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Effective Altruism isn't very different from Randian objectivism.

Waking hours is both a quantity game and a quality game. I don't remember too much from the parts of my life where I was very sleep deprived

We also saw this with YouTube MCNs, early video game publishers, and (of course) record labels. Whenever there is a booming industry of entertainers, it seems like there's a corres…

So would it be fair to say this is less about deterministic vs. LLM-driven tools, and more about software published out of New York vs. software published out of Germany?

I think a fantastic companion piece to this article is https://gwern.net/complement

Another AI-ism is the use of the word "grain" in technical contexts. I'm confident the OP is human-written, but everything in my AI-supported codebase is about grains, seams, trace…

Important question: how many engineers does it take to teach a robot how to screw in a light bulb?

It's free for a limited number of notes. I guess you could copypaste the note summaries out to Obsidian or something, but at that point you're better off using MacParakeet, OpenWhi…

I just found out this capability is also available on Macbooks! This would have saved me a lot of grief during a recent road trip through some mountains. https://support.apple.com/…

places like Charles Town, Martinsburg, and Cumberland MD are really wonderful, beautiful, but economically depressed communities. It's not quite Boise or Austin, but towns like thi…

I will often do "speak a long rambling set of ideas and ask the LLM to summarize it into a prompt or spec -> manually refine -> drop refined prompt into fresh conversation"

Is Superpowers any good? My coworkers who've used it seem to think that its main purpose is to consume a lot of tokens.

wow, they really are exhausting every avenue to raise as much money as possible.

Our internet ecosystem is becoming more and more hostile to open information commons. I like open information commons -- what do we do about this?

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I'm referring to the equity offering that started in June and has a second component that starts in 2026Q3. Most of this raise came from the sale of Class A and Class C stock. A fr…

They just raised $85 billion and they're sitting on a mountain of cash - if their spending didn't increase in this context, it'd be bad management. The real story here is that they…

That tiny 1"x1.5" thumbnail[1] of John C. Dvorak in PC Magazine was the essence of Gravitas for me as a kid. [1] https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1999-12-14/page/88/mode/2...

Moreover, OpenAI already doesn't have the best reputation for maintaining ideals over doing the convenient and profitable thing

I had the same experience trying to see the 4th of July fireworks in an unfamiliar city. It doesn't help that there was very little information online about which roads were closed…

I didn't get that vibe from this piece at all. Claire sounds disillusioned more than she sounds bitter, and I really don't see too much supporting the narrative about her becoming …

Google is loved for the things they built that cause people to love Google (GMail, Search, Drive, K8s, Android, Patents, Books, Nest, Wave, Workspace, YouTube) and Google is hated …

The cloud logo that is inscribed onto the base of this device and on its bottom-right key is no longer used by OpenAI. In fact, the "Codex" app, branding, and featureset was folded…

It is an emulator for a console that does not exist in real life. People make games for this "console" because they are fun to play and fun to program. The same developer made PICO…