A 10% conversion rate would be incredible. If that were the case, it would be hard to be angry at people for exploiting this factor. However, I would be very surprised if the conversion rate of a popup signup sheet is…
If 30% of your users hate the interface so much that they immediately leave your service, then sure, you can say "70% of our users have no problem with our strobing call to action". But that does not stop the problem -…
I recommend reading longer histories and reading them on audiobook. Those tell history in a nonlinear way, going events over and over and over from different perspectives, until you get the feeling of what it was like…
Another thought is that the friction should be inherently enjoyable. Another person gives the example of an extension that adds 10 seconds to the load time of Youtube videos. This would be a great time to take a breath,…
Why does this feel like a union made in hell? Partnering with the incomprehensibly byzantine andcomplacent architect of the SEOpocalypse AND "late-to-the-ai-party" Google does not give faith that the solution will be…
Ironically, there is a school of thought on meditation which says that it's perfectly valid to meditate by picking a task or chore, then performing that task so that it engrosses the entire mind. According to this line…
Here's my basic position: 1. The risk and threats are published 2. The audits I've seen don't evaluate the threats 3. Link me to the audits if you want to convince me I. The risks - airgapping is not enough 1. If the…
I'm not trying to be flippant here, but how many of ghidra's 2 million lines of code have you audited?
Is ghidra safe to use if you consider the NSA an adversary? Every person I've asked this question has had their noses so far up the NSA's pooper that they could not imagine considering the NSA an adversary. But suppose…
This actually works! It works astoundingly well with poorly written technical manuals. Looking at you, CMake reference manual O_O. It also helps translate unix man pages from Neckbeardese into clean and modern speech.…
Should jackasses on HN use plain language instead of jargon? Surely. But AI workers mainly develop and use jargon because it is an easy and natural way to consolidate concepts. Sure, there is a kind of conspiracy caused…
I feel like Lecun did a poor job of localizing the technique relative to any philosophy, or really explaining what it does for a nontechnical audience. Saying he gives talks to philosophers, or saying this pushes…
like I said it's better to not help people at all than to evolve the attitude that some people don't want to help themselves. people typically want to help themselves but don't know how, and might have self-defeating…
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This is definitely one of the drivers of anti-capitalist extremism, and as an anti-capitalist extremist and recruiter, I can only say, "thanks!" Remember capitalism's job is to provide zero value for nonzero cost.…
If you loved authors who work towards the Public Good more than you loved authors who are complicit in predatory UX/SEO, then you would not blame me for this problem. Any writing or code I put out into the public is…
It's interesting because I have had a similar breakthroughs by using Bing to help organize and simplify my thoughts. I have Pure-O - a mental variant of obsessive compulsive disorder where I ruminate compulsively about…
Should I pay you for what you wrote? No. You wrote it to benefit me, and yet I should not pay you. Curious, right? How would you explain that? I would consider your message a gift, designed to help me correct what you…
Reading this conversation is like watching Casey skillfully and lovingly jailbreak Uncle Bob's GPT personality prompt, yielding a new and exciting performance focused alter ego which I admiringly dub "SPEEDY BOB".
The claim is that writing causes you not to be disposed more positively - it doesn't really do that now does it? Writing is miserable work. No. The claim is that writing causes you to think more clearly and powerfully…
The trouble with this analysis is the argument takes this form: 1. AIs are stochastic parrots 2. Stochastic parrots are not conscious by definition 2. Ergo AI cannot be conscious Apart from the circularity of the…
Then where do all the calculators go?
The article was a lot of words uttered specifically to avoid the words, "ppl didn't use kite because it sucked", while conveying the same meaning.
This is reminding me of the demise of AOL. Suddenly ads were everywhere. Then AOL was nowhere.
A 10% conversion rate would be incredible. If that were the case, it would be hard to be angry at people for exploiting this factor. However, I would be very surprised if the conversion rate of a popup signup sheet is…
If 30% of your users hate the interface so much that they immediately leave your service, then sure, you can say "70% of our users have no problem with our strobing call to action". But that does not stop the problem -…
I recommend reading longer histories and reading them on audiobook. Those tell history in a nonlinear way, going events over and over and over from different perspectives, until you get the feeling of what it was like…
Another thought is that the friction should be inherently enjoyable. Another person gives the example of an extension that adds 10 seconds to the load time of Youtube videos. This would be a great time to take a breath,…
Why does this feel like a union made in hell? Partnering with the incomprehensibly byzantine andcomplacent architect of the SEOpocalypse AND "late-to-the-ai-party" Google does not give faith that the solution will be…
Ironically, there is a school of thought on meditation which says that it's perfectly valid to meditate by picking a task or chore, then performing that task so that it engrosses the entire mind. According to this line…
Here's my basic position: 1. The risk and threats are published 2. The audits I've seen don't evaluate the threats 3. Link me to the audits if you want to convince me I. The risks - airgapping is not enough 1. If the…
I'm not trying to be flippant here, but how many of ghidra's 2 million lines of code have you audited?
Is ghidra safe to use if you consider the NSA an adversary? Every person I've asked this question has had their noses so far up the NSA's pooper that they could not imagine considering the NSA an adversary. But suppose…
This actually works! It works astoundingly well with poorly written technical manuals. Looking at you, CMake reference manual O_O. It also helps translate unix man pages from Neckbeardese into clean and modern speech.…
Should jackasses on HN use plain language instead of jargon? Surely. But AI workers mainly develop and use jargon because it is an easy and natural way to consolidate concepts. Sure, there is a kind of conspiracy caused…
I feel like Lecun did a poor job of localizing the technique relative to any philosophy, or really explaining what it does for a nontechnical audience. Saying he gives talks to philosophers, or saying this pushes…
like I said it's better to not help people at all than to evolve the attitude that some people don't want to help themselves. people typically want to help themselves but don't know how, and might have self-defeating…
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This is definitely one of the drivers of anti-capitalist extremism, and as an anti-capitalist extremist and recruiter, I can only say, "thanks!" Remember capitalism's job is to provide zero value for nonzero cost.…
If you loved authors who work towards the Public Good more than you loved authors who are complicit in predatory UX/SEO, then you would not blame me for this problem. Any writing or code I put out into the public is…
It's interesting because I have had a similar breakthroughs by using Bing to help organize and simplify my thoughts. I have Pure-O - a mental variant of obsessive compulsive disorder where I ruminate compulsively about…
Should I pay you for what you wrote? No. You wrote it to benefit me, and yet I should not pay you. Curious, right? How would you explain that? I would consider your message a gift, designed to help me correct what you…
Reading this conversation is like watching Casey skillfully and lovingly jailbreak Uncle Bob's GPT personality prompt, yielding a new and exciting performance focused alter ego which I admiringly dub "SPEEDY BOB".
The claim is that writing causes you not to be disposed more positively - it doesn't really do that now does it? Writing is miserable work. No. The claim is that writing causes you to think more clearly and powerfully…
The trouble with this analysis is the argument takes this form: 1. AIs are stochastic parrots 2. Stochastic parrots are not conscious by definition 2. Ergo AI cannot be conscious Apart from the circularity of the…
Then where do all the calculators go?
The article was a lot of words uttered specifically to avoid the words, "ppl didn't use kite because it sucked", while conveying the same meaning.
This is reminding me of the demise of AOL. Suddenly ads were everywhere. Then AOL was nowhere.