brunohaid
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Comment · 28 days ago
Kinda agreeing with most other highly critical comments. It's a weird insular subculture indeed, Trashfuture this week had a great summarization:
"Bizarre hypotheticals, the power fantasies, the sex life that's one step shy of the angry pirate. [It's like] a bunch of 12 year old school shooters got Tom Hanks Big'd into adults, and they've infiltrated governing the thing that's supposed to solve all the problems in the world and replace the economy.
...and then never doing anything or learning anything, its posting posting posting, while they don't understand computers, or the security problems they fantasize about. And its foisted upon and pitched to us that the computer is only understandable as a magical god, because for Eliezer Yudkowsky it actually is."
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcPR6rde1GQ or - https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/posts/last-days-of-17089...
Comment · 1 month ago
One thing that works quite well for me for a couple of model generations now is to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English, something along the lines of
**Use controlled technical English.** Prefer an ASD-STE100 style: use short sentences, direct terms, active voice, and one idea per sentence; avoid slang, hype, vague pronouns, and unnecessary jargon.
Comment · 2 months ago
Much appreciated!
Still thinking about how to fold in eFloras and the expanded CoL XR data, and add the immediate habitat/surroundings beyond the climate/geo/pics we already have in a compelling way. If you have any examples of someone who does that really well (sites, apps, books etc) that she likes that'd be great.
Taking the scenic route with devices, really want to nail comparing sensor readings with species' natural habitats and make that intuitive. What are your favorites so far in terms of vendors/items?
Comment · 2 months ago
Launching a thing soon to make it more accessible, without sacrificing scientific depth, eg:
https://www.meso.cloud/plants/tracheophyta/magnoliopsida/gen...
Aggregates 780k plants and fungi from many canonical sources (IPNI, Wikidata, GBIF, iNaturalist etc) and tries to present the data in an intuitive and engaging way, lets you search by common names in 300+ languages etc.
Feedback from especially botany nerds very welcome!
Comment · 5 months ago
Excellent kachō-e prompt - working on something similar and found it hard to get the right balance between sharp outlines and watercolors, and especially plant morphology is dicey (eg plants like Cacao that fruit from the trunk instead of branch tips).
Did anyone come across projects that also nail that aspect well?
Comment · 7 months ago
Very skeptical Adam Curtis hat on while reading this, but it is quite well written. Thanks & kudos!
Comment · 7 months ago
Scott Purdue has a couple of good videos on the incident https://youtube.com/@flywirescottperdue
A pilot not trained well on visually IDing some of the most common military planes would be quite a training lapse.
Comment · 7 months ago
Biodiversity & climate platform that takes care of your plants.
Online part mostly done at https://www.meso.cloud/plants/, currently building glass grow box and light prototypes that will be driven by it.
Comment · 7 months ago
OK, the whats the endgame for flooding the zone with agent outputs question aside:
The visualization of what the agents are up to in the "office" on the dashboard is incredibly cute.
Comment · 11 months ago
Very good question - posted it for awareness / sparking hopefully nuanced “are we the baddies here?” reflection in the community, and curious folks to preorder.
Comment · 1 year ago
If anyone ever writes a post of why that error keeps happening with browsers that should support it, I'd be incredibly grateful. Keep seeing it in our (unrelated to OP company) Sentry logs and zero chance to reproduce them.
Comment · 1 year ago
You still have a lot of credibility to not be put into the number-go-up bracket and the social capital to overcome the political and power structures you had to face for two decades and know more about than most people by having built your company.
But as long as I don't see somewhat more transparent conversations with the people in your orbit like patio11, Matt Levine, Kyla etc, where you address how you'll actually tackle the non-technical challenges ahead, this GTM communication and site looks like every other 2019 JPM, HSBC etc "something blockchain" announcement and hard to get behind as something that might as well be really different this time, and not be killed/sidelined by vested interests. Including your own.
Formerly:
https://www.hiroapp.com https://www.work.io https://www.minervafabric.com