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IQ testing?

Inbreeding as a cultural norm?

Not smarter than the Japanese.


Because I want the result, not the journey.

I code to build things.


Anyone can get a "result". It's the quality of the result that matters. The intellectual journey of choosing the right algorithm, optimizing the code, etc. Software development should be a journey, not a goal. Once I learned that and started applying it as a manager, I found that team productivity and quality both rose. The result came from the process. Systems trump goals in nearly every endeavor in life.

I don't work on a team. I don't have a manager.

I need things. That's why I build software.


The journey is made up of little results. If you like having results, that implies liking the journey as well..

LLMs takes the "little results" away, and ruins the whole fun. And sometimes the final result takes you somewhere you didn't want to go.


If the odds are set correctly, you should have the same EV on either side of a bet.

That's why it's hard to beat Vegas at sports betting--they set the correct odds way too often.

When regular folks make up their own odds, they're not very good at it, but in theory the market just buys up any +EV position, even if it's a longshot.


They've got some robots that do it already, targeting weeds with lasers.

Yeah but they’re never going to be as versatile as a humanoid that can identify one, move the crop gently aside and rip it out of the ground. I’m sure the lasers fail pretty quickly after the plants are a few inches tall due to lack of visibility.

Think this through.

Assisted suicide? Handjobs?

Is Walmart bound by anything an employee says? Should it be?


The law already covers this kind of thing using the reasonable person standard.

Walmart is bound by anything an employee says that a reasonable person would believe that employee has the authority to offer.

So if an employee tells you that you can have half off the service if it isn’t done today, probably bound by it. If they tell you the owner will give you a handjob probably not.


Indian scammers don't

I don't ever have the AI misunderstand what I mean.

I do get bullshit answers sometimes, but it always understands my intent.


Also, I'm curious: why do x posts get displayed as Twitter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43339390

Probably at some point we'll relent.


You don't, but if they recommend second best options with any frequency, you'll find out eventually.

At some point he should run out of problems.

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