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The benefits go beyond reducing token consumption. Compact contexts also foster better reasoning, enable intelligence across more layers if you can load them in a single context, a…

Looks like a good model (sir). Costs are getting out of control though. 2x Opus and non-metered usage going away. We're quickly approaching the cost of a human salary for normal us…

Attempts to impose always small PRs might get me to argue that optimal change sizes are normally distributed. If you look at how simulated annealing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

If you're at a place that rewards complexity, you might be able to pitch simplicity as something that to get right, requires deep understanding of complex information theoretic con…

One underrated reason that CLIs are often better than MCP is that Unix tools seem to have close to information theoretically optimal layout to enabled reasoning. They are concise, …

Yeah I always wondered if I ever switched to solar panels, would there be a way to accumulate heat to be used in the Canadian cold months that have little sunlight? The closest I f…

This matches my intuition. Systematic misalignment seems like it could be prevented by somewhat simple rules like the hippocratic oath or Asimov's Laws of robotics or rather probab…

Wouldn't this have been more readable with a \n newline instead of a pipe operator as a seperator? This wouldn't have made the prompt longer.

Countries are waking up to the danger of having the US in a position to take control of most of their computers and phones via software updates. Open source solutions like https://…

It could be just an owner or a board or directors at the top. It's possible the CEO will be automated for some companies.

I also mean Hacker News

AI CEOs are coming.

Its founder lives in europe so there's that.

It is a sad reality. The US has recently threatened to annex Denmark and Canada. Some of us are suddenly keenly aware that the US is in a position to take control of most of our co…

For consumers, these computers look interesting: https://starlabs.systems/

I know doctors who've worked with Marrero and they seem to be split in their opinion. They seem to agree he tends to be "excessively thorough", frequently sending tests to labs acr…

Right but the majority of people holding significant amounts of capital is retirees or people saving for retirement. There is a small minority of people wealthy for other reasons. …

Do you have a link? What I've seen in most discussions is obscuring of the fact that the majority of "capital" is directly or indirectly retirees or people saving for retirement. T…

Note that the "Labor vs Capital" distinction mostly means "workers vs retirees". The reason more money goes to capital these days is not necessarily that each retiree is getting mo…

If you click on the link, I mention other competing attempts and architectures, like Multics, Hurd, MacOS and even early Windows that either failed or started adopting Unix pattern…

Unix and Linux would be your quintessential examples. Unix was an effort to take Multics, an operating system that had gotten too modular, and integrate the good parts into a more …

So which base style and tone simply gives you less sycophancy? It's not clear from their names and description. I'm looking for the "Truthful" personality.