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julienreszkaon Ask HN: Can superintelligent AI alignement be decentralized?

superintelligent is an adjective

yeah plan mode never was really alive to begin with

bruh some of us are working on ai alignement for more than a decade and you're simplifying the debate to a dichotomy of cowards vs traitors? you must be joking

julienreszkaon Ask HN: Do you regret using Social Networking apps?

Really? Or are you ironic? Can't tell

julienreszkaon Building Without Predicting

It's probably very fun but we obviously do blueprints for a reasons.

Remind me of my naive years when I was building relationships on the go instead of thinking about boundaries and what I'm willing to do for them.

julienreszkaon Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

What problem does it solve tho ?

julienreszkaon Success Is a Clean Cut

What

julienreszkaon Success Is a Clean Cut

It's the principle. There is no sample size it's just an illustrative example. The fallacy is to think it doesn't generalize just because you have only one example.

julienreszkaon Your key to success isn't more luck or hard work

yup. i concede. but it's also true

julienreszkaon Your key to success isn't more luck or hard work

The 20 percent is the effect on the child's own adult income from growing up with more economically diverse friends. The 27,000 versus 47,000 comparison is a separate number: it's roughly the same size effect you'd see from that same child's own parents earning 47,000 instead of 27,000 while raising them, a different mechanism entirely, used only to give the 20 percent some intuitive scale. They're not the same number expressed two ways, so multiplying one by 1.2 to check the other won't line up.

julienreszkaon Your Pension Depends on Kids You Did Not Have

It's the opposite of propaganda.

julienreszkaon Your Pension Depends on Kids You Did Not Have

No It's not propaganda. If anything it's the opposite.

julienreszkaon Your Pension Depends on Kids You Did Not Have

get real

julienreszkaon Your Pension Depends on Kids You Did Not Have

no it's not

julienreszkaon Your Pension Depends on Kids You Did Not Have

no. that's not a good metaphor at all. it's ridiculous.

julienreszkaon Your Pension Depends on Kids You Did Not Have

it's not a legend at all. I think you skipped the article I quote near the end. https://julienreszka.com/blog/pensions-buy-fewer-babies-cutt...

julienreszkaon Pensions Buy Fewer Babies. Cutting Them Costs Votes

Population is collapsing so unless you hate people there is a need for fixing

julienreszkaon Tell HN: Leaving your country is your only real leverage

it's a long read https://julienreszka.github.io/economic-simulator/armey-curv...

julienreszkaon Tell HN: Leaving your country is your only real leverage

investing in education has barely an effect on economic growth. to give you an example working as average cashier in switzerland is better economically than being average engineering manager in France

julienreszkaon Tell HN: Leaving your country is your only real leverage

it’s addressed in the artixle but probably gemini has not large enough context windown the article is pretty long (30min read)

julienreszkaon Tell HN: Leaving your country is your only real leverage

so? it’s open source you can reproduce the research findings. i did the research so don’t claim i don’t know the subject

julienreszkaon Tell HN: Leaving your country is your only real leverage

it’s true tho. https://julienreszka.github.io/economic-simulator/armey-curv...

julienreszkaon Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

please don't highjack the back swipe

julienreszkaon Revised Polish Alphabet

ugly

julienreszkaon Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?

Google AI studio has crazy bugs