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interesting indeed. They seem to be building on the substack idea of bringing money into it. I think this results in slop incentives. My usual argument against that is this: High quality thought and speech is a luxury activity for the idle rich and ascetic... 4d ago (collapse hidden) 6 6 retry

interesting indeed. (view hidden) 6 6 retry

Most of the ideological points we are citing (mystery cult of intelligence, anti-authoritarianism, obesity, finance maximalism) masquerading as strategy are in fact copes for the lack of strategy. The whole cannot direct the parts by any higher logic, so w... 1w ago (collapse hidden) 4 4 retry

Most of the ideologi (view hidden) 4 4 retry

I find at least 50% of the time when coding, it doesn't do what I need unless I write out a really detailed prompt that goes into autistic line-by-line descriptions of what needs to happen. And then, it only gets it right 50% of the time. And usually, by t... 2w ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

I find at least 50% (view hidden) 3 3 retry

not a ton of new ideas here, mostly agreeing with what others have said already. ... 3w ago (collapse hidden) 4 4 retry

not a ton of new ide (view hidden) 4 4 retry

Yeah I've seen this stuff before. I remember the one with the mushroom. This is definitely getting much better. I wonder where it will go. I wonder if it will at some point be basically "solved" with the ability to pair arbitrary video with arbitrary audio... 4w ago (collapse hidden) 4 4 retry

Yeah I've seen this (view hidden) 4 4 retry

Very cool, guys. Let a thousand alt social media flowers bloom. I look forward to seeing your respective attempts. I hope you’ll still want to come visit us here. 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 6 6 retry

Very cool, guys. Let (view hidden) 6 6 retry

I agree, but I mean that this can only be ascertained retrospectively, which causes many to conflate the two. That is, the connotation is typically of 2, but the expression itself is indeterminate and includes 1, indeed there's no shortage of false negativ... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

I agree, but I mean (view hidden) 3 3 retry

Some people won't believe in the inherent goodness of existence until it's been autistically proven to them with English philosophizing a hundred times over. That's fine. For the rest of us, we don't need to be persuaded of the inherent goodness of existen... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

Some people won't be (view hidden) 2 2 retry

I agree anon, this is why I think the core issue here is the lack of aesthetics or taste in the perception of the world. It is like trying to understand the world with only sight and sound but no touch. You would build all these mental castles about the di... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

I agree anon, this i (view hidden) 2 2 retry

How about aggregating the collective will of a bunch of individuals wills? By will, I mean a freeform expression/document consisting of issues one values/cares about/wants change in. 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 1 1 retry

How about aggregatin (view hidden) 1 1 retry

Ah sorry, I meant a migration **from the physical to the digital world. ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 1 1 retry

Ah sorry, I meant a (view hidden) 1 1 retry

That makes sense. The forward deployed engineers are the engineers the customer should have but don't. 6mo ago (collapse hidden) 4 4 retry

That makes sense. Th (view hidden) 4 4 retry

America retains distinct advantages in premier industrial domains, such as computer chip design (note, separate from manufacture), rockets, turbine jet engines, and various advanced materials science. As a strictly military example, no one makes night visi... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

America retains dist (view hidden) 2 2 retry

One of my old friends from Berkeley wanted to design a new power supply for an amp. He designed it from scratch, used open source PCB design software and had it printed for him by a company specializing in such things. ... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

One of my old friend (view hidden) 5 5 retry

consumer demand is a complete red herring here. Consumers should not be buying drone swarms or even thinking about it. The question is whether hackers are building novel stuff and then getting into manufacturing, and then whether the manufacturing ecosyste... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) 8 8 retry

consumer demand is a (view hidden) 8 8 retry

There had been a thread on high software profit margins, which has since disappeared off sofiechan. The OP on hackernews might still be relevant (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904339): ... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

There had been a thr (view hidden) 2 2 retry

I looked to President Eisenhower in his inaugural address for guidance ... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) retry

I looked to Presiden (view hidden) retry

Currently, sliding is not a huge problem because the front page has everything (scroll down!). Though of course discussion seems to be concentrated in the top few threads. In the long run, we're going to deal with scale and prioritization with tags. There ... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 7 7 retry

Currently, sliding i (view hidden) 7 7 retry

1. Urbit is not designed to be uncensorable, nor is it particularly useful for our purposes. ... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 7 7 retry

1. Urbit is not desi (view hidden) 7 7 retry

I notice a large number of threads converge on approximately 60% up, 1% down. This is two things: not enough people, so when the usual number of us vote and engage in a usual thread, it ends up with about the usual amount of evidence. But then they should ... 1y ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

I notice a large num (view hidden) 5 5 retry