El Salvador.
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If you're willing to accept small changes as a win in a fundamentally broken system (in the sense the incentives aren't aligned and there is no real accountability feedback mechanism) then the problem is you aren't…
> Being jaded and cynical will not help in the long run. This sounds like it's better to work within the system rather than try to overthrow it. You need more than a little angst to completely reset cultural norms.…
> There isn't anyone that would argue that a single or a group of firms dominating a sizeable amount of market, enough that they could, not that they do, influence and undermine the competitors is a desired status quo.…
I'm not saying there isn't progress. I'm saying progress is slow relative to the work that needs to be done. I've also worked at enough robotics companies to be skeptical of anything they publish because there is a…
> Doesn't it seem like in < 10 years there will be dozens of autonomous, affordable home-robots? If you buy the hype, sure. I know many startups that have already gone bust working on this. I've also seen lots of…
Is there somewhere the general consensus is generally right?
It seems pretty obvious the H-1B system hurt him.
Are we just going to ignore the negative externalities of AI? From my perspective, the main product of AI is bots spamming social media with misinformation - largely with a goal of swaying elections. I'm not saying that…
It's more the fact that you're willfully ignorant which makes you annoying. Numerous people have already explained to you why you're wrong and you just keep repeating yourself. You're a hypocrite and you don't even…
Your analysis assumes collateral damage is irrelevant.
I strongly wish we had more comments like the one you're responding to. I find most comments here to be obnoxiously polite and I wish more ignorant opinions were publicly demolished as they should be, rather than…
I don't believe you, but you can always prove me wrong and share your proof.
Fair enough.
So your point is that if we fundamentally change society, ignoring the fact that this is integral to human nature itself, then we can fix this problem? That's about as helpful as saying we can have peace in the Middle…
I never said cheating is moral. I said cheating is advantageous. You think cheaters care that they're hurting society? You can't be a cheater without being selfish.
You're a caricature of my original point and you don't even realize it.
Hating cheaters does nothing to change the reality of it being an effective method for getting ahead.
> Not sure if it was the lesson he meant to impart though since I think most took away from it that to win you need to lie, cheat and steal. Better to teach reality than ideology, assuming you want to be a practitioner…
Call me naïve, but I actually suspect Brin started out believing in "do no evil" and changed over time after becoming ridiculously wealthy. Having the misfortune of actually knowing some of the other people though, I…
You blocked 50k people? Don't you have to block people one by one? How did you even do this?
> If it's business - we had a solution deployed for the customer in less than an hour. Boeing was good at finding cheaper solutions to business problems as well. In the end it's society that suffers for our tolerance of…
You actually think people are familiar with most, if any, of your hints? You mention Susanne Trimbath like most people have any idea who she is. If you construct an argument instead of throwing out a buzzword salad of…
Thank you for the reply - I'll give them a shot.
El Salvador.
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If you're willing to accept small changes as a win in a fundamentally broken system (in the sense the incentives aren't aligned and there is no real accountability feedback mechanism) then the problem is you aren't…
> Being jaded and cynical will not help in the long run. This sounds like it's better to work within the system rather than try to overthrow it. You need more than a little angst to completely reset cultural norms.…
> There isn't anyone that would argue that a single or a group of firms dominating a sizeable amount of market, enough that they could, not that they do, influence and undermine the competitors is a desired status quo.…
I'm not saying there isn't progress. I'm saying progress is slow relative to the work that needs to be done. I've also worked at enough robotics companies to be skeptical of anything they publish because there is a…
> Doesn't it seem like in < 10 years there will be dozens of autonomous, affordable home-robots? If you buy the hype, sure. I know many startups that have already gone bust working on this. I've also seen lots of…
Is there somewhere the general consensus is generally right?
It seems pretty obvious the H-1B system hurt him.
Are we just going to ignore the negative externalities of AI? From my perspective, the main product of AI is bots spamming social media with misinformation - largely with a goal of swaying elections. I'm not saying that…
It's more the fact that you're willfully ignorant which makes you annoying. Numerous people have already explained to you why you're wrong and you just keep repeating yourself. You're a hypocrite and you don't even…
Your analysis assumes collateral damage is irrelevant.
I strongly wish we had more comments like the one you're responding to. I find most comments here to be obnoxiously polite and I wish more ignorant opinions were publicly demolished as they should be, rather than…
I don't believe you, but you can always prove me wrong and share your proof.
Fair enough.
So your point is that if we fundamentally change society, ignoring the fact that this is integral to human nature itself, then we can fix this problem? That's about as helpful as saying we can have peace in the Middle…
I never said cheating is moral. I said cheating is advantageous. You think cheaters care that they're hurting society? You can't be a cheater without being selfish.
You're a caricature of my original point and you don't even realize it.
Hating cheaters does nothing to change the reality of it being an effective method for getting ahead.
> Not sure if it was the lesson he meant to impart though since I think most took away from it that to win you need to lie, cheat and steal. Better to teach reality than ideology, assuming you want to be a practitioner…
Call me naïve, but I actually suspect Brin started out believing in "do no evil" and changed over time after becoming ridiculously wealthy. Having the misfortune of actually knowing some of the other people though, I…
You blocked 50k people? Don't you have to block people one by one? How did you even do this?
> If it's business - we had a solution deployed for the customer in less than an hour. Boeing was good at finding cheaper solutions to business problems as well. In the end it's society that suffers for our tolerance of…
You actually think people are familiar with most, if any, of your hints? You mention Susanne Trimbath like most people have any idea who she is. If you construct an argument instead of throwing out a buzzword salad of…
Thank you for the reply - I'll give them a shot.