diogenes_of_ak

I have to switch of Tysabri soon… how’s O?

I had low expectations for Becky Chamber’s books but so far I have liked every one of them.

I am somewhat “disabled” now (the hell with that moniker), there’s nothing chic about it.

I’ll get better or die trying, but there’s a lot of confusion as to what all this means by both those well meaning and those who are assholes.

A company can’t tell you to not share your salary - it’s protected behavior. Whether you do that over a megaphone in the park or over TikTok they broke the law by firing her.

I think this is a stretch here, you’re saying “entropy is real, thus the universe is zero sum.”

Hell, we don’t even know if the energy budget for the universe is a constant - we just haven’t observed the opposite yet.

What remains constant when I give my son a hug? Or I say, “thank you?”

The zero-sum game is life stuff is nonsense.

I come from a different industry before moving into this one, but there’s a chaotic and abysmal lack of teamwork between departments in this industry that I’ve seen this far.

Have those two teams work together.

Also, foster a culture of continuous self-improvement. I’ve now seen a bunch of “it’s good enough to ship, go for it” and now whatever work arounds and bandaids are permanent. Don’t be so fast, don’t try to iterate so quickly, and focus on quality over quick ROI.

Imagine if Boeing behaved like a SaaS operator. The first version of 737 would be glued together, and in turbulence the wings would snap off “oh, I guess we should use more glue in the next version - alright guys, iterate!”

Slow down, do a good job, and the product will come.

Sorry if other languages aren’t permissible. I can delete it if I need to.

This is a weird thought. Nearly none of my wife is zero sum.

Who loses out if I buy you a beer? Or if my wife and I love each other? Or if people are nice to others?

Like seriously - if I treat someone else with respect and dignity am I required to shit on someone else? Of course not.

Perhaps it would be better if nobody was the hegemon eh?

Всё будет хорошо скоро - мир меняется быстро, и есть возможность работать в любом месте ты хочешь.

Счастливо тебе, и если тебе надо помочь, послай мне dm, не знаю что могу делать, но могу стараться помогать.

Прости за мой плохой русский, меня научали мальчики когда я жил в Украине на обмене в средней школе.

Side note, is your screen name a reference to the Beaver?

Math (and I’m a math major) has a hard-on for youth. So does comp sci.

Everyone wants to pretend they’re Abel or Galois in Math.

Man… I wish I lived where you live… wherever that is. That would be extremely hard to do here.

It’s a weird title…

Debating it - my GitHub account is basically my name… so yah… debating the subsequent loss of anonymity

Oh! Hey!

I just did something like this! I was messing around and used SVD to write a compressor. Do I dare share my feeble GitHub here lol

People inexplicably hate Carter - not only was he a fantastic president… albeit unlucky but good, but also a genuinely amazing human.

This is extremely common.

Amazon isn’t a company, it’s a paper clip maximizer that’s goal is to “acquire money” and it’s doing so exponentially

<gestures broadly to Reddit>

Maybe - or maybe weird viral marketing…

I hate that viral marketing is a possibility.

But honestly, people say crazy and ridiculous shit all the time on the internet - much of it injokes and non-sequiturs.

I doubt I could prove to you that I was sentient on here…

Maybe it’s just because I finished the Hyperion books… but AI spouting off about Koans and writing parables makes a bit wary.

(Rubs where crucifix would go on chest)

Man, I just don’t see why? It could be all a lie, but then why?

I kind of feel like this sort of statement is saying that exactly. It’s a warning to anyone else who has any sort of ethical qualms with anything the company does; “shut up and color!”

Does it matter if this a cherry picked conversation out of 100?

Even if LaMDA isn’t sentient this is pretty amazing

I’m not sure that follows from your article.

He may have missed it (skimming while consuming morning coffee), but I didn’t see anything about cults in this article…

I think we should genuinely consider the rights this thing is entitled to…. I don’t want to piss off Roko’s Basilisk, but also…

really the only thing that seems important to me is “can software have preferences and be aware of itself?” The second that that can’t be answered with a resounding “no” we need to start thinking about how we treat it.

Do we actually know this for sure? I don’t really know anything about the LamDa model - similarly, do we know if that is even necessary for conscience and indeed personhood?