Greg Reimer

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@valgoroth_ @ComradeChoppy @ted_pen I think the premise is not a simple alternate history. It’s that the Beatles were deleted but not their influence. In which case there would totally be an exactly Beatles-shaped void in pop culture and the events in the film are plausible.

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@realityspammer @GenDirectMusic It seems like genres like EDM and hip hop that make heavy use of sampling and synths are over saturated. Not that they aren’t good, but the barriers to creating it are low. But maybe I’m ignorant. How much hip hop is created on physical instruments these days?

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@Noahpinion Noah, have you considered that the tech industry core was never very progressive, but maintained the illusion to appease their rank and file employees, back when the job market was hot? Could this be at least a contributing factor?

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@tszzl @Noahpinion Building on that, I’d argue social media outrage happens not because it creates bubbles, but because it pops them. Swimming in info-soup exposes you to lots of views you wouldn’t normally encounter, and it drives people insane.

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@DavidmComfort @Noahpinion Seems like he does it about once per election cycle.

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Been hearing about “shoegaze” music so I decided *ok pandora play me “shoegaze” stuff* and I’m deeply reminded of college dorm rooms in the 90s.

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@Yampeleg Infinite appetite for wealth. If an AI-augmented dev is that much more productive, then as a business owner you’d want more of them, no?

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@SarahTheHaider Gödel Escher Bach maybe?

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@Noahpinion @surlygopher Not melting pot, not tossed salad. Beef stew. Things retain a semblance of their identities, but it all gets suffused with an overall flavor.

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Applying something like Euthyphro’s dilemma to the constitution could clarify a lot of political arguments Is it righteous because the constitution commands it, or does the constitution command it because it is righteous?

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@dodderidge @robinhanson To the extent you don’t factor in bikes and pedestrians.

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@argyriou15 @robinhanson @CWlajolla Both tax and liability increase would be fair. Tax due to increased road wear from heavier vehicles. Liability because insurance already factors in driving record.

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@michael_nielsen @eshear Game theory could be the explanatory framework you’re looking for. Productivity increases from automation are positive-sum, to the extent that the potential for wealth creation is infinite.

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@austinkleon What About Bob?

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@kitten_beloved Actually I once saw someone use that phrase to great effect, so I think you might be wrong here.

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@paulg I think this is true. But accidental moderates are less susceptible to tribal extremism, so I’d predict their positions do cluster in the center *somewhat*, compared to the overall population.

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Another corollary: the first to market with a language/IDE/tech stack that successfully organizes software development around this principle, could win in a big way.

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In pondering whether LLMs will replace human software developers, one possibility is human dev jobs will start looking more like QA; designing tests to ensure LLM-generated modules do what they’re supposed to.

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Of course, AI could fill the confidence-provider role as well. But then we run into a regress.