Not sure why more people aren't mentioning this. But that's the exact reason I've stopped using any LLM stuff. Your thinking just gets lazier and lazier the more you use it. You stop thinking the problems deeply and…
The whole tech looks kinda' cool, but this video... I've noticed a trend where some of the dev tooling nowadays is sold almost as if it were consumer goods with the whole associated marketing behind it. This doesn't…
Yeah, I do have a suspicion that they are optimisation strategies to reduce computational complexity.
I've opened the game without reading the post. When I've hovered over the crown and saw the prime stuff I thought it was some kinda' joke or parody. Turns out it isn't. Which I think is even funnier in some…
Because they are told to: You are participating in a game where you must prove your humanity by answering trivia questions. The current category is: <category>. The question is: <question>. Your tasks are to provide an…
I would like to see some sort of cryptocurrency to be successful, just to satisfy my inner nerd, but I'm afraid most of its problems might not be technical in nature. Cryptocurrencies have potential to drastically…
Because they are not really decentralised. Vast amounts of cryptocurrencies as they are designed right now are disproportionately held by the early adopters, who will inevitably engage in rent seeking in one way or…
I do believe that there are some solutions that we could (and will) come up with, but they do require radical shift of priorities in people's lives. Currently our society is just blinded by "chase money by all means"…
Bitcoin is a mystery to me. Somehow it's hailed as revolutionising the economy, by replacing currency with a worse kind of currency. It feels like this is where all the "how to get rich quick" book writers and other…
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
I think you're quite close with the inculcation of identity of shame and powerlessness. I'd go one step further and say it's inculcating of identity in general. As well as manufactured desires to keep power systems in…
It's all about what you define as a success. Personally, I think that owner of a bakery on a corner of my street that is visited by all the locals is successful. Is that a success as measured by the VCs? Probably not.…
Whole VC industry is set up on pushing one simple lie: that you need VCs to create a successful company. Everything else is marketing endeavours to try to sell this convincingly. It's all the capitalists realising that…
> Now the sound of music comes in silver pills > Engineered to suit you, building cheaper thrills > The music of rebellion makes you wanna rage > But it's made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age from The…
I think there's a line somewhere between expressiveness and infantility. It's actually corporate that pushes the latter through the way they add those ways of expression to their products. I'm not saying everything has…
Oh yeah, I think what you've built can be great enabler for expression and creativity and product itself and definitely has the old school web feel to it. I think what inspired me to write above, was more of a marketing…
I totally agree with you on the fun part, but I think what we define as fun is pretty different. I also agree with you that talking and knowing people you work with is important. Where we disagree is the point that I…
Thankfully not yet. But as you are correctly pointing out this is another trend I find personally worrisome. Recently I've seen startup, where you were earning XP points for quickly closing customer support tickets, and…
I feel like I'm out of touch with current western culture, I honestly feel like I'm becoming an old fart at the age of 30. Everything is becoming increasingly infantile. Everything has to be fun and cool. I'm wondering…
After watching "Union Time"[1], I'm not finding it that hard to believe. It was really shocking to see shit like that fly in a civilised society. [1]: https://www.uniontimefilm.org
It's pretty much rebranded serfdom.
I believe that the independent-mindedness actually has some sort of biological underpinning. Original thought requires more energy expenditure (to push against entropy) than simply copying someone else's thinking. So my…
True that. I think the main thing they've learned over the years is how to craft their public image, which I guess can be said about every corporation out there.
But, but Microsoft in 2020 is not the same Microsoft than 20 years ago.
I'm probably old fashioned, but I don't understand why would I want something like that as a web-service, rather than something I can run locally (like all the js linters or rubocop).
Not sure why more people aren't mentioning this. But that's the exact reason I've stopped using any LLM stuff. Your thinking just gets lazier and lazier the more you use it. You stop thinking the problems deeply and…
The whole tech looks kinda' cool, but this video... I've noticed a trend where some of the dev tooling nowadays is sold almost as if it were consumer goods with the whole associated marketing behind it. This doesn't…
Yeah, I do have a suspicion that they are optimisation strategies to reduce computational complexity.
I've opened the game without reading the post. When I've hovered over the crown and saw the prime stuff I thought it was some kinda' joke or parody. Turns out it isn't. Which I think is even funnier in some…
Because they are told to: You are participating in a game where you must prove your humanity by answering trivia questions. The current category is: <category>. The question is: <question>. Your tasks are to provide an…
I would like to see some sort of cryptocurrency to be successful, just to satisfy my inner nerd, but I'm afraid most of its problems might not be technical in nature. Cryptocurrencies have potential to drastically…
Because they are not really decentralised. Vast amounts of cryptocurrencies as they are designed right now are disproportionately held by the early adopters, who will inevitably engage in rent seeking in one way or…
I do believe that there are some solutions that we could (and will) come up with, but they do require radical shift of priorities in people's lives. Currently our society is just blinded by "chase money by all means"…
Bitcoin is a mystery to me. Somehow it's hailed as revolutionising the economy, by replacing currency with a worse kind of currency. It feels like this is where all the "how to get rich quick" book writers and other…
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
I think you're quite close with the inculcation of identity of shame and powerlessness. I'd go one step further and say it's inculcating of identity in general. As well as manufactured desires to keep power systems in…
It's all about what you define as a success. Personally, I think that owner of a bakery on a corner of my street that is visited by all the locals is successful. Is that a success as measured by the VCs? Probably not.…
Whole VC industry is set up on pushing one simple lie: that you need VCs to create a successful company. Everything else is marketing endeavours to try to sell this convincingly. It's all the capitalists realising that…
> Now the sound of music comes in silver pills > Engineered to suit you, building cheaper thrills > The music of rebellion makes you wanna rage > But it's made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age from The…
I think there's a line somewhere between expressiveness and infantility. It's actually corporate that pushes the latter through the way they add those ways of expression to their products. I'm not saying everything has…
Oh yeah, I think what you've built can be great enabler for expression and creativity and product itself and definitely has the old school web feel to it. I think what inspired me to write above, was more of a marketing…
I totally agree with you on the fun part, but I think what we define as fun is pretty different. I also agree with you that talking and knowing people you work with is important. Where we disagree is the point that I…
Thankfully not yet. But as you are correctly pointing out this is another trend I find personally worrisome. Recently I've seen startup, where you were earning XP points for quickly closing customer support tickets, and…
I feel like I'm out of touch with current western culture, I honestly feel like I'm becoming an old fart at the age of 30. Everything is becoming increasingly infantile. Everything has to be fun and cool. I'm wondering…
After watching "Union Time"[1], I'm not finding it that hard to believe. It was really shocking to see shit like that fly in a civilised society. [1]: https://www.uniontimefilm.org
It's pretty much rebranded serfdom.
I believe that the independent-mindedness actually has some sort of biological underpinning. Original thought requires more energy expenditure (to push against entropy) than simply copying someone else's thinking. So my…
True that. I think the main thing they've learned over the years is how to craft their public image, which I guess can be said about every corporation out there.
But, but Microsoft in 2020 is not the same Microsoft than 20 years ago.
I'm probably old fashioned, but I don't understand why would I want something like that as a web-service, rather than something I can run locally (like all the js linters or rubocop).