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Even if they were well-funded, I suspect the history of regulatory capture, at least in the U.S., shows that meaningful pro-consumer reforms get slow-walked until the underlying bi…

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“We're taking away your healthcare, sending your children to die in forever wars, poisoning the environment, all while ruining your job prospects” The baseline. This does not mean …

Assuming no change from the baseline, I’d rather have one positive thing versus nothing positive.

My initial reaction was “woah, you just described HyperCard”. Which isn’t exactly true in retrospect, but kudos for capturing the promise of (at least for me) one of the formative …

AI adopted humanisms, we just weren’t used to seeing them at the same scale we do today. Diversity of writing styles was part of that, but I’d point to vernacular exposure as the l…

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I interpreted the comment you are responding to as “people want to do what they believe is the right work” rather than simply the mandated work (which they might fundamentally disa…

What was your expectation? That your prompt would trigger a web search, first, before the introspection of past conversations and a training set recall? How did Sonnet 4.6 respond …

That ship has long sailed. You’re correct, but the author isn’t the one who “named the thing” in this case, they are just using the name commonly used to describe it. Multi-rotor d…

In this case, I’d expect it should make a web search tool call to find the Python library best suited for SVG generation and manipulation, and then use what it learns there to exec…

In some cases, I’m sure you are right. That said, the online communities which currently employ shadowban systems continue to use them. That tells me there’s a value greater than t…

A slur is rarely the problem. Trolls can (sometimes) add flavor to a community and keep things interesting. Mostly they can be an annoyance. I’m specifically referring to people wh…

After having been a moderator for a number of communities over the years—BBCs in the 90s, niche forums during the 00s & 10s, Reddit boards in the 20s—I’ve come to believe that runn…

A few years ago, a facsimile of Imperial Rome staging munera at the Colosseum on the White House lawn would have been unimaginable. The attendees seemed like they enjoyed it and th…

In all seriousness, wasn’t that always the case? Writing bad code is relatively cheap. Ensuring code isn’t bad is the expensive part.

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“…used for religious purposes and/or tribal rituals.” (Far-future Archeologist, Zarb-7854) Which, joking aside, isn’t too far from the truth.

Why would the U.S. government want to sabotage prediction markets when the chief executive has a vested interest in keeping them legitimate?

What would you do differently if LLM outputs were deterministic? Perhaps I approach this from a different perspective than you do, so I’m interested to understand other viewpoints.…

…and a concise one at that. Which is more impressive given the (general) penchant to say less with more.

https://broadbandbreakfast.com/dateline-ashburn-data-centers... “Loudoun County currently has 199 data centers, with another 117 in development, according to Michael Turner, vice c…

What is your bar for “useful”? Let’s start there and we’ll see what evidence can be offered. User count? Domain? Scope of development? You have something in mind, obviously.

It would be helpful if you could define “useful” in this context. I’ve built a number of team-specific tools with LLM agents over the past year that save each of us tens of hours a…

GitHub, Bitbucket, GCE, AWS…all have licensing agreements for user contributions which the user flagged as “public” so I’m not exactly clear of your point if you are holding SO up …