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imjonse commented on Is moderate drinking healthy? Scientists say the idea is outdated   news.stanford.edu/stories... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
pixelpoet · 4 days ago
I wish the popular and completely absurd phrase "drugs and alcohol" would become outdated.

Somehow alcohol always gets separate consideration and categorisation, while most people would laugh if asked "is moderate tobacco/meth/ecstasy/whatever use healthy?"

imjonse · 4 days ago
while the special treatment of alcohol is due to cultural,historical and commercial reasons, from a toxicology point of view it makes sense to treat them all separately. But I agree with your sentiment.
imjonse commented on Fast (2019)   patrickcollison.com/fast... · Posted by u/samuel246
austin-cheney · 25 days ago
From reading that the only one pattern that rises is low anxiety. People just execute and deliver without delay from fear.

When I look at things that are slow I see only two things: natural disasters and analysis paralysis. When I look at software employment I see a lots of anxiety at multiple levels. People do and say all kinds of shit to mask their anxiety.

imjonse · 24 days ago
> From reading that the only one pattern that rises is low anxiety. People just execute and deliver without delay from fear.

Some are definitely high-anxiety situations: the large-scale ambitious ones in the list were done during a war (or cold war). Many of the others are high-pressure scenarios where I am sure the construction workers had anything but low anxiety. They are typical of an economy which is growing very fast where bad working conditions and accidents are tolerated. It is not unlike condititions in current fast developing countries some with immigrant workers (Quatar) or in China.

imjonse commented on Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal   github.com/charmbracelet/... · Posted by u/nateb2022
cristea · a month ago
I would love a comparison between all these new tools, like this with Claude Code, opencode, aider and cortex.

I just can’t get an easy overview of how each tool works and is different

imjonse · a month ago
This used to be opencode but was renamed after some fallout between the devs I think.
imjonse commented on What will become of the CIA?   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
logicchains · a month ago
>Chile would be a much better place if the CIA didn't overthrow its democracy and install a fascist dictator

Empirically that's not a very well-supported statement, if you compare the economy and living conditions of Chile to its neighbours. Empirically speaking, electing communist governments almost always leads to reduced living standards. It's like if the US hadn't intervened in to help a fascist dictator in South Korea, the whole of South Korea would be as poor as North Korea is now.

imjonse · a month ago
> Empirically speaking, electing communist governments almost always leads to reduced living standards.

Almost always leads to a CIA-backed coup or civil war which indirectly indeed reduces living standards. In the other scenarios it often resulted in generally improved living standards via industrialization, increase of literacy and social programs. In yet others gross mismanagement and large scale famines, or fluctuating results depending on the time scale. There is no commonly accepted uniform outcome, and "almost always worse living standards" is clearly not one.

imjonse commented on Uv: Running a script with dependencies   docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/... · Posted by u/Bluestein
imjonse · a month ago
One case this may not work well is when one of the dependencies is Pytorch. Uv has explicit support for Pytorch ( https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/pytorch/ ) but with the script headers I don't see a way to pick the most appropriate wheel index (cpu vs cuda vs rocm)
imjonse commented on Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market   marketsaintefficient.subs... · Posted by u/goinggetthem
fasterik · a month ago
There's a George Carlin bit about politicians. The punchline is "the problem isn't the politicians, it's the people." His point is that nothing emerges from a vaccuum.

Politicians are people just like everyone else, they're just responding to incentives created by a majority vote. Tech companies are just like any other company, except a lot more people are willing to pay for their goods and services. If Carlin were alive, he'd say that the problem isn't the tech companies, it's their customers.

I'm actually far from convinced that tech companies are a net negative for society. Amazon makes billions because everyone wants competitively priced goods delivered to their doorsteps. Google makes billions because they provide free access to a large portion of humanity's information.

My theory is that if you're extremely pessimistic about technology or politics, you probably won't like anything that happens when large groups of humans make collective decisions. There's an air of let's go back to the good old days when we were hunter gatherers to the whole thing. Personally, I've accepted that it's always going to be messy and chaotic, but a lot of good things are going to come out of it as well.

imjonse · a month ago
> My theory is that if you're extremely pessimistic about technology or politics, you probably won't like anything that happens when large groups of humans make collective decisions.

The main issue is that in tech and politics it is a small group of humans making collective decisions for all.

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imjonse commented on LLMs should not replace therapists   arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412... · Posted by u/layer8
imjonse · 2 months ago
LLMs should not replace most specialized solutions but they still can help do a large part of the tasks those specialized solutions are used for today.
imjonse commented on Ask HN: If AGI were invented tomorrow which countries would fare better?    · Posted by u/mattigames
imjonse · 2 months ago
Sad to see AGI being implicitly equated with the most powerful weapon that will help the owners rule over resources instead of a scientific breakthrough that will help solve humanity's biggest problems.
imjonse commented on Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'   wired.com/story/sam-altma... · Posted by u/spenvo
chvid · 2 months ago
Yep. A “are we the baddies” moment for us in tech. Though it still doesn’t seem to have clicked for most …
imjonse · 2 months ago
Wish it was only true in tech...

u/imjonse

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