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armonsteron The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?

Their negative effects are much more vast, subtle, and cultural. You could say many of the broad and widespread mental issues we have in the US is the result of automobiles leading to suburbanization and thus isolation of people. It has created an expensive barrier of entry for existing in society and added a ton of friction to doing anything and everything, especially with people. That's not even getting into the climate effects.

The upsides of automobiles generally all exist outside of the 'personal automobile', i.e. logistics. These upsides and downsides don't need to coexist. We could reap the benefits without needing to suffer for it, but here we are.

armonsteron How the AI Bubble Bursts

Uber didn't have ever-increasing costs though.

armonsteron When do we become adults, really?

We generally don't. The only real delineation between an "adult" and a "child" lies along acceptance of reality. Many people refuse to do this at various life stages for various things. But this one factor is what determines the difference. It's a skill worth pursuing.

Life constantly throws new things at us and we can easily come to a point where we no longer truly want to face some of its realities and we distract and dodge.

armonsteron Do architects still need to draw? (2020)

> But watching some pros go at it on paper + pen, I do get this feeling that when you don't have the undo button you really do gotta force yourself to get good at the nitty gritty. Really you need to get good at drawing lines nicely the first time when you're inking to paper.

Often you envision what the line will look like in your head before placing. And then you have the motor skills/experience to recreate that line well. They're just some of the micro-skills that encompass "drawing".

armonsteron Are You YES AI or No AI?

I think my stance for AI definitely somewhere between these two options. A sentiment I often see is being staunchly anti-AI in any way, and I'm definitely not that. I feel like that is the more useful divide too, anti-AI vs open to AI. Being open to AI doesn't mean being one of those 'full steam ahead' on anything and everything AI though.

armonsteron Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges

I've never met anyone in my life who vacuums at that rate. Not sure if your personal germophobia counts as a counterpoint.

armonsteron Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide

Corporations should be assumed to act in line with their interests, which is the bottom line. "Morality" isn't the lens that you need to try to view them through to understand their intentions and actions. But yes, their motivations pretty much always lay outside of any moral good due to the nature of them.

armonsteron Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI

you live in a bubble.

my mom who barely knows how to use her own phone uses ChatGPT every day

just an anecdotal example.

this shit ain't close.

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but seriously, ChatGPT has wayyyy more name recognition than google's AI.

armonsteron 210 IQ Is Not Enough

This seems like a very flat view of intelligence. In my mind a sufficiently intelligent person isn't just "good at math" and is capable of understanding the landscapes you've laid out above and would also understand how to improve in them and to navigate them, assuming they're sufficiently motivated. Even then, intelligent people are better at parsing themselves, their own drives, knowing what they want and are motivated by and move towards it. I also think many of the most intelligent people I know are (gasp) extremely mature as well, as if those often go hand-in-hand.

This sort of feels like a cope-comment trying to say that smart people aren't ACTUALLY smart, but I'm not sure the motivation for that.

armonsteron Steam Frame

I also had frequent BSOD issues because of a Focusrite audio interface, lol. I've since thrown it out and gotten an alternative brand product and have never had the issues again.

armonsteron Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work

I don't think the phenomenon you're describing is a result of the amount of effort put into the piece.

armonsteron Some people can't see mental images

This is called building your 'catalogue' in art, especially concept art. In order to draw something (well) from imagination, you should draw it from reference many times. Then when you draw from imagination, your brain will pull from what it knows. And since you studied the subjects, the textures, the shapes, etc, so well, you will have that stored away and will be able to do so.

armonsteron AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process

what is the reference here, out of curiosity

armonsteron The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership

I think what is much more plausible is that companies such as this one benefit greatly from being viewed as being close to, or on the way to AGI.

armonsteron Asbestosis

A quick google search didn't return anything on this for me, do you have any additional details you could pass along?

armonsteron Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall

But is the game rated mature due to violence, or due to gambling? I might be okay with my kid playing a game just because it has violence, but that doesn't mean I'm wanting to sign them up for gambling, but I'm curious if the mature rating even covers that since it's more of a meta-game thing and not actually part of the "game" itself.

armonsteron Smartphones and being present

Get a secondary "podcast only" phone

armonsteron Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)

The article shows 5 images from games showing it done poorly, and 4 images from games showing it done well.

A fifth image of it done well was added in an edit.

armonsteron Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)

It sounds like your friend had a predilection for psychosis. I feel like the nice things about psychedelics is that they don't alter my processing too much (as compared with other drugs), moreso they just give me different 'inputs' into my senses / experiences, and then I process those.

armonsteron Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized

Could try informative podcasts that just give you information, instead of wisdom or life practices - such as a history of philosophy, or some other topic. Or just history in general!

For audiobooks, something I've been wanting to try is to see if I can listen to an audiobook of a textbook for a topic that I'm interested in. But I'm not sure if it would work well, since often textbooks have diagrams and such.

armonsteron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2021)

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