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For one, in this analogy, we (the "employers") have no power but the "employee" (the government) has the power of the law and the power of the guns.

In a private company the employer has the power over the employees.

That's like including your commute as a part of your job. That's not what people are talking about when they say coding is solved.

Man,did that page load fast. It made me realize how slow the rest the (my) web is.

That's not even about tech news. I couldn't tell you if Coca cola is part of a bigger group.

Show me any brand in a supermarket and I couldn't tell you who owns them.

When put in these terms it shows it's perfectly normal not to know who's behind chatgpt.

I didn't know who Shingy was. He looks like Jensen Huang's subconscious.

Humans are not prompted.

Exactly. Whether hn is a social platform is a hot topic for some, but in terms of addictiveness it's on the same level as reddit. And there's no algorithm and sub categories.

But every day there's basically the same type of threads, with the same predictable discussions and you know just by the title and the amount of comments on a thread that you'll get you dose of dopamine whether you're pro or anti any topic that is regularly discussed.

I made the same observation recently.

I think people under 25 probably don't even know how absolutely uncool it was to tell people you stayed at home in front of a computer on weekends or after school.

Absolute pariah behavior on the scale of coolness. But now ? Totally normal.

It's all about balance. Learning about various stuff from well written articles and Wikipedia for one hour is good. Doing the same thing for the whole weekend isn't.

Even reading books all the time to the detriment of other activities isn't good.

What's good is doing a bit of everything. Reading a book an hour before sleep, doing a hour of exercise two to three times a week. Reading a few blog articles, wikipedia, long and well researched magazine articles. Making time for in person social interactions. Playing games, video games, board games, card games from time to time. Engaging in a few online discussions every week. Etc

It's all about balance or at least that's the way I see it.

Better five guilty people free than one innocent in prison.

I'd like a national poll on this principle. My guess is a vast majority would disagree with it.

I wonder if there are Americans on hn who already self censor their criticism of the Trump regime because they're scared of reprisals.

I have another question I've always wanted to ask. How do you spell words if you can't picture them in your mind?

Have you memorized that "pyramid" is spelled p-y-r-a-m-i-d and that for every word? How does it work for Chinese characters?

To answer my own question from a non aphantasia perspective the best I can describe it is that I conjure the picture of the word in my mind then I read each letter aloud.

> The Book of Judith (probably written between 150 and 100 B.C.) contains an early description of someone dying of heatstroke.

I can't take the article seriously after that.

>As a citizen of the United States, however, our law does indeed entitle me to things that foreign guests have zero expectation or entitlement to.

Based on what? It's a set of arbitrary rules applied within an arbitrarily defined geographical area. Some people may have decided at some point in history to treat you differently and with more respect than other fellow humans. Some other people may want to treat everyone fairly.

All of this is a moral construction. What's for certain though is that you did nothing to deserve to be born where you're born. It follows that you didn't do anything to deserve more rights.

On the one hand I want to agree with you, but on the other hand hn is (rightfully so in my opinion) so anti billionaires, so anti VC, somewhat in the middle on AI, even anti pg recently, that if there are higher forces at work on hn I can only say they're doing a bad job at steering the populace's opinion.

Even reddit is all these things but it's harder to tell because everything is siloed to the point we don't share the same reddit experience, which is not the case of hn as far as I'm aware.

I still can't wrap my head around it.

So we're all dead, robots take care of the infrastructure and healthcare, and there's maybe 50-100 billionaires left on the planet. Then what? They drive their sports car, do bungee jumping, sip cocktails and watch ai made movies. They don't have children? The human race dies with them? Or they have children, somehow avoid the trap of inbreeding and their children in turn have children and in no time there's again a billion of "us".

We're talking about a level of control over the remaining humans, them and their friends, that require absolute totalitarianism. Of course billionaire A won't accept to live their life according to billionaire B so it'll be a mess in no time.

This thing makes no sense to me when they can already enjoy everything the world has to offer and on top of that they're for all practical purposes above the law.

US TV shows in the years after 9/11 are hard to watch now because they're plagued with pro torture scenes. I don't know when exactly but it seemed to have disappeared.

Only because you think authoritarian means poor.

I like the term broetry.

https://fenwick.media/rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-be...

To put it into perspective if we consider that US salaries are 3 to 5 times those of other "rich" countries then it's already a 60 to 100 dollar subscription for the next richest part of the world.

One intelligent humanoid robot per house. What could go wrong really. Possibly the worst idea.

It's such a shame that our society doesn't value more, in economic terms, this type of skills.

I see it go in either two directions, assuming it plateaus at a marginal increase in productivity. Either this newly found productivity helps teams tackle backlog tasks that they never had the time to complete, or it's used to churn out more low quality work.

There's no irony because they'll never put two and two together and republican politicians will use the frustration to get reelected.

Tangential but this article got me thinking.

Are we going to see less publicly shared science? With private actors or governments restricting access to AI resources to a few scientists and keeping new knowledge to themselves.

Advancing science in the open was the best strategy when there was real advantage to share the load with every brain on the planet willing to give a try at science, but if a computer can match or surpass the collective output of the entire human scientific community the equation will change.

It's a sad outlook.

There's about 193 countries in the world, your number would mean there's less than two countries that are better in every way that matters.

I can name ten countries off the top of my head that are better in every way that matters to me.

The USA ranks near the bottom of developed countries in every metric but the metrics related to money.

People have forgotten because it feels like eons ago but at the beginning of Trump's first term the Turkish president on a diplomatic visit to the white house sent his goons to beat peaceful American protestors while the American police did nothing to protect Americans.

Can it be a case of she's not earning all of the $200k in cash?

Not convinced it means anything in one way or another.

I remember the same headlines right after Facebook's IPO. The discourse was very much that it was obvious that a website to connect with your friends wouldn't make money.

How many ?