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A related article https://archive.is/2024.12.17-161126/https://www.theatlantic... Our scaling is human oriented - add more shifts. Maybe we can adapt new manufacturing methods like…

Lots of people saying they don’t like the idea of this here. How many people works at companies whose bottom line is driven by researching website visitors to make their ads unforg…

Funny, the scenario you described is exactly what Elon wanted to do! https://openai.com/index/openai-elon-musk/ > In late 2017, we and Elon decided the next step for the mission wa…

The median American net worth is $192,700. Elon’s net worth is $393.4 billion, so if I’m doing math right he’s about 204,000,000x more

The NSA does not do either of those things

IIRC Amazon has a 2 years 401k match vesting period.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3331 The agenda of the president does not matter

This assumes that DOGE has actually found something in their "audit", which seems dubious given TFA

Perhaps this FAQ will help you https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2024-11/MVSDefec...

The Tulsi that pushes Russian disinformation? That should do well for rooting out lying. Also some facts: Intelligence services did not lie us into the Iraq war - politicians did. …

It makes the whole world blind

As a vet, get some help bro and stop hanging around the militia losers.

Leading tech for a 250 person startup is surely different than wrangling the vast bureaucracy of the US Government, especially when the author says they didn't want to join Atlassi…

Should they be responsible for what they algorithimcally show to users?

BRS still pays at least 40% of base, plus potentially more via TSP assuming people are moving out of the G fund.

Cloudflare was happy to host Kiwi Farms for a long time. I doubt they care what Musk does.

Amazon comp is based on your annual performance review (OLR) and your pay band (level + job family). OLR has 5 tiers: least effective, highly valued 1-3, and top tier. Each of thos…

So the AI has overtaken all code and manual processes within a laboratory environment to hijack the ability to print DNA sequences without anybody saying “man it’s weird that my pr…

Who built the automated lab that allows it to create a deadly pathogen before someone presses reboot? I see almost no chance that an AGI starts redirecting resources like energy an…

Clearly, since this is OpenAI’s model spec, it is desired by them. If other AI groups publish their own desired behavior, you can make an informed decision as to which model you wa…

I wonder if the National Basketball Players Association limits Lebron’s ability to negotiate his upcoming $122mm contract.

Technically, it’s if you communicate to a target of a foreign intelligence investigation AND they deem you suspect enough to request FISA approval to access your side of the commun…

Rather than just claiming that the history is “flat out wrong”, it’d sure be neat if you provided some sources the back that up.

Here's an experiment at JHU: https://alperovitch.sais.jhu.edu/five-days-in-class-with-cha... I'm not fully convinced it was a net-positive, because sometimes asking the "dumb" ques…

I’m trying to square how only [15% of oil price controls]( https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/29/us/president-abolishes-la... ) remained when Reagan single handedly saved the day. See…