Thanks, I've been looking for a way to swipe right on your wife.
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Wolfenstein98k commented on Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto thedeletedscenes.substack... · Posted by u/wyclif
> You're not even allowed to buy a car without a permit that proves you have a parking space for it.
I would cross out "even" in that sentence, and then step back and admire it. This is one of the best things about Japan. For some bizarre reason there is an implicit assumption (at least in many places in Europe, especially Central Europe) that 12m2 of public shared city space should be reserved for your metal box on wheels and that it's somehow a right.
Do houses and land cost more, or less, there than the US?
I don't have to have a better explanation to smell the hubris in OP's. I claim ignorance while OP speaks with confidence of an invention that took the world by surprise 3 years ago. Do you see the problem in this and the possibility that you might be wrong?
Of course we might both be wrong. We probably are. In the long run, all of us are.
It's not very helpful to point that out, especially if you can't do it with specifics so that people can correct themselves and move closer to the truth.
Your contribution is destructive, not constructive.
Your explanation is as useful as describing the behaviour of an algorithm by describing what the individual electrons are doing. While technically correct, doesn't provide much insight or predictive power on what will happen.
Just because you can give a reductionist explanation to a phenomenon, it doesn't mean that it's the best explanation.
Then give a better one.
Your objection boils down to "sure you're right, but there's more to it, man"
So, what more is there to it?
Unless there is a physical agent that receives its instructions from an LLM, the prediction that the OP described is correct.
>> Jewish Heritage, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage have also been removed, according to a Google product expert.
Sorry, I just don't understand what's the outrage. It's not like only Pride and BHM are targeted.
Care to explain ?
This is a way to sledge Trump, even though it's unrelated to him.
Wolfenstein98k commented on We are destroying software antirez.com/news/145... · Posted by u/antirez
I don’t mind this philosophy, but in aggregate I think very slow applications that are cumbersome and widely deployed have cost humanity many human lifetimes because a handful of developers were not able (or not given the opportunity) to optimise them even a little.
I am aware that capitalism essentially dictates externalising cost as much as possible, but with software- much for the same reason capitalism loves it (a copy is cheap and can be sold at full price despite being constructed just once) means that these externalities can scale exponentially.
Teams in particular is an outlier as in most cases it is essentially forced on people.
Very shallow definition of "capitalism".
It doesn't dictate externalising cost as much as possible unless you have a very short-term view.
Short-term view businesses get eaten pretty quickly in a free capitalist system.
People forget that half of capitalism's advantage is the "creative destruction" part - if businesses are allowed to fail, capitalism works well and creates net value.
Wolfenstein98k commented on I Met Paul Graham Once okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p... · Posted by u/DamonHD
> “he might still be fine with transgender identity”
How extremely generous!
This is couched because he doesn't express a view, not because there's reason to doubt or to assume a level of acceptance.
Be charitable.
Wolfenstein98k commented on I Met Paul Graham Once okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p... · Posted by u/DamonHD
Why did this person write an essay about an essay, condemning it with a lot of serious accusations about potential future harm, while also stating they didn't fully read it?
He does some throat-clearing that help address some of these complaints.
It is a very bad essay that says "I am unfamiliar with the target of this essay, but I felt strong emotions when I read bits of it, which qualifies me to pontificate and condemn".
Wolfenstein98k commented on I Met Paul Graham Once okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p... · Posted by u/DamonHD
> gets lost on both the left and the right sides
It gets lost because of this black/white US perspective on politics. If you were multiparty system there will be less identities in politics.
No, that just means the identities split into smaller groups that constantly fight for power within larger coalitions. Instead of Red vs Blue you get racial groupings and all sorts of subdivisions.
Lebanon is a good example of what happens when you try to enshrine smaller subdivisions than A vs B.
Wolfenstein98k commented on I Met Paul Graham Once okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p... · Posted by u/DamonHD
I dunno man.. When someone advocates for treating another person as "not human" or wants to deny them basic human rights, that's universally wrong in my book.
You're already doing it.
There are legitimate arguments on both sides of these issues.
Couching the Outgroup's opinion on X as "erasing" or "killing" or "dehumanising" just precludes understanding.
Religious conservatives do this with abortion for instance. Is it constructive to say that Freedom of Choice advocates actually "support murdering babies"? Does it help, or is it just in-group signalling?