Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
Finally, I dislike the arrogant, brash, confident, tone of many posts on LessWrong.
Hmm, OK. Where might this be going?
Plausibly, I think a lot of this is inherited from Eliezer, who is used to communicating complex ideas to people less intelligent and/or rational than he is. This is not the experience of a typical poster on LessWrong, and I think it's maladaptive for people to use Eliezer's style and epistemic confidence in their own writings and thinking.
Yud once debated Massimo Pigliucci and did poorly. He tried and failed to publish academic research in a journal not controlled by his groupies (desk reject? failed to pass peer review?).
Have there been any other times when he engaged with someone with actual education and experience who was not his fan? It sounds like he was on twitter.
You can't talk to us like that, we are not the biassed masses, we are unbiased!
Via, prob posted here already "Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code", as the article is a month old.
It wasn't posted yet in lemmy, did search. Yours was the only thing I found. So, I posted it in programming to rile people
Yeah I did a search for "stack overflow" and found zero results so think search was a bit buggy atm. Votes also not showing atm for example. Not sure if by design.
I apologize to bring you the latest example of the intersection of US fascism with silicon valley tech industry.
This time the Whitehouse have decided that UI design is kinda important (gee I wonder if there used to be a department or two for that): https://americabydesign.gov/
Well nothing wrong with a little updating of UI anywa--
What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong. But what's the foundation of that brand? One that's more globally recognized than practically anything else. It's the nation…where he was born. It's the United States of America.
To update today's government to be an Apple Store like experience: beautifully designed, great user experience, run on modern software.
Oh god kill it with fire.
The web design of their website is also worth remarking on here:
The tech bros tied to this? Joe Gebbia co-founder of AirBNB, along with Big-Balls. Maybe others but those are the two who were retweeted by the twitter account.
Edit: also this part:
©2025 National Design Studio
Someone ought to remind them of US copyright law because official federal work is in the public domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_the_federal_government_of_the_United_States
The Trump administration could've gotten some rando on neocities or nekoweb to do their website and unironically gotten a better result than this bland garbage.
The favicon is just 16x16 pixels of the word “by” in cursive that’s so blurry you can’t actually tell that’s what it is.
They might as well have gone with the Schutzstaffel lightning bolts - they're pretty recognisable even if the resolution is Jack x Shit, and they fit Trump's general ideology pretty well.