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In the long run, better things win. Increasingly companies are being founded by non-tech illiterates and eventually those will be most companies and organizations.

http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html does a great job explaining why this is.

Historically things weren't like that, but they are changing fast.

For whatever it's worth, HPMOR introduced me to Effective Altruism and lesswrong, etc.

Though I found it online and not from the $30K distributed, I have since as a result of being introduced to Effective Altruism there donated much more than $30K to highly effective charities and caused hundreds of other people to get into donating to highly effective charities too. I also started a company inspired by the EA concepts of working on "neglected problems" - https://80000hours.org/articles/problem-framework/#definitio...

I might be wrong, but I suspect there's a decent chance there was at least 1 person like me of the people in that $30k distribution.

I’m curious: why did this get flagged?

If it is because the submitted title is different from the title in the article, that doesn’t seem totally right, because the submitted title is a more useful/accurate summary than the actual title.

Would appreciate any insight into that, thanks!

Incidentally, I just noticed that pg also posted it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1507757801854181381?s=21&t=...

Couldn't a lot of this be T cell response?

My wife and I both got COVID in March 2020–she showed symptoms before I did, but I had it for many weeks and she had it for 2 days.

We both tested for antibodies multiple times since then and she never had them, but I did.

From the research I did back then it seemed like it was likely due to T cell response.

Quick googling just now yielded this, which looks pretty interesting: https://www.t-detect.com/

Thanks for pointing that out!

I work at AE, and we've actually been meaning to fix that for a while, but for some reason we prioritized making another theme of our blog that looks just like pg's blog (https://ae.studio/blog/victims-of-vimeo#pg) instead of making links that people realize are links.

I think we were trying to not be too promotional or something, but we should probably fix this, and we will now!

Jarren runs the Same Day Skunkworks Department at AE Studio, which is "Agency Enterprise" (https://github.com/agencyenterprise) in the first link you shared there

“People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don’t have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it’s divine. And so it is with everything in the universe” — Hippocrates

"And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!"

You think he foresaw and disapproved of universal basic income?

We can always improve our brains

Is there some threshold of utility that people should have beyond which prioritarians would not or should not feel a need to give utils to a person? Sort of like "make at least $XX for the place you live to be happy"?

If we assume there is, would a prioritarian view be to get people to that threshold, and then just utilitarianism?

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223641

Anyone know why they are launching this only with the Texas insurance and not the California insurance?

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I am curious to understand - why was it flagged?

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I've been using it for a while and it definitely does make me closer with friends and family.

It's kind of like editing a shared google doc with someone, which does actually allow for higher bandwidth communication than pretty much any other means of electronic communication.

It's also surprisingly fun and you do feel more connected to the person you're talking with.

But because I'm on a computer most of the day and it's only on mobile, I tend to move to iMessage a lot rather than sticking with Bop. I leave my phone on DND during the day and kinda forget about Bop till I'm done working. It's too bad, because the experience on Bop is definitely better, but it's hard to become as engrained as a habit for me just because of that. I suspect though most gen z etc might be on their phones all day anyway so it's not an issue for them and perhaps they are the target demographic for apps like this.

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Would be fun to see a version of this about startup/side project URL naming too

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I work at the company where we made this Slack app

Really other marketing things came after, and it's mostly the Slack App Directory that got the app to 200K+ users–that and the fact that nothing else like this existed that was free.

Sure, it could be confirmation bias, but I think that's pretty unlikely

I've gone to msn.com thousands of times over the past 8 years when I've had shaky internet

It actually works. Going to other websites doesn't work. Internet is slow or non existent. Then I go to msn.com and internet works again, or much faster

I'm really curious to understand why

If he'd made a platform to rival twitter, that would have been another platform.

It does seem interesting that people like Trump, despite their celebrity, have significantly greater reach nowadays via platforms, not via blogs like in the days of the early internet.

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We sold our first serious skunkworks project to an acquiring company last year and that bodes fairly well for the model we're pioneering where you start out doing client work, grow personally and professionally, and then move into senior leadership for the company (we're growing a lot), or start your own skunkworks project that eventually spins out as its own business, with the resources of AE to support you and great team members to tap on and practice being cofounders with before committing.

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Anyone know why there is no longer a way to turn off all the suggestions on Alexa anymore?

I've used Alexa since it came out and they've added annoying random suggestions over the years that you were able to turn off in various settings menus.

But in the past year or Alexa has been upselling me stuff or randomly telling me about features I don't want to hear about when I'm just trying to turn on a light. And it seems like there's now actually no way to turn this stuff off.

Does anyone know if you can turn off Alexa upselling or is it going to just be a part of having a smart home forever?

At my software agency, we were actually inspired by this post when it was on hn a couple years ago to, in a hackathon, build a simple machine learning model around it.

Then, recently, we actually built our own internal tool to add "uncertainty points" to estimates for each client project we do.

And the ML model predicts better and better how uncertainty uniquely affects each project we're using it in.

We've been using it on 1 project for and it's actually working surprisingly well.

We're also in the process of rolling it out to most of our other projects, or at least the ones using Pivotal Tracker, which is the only tool we're supporting right now.

If happen to be using Pivotal Tracker are interested in testing it out yourself and giving us any feedback you might have, plz shoot me a message at the email in my profile.

I read his original statement with the "and such" to mean that he isn't specifically referring to dogecoin, but just things like it.

Which gets him off the hook for it not existing back then.

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