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mayukh commented on Guilty Displeasures hopefulmons.com/p/what-ar... · Posted by u/aregue

sequin · 13 days ago

I'm just so glad I'm past the phase where I'd worry about these things. It's very exhausting.

mayukh · 13 days ago

Came here to say the same. At first I couldn't even relate, but then another phase of my life came flashing back to me. All the angst around the pretense, wondering why I like somethings in a particular space but then not others that I was supposed to like...

And then slowly over time the realization that most people were in the same boat and it's just virtue signaling

Now I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like

mayukh commented on India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI theguardian.com/global-de... · Posted by u/thisislife2

simianwords · a month ago

I’ve noticed that the type of people to have problems with these kind of jobs - people who think this is some type of neocolonialism - can not appreciate the difference between real material poverty and metaphysical problems with watching some abusive content.

This person is earning a really competitive wage. She’s getting the power and independence to lead a materially good life. This will trump every other metaphysical concern you can have by watching these abusive videos.

Some one has to moderate these videos and it’s great that it’s someone poor who’s getting the opportunity.

mayukh · a month ago

Im with you... to some extent. I come from parts of the world where there is real material poverty and so this is tangible food on the table and a better life in some sense...at least for her family if not for her.

The question though is why that material poverty exists in so many parts of the world that were once pretty advanced civilizations.... Colonialism def had a part to play there. So the irony isn't lost that western powers exploited and extracted from civilizations and cultures that were different from theirs..all in the name of progress of course..and now those parts of the world are dependent on the breadcrumbs thrown their way by different western powers.

mayukh commented on 10 years of personal finances in plain text files sgoel.dev/posts/10-years-... · Posted by u/wrxd

mayukh · 2 months ago

This would be so valuable as a service.

mayukh commented on Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope? · Posted by u/yresting

mayukh · 3 months ago

Not exhaustive by any means but here some ideas:

  > To make friends, be one -- figure out what this means 
  > Be vulnerable -- the quickest way to connection I have found is to be ok with sharing your vulnerability first  
  > Be ok with rejection -- the danger of being vulnerable is getting rejected, be ok with that. Plenty of fish in the sea
  > Love yourself -- learn to give yourself grace
  > Practice gratitude
  > Serve/Volunteer/Teach -- you have unique valuable skills, figure out what they are and help others
  > Join clubs that excite you -- if none exist create one. (derek sivers: how to start a movement, consider being the second person)
  > Find your tribe online -- if none exist create one (see above)

Focus on physical and mental well being, life is long and one never knows the turns, the ups and downs that will come about -- learn to be resilient and don't lose your sense of humor

mayukh commented on If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading? hardcoresoftware.learning... · Posted by u/whobre

mayukh · 8 months ago

I use AI a ton for writing emails and other corporate stuff, I have no problems there, it structures and presents them well enough and quickly that it saves me a ton of time.

Where I am conflicted is creative writing -- its something I have been interested in but never pursued...and now I am able to pursue it with AI's help. There is a degree of embarrassment when confiding to folks, that yes a piece was AI assisted... see here by what I mean: https://humancurious.substack.com/p/the-architect-and-the-cr...

mayukh commented on Claude 4 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

troad · 10 months ago

> I think that people tend to forget what LLMs really are. [...] They do not have a plan, they do not have thoughts of their own.

> A LLM is smart enough to [...]

I thought this was an interesting juxtaposition. I think we humans just naturally anthropomorphise everything, and even when we know not to, we do anyway.

Your analysis is correct, I think. The reason we find this behaviour frightening is because it appears to indicate some kind of malevolent intent, but there's no malevolence nor intent here, just probabilistic regurgitation of tropes.

We've distilled humanity to a grainy facsimile of its most mediocre traits, and now find ourselves alarmed and saddened by what has appeared in the mirror.

mayukh · 10 months ago

Beautifully written. Interestingly, humans also don't know definitively where their own thoughts arise from

mayukh commented on Sora is here openai.com/index/sora-is-... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

bayindirh · a year ago

Maybe you should talk with image editor developers, copier/scanner manufacturers and governments about the safeguards they shall implement to prevent counterfeiting money.

Because, at the end of the day, counterfeiting money is already illegal.

...and we should not censor tools, and judge people, not the tools they use.

mayukh · a year ago

So guns are ok? How about bombs?

mayukh commented on How long til we're all on Ozempic? asteriskmag.com/issues/07... · Posted by u/thehoff

mlsu · a year ago

My view about obesity has shifted dramatically since Ozempic came out. Before this, I didn't think about it too much (I am not obese myself).

I notice now that there is a LOT of judgement, bias(?), around obesity, that people, obese or not, carry with them [1]. I certainly carried that bias, and the reason I noticed it was because Ozempic is literally an external substance that you take that simply makes obesity go away. So if you believe (like most of us unconsciously do) that obesity is a personal failing or an issue of willpower, an issue of personal merit -- HOW is it possible that a chemical pill, an external chemical process, can SO effectively resolve it? When no amount of hectoring and moralizing and willpower can? My inability to square that circle really changed my thinking about obesity in a fundamental way.

Already there is a reaction to Ozempic -- like people thinking that taking Ozempic is a personal failing, or judging celebrities, for taking it, thinking it's the "easy way out" -- I think the origin of that is this very deep unconscious bias that we all have about what obesity actually is fundamentally.

My view: It is a health condition, that people do not choose. Not unlike diabetes, celiac, or clinical depression. We should be focused on how to improve the lives of people who suffer with that health condition. We all agree insulin is unequivocally a good thing; that it's not a "personal failure" or "cheating" to take insulin; that it really is simple as, diabetes is a health condition and insulin is used to treat it. Ozempic? Same. Exact. Thing.

It's really heartening to hear your experience. Your post really struck me, I felt exactly the same way after getting on a CGM + Insulin Pump for my Type 1 Diabetes. Nobody EVER thought I had a lack of "personal responsibility" or an "issue of willpower" for going low or high on shots of Humilin and NPH.

Thank fucking god for Novo Nordisk.

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[1] see: this thread!

mayukh · a year ago

Obesity is a side effect of the industrial food production system in advanced economies that is slowly spreading all over the globe.

How about alcohol and smoking ? Is that the same as obesity then

mayukh commented on Startup Founders Fret over Getting Fired Like Sam Altman wsj.com/business/entrepre... · Posted by u/sam345

throw1234651234 · 2 years ago

This implies that there are good leaders at scale. I doubt this. So far all I have seen is that a good company gets built, and professional milkers come in. That is, they professionally milk the structure that is built, bring in their similar friends, bloat the company to pad their resume, and then leave before things start going downhill from the pretend-growth. I say this in full seriousness.

mayukh · 2 years ago

Why does that happen?