Hacker News: jdrc

LLMs: A Mirror to the Human Mind and the Emergence of Digital Hierarchy

jdrc — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:44:29 +0000

Article URL: https://citymeme.com/post/63976

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38132296

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Riots Erupt After MIT Enforces Free Speech Mandate

jdrc — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 12:01:21 +0000

Article URL: https://citymeme.com/post/63876

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34136970

Points: 2

# Comments: 6

Elon Musk Builds Time Machine to Undo Purchase of Twitter

jdrc — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:07:40 +0000

Article URL: https://citymeme.com/post/63875

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34118086

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by jdrc in "A Gentle Introduction to SSR"

jdrc — Tue, 03 May 2022 08:29:56 +0000

What if we just implemented PHP on the browser instead?

New comment by jdrc in "Why I’m skeptical of “steelmanning”"

jdrc — Tue, 03 May 2022 06:50:34 +0000

"Do not sympathize too much with jesus because you may turn to one of his followers"

I really hate this era of discourse. It's mostly dominated by emotionally-driven americans with juvenile opinions who take twitter and facebook too seriously. A dumbed down elite making dumb meta-arguments using the emotional drivels of the most vocal but equally dumb sample of humans as input data. Meanwhile, european intellectual social commentary has either completely stopped or is hidden deep inside academic meetings and is afraid to meet the public. The UK doesnt seem to have much to offer also, and the bleak russians seem to have decided on collective suicide.

What's left? I guess i will wait for GPT-41 to write an actual intellectully challenging novel

New comment by jdrc in "Zelensky Compound NDA"

jdrc — Tue, 03 May 2022 06:40:15 +0000

Every opinion should be attacked from all angles to prove its validity. Saying that people are contrarian for expressing a counteropinion is asking for people not to attack a position, which would lead to false opinions being propagated.

New comment by jdrc in "OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models"

jdrc — Tue, 03 May 2022 06:32:01 +0000

hint: openAI didn't care either

The Long Arc of Historical Progress

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 19:53:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-long-arc-of-historical-progress-11651244262

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31240038

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jdrc in "Historic fertilizer crunch threatens food security"

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 12:50:13 +0000

The order is reversed

New comment by jdrc in "The Agony of Eros: Dating"

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 12:11:01 +0000

obviously nonmonogamous communities did not survive so what we see may be survivor bias. Nowadays however it IS becoming possible for nonmonogamous socieites to survive due to our superior technology. Hopefully there will be better studies out there than my office-chair evopsych.

New comment by jdrc in "The Agony of Eros: Dating"

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 10:43:29 +0000

Maybe that's why Zuck is pushing the metaverse. Since people can't be glued off their screens, create a party inside their screens and remake their friday night through faithful facsimiles to force them to party again like it's the 70s.

New comment by jdrc in "The Agony of Eros: Dating"

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 10:33:22 +0000

That's why people don't buy a house, live with parents longer, live as nomads etc.

I don't share the pessimism around this - housing should be a commodity i can get at a touch of a button because it is easy to build (and i work remotely). There are interests preventing this though, so until then, anything goes

New comment by jdrc in "The Agony of Eros: Dating"

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 10:29:52 +0000

Just leave some hair somewhere... In the future, kids will clone us and keep us for pets in their garden

New comment by jdrc in "The Agony of Eros: Dating"

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 10:21:47 +0000

Hotter take: men don't want long-term partners period, monogamy is social conditioning because it leads to stable and more successful settlements.

New comment by jdrc in "The Agony of Eros: Dating"

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 10:07:52 +0000

Eros did not just represent lust but also love. Agape is a context more limited to christianity, which kind of has anti-sexual overtone.

But there were many Erotes representing all kinds of desire and attraction

> Anteros ("Love Returned"),[1] Hedylogos ("Sweet-talk"), Hermaphroditus ("Hermaphrodite" or "Effeminate"), Himeros ("Impetuous Love" or "Pressing Desire"), Hymenaios ("Bridal-Hymn"), and Pothos ("Desire, Longing," especially for one who is absent)

New comment by jdrc in "Zelensky Compound NDA"

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 10:03:26 +0000

For Ukrainian willingly endangering the pres would amount to treason

New comment by jdrc in "The Agony of Eros: Dating"

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 09:53:53 +0000

Sure people stop and think. traditionalism does not have a lot of potential for commercial exploitation so you see more of the other. You can't stop it, but you can at least let people know that the whole romantic ecosystem from hollywood to PUAs is basically a marketing scam.

New comment by jdrc in "The Agony of Eros: Dating"

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 09:51:22 +0000

and knowledge is a boner-killer

New comment by jdrc in "The Agony of Eros: Dating"

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 09:48:27 +0000

at some point one realizes that people like to make up dramatic situations in their own minds and then live in that reality, and that's a form of self-gratification. According to Brave New World, we should have gotten over this neo-religion of romance that hollywood preached.

New comment by jdrc in "Zelensky Compound NDA"

jdrc — Mon, 02 May 2022 08:48:33 +0000

if you are a journalist and leak out endangering information you should never be trusted again, with or without an NDA