Bloodlust on a control of ogres? anyone? anyone? this was nearly unstoppable.
Readit Newsx86x87 commented on 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness jorsys.org/archive/decemb... · Posted by u/sjoblomj
Pleasure and happiness aren't the same thing, but most people chase pleasure while calling it happiness. Pleasure is the quick hit—good food, sex, scrolling your phone—it feels great but fades fast. Happiness is something else entirely, and what it means changes drastically depending on how smart you are. Less intelligent people tend to equate happiness with basic pleasures and getting their needs met. Average intelligence ties it to status, money, keeping up with others. But higher intelligence complicates everything: some people find meaning in ideas, creativity, or purpose; others overthink themselves into misery, seeing through all the goals that used to motivate them. Intelligence gives you better tools to understand happiness but can also strip away the simple certainties that make it easier to actually feel happy. You gain clarity but lose the blissful ignorance that makes chasing straightforward goals satisfying.
x86x87 commented on Developing our position on AI recurse.com/blog/191-deve... · Posted by u/jakelazaroff
Kinda funny but my current feeling about it is different from a lot of people.
I did a lot of AI assisted coding this week and I felt, if anything, it wasn't faster but it led to higher quality.
I would go through discussions about how to do something, it would give me a code sample, I would change it a bit to "make it mine", ask if I got it right, get feedback, etc. Sometimes it would use features of the language or the libraries I didn't know about before so I learned a lot. With all the rubber ducking I thought through things in a lot of depth and asked a lot of specific questions and usually got good answers -- I checked a lot of things against the docs. It would help a lot if it could give me specific links to the docs and also specific links to code in my IDE.
If there is some library that I'm not sure how to use I will load up the source code into a fresh copy of the IDE and start asking questions in that IDE, not the one with my code. Given that it can take a lot of time to dig through code and understand it, having an unreliable oracle can really speed things up. So I don't see it as a way to gets things done quickly, but like pairing with somebody who has very different strengths and weaknesses from me, and like pair programming, you get better quality. This week I walked away with an implementation that I was really happy with and I learned more than if I'd done all the work myself.
viewing it as an assistant is the way to go. it's there to help you - like an overpowered autocomplete - but not there to think for you.
x86x87 commented on AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai... · Posted by u/throw0101c
Is Argentina a net positive for our society? There's the grilled beef, but every country has some kind of barbecue. There's a few soccer players I guess? Is Argentina worth the energy expenditure though?
that was a joke regarding bitcoin not Argentina. also: congrats for jumping to the worst possible interpretation
x86x87 commented on AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai... · Posted by u/throw0101c
I hear AI data centers are consuming more power than the entire country of Argentina /s
But I don't hear anyone worried about the massive power consumption without a clear indication if this is a net positive for our society.
I feel like an under-discussed consequence of the current administration is how deeply these choices will harm tourism. Travel is a big part of our economy. A 250 dollar fee is yet another reason to choose Europe or Asia or your own country over the US.
it's almost like they don't want tourists.
x86x87 commented on “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams spectrum.ieee.org/10x-eng... · Posted by u/jnord
There are plenty of hard problems that are unrelated to scientific research where you need more than just "normal" engineers. Look at the number of failed projects at big companies such as Amazon and Microsoft, they failed because "normal" engineers couldn't pull it off.
hah. i'm sorry but this is extremely naive. projects don't succeed of fail solely on the technical chops of the engineers. it's a whole "ecosystem" that has to work and most projects I've seen failing are due to politics/bikeshedding at upper management level.
x86x87 commented on My 16-month theanine self-experiment dynomight.net/theanine/... · Posted by u/dynm
I read a study about athletes given either a strong coffee, placebo, or a caffeine in capsule form. The study suggested that even if coffee had less caffeine than athletes got directly in a capsule (and measured in their blood) strong coffee boosted their performance more. This suggests that we might be getting a boost from sensing strong flavor by our receptors. Not sure how else to interpret it, but I really wish there would be more studies on this.
there is more in coffee than caffeine? maybe another substance?
Likely one of the earthquakes in this tsunami is Twitter firing 80% of employees and then coming out of it financially better.
If Jason Fried did it, people would laugh it off as an outlier, but the richest man in the world did, and so he's a genius and every other CEO will try out the same magic idea and hope for the same improvement. This is... going to lead to a tsunami of some kind.
financially better? source?
- consistent car quality
- safety of the drive (conservative driving and potential fear of drivers)
- no randomly chatty driver
All of those feel like a breath of fresh air especially when stacked up against the current state of Uber & Lyft rides. People really just want consistency. I don't actually think you needed AI to get there (I've had occasional rides in black cars that provided the same experience). Waymo was just right time, right place, right price.