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Zuckerberg is wrong. There are now dozens of experiments showing causality. I laid out the evidence in these two posts:
afterbabel.com/p/social-medi…
afterbabel.com/p/why-some-re…
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Other game devs: *talk vaguely about a feature that will be in the game*
Peter Molyneux: You're character can eat a seed and shit the seed out and a tree will grow out of the shit and later you can show your shit tree to your grandkids and they will be like "Ugh, that's gross"
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What I want is: "once I'm good at something, the computer can offload that part of my work." But only after I understand it!
Many people's AI vision seems to be: "I don't understand what the computer does. I don't care as long as an answer comes out." (And no way to check it.)
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Working for incompetent people will make you incompetent regardless of your skill set in record time.
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"Dynamic typing: The belief that you can't explain to a computer why your code works, but you can keep track of it all in your head." – Chris Martin
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Da @kaiwegner und die #GroKo in dem Koalitionsvertrag die “behutsame Randbebauung des #Tempelhoferfeld|s planen, kämpfe ich für eine Aufnahme ins #UNESCO Naturerbe. Jetzt die Petition unterschreiben. weact.campact.de/petitions/t… – at Berlin, Germany
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Dogecoin and Bitcoin are, to first approximation, exactly the same asset class.
They have precisely the same fundamentals. Both are purely narrative-driven parimutuel betting schemes, except one is based on a joke, and the other is based on central bank conspiracy theories.
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A tribute to a feature on cars quite appreciated by engineering nerds and not only: popup headlights
[📹 DtRockstar1: buff.ly/3lMoaz6]
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Huh. Well it seems bad when you put it all in one place like that.
theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773…
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Nothing единственная компания (а жаль, надо чтоб были тысячи) работающая по прорывной схеме "пересмотреть GiTS+Евангелион, отхлебнуть редбулла, поскроллить rekall и нарисовать дизайн будто будущее действительно наступило тридцать лет назад и это всё не было ёбаным враньём".
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Also: "types are documentation"
Documentation:
(<=**<) :: Monad m => (d -> m e) -> (a -> b -> c -> m d) -> a -> b -> c -> m e
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You risk-averse sheep want the government to do everything for you. We intend to disrupt everything. Money, banking, tech, the very idea of business, all of it is on the table for us, the risk-takers.
(disruption occurs)
Fuck oh fuck. Fuck. Somebody do something. Fuck.
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I'm excited to stop writing code and start writing machine-readable specifications of precise intended behavior