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True, that's the site standards. I notice that you didn't answer any of his actual points, though...

The problem always was that the central planners never knew enough to plan the economy right. Well, with enough technology, enough reporting into the central database, they theoret…

A benevolent dictatorship that actually seems to be functioning... at the moment. If you look at the last 30 years, it looks like it works. But if you look at the last 70...

Maybe not just "Claude said". If one of the issues is getting the right prompt, you might say what prompt you used.

Well, I was assuming that what you learned about driving generation X of a tool would be at least mostly applicable to driving generation X+1 of it. That may be false, at least for…

I do. I'm pretty sure that at least some humans will shove any Claude answer at you. And some won't. You are assuming that I am making an assumption. Your assumption is wrong. I am…

Every question can be answered by Claude. Not every question can be answered accurately by Claude. When Claude answers inaccurately, it doesn't tell you that it's doing so, so ever…

I'm not answering your actual question, but... even if they have totally plateaued technically, there's still some more improvement left to be had from people learning how best to …

The measles vaccine isn't some new, untested thing.

OK, let me restate that, since I had to think about it for a bit to see what you were getting at: The yen carry trade is when you borrow yen (at ~0% interest), convert to dollars, …

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Don't think in terms of dollars. Think in terms of stuff and services. You don't see the internet in terms of dollars because it often makes it cheaper to do something that was pos…

Hey, this is completely off topic, but I wanted to put this somewhere you might see it. I was reviewing some of my old posts this evening, and I ran across this comment of yours: h…

The accident was in 2024. The report on it just came out.

"I blame it on Minnesota because they are grossly incompetent." "I think Minnesota is behind it." The first quote makes it the state's responsibility to secure local water systems,…

It has nothing to do with LLMs. One cannot trust the proof of anything if one cannot trust the verifier.

You, sir, have a very different definition of "not particularly large" than I do!

UAE, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt, if you don't want to have to hit the link.

> Chasing money and making money is a virtue. Depends on your definitions. If by "chasing money", you mean "I want money, so I'm going to find out what people want badly enough to …

Either he knows and doesn't want to take the blame, or he doesn't know. I'm not sure which one is worse.

We shouldn't. Slop is slop. But there are a couple of differences: AI slop can be more annoying to read. I mean, some human slop is as annoying as AI slop, but not all of it. AIs c…

Sure, planes are private property. The airport is not. Airports are government property. And when I'm, for example, going through TSA, I'm not doing so on a plane, but rather in th…

This is giving me flashbacks of English history. At various times, the king was desperate for sources of revenue that were not under Parliament's control. So it may be here. Trump …

HN does not send notices of replies. I think they used to (or at least had the option), but they don't anymore.