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Comment · 1 month ago
Ways to solve the conflict you describe:

1. Deriving happiness from someone else's suffering should be considered a mental disease to be treated.

2. Connecting people to a virtual reality where each person lives in absolute control of their own reality, matrix style. I.e, a sadist can live in a reality where they make other virtual people suffer, without actually making real people suffer.

Comment · 1 month ago
AI should be optimized to make all humans healthy, happy and safe without exception.
Comment · 2 months ago
Right. It is not an excuse and they were notorious for outages before LLM era. Also, LLM can serve Github engineers as well, so we are all playing in the same field.
Comment · 2 months ago
How did Github become so famous for outages? It is almost like a routine. I haven't used other code repo hosting / CI/CD pipelines platform for last decade, so maybe it's just the nature of this business, I don't know.
Comment · 3 months ago
This kind of posts make me think. We all love technology because it's so cool, but how cool is nature already? Making our lives awesome is as much about protecting and discovering the sources for our inspiration, as building the stuff we are inspired to build.
Comment · 7 months ago
Seems like people forget that work is not the goal, but economical freedom is. And its all about politics. Humanity reached a production capacity that human work is barely needed to sustain everyone. But there is greed and wars. Also, humans are social creatures, we still need one another for relationships. Hell, removing work will let us enjoy our relationships even more. Also, as long as there are wars, rest assured there are plenty of jobs. War is, sadly, a huge industry
Comment · 8 months ago
I guess I'll have an agent for that one day. News agent.
Comment · 8 months ago
I am interested in a post that will teach me how to consume only the news that really relevant for me
Comment · 9 months ago
I am determined to find real life local connections. No doom scrolling, no “social” media no hacker news
Comment · 9 months ago
In my opinion - just do it. What you want. Message someone you haven’t talked with for years. Ask someone out. Smile :-). Say hello. Strike a conversation with a stranger.

You deserve it, because you are a human

Comment · 10 months ago
The future of problem solving is problem solvers
Comment · 10 months ago
So many new facts to learn and I like how popular a post about the natural world is here
Comment · 11 months ago
The smaller the job market relative to candidates, the more the differentiators are both important and also meaningless to the actual job
Comment · 1 year ago
I think the unhappiness we experience from AI is not because of AI, but a symptom of a society that lacks more humanism. I currently like to define AI's level of intelligence as its ability to reduce human suffering. By this definition, if AI failed to keep you and society happy for whatever reason, then it is stupid. If you or people around you feeling worthless, anxious, depressed, starving, because of AI, it is stupid! And society needs you to fix it!

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