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leksak commented on Child prodigies rarely become elite performers   economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/i7l
benatkin · a month ago
Basketball is a general purpose sport. The Claude of it can win. Some other sports such as gymnastics would need something more like the AlphaZero of it to win.
leksak · a month ago
Both of these sports select for different type of body types - what do you mean? Gymnasts are shorter than the average population.
leksak commented on Three kinds of AI products work   seangoedecke.com/ai-produ... · Posted by u/emschwartz
leksak · 4 months ago
I would consider profitable to be a requirement to qualify as a product working and none of these fit the bill I believe?
leksak commented on Best practices for dealing with human waste in the great outdoors   theconversation.com/how-t... · Posted by u/rntn
SR2Z · 6 months ago
I have heard that it's unusually nutrient rich - maybe not toxins, but human shit definitely causes algal blooms.
leksak · 6 months ago
And human urine
leksak commented on Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs   mistral.ai/news/our-contr... · Posted by u/Kydlaw
j-pb · 8 months ago
You don't need beef, beef is a lifestyle choice.

I use LLMs to do all of my coding these days, it's certainly more essential for feeding me than beef.

leksak · 8 months ago
Also a lifestyle choice
leksak commented on Object personification in autism: This paper will be sad if you don't read (2018)   pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3... · Posted by u/oliverkwebb
neilv · 9 months ago
Something I've wondered that's maybe related: How many people "feel" systems?

Like, if you're designing, building, or managing a large and complex system, and there are concerns in different aspects of it, and you have maybe a kind of emotional coprocessor about it, e.g., keeping track of all the parts that bother you, and how much they bother you? (Also, parts that you like.)

I'm pretty sure that not all people have nearly the same capacity for this, but I don't know the distribution.

leksak · 9 months ago
Decidedly relatable to me to the point where I have a custom field on our ClickUps called ” Pain ” at my work
leksak commented on Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)   tech.slashdot.org/story/2... · Posted by u/miles
kb_dev · 9 months ago
In principle, I think most people believe their morals would prevent them from working at a company like Meta.

On the flip side, how much are morals worth if you have the opportunity to be financially free?

There's also the opportunity to work on interesting problems.

Anecdotally, of course, I know a Meta engineer at the L7 level (generally staff engineer in these large tech companies). He makes over seven figures a year, 75% of that being from stocks. The money is there.

leksak · 9 months ago
I am not even sure most people could articulate their morals. It's not just about never having heard about things as moral absolutism or consequentialism. Similar to how atrophied people's understanding of sympathy and empathy is as well.

u/leksak

KarmaCake day1084December 26, 2015View Original