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Comment · 1 day ago
Productivity can be measured in many ways. Neoclassical economists will tell you there’s only one.

In this case, is the change of this software from one language to another/framework to another even valuable?

Example: if I manufacture $1,000 worth of some illegal drug that will potentially turn a normal functioning adult into an addicted criminal, how shall we measure my productivity?

Comment · 11 days ago
Question: is the 7.4 patch sufficient (the one after 7.4.33 that we have to build from source?)
Comment · 26 days ago
The difference is that the cost to give your kids what you had as a kid and the opportunities you later had access to has gone up. People don't want to raise kids if they can't give them a life at least as good as they had.

Yes, there's lots of things about today that are better than 30 years ago. TVs are bigger, cars are safer, etc. But the ability to give you kids the childhood and initial opportunities you had seems far less likely to many people.

Comment · 27 days ago
Isn’t it the Junie AI tool? I hope not, but that seems like the most likely possibility.
Comment · 27 days ago
Great idea! It’d be something like Common Business Oriented Language, or COBOL for short.
Comment · 29 days ago
The human brain is neither computer nor automobile.
Comment · 29 days ago
Extrapolating from a single anecdote seems like poor judgment.
Comment · 29 days ago
Other humans brains work differently than yours. What didn’t work for you did work for them.
Comment · 29 days ago
This article is important to me and I need some help understanding it correctly. Am I correct in my understanding that it is basically saying that getting a proper adhd/autism diagnosis is helpful for people? Or that people with complex trauma should or shouldn’t be diagnosed with adhd or autism? I’m sorry, this is a bit confusing to me.
Comment · 1 month ago
Is there a safer alternative? It’s not like I can trust OpenAI since they’ve proven that they’ll steal research from mathematicians. X is run by a sociopath. Anthropic is going to IPO so who can say how long they’ll be trustworthy…
Comment · 1 month ago
Only one has weaponized it against their critics. They are not the same.
Comment · 1 month ago
Smaller entrants to the field cannot as easily comply with the law. It’s about raising barriers to entry. Trust in Meta might be low here, but to the general public, it’s higher than some small startup they’ve never heard of, so they won’t upload their ids there.
Comment · 3 months ago
Survivor bias

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