools built into the OS. Whats the throughput on existing B2C tools?

I see research but not anything I can buy right now.

Actualy, if you receive input data faster than you can process and think, wouldn't that in effect just be a program telling you what to think and do? You could resist, but not be able to independently decide what to do anymore than if a room full of people were shouting at you 24/7.

Well they acquired musical.ly (buying it's very young audience).

from the wiki:

"TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it only became available worldwide after merging with another Chinese social media service, Musical.ly, on 2 August 2018."

He can say FU some fraction of his time.

The recipe is simple. If you spend 50% of what you make, then you only have to work 50% of your life. If you spend 10% of what you make, then you only have to work 10% of your life.

Turn off all sources of marketing and watch your free time and savings swell.

This group Oxitec released some in Florida:

https://www.oxitec.com/en/news/florida-keys-mosquito-control...

They previously released some in Brazil:

https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journa...

those results?:

...in the Brazilian city of Indaiatuba found that Oxitec’s mosquito suppressed disease-carrying Aedes aegypti by up to 95%* in urban, dengue-prone environments following just 13 weeks of treatment, as compared to untreated control sites in the same city.

*95% was the high 2-week rolling average and the individual weekly high was 98%; the highest 4-week rolling average was 92%.

You guys are doing great. Julia is really taking shape. Can't wait to jump ship from Python.

It's also nice to see that you (personally) are sponsoring zig development. There is so much more room for improvement in the arena of programming languages. Infrastructure like this is a huge multiplier.

At least the added complexity will result in faster compile times.

(jk in a sad way though)

If you want to do something about it look into UBSan. Turn vague concerns into bugs, and then into commits :).

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html

UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (UBSan) is a fast undefined behavior detector. UBSan modifies the program at compile-time to catch various kinds of undefined behavior during program execution, for example:

- Using misaligned or null pointer

- Signed integer overflow

- Conversion to, from, or between floating-point types which would overflow the destination

GCC has similar features.

It is sufficient information. Replace processed food (candy bar) with less-processed (granola bar without added sugar) or non-processed (apple).

People don't like ultra-processed in an partake-abstain framing (like many do with illegal drgus), but they could just apply a how-often, or frequency framing, (like they do with alcohol).

People are just uncomfortable with the responsibility being theirs and are exercising their denial.

The demand for a narrative about evil-FDA or evil-food-corp is HIGH. Everyone could just eat like the healthiest among their friends and family, but you can't sell a story without a villian.

What if the processed-food percent of a persons diet predicts their health outcomes as well as questions like "do you exercise regularly?".

Aren't we more interested in health outcomes associated with food rather than moralistic rules or labels?

The leap from "this general rule has some exceptions" to "this is worthless" is unwarranted.

You still personally expect people that eat less processed foods to be slimmer on average than those that eat more, right?

I like what this guy has to say about nutrition (take it with a grain of salt, he is an epistemologist)

https://meaningness.com/nutrition-resigns

"Your job is to wear white lab coats while saying that food ingredients are healthy and unhealthy, and to wave charts around. That makes the ingredients authoritatively healthy and unhealthy, which covers our asses.

...

"Signed,

[The governments of every country in the world, the agriculture industry, the food processing industry, the supermarket industry, and so forth.]"

I think if you model food as energy / volume / time you'll do better. To lose weight either increase time (fast) or volume (eat more fiber, maybe the easiest to do?) and decrease energy (lower calorie options).

For me personally:

if (foodItem.ingredientList.size()>9) {return false;} else if (foodItem.inventedYearsAgo()<100) {return false;} else{ return true;}

So I can eat a baguette prepared traditionally, and a few brands of prepared bread from the grocery store.

I have found that feeding my dogs a food high in fish has improved their allergies. This was plainly ethical, right?

I was suggesting that people test on themselves. Which is we something we already don and can only avoid by outsourcing all our choices. If I expect a given behavior to be net-beneficial and I carefully document and publish my findings who is harmed?

What set of behavior, specifically, are you looking to legislate away? The fewer people looking for drugs and treatments the more expensive those will be. Every restriction is another price hike.

This is the same compound ISRIB as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25273901

I found this link to Armstrong 2003 thesis: https://web.archive.org/web/20041204143417/http://www.sics.s...

found that link here:

https://thenewstack.io/why-erlang-joe-armstrongs-legacy-of-f...

It's not working for me right now, but you may have better luck.

Many people are happy to self-identify as German or Italian.

A positive spin on this is that everyday people are so wealthy, savvy, and time-rich that they spontaneously organize and campaign to shut down infrastructure projects they don't like.

When it's keeping the "other" out it's gross, but when they are shutting down pointless vanity projects like a sculpture park no one wants maybe that's democracy as advertised.