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> allow some US startup to undermine their currency and distort their financial system How is it undermining a currency and distorting a financial system to allow people to exchang…

It's pretty cool to see how commenters engage with Glenn/bot-Glenn to identify his responses as LLM-generated. At one point, someone tries the DAN jailbreak and gets the response: …

What's interesting to me is that the project feels very "un-Apple", despite being open-sourced under the Apple org; some typos and lack of proper punctuation in the README, using j…

Procedures and flows is a big one. It really helps for understanding the "flow" of processes and making sure you don't spend too much precious time in the cockpit repeating the sam…

How is that ironic? Saying "risk is our business" doesn't imply you'll be successful. It implies the risk is worth it, and you acknowledge the possibility of negative and dangerous…

I feel kinda the same way about Waymo like I did about Apple as a relatively early adopter. The experience is genuinely magical, and there’s a massive gulf between Cruise and Waymo…

I worked there for a few years, and, though I never thought of it this way, I keep in touch with my friends there in much the same way. We send each other and ask for photos, and t…

People forget for how long Lisp had an impact on AI, even outside GOFAI techniques; LeCun's early neural networks were written in Lisp: https://leon.bottou.org/publications/pdf/sn-…

I think out of all companies, Apple has generally been the best (though not perfect) at maintaining focus even when a product is "good enough". I felt the same about the early MacB…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

There's an aquatic cave in Death Valley called Devil's Hole; divers have gone to ~600 ft, but the cave is likely over twice as deep. A magnitude 7.6 earthquake 1,500 miles away cau…

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Gall’s Law: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patc…

It's easier to hide bad writing with more difficult words. When writing in a way that's easily understandable, bad writing or arguments that don't make sense become much more evide…

The article’s claim that “inflation is far worse than the government admits” may well be true, or it may not be, but it doesn’t provide any evidence either way. The closest it gets…

I just started watching the historical footage from CNN; it's interesting to hear the commentary in between when the first and second planes hit the tower. "Was the plane having an…

Not quite an answer to your question, but in the 60s and 70s hijackings were quite common (86 hijackings in 1969) and weren’t seen in the way they are now. The common understanding…

On the other hand, I’ve seen the other side of this. Leadership makes an issue out of something the engineers perceive as insignificant and the “wrong problem to solve”, nobody spe…

> There is a different incentive at play here. Netflix wants to track individuals. Maybe this is naive, but doesn't Netflix already have enough information from the account already…

Relevant article; it focuses on one candidate but the techniques are often universal (albeit at different magnitudes): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donatio.…

One potential hypothesis: the Conservative Party in the UK tends to be centered around a particular social and educational class; many front-bench cabinet members in the Cameron go…