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Comment · 2 years ago
LLMs would have to first be natural conversational experience.
Comment · 2 years ago
The alternative is the Global North (i.e., Western hegemony) admits that China is doing well or at least competitively.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's misleading and poor advice to children. You see this issue a lot in certain immigrant communities where the equivalent "talk" might be: "How to become a Doctor [and be rich and successful]". Becoming a doctor is orders of magnitudes more in an individual's control but even _then_ we observe the plethora of issues that occur.
Comment · 2 years ago
There being one significant factor does not mean there are no other significant factors. The same goes for solutions.
Comment · 2 years ago
> I like Jordan Peterson's evolutionary take on these philosophical questions

Why when actual evolutionary biologists disagree with Peterson on most of his "takes"?

Comment · 3 years ago
> If I need to traverse a tree or list or something, I'm letting AI write that code. Could I write it myself faster? No, and it's going to have an off-by-one error some non-zero portion of the time if I write it.

Many languages/companies have existing well understood solutions that _won't_ have errors. Maybe that is the disconnect? I can't remember the last non-interview time I had to write a non-trivial traversal.

Comment · 3 years ago
Supply and demand does _not_ work everywhere else. That is a highschool-level interpretation of the astrology we call economics. Complex systems in reality are not defined by two simple lines on a graph.

If you use Google there is plenty of research disproving you from Canadian sources that pander to both Liberal and Conservative readership.

Comment · 3 years ago
Enforcing peace (where peace is not defined solely by white landowners) has _never_ been the role of the police officer in America.
Comment · 3 years ago
https://www.amazon.com/No-More-Police-Case-Abolition/dp/1620...

If you're actually interested and not just asking someone to elaborate on a complex problem over a HackerNews comment. An equally uncharitable opponent could ask you to prove that heavy policing (or at least the NYPD) has played a significant role in reducing crime.

Comment · 3 years ago
No. That would be abolishing the police.

Perhaps defunding eventually reveals that we should abolish the police. Perhaps not.

Comment · 3 years ago
Immigration is not a significant (or at least not top three in significance) factor in the housing crisis. If you believe it is then please cite the data.
Comment · 3 years ago
Laziness is poor framing. Can the masses be "lazy" or is it pointless moralizing in the face of unfettered propaganda and behaviour manipulation?
Comment · 3 years ago
Money does buy time? With money you don't have to sell your labour at exploitative rates.
Comment · 3 years ago
A charitable reading of the text would be that the argument isn't to exclusively do these things. Just that one should make more time for them. If that call does not apply to you it does not apply to you. It's not a particularly deep or novel thought any way.
Comment · 3 years ago
The self driving cars of our era, even.

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