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You’ve misrepresented the core of your argument. Wikipedia on dark forest hypothesis:

“The "dark forest" hypothesis presumes that any space-faring civilization would view any other intelligent life as an inevitable threat…”

not because they wouldn't love to meet us and form positive-sum interactions

Not sure where you got this adaptation from.

You have no idea what you even did wrong. What you need to do is call up your friends and have them mock interview you, there's even free platforms and exchanges where you can do that. Get some actual feedback, don't act on wild conjectures.

Also keep in mind it could be as simple as that they had a better candidate.

I’ve never seen so much misinformation trotted out by the laity as I have with LLMs. It’s like I’m in a 19th century forum with people earnestly arguing that cameras can steal your soul. These people haven’t a clue of the mechanism.

Does this headline need to state it is an opinion? I didn't see this as a "fact" anywhere in TFA.

Time to buckle up for more of this [0] awesomeness, now coming to a Play store near you. Problems created by tech illiterate elders, for tech illiterate elders.

[0] https://securelist.com/open-source-package-for-cursor-ai-tur...

This is called nemawashi in Japanese. Plenty of literature exists on it (if you look for that term).

Really?

[0] https://i.imgur.com/ly5yk9h.png

Exactly. Also, people keep forgetting that Youtube doesn't just make money from ads. They also continue to introduce new revenue generating features such as the recent tips model.

I don’t know. I searched for how many chapters a popular manga has on Google and it gave me the wrong answer (by an order of magnitude). I only found out later and it did really piss me off because I made a trek to buy something that never existed. I should’ve known better.

I don’t think this is substantively different from cooking temperature, so I’m not trusting that either.

First, this is just a pervasive myth. Not that Google doesn’t operate money losing services: Blogger is a good example of that.

Second, “if Google can’t make it work no one can” is also a myth. YouTube, even the idea of which came after Google video was already launched, is a good example of that.

And, of course, Google+…

It’s certainly bad enough that you shouldn’t be able to enter a room with an operational MRI machine just like that, as a normal guest with no training and no escort. One cheap RFID reader could have saved a life here.

"AI" already contributes "substantially" to "scientific discovery". It's a very safe statement to make, whereas "full self-driving" has some concrete implications.

I like to use em-dashes as well (option-shift-hyphen on my macbook). I've seen people try to prompt LLMs to not have em-dashes, I've been in forums where as soon as you type in an em-dash it will block the submit button and tell you not to use AI.

Here's my take: these forums will drive good writers away or at least discourage them, leaving discourses the worse for it. What they really end up saying — "we don't care whether you use an LLM, just remove the damn em-dash" — indicates it's not a forum hosting riveting discussions in the first place.

Really!?

[0] https://i.imgur.com/ly5yk9h.png

In this very thread people are discussing “superintelligence” being around the corner. So yes, it is overhyped. Like if I took the invention of a steam engine and said teleportation is coming tomorrow.

Of course the steam engine was revolutionary. That doesn’t excuse or legitimize the nonsense.

You’d have to change comp across the board. No one is going to want some draconian lock-in package when the other guy across the street makes a king’s ransom in a quarter.

“Ratchet, ratchet, and bingo,” as they say.

Easy: stay away from crypto.

I really like that the testimonials are linked directly to the Github accounts of the contributors. I've seen a lot of websites where it's questionable at best whether the people reviewing the product even exist.

It's also interesting that the pricing is in terms of "interactions" rather than tokens. I don't believe I've seen that before.

This is highly reminiscent to me of this case. [0] The co-pilot accidentally hit the wrong switch and then quietly corrected his mistake later, without resetting the previous switch (which led to feathering).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti_Airlines_Flight_691

That must be what they call dry humor, also known as deadpan.

The show "boys over flowers" is translated from 花より男子, ostensibly a correct translation.

But 男子 (boys) is a homophone of 団子 (a sweet dumpling) and the entire phrase 花より団子 is an aphorism for preferring practicality over aesthetics.

Did you understand that? Of course. Yet, a joke that has to be explained loses something of itself.

Weirdly, I am fluent in Japanese, Urdu, and English. I believe that while translations have their value, they always fail to do justice – even when translated by the author! A poem is, like a joke, largely about what it affects in the audience, and such an evanescent quality is nigh impossible to preserve completely in translation, or even in a retelling.

This is why I was rather upset when Youtube began silently auto-translating audio for me with no indication of it not being the original audio (it's especially bad if you look at shorts and are multilingual...you could easily mistake what was a catchy Japanese song for English AI slop).

This reminds me of Mary Anderson [0], who invented the windshield wiper so early that her patent expired by the time Cadillac made them standard equipment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anderson_(inventor)

I think your point still stands

Thanks.

its not nearly as fabulous an investment as you are suggesting

In case it wasn't clear, I'm not trying to give investment advice (my comment is very focused on what happened, not what will happen). I am however, implying that a lot of people made bad financial decisions by misapprehending their situation and consuming the wrong "content". I believe many people can be spared significant regret if they double-check, disbelieve, or replace much of what they’re told by the internet.

If you pick a good location, buying a home is a fantastic purchase. It ties up that investment money in an asset that you can actually USE.

Also: It's a leveraged investment for most people (mortgage). If you put in 20% and your house tripled in value over the last ten years (which is what happened in SF & Seattle afaict), you make an annualized return of 27% (for a whopping 1070% total, i.e. more than 10x), after accounting for your payments (with realtor fees the number is slightly less but not meaningfully). Meanwhile as a renter your rent would likely have at least doubled over the same period, doubling the size of the nonrecoupable leak in your financial hull.

That's 1070% as opposed to 224%, i.e. 10x vs. 2x in the S&P. This is the reality of what has happened over the past 10 years, by the way, I am not using hypotheticals. Do note that home values tripling in price over the last decade is not common, even among these expensive cities, you have to be looking at specific types of housing in "luxury" neighborhoods.

TL;DR: Location matters. A LOT.

It isn't doing anything "conveniently", I was not shown the disclaimer (nor anything else, I assume it mostly failed to load).

In any case, if you really believe a disclaimer makes it okay for Google to display blatant misinformation in a first-party capacity, we have little to discuss.

which are both completely irrational

Really!?

[0] https://i.imgur.com/ly5yk9h.png

You should temper that observation with the realization that this particular thread is under a microscope. The HN mods moderate less when YC companies are involved, but somewhat ironically that actually requires more of their attention, since they need to counteract some automations. So they are more likely to spot comments here.

I wasn’t surprised by the pushback. This isn’t like responding to a pseudonymous HN comment opting into a discussion, they are talking about specific people and posting pointedly mean-spirited remarks towards a party that has not opted to discuss their provenance.

The response could’ve been better worded but you can see how no one would want to moderate a community that makes it a habit to disparage specific people outside of a good faith discussion.

I'm not sure if there's a name for that specifically, but it seems strongly related to the streetlight effect. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect