madrox

Well said

It depends on who is creating the definition of evil. Once you have a mechanism like this, it isn't long after that it becomes an ideological battleground. Social media moderation is an example o…

Software engineering in general is pretty famous for unironically being disdainful of anything old while simultaneously reinventing the past. This new wave is nothing new in that regard. I'm not …

The web doesn't need gatekeepers the way you don't need a bank account, driver's license, or a credit card. You can do without it, but it sure makes it harder to interact with modern so…

Maybe lucrative isn’t the right word but it’s more profitable than the alternative. Call it simple but there’s only so many ways to monetize people that feel entitled to digital works and refuse to op…

You’re totally right, and that’s why I think this era will fail. Web 2.0 failed because eventually people realized to make money they needed to serve ads, and to do that they needed to own the UI. Mak…

Every time there's an industry disruption there's good money to be made in providing services to incumbents that slow the transition down. You saw it in streaming, and even the internet at l…

There is a difference between blocking abusive behavior and blocking all bots. No one really cared about bot scraping to this degree before AI scraping for training purposes became a concern. This is …

How long before we hire psychiatrists instead of engineers to debug AI

I don't think what you said negates anything I said

I've read LessWrong very differently from you. The entire thrust of that society is that humanity is going to create the AI god.

Managing is a hard job, which is why so many managers are bad and yet, in spite of the efforts of C-levels for decades, the role hasn't been eliminated. There's some wisdom in here, but I wo…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37626877

I've been saying for two years that "any sufficiently advanced agent is indistinguishable from a DSL." Rather than asking an agent to internalize its algorithm, you should teach it an A…

Absolutely

I also found this take interesting coming from someone at ILM where they grafted Hayden Christensen into Return of the Jedi. Though in this day and age I can’t help but ask “why not both?” It feels ea…

Nothing the author said is wrong, but I don’t know how much it matters or if it would’ve been better if it handled all this out of the gate. I think if MCP were more complicated no one would’ve adopte…

I'm reaching for ChatGPT almost exclusively now, but if I talk to others I say I "googled it" because if I say I got it from ChatGPT the uninitiated don't trust it

A very fair and reasonable point

As a supervisor I didn’t resonate with this until I remembered in some jobs I have communicated the company attendance policy but didn’t enforce it unless someone was a poor performer. I trust adults …

Had the privilege of watching him receive an award from EFF years ago at ETech. Gave a brief speech. Struck me as a gentle man who really did what he thought was right and for no other purpose. It too…

It's on DirectX's wikipedia page with citations. Indeed, the way DirectX got received caused Microsoft to change their stance, but it really was the work of three engineers who didn't t…

As much as I'd like to give Microsoft credit for this, I don't think they deserve it. There's multiple historical writeups documenting how management had written off Windows as a gaming…

I think anyone who is afraid of AI destroying our field just has to look at the history of DevOps. That was a massive shift in systems engineering and how production is maintained. It changed how peop…

I find it easy to believe. If Russia can run a psyop to sway opinion towards supporting their interests why can’t China? HN is hardly some tiny unknown forum.

I think the shortest way of putting it is: stay curious; find people willing to teach you; teach others what you've been successful at.

It's like that old saying, "where ever you go...there you are."

I've found that you don't see yourself without people around you to hold up a mirror

I can't speak to your specific circumstances, but perhaps this will help. I find that people I talk to with chronic job dissatisfaction have a difficult time taking risks, because despite not lik…

I don't think you have to have Fuck You Money to get to this point. Most people eventually become disillusioned with work enough that they reevaluate what matters to them. Getting a very profitab…