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not just "incel" culture, at least not any more

Yep thanks to the man-o-sphere incel culture has become mainstream for young men and boys

Interesting post. It pairs well with this other one^1 I bookmarked just yesterday about the way business websites' home pages so often suffer from lack of ownership (a la "tragedy of the commons"). In both cases, I'm reminded of Julie Zhuo's awesome "How to be Strategic" post^2 which emphasizes being crystal clear on WHOSE problem you're trying to solve.

1. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/website-you-havent-rebuilt-ma...

2. https://medium.com/@joulee/how-to-be-strategic-f6630a44f86b

PS Disclaimer: It feels strange to share links to LIN and Medium, two problematic platforms I'd prefer not to support. But these specific posts are worthwhile, so I'm sharing anyway.


why?

VITE typed on a T9 keyboard is 8483.

5173 spells Vite...

173 looks like ITE

5 in roman numerals is V.


T9 is predictive and based on a dictionary and training.

If you type "8483" on T9, your phone may offer "THUD" or "TITE" or all three, as choices.

But with a normal telephone keypad, if you dial, e.g. "(800) 555-VITE" then you will always dial "8483".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneword

Also, a service port is always qualified by its protocol. There are separate port namespaces for each IP protocol that uses ports. "8483" is not a service port, until you spell it out:

  8483/tcp
or

  8483/udp
or

  8483/sctp
or

  8483/dccp
etc.

A TCP stream, for example, consists of a tuple:

  src:port1 dst:port2

Add in college and support through early-twenties (pretty baseline scenario for upper-middle class parents in the US) and the financial calculation is even tougher.

That said, if the most thoughtful potential parents don't have and raise civic-minded children, the percentage of new humans raised by less "enlightened" parents will increase, leading to a downward spiral.

For my part, I'm confident that the world is a better place because my two daughters are in it, and I'm definitely a better person for having been their father.


Thank you for this comment! exe.dev is what I've been seeking without quite knowing it. excited to dig into it.

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing! The text-based renderer reminds me of playing Larn on my dad's VT100 when I was a child (early 80s).

Ha! Great analogy, hit the nail on the head. What a ludicrous system prompt.

This is the kind of AI captain Kirk could convince to blow itself up

That's not how it works. Whether local or hosted, every modern model has a cutoff date for its training data, and can be leveraged by agents / harnesses / tools to fetch context from the internet or wherever.

options 1 and 2 are not mutually exclusive

"the idea that companies are obligated to maximize profits at the expense of all else"

!! That is literally the definition of legally-binding fiduciary resonsibility for publicly-traded corporations. There are exceptions (PBCs, B-Corps) but they're rare.


Please cite your source for this. Everything I've ever read on the topic indicates that this is a vast oversimplification.

This is a completely stupid take and I have no idea why so many people repeat it. This responsibility just means you have to have to document your work understandably and have a somewhat sensible reason for decisions. It does not at all force you to greed.

It's really not though.

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