ramblerman

given your long experience with psychedelics and profession, I am curious.

Do you feel a "hero's" dose is necessary, or do you see benefit in micro dosing psychedelics. Or any dose in between for that matter.

I'm aware of the fact that Musk is extremely biased.

I was calling out wired for their hypocrisy.

Microsoft famously sold the xbox at a loss to gain marketshare.

At the time there were plenty of articles about that, and indirectly "what a bargain" the xbox therefore really is.

This is thinly veiled advertising, with a hint of truth. They are certainly not losing 80 per user.

Look at wired.com gleefully sharing his identity.

I don’t know the cartoonist, and he is likely a real piece of ** who should be thrown off the platform.

But doxxing is opening the door to actual violence.

Relax. Not everything in this world was built exactly for you. You almost seem to have a problem with this.

You've given the typical MBA answer - that link included - and dismissed OP as being "youtfully naive".

And perhaps he is, but more naive is you notion of we just need to change our beliefs with an article about what "real" leadership looks like.

Incentives drive everything! And our financial short term focus squeezing every last drop out of every quarter does not produce long term good quality.

An argument isn’t good or bad because of the motivations of the person behind it.

I get Elon is not popular right now. But jeez this is playground emotional level logic.

You made exactly zero arguments based on the lawsuit itself. And just went after musks character.

The law doesn’t work that way. It’s not as simple as people I like should win and people I don’t should lose.

The fact you provided references and links implies you actually believe you are making a coherent case

Not sure about that, there is a lot of overlap with bedouins. The harsh desert planet in which they have learned to thrive is now highly desired by outsiders because of the spice (oil).

Sure, but not all programming is building webapps either. There are many high stakes environments, with real consequences.

Additionally as the ball of mud grows, making slight but subtle changes to the system will get subsequently harder and harder to describe to the point where the tradeoff from using english is higher than flipping some code (imo).

and autonomous cars were just around the corner 10 years ago.

The last 20% is really hard

Isn't that a bit like a defense of communism though?

"If only people implemented it properly we would all live in paradise".

What matters is how it works in reality, how it incentivizes people and fits in with human nature.

Agile seems to leads to more micromanagement and kafka-esque situations for the majority of software engineers that have to deal with it. If anything it provides a framework for bad managers who are mistrustful of engineers to play far outside of their comfort zone, and suggest childish measures that they wouldn't have dared to dream up on their own.

> Pichai said the company has already made progress in fixing Gemini’s guardrails. “Our teams have been working around the clock to address these issues. We’re already seeing a substantial improvement on a wide range of prompts,” he said.

Ofc, more guardrails will fix the issue...

I get that, but what you said is 100% the same as what an MBA might say on the topic. And maybe that's the right middle ground, but don't pitch it from the perspective of a software engineer who is fully comitted to quality, because your pitch is far more jaded.

> As an engineer who cares deeply about quality as an ethical imperative

Nothing you said after that matches this statement.

He is saying it's highly likely to correlate with how you think you should score before you take the test.

Did you have a counter argument to offer or?

> they refer to his career in the private sector which as far as I'm aware includes two jobs. One was as an economist and the other as a "sex guru" of some kind.

He was an economics professor for more than 20 years.

And he has also been a semi pro football player, played in a rock band, and been a tantric sex instructor.

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

I think this is a pretty fair assessment of Milei.

Do you feel the sex guru part adds much though? Maybe he is in an open relationship, or actually gay, or xyz... does it matter in his economic reform plans for Argentina?

> I think there's too much plausible deniability for it to rise to the level of fraud, even though we can all kinda tell it is.

If it was listed by a private person, sure I'd agree. If this was done by an agent it should be fraud

What way of thinking?

OP listed some untypical benefits that come with sex - I think we are all aware of the typical benefits. He/she didn't say "these are the reasons you should have sex"

Geoffrey Hinton

I think OP was asking about the expression "a thousand hands on a ouija board", not what a ouija board is.

> but they are more impenetrable; there's a thicker shell of resistance to break through before I can have that experience

That's more likely from dopamine being fried from screens and instant gratification than a statement about the quality of books.

I got back into reading about a year ago, and it took me a month before I could read like I used to as a kid, fully immersed, let the world disappear kind of thing. I was looking up every minute before that with a strong urge to grab my phone.

argh, this is such a bad faith argument. The enemy of better is best.

We can't know the whole truth but we have enough quality data about ancient rome from multiple angles to know "gladiator" probably shouldn't be our first lead on the matter.

I've heard of an appeal to authority, but an appeal to ignorance is new.

OPs question is not ridiculous, nor does he suggest it to counter the "mysterious" claims

It would have been so easy for them to raise that fact publicly though, and they would have massively won support.

The problem was their complete silence on what lead to Altman's ousting

is the Elno supposed to be comedic or just derogatory?

It doesn't really strengthen your point like you think it might. And ironically is right out of Trump's playbook (who you are railing against a few comments above)

> a dangerous lunatic with too much power and money.

I think you are exaggerating further beyond the line than one (likely autistic) man swearing in frustration.

Of all the dangers in the world today

How can you offer this rebuttal with a straight face, when your own post suggests the OP "just" finds religion.