@knrd_z true, I had experience only in analytical chemistry and machine learning labs both of which are probably not struggling as badly as other fields
that being said the supply of people wanting to be an ML phd is *immense* despite the high demand
@bigmastertroll it’s not clear at all but some would say that a dream happens at the “narrative” layer, connecting objects and events without actually producing all the qualia
@fakegeekguy1 yes i also was in academia for a bit and now i quite literally optimize ad clicks. i am not denigrating the people who take this option but rather the people who impute stupidity on all researchers
@leo_tenebrae it seems like the capital markets are quite good at valuing intangibles like tacit knowledge, intellectual property, brand value etc as part of a company's valuation
@leo_tenebrae and also just ... even in terms of consumer goods there is clearly a divergence between instant transaction utility provided and "value"
selling people meth obviously doesnt create "value" and yet meth has a price tag ... many such cases irl. like facebook or porn
@telmudic the experiences of people in dying fields with zero funding and zero future are being generalized to well capitalized areas where it’s nothing like this
in the next few months OF girls will be pushing the very frontiers of human existence hunting for exceptions and edge cases to what the platform might consider "explicit"
@aniiyengar but i think twitter is even worse positioned to take on that market
its not worth it for them to endanger their core business and they dont even have more bargaining power with payment processors
@Bananasaur_Rex well Finn was rightly objecting that obviously most women will only have their bedroom available to stream with
thats why im pointing out the high end
going to continue using this as google
why does Stripe or visa or whoever care about OF/porn transactions? whats it to them. do they face any liability
@chopstickfury01@KHicksEfficient@NLRG_ seems very different because movies are a matter of selling the "questionable product" in china vs providing totally legitimate services to "questionable products" in a different country and worrying about the services getting banned. frankly im kind of skeptical
@KHicksEfficient@chopstickfury01@NLRG_ i mean banning players talking shit about china seems again way more straightforward than getting mad at a payments processor
@atroyn even if you don’t buy my “strong sim” argument there’s a weak sim argument
labeling is expensive in certain situations and a crude sim may suffice (though worse than reality)
@BroductManager or you know just … work in open source or academia or for yourself and build something you like instead of complaining
learned helplessness that ur high 6fig job is oppressing you
@default_dad@alth0u unironically when you’re sitting on a treasure trove of underutilized network effects I would hire as many PMs as possible and set them free thinking of bad ideas
@halvorz@drfeifei True nobody can deny that there’s a bias against “dataset papers” but for example I know the name of CASP now where i hadn’t before
def got some glory out of it
what does it mean if you can read the title of a paper and guess their methods exactly. does that mean they had a really good ass title or that the field is boring
@AdeleDeweyLopez if you think about pure rational agents (not humans) where you subtract a large constant from the reward function (all positive rewards become punishment), the “optimal” behavior does not change except in that such an agent now prefers dying to living
@AdeleDeweyLopez doesnt follow because
1) its hard to change intuitive behavior
like when you're training a dog with negative reinforcement they're not going to stop barking at bad times just because you sprayed him with a water gun once
@AdeleDeweyLopez my cousins tried to do this i think and they managed to get their puppy to stop barking loudly when strangers showed up at the door but never quite managed to get him to stop barking when other dogs are walking by (behavior is sticky)
@AdeleDeweyLopez 2) even in terms of rational behavior, i very much might want to explore the close by space due to risk aversion
yeah this "spot" is bad but who knows how much worse everything else is
@samson_hu@eigenrobot when i was in middle school i was doing a lot of after school math stuff yeah
nowhere near the grinding intensity of Indians or East Asians tho
@ded_ruckus@houellebecq_2@eigenrobot like going to a 5 day workweek probably sounded dumb and people were like “remove the incentive instead” but it seems to have worked
makes me laugh when people think they’re sooo weird, then come online and realize there’s whole legions of people who share all their proclivities to an uncanny degree
the real world is barely real. physical distances are less important than logical distances . its $30 to to fly to vegas per google flights and $90 to go to the south bay per uber. ergo las vegas is closer
@atroyn i mean doesnt boston robotics get tossed around company to company like a hacky sack these days? can they just buy it and acqui-hire their mechanical prowess
@homsiT@__________ur0@atroyn its not that deep or well thought out. i basically buy the notion that the mind is a complex system, stacks of heuristics that build on top of one another. like a giant bureaucracy. as complex systems grow older they tend to become ossified and overspecialized
@homsiT@__________ur0@atroyn simple empirical ex is that kids who grow up with ipads will always have a more intuitive feel for it than even healthy adults who are plenty capable of learning. they are well adapted for their world because lower layers of their mind are built with ipads in observation
@homsiT@__________ur0@atroyn granted children have more "substrate" to work with in that the brain has a lot of synaptic pruning to do at that age. maybe you can arbitrarily keep synthetically adding brain matter w cyborgism but doesn't change the fact that the bottom of your heuristic stack will not change
@homsiT@__________ur0@atroyn moreover it *cannot* change without killing you in some ways. like if you forgot how your mother looks that's something like dying
as people grow older fewer memories will stay sticky by necessity -- the surprise factor goes down
@RealtimeAI@homsiT@__________ur0@atroyn it's the second third fourth order interactions of those early memories that build your personality that i'm not sure its so easy to change with additional data storage
esoteric view of AI as fetching demons from the platonic realm. x-risk people are looking into how to leave the unfriendly ones on the other side. https://x.com/tszzl/status/1299414829917184000
the FSD controls people are coping. it's clear they're going to slowly replace one heuristic at a time with a "neural cost function" or whatever while still maintaining plausible deniability that the decision-making is explainable
anno trying to gaslight us
"the rebuilds are about moving on from the nge universe and stop living in the past"
if he wanted ppl to move on he wouldn't have made the rebuilds
@telmudic the last great advance in theoretical physics was juan maldacena’s discovery of ads/cft correspondence and there’s like 10,000 people who even know what that means
@pervexists69 let’s say this were true and you’re not making up a guy to get mad at. then ultimately your moral system lost to another because they had a superweapon. no different than the rest of history
@alth0u getting accommodations is pretty much 100% a function of how shameless you are about self medicalzing. mfs with “adhd” can probably grift a few extra hours for exams
@abelianraisin@owenbroadcast of course it’s not necessary to specify A or B. my point is people will have to trade off A vs B constantly in the real world. Paying the moral price is a better model than unbreakability
@_djpn@alth0u lol yea and that’s my worry
people today are more Machiavellian than ever
i feel like just 40 years ago people would’ve felt bad about lying about being infirm
@surplustakes i dunno man
De gustibus non est disputandum and such
it seems to me that cities would not have made those changes if the residents didn’t collectively think it’s an improvement aesthetically and functionally
one million twitter "freethinkers" when the circular burger patty is invented:
"i will not eat the platonic solid. i will not get in the pod" https://x.com/alth0u/status/1429987565390635044
@rasalghulvc one million freethinkers have sent this photo without realizing i'm obviously going to like times square. the only problem is that theres not more of it
@RealtimeAI@InvictusDude@BroductManager gets much worse once you realize this person is basically tech royalty. its always the private school kids who become the most insufferable journos complaining about the system
@HopefulAbandon >there exist classes of problems that are equivalently hard
>therefore it should be obvious to you that this exact transformation exists
@brawnyman713@DukakisDude@what_tar_nation ok
1) literally nobody reads. these are five Italians in Miami not “silicon valley”
2) trying to enter a new market -> instantly rent seeking ?
@darpyu bell curve meme where bottomwit loves industrial rev midwit reads babbies first kazcynski / marx and then topwit realizes its net positive after all
@__femb0t on a more serious note I hear about transwomen loving food a lot more after HRT is that real? Are the pleasures of food gatekept behind estradiol
but as complaining increases somewhere along the line it transitions into just having a pathological world model that makes you think everything is fake and everybody is out to keep you down. the endgame is just losing all personal agency and infecting others with your loss
complaining about work or life or culture or whatever is fine obviously. its one of my all time favorite pastimes and everybody else seems to get a kick out of it too.
https://x.com/alth0u/status/1430343949818888194?s=20
yeah it might be adverse selection in that maybe people only post on here at their worst and go off and become really hopeful in the real world but that argument is less convincing when you tweet 40 times a day
the endstage of this is where you have to bite the bullet and monomaniacally downplay objectively impressive achievements of others to feel better about ur own disillusionment
@myceliummage lol interesting
i guess its more like twitter gets to see the extreme / underbelly / crazy bits of a person that are repressed in real life. theres a jungian metaphor there but im not sure it makes all that much sense
@notlinear1 everybody in upper middle class US is kind of on the same playing field these days. the only thing stopping them from being great is their own lack of agency / good ideas / grit
but yea far more amenable to working class complaints obviously
yeah I mean there’s clearly a protracted shipping crunch now but the fact that it works as well as it has thus far is in my eyes a resounding success of the trade system
@michael_at_work ok but i don’t understand why you think I’m saying it’s “normal”? I’m making a very specific claim that trade didn’t collapse our department stores didn’t run out and we eventually got our PPE
@hyperdiscogirl Yes agreed! the caution was correct: I just think a lot of people incorrectly added it up as evidence that their prior hatred of the world order was correct
@houellebecq_2 If anything the casual dress code of the tech industry was a complete cultural victory. even boomer companies are larping now and telling their people to wear sweatshirts as some kind of weird cargo cult
@PageSeverian@Aella_Girl no I think they were facing genuine pressure from payment processors and reached a tipping point perhaps where they could push back
@halvorz@nailbomb3 anyway bolt, BMW i3, Nissan Leaf and a few others have that one pedal breaking too bc it’s supposed to significantly improve energy recovery
Stripe is basically an extremely talented group of people dedicating their lives to building a 5 basis point utility company. like if elon spent 50 years working on PayPal
@alth0u there are unanswered questions with starlink such as
“will traditional providers use starlink usage patterns to discover all the best high density untapped markets and give them cheap fiber”
very race to the bottom / adverse selection
@alth0u like obviously no amount of market discovery will make the “sherpa living in the Himalayas” market profitable for Comcast but questionable what the size of it is
autists are able to run companies now because communications technology increased the power of writing over talking at scale. the whole control plane of the corporation is just emails
@halvorz if tesla design philosophy was a music genre it would be EDM. background of a cyberpunk movie. for me all the micro automations like the seats moving at the end of the ride just make me happy. high modernist brain
@ProfoundPilled is tru but they should leave the tax automation to plebs like me and go do crazy shit with collison brain. solve carbon capture or something
even more convinced of this now that remote companies are anecdotally not seeing much loss of productivity. everybody is semi-autistic when they're on a zoom call due to loss of high grain social information when compared to talking in person
@kloisnitcholes personally i say "eee van gell iun" out loud like a coward. if i was brave i would say "eh vahn gel iun" with the same inflection as the VAs