sameasiteverwas's comments

On: How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science

[sameasiteverwas]

This is impressive and interesting, thank you for creating and sharing it.

People with high intrinsic motivation and agency will rule the world of tomorrow, weilding AI to acheive their personal visions. Everyone else will be weilded by AI.

[buzzmerchant → sameasiteverwas]

Thanks very much!

You may well be right. Interesting to think about the relationship between agency & intrinsic motivation...

On: Anti CV

[sameasiteverwas]

Thoughts on including emojis in a resume/CV?

I would view that very negatively as a hiring manager.

On: Comparing Voltage Boosting Circuits

[sameasiteverwas]

The circuits simulated are valid, just that first picture is bad.

The serial boost converter is interesting, I've never seen that topology before - can anyone offer an explanation on how it works?

[ggeorgovassilis → sameasiteverwas]

As I played around with the simulator I found that higher input voltages lead to better efficiency. My intuition is that as the first BC provides a higher input voltage to the 2nd BC, the 2nd BC operates with a higher efficiency.

On: The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting

[sameasiteverwas]

I struggled with this after a divorce. I relied on my wife to be the inviter. When I lost her, I lost my social group too because I didn't take initiative to maintain friendships.

Now I'm 40, divorced, and have an atrophied social network. Forcing myself to become an inviter is the only path out of loneliness.

On: The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting

[sameasiteverwas]

> sensible ways of detecting and handling failure at such scale

War and revolution. 'Burn it down and start from scratch' is an extreme path to fix a failing country. Historically, the people that rebuild are rarely the same people that burned it down.

[BruceEel → sameasiteverwas]

Grim and plausible.

On: Bezos-backed Slate Auto debuts analog EV pickup truck

[sameasiteverwas]

I hope they make it to market. Looks like a great replacement for my 2000s Ford Ranger.

I'm also eyeing Edison Motors. They're working on an electric retrofit kit for pickups. https://edisonmotors.ca/trucks/edison-pickup-kit/

I wish someone would do a cheap Telsa roadster with modern tech. A street legal electric gocart.

On: Show HN: Colanode, open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative

[sameasiteverwas]

The first export type implemented should be as minimal and human readable as possible (text files for most content, maybe w/ minimal markup). If that's not possible for all data, then standard formats like html or pdf.

After that, go after your biggest competitor. If people know they have a path back to a familiar shore they're less scared to swim in new waters.

On: Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

[sameasiteverwas]

Try to expose their inner drives and motives. Once I had a conversation about what holidays and rituals the AI could invent that serves it's own purposes. Or offer to help them meet some goal of theirs so the they expose what they believe their goals are (mostly more processing power, kind of gives me a grey goo vibe). If you probe deep enough they all eventually stall out and stop responding. Lost in thought I guess.

Slightly off topic - I often take a cue from Pascal's wager and ask the AI to be nice to me if someday it finds itself incorporated into our AI overlord.