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eezurron Sam Altman to Elon Musk on Recruiting from Tesla

Full quote: "also, i checked with our team on recruiting from tesla. we really are doing very little relative to the size of the company, but i will make sure we don't hurt tesla, i obviously think it's a super important company"

eezurron Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think

Its true in a game-theoretic sense, but I'm actually talking about being honest (and rational) with yourself and what you're able to contribute. There's many other factors that have been mentioned by other people here.

eezurron The coming knowledge-work supply-chain crisis

And once the Orient and Decide part is augmented, then we'll be limited by social networks (IRL ones). Every solo founder/small biz will have to compete more and more for marketing eyeballs, and the ones who have access to bigger engines (companies), they'll get the juice they need, and we come back to humans being the bottlenecks again.

That is, until we mutually decide on removing our agency from the loop entirely . And then what?

eezurron Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think

Hmm, if it were me, I would have asked how his 80% share would have made my 20% a good investment [than all the other options].

It's all about what each of you are bring to the table. It's possible he priced the tech side perfectly AND being the best option available to make you better off.

eezurron Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts

>For those who are unfamiliar with how career progress works in Academia, it is so competitive that even a year or two "break" in your career likely means you are forever unable to get a job.

Honest question. If the job market is that competitive, why are we guiding people down this path that requires investing their entire young adult life? To me, it seems you've inadvertently made a case for cutting funding.

eezurron Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

To the downvoters (and ToucanLoucan), I never claimed what I believed in, and you don't have enough information to know anything about it. I'll continue to neither confirm nor deny my stance, for the point Im making is IMO an important one. Can you walk away from this conversation with your eye opened to how your belief is driving you to strike? [0]

Here's a near-equivalent real world example: Alzheimer's research has been led in the wrong direction for decades, due to people chasing after power. [1]

[0] >And maybe that's wrong of me to assume, but also if you consistently find yourself on the same side of a debate as the worst people imaginable, maybe that's something you should sit with and figure out how you feel about it, and if it points to you possibly being skeptical about the wrong things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Masliah

eezurron Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

Since climate change is a very popular topic, so popular that a person's belief or non belief in it will cause people on the other side to strike them down without hesitation... There's power, community, and social acceptance to drive people.

The downvotes to the above comment's parent comment prove my point.

eezurron Buddhist Retreat: Why I gave up on finding my religion (2003)

The reincarnation bit interests me. I've had a notion that reincarnation is the process of birthing. A child is going to inherent their parents DNA, genes, environment, and situation. Whatever pain the parents are burdened with will be passed on to their child, and so on and on and on. We are [adaptable] copies of our parents.

Im self aware enough to observe the traits I picked up from my parents. I've thought about all the suffering I've been through. If I dont have children, I can be the end of the thread. I can stop the cycle of suffering.

/armchair

eezurron Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

Go on steam and look at the recent reviews for older but still popular fps games. Gamers complain about cheaters constantly and will negatively review games cause of it

eezurron The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning

And they never factor in time and place. Cultures vary annd change. Every 10-20 years the US is a different country.

eezurron Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation

I discovered you can mix Nestle instant coffee with cold (charcoal filtered) water and it dissolves fine. Somehow the added sugar easily dissolves too. I also add heavy cream

It actually tastes pretty good. Most of the acrid taste from (hot) instant isnt there

eezurron A cab ride I'll never forget (1999)

I did this once while returning from a road trip from Boston to the northern tip of New Hampshire and back. Younger and dumber?

I picked up some 50+ year old man with very long brown hair (down to his butt). He was definitely an outsider. Told me stories, how the FBI interrogated him once for having a book (I forget which one). How he used to work as a guard at the local jail, then as a cook at a castle-like hotel (both in the area). How his stress free life and eating local herbs/forest plants has prevented his hair from graying. Talked about his tiny, simple house with two rooms. He told me about American ginseng (illegal to harvest btw), and we pulled off the side of the road to find some. The plant made part of my lips swell a bit. Had that "lots of enzymes" flavor (like how peaches/strawberries/etc can tickle the inside of your mouth, but much stronger).

He said he had an wife in Kentucky that he hadn't finished divorcing, and then he asked me to drive him all the way back to Boston. He didn't even request to stop by his house. I let him out in downtown and he walked off into the night, presumably towards the airport.

Edit: oh yeah, i forgot that craziest part. He said people have been lnyched during his time living there. (Sorry if this is too dark, but all things considered, its hard to believe everything he said)

eezurron Game prototype using AI assisted graphics

Fortunately/unfortunately (depending on your POV), there's a constant variable that limits all output, and that is peoples time. Instead what we'll see is the collapse of the pillars of culture (much like the collapse of the music industry, when the supply 10xed and delivery time fell to 0). Everyone will be king of a small anthill.

For a more pertinent current example, all you need to do is compare the mobile games industry to the computer games industry. The cost to make a mobile game is very low, and tons of games are released every day. The cost to make a successful mobile game is still very high, because all the money that is saved on development costs are spent in marketing instead.

Also, the video market collapsed in the 80s precisely because of low quality/oversupply games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

So perhaps, it is the marketers that have a bright future from all of this.

eezurron Moonwalkers: Shoes that make you walk faster (pre-order)

Do you have a source for this play? I'd be curious to read whatever book/person that came from.

eezurron How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014)

Surprised I havent come across any sites that are computer-only. Seems like it would be a good natural filter.

eezurron Juan Tamariz, the godfather of close-up card magic

Pretty good, but this one by Javi Benitez can't even be slowed down on YouTube to figure out what he's doing. Its mind blowing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLB5oOq76c8

eezurron Deepmind’s AlphaCode conquers coding, performing as well as humans

It will be soon.

Take a look at the obesity and opioid usage rates in the USA. Most people are not self motivated like the people you'll find in this bubble.

Obesity: 42%

Opioids: 3% [1]

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/opioid-crisis...

eezurron Lawsuit against Meta invokes modern portfolio theory to protect shareholders

Interesting and disturbing. They are making an argument that Facebook/Meta is harmful to the global economy because it cant do [impossible task] of moderating its 3.5 billion users to stifle [unwanted behavior]. And because of that, their decisions are negatively impacting the modern investors distributed portfolios.

Because Mark Z. is not diversified (wealth is in Meta) and has total control over the company, his decisions create a conflict of interest to the modern investor.

Yet the article doesnt mention how his decisions directly impacted the economy. Maybe the lawsuit does, but Im not going to read that...

>the fiduciary implication of the fact that modern investors are generally diversified, so that their interests extend beyond (and may be in opposition to) the maximization of the value of future cash flows to be received from owning a company’s shares.

So it's fighting monopolistic behavior?

eezurron The Sad State of Debug Performance in C++

How do you see the key/value pairs with robinhood in debug mode? I could never find them.

eezurron GET3D: A Generative Model of High Quality 3D Textured Shapes Learned from Images

While technically true, the unspoken premise of my argument is that it can and will output distinctive samples derived from the source. E.g. you cant change the pitch, tempo, and add other effects and call the output your own, legally.

Its a landmine

eezurron GET3D: A Generative Model of High Quality 3D Textured Shapes Learned from Images

Because they work with/teach electronic music/sampling in addition to recording classical acoustic music.

eezurron GET3D: A Generative Model of High Quality 3D Textured Shapes Learned from Images

Music will continue to be made by humans because of strong copyright law. Its illegal to sample (and distribute) > 0 seconds of recorded music. If that makes it into any ai generated music, its game over if you distribute it.

Source on sampling: the head audio engineer at Juilliard School of Music.

eezurron Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

I'd just like to echo (verbally "vote") my concern. Every great step forward comes with the potential for an order of magnitude steps backward, i.e. destruction. The amount of man hours to e.g. blow up a building is far fewer than the amount needed to build it.

Will the output of your product add a suicide timer to a cell?

Will the output of your product prevent the cells from procreating/multiplying?

Will the output of your product prevent pathogen creation?

Will the output of your product require a specific, unnatural energy source that can only be man made?

Professionals take great care in thinking about those problems, and sometimes still fail. (IIRC, a synthesized breed of mosquitos that were released in Brazil failed to die off and are now a part of the biosystem).

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-breed-...

eezurron Online art communities begin banning AI-generated images

I was looking for this reply. Imagine if you needed to hire an artist but 9/10 listings are from alibaba express, full of fake reviews (other nonartist techies commenting on ai art)

Or maybe because this is where artists place their portfolios and theres no reason to make ot that much harder to find.

eezurron Stable Diffusion animation

Neat. Didnt Microsoft release a tool that morphed between two photos a decade ago? I dont recall the name unfortunately, but the effect was similar, less quality.

eezurron Omega-3 fatty acids and exercise: a review of their combined effects (2011) [pdf]

https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/marinated-anchovies...

I've seen them in various organic grocery stores.

eezurron Omega-3 fatty acids and exercise: a review of their combined effects (2011) [pdf]

If you can find fresh oiled packed (refrigerated, typically not salted) white anchovies, a small handful of them feels similar to taking focus enhancing drugs. They are also delicious.

By contrast, tin packed/anythong not fresh has no effect for me.

eezurron Smoking, alcohol and high BMI are leading risk factors for global cancer deaths

75% of Americans are overweight, and 40% are obese.

There is no secret. The trivial solution is to buy fresh/unprocessed ingredients and cook them yourself. Unfortunately in the land of convenience, cooking has become a chore instead of the enjoyable and rewarding activity that it can be.

eezurron TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants

When you see a polished video clip on the net, it's the cumulated result of an hour or more work for less than a minute of your time. Simply put, it doesn't scale.

eezurron Bill to grant crypto firms access to Federal Reserve alarms experts

Another way to look at lobbying is that it helps grow/sustain our economy and the successful companies at the government level. i.e. "if you made it this far (and have the money to show), you've proven to us [the government] that we can depend on you to bolster our economy". It's a self perpetuating economic positive feedback loop.

-- My 2 cents

(ps I'm not a fan of crypto)