canniballectern

If a jellyfish was able to have a conversation with you where it credibly described what it's like to be conscious, would you reject it because it doesn't have a brain and therefore cannot have a mind in the same sense as you?

If the replicas were truly exact, I guess not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Of course, today's LLMs only appear to have theory of mind at first glance and fall apart under closer scrutiny. But if they can continue to become more and more accurate replicas of the real thing, I don't think it matters at all.

There's no way to know for sure that anyone other than yourself experiences consciousness. All you can do is judge for yourself that what they're describing matches closely enough with your own experiences that they're probably experiencing the same thing you are.

What makes you think UX people aren't?

> what is it about some people who seem to be constantly restless while others seem content to staying pretty much exactly where they were born

IMO the main factors would be your economic situation and your relationship with your family. People with little money and tight family ties probably wouldn't be keen to move very far, whereas someone with a bad or indifferent relationship to family and the means to head elsewhere would probably do so.

I guess the missing piece from this would be trends in immigration rates.

Otherwise countries like Canada would appear to be shrinking, when in fact they're growing overall.

Did you read the article? It's just a review of a book - the article itself doesn't have much to say either way about modern clubs, besides acknowledging the recent Pincher news.

> there is almost no one who would not understand, “It’s fourth and ten—we have to punt.”

One problem with heavily using sports, gaming, and war analogies to talk about strategy is that the discussion starts to make no sense at all to people who aren't interested in those things but who do care about strategy.

But I guess if you're the Modern War Institute at West Point, you know your audience pretty well, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's not surprising that pixel art is easier to make in a raster editor than in a vector editor.

The 3rd image was probably made in Figma or Sketch though. It would probably take more time to build that in Photoshop than Figma, and the result would be harder to make changes to.

This is really cool, I'm excited to see more ML applied to design like this.

One project I wish someone would build is an ML-powered algorithm for perceptually even saturation, drawing on crowdsourced data to help pick colors that most people would perceive as being equally colorful

I don't really have relevant skills but this sounds really cool. It's the kind of thing I'd want to do if I had a rowing machine.

I don't get it - if "the mafia" wants "7% on your cap table", why would they reject your YC application and backchannel to get VCs to back off?

I wonder if what they meant was "it's impossible to have a turnkey solution for UX"?

There are all sorts of turnkey solutions for frontend and backend infrastructure, but none guarantee good user experiences - only a team that knows their users' needs and is empowered to meet them can do that.

This is the one they sell publicly to anyone at a relatively affordable price.

If they make ones that run cooler and look the same as a normal optic, they might not be so forthcoming about it.