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When "natural experience" gets tossed around, I tend to immediately think: What about the _opposite_ natural experience? In this case, it would be something like: Most people who a…

OF will still kill you faster than 100F, and most folks aren't comfortable at 50F. It inspires the following idea: A nonlinear scale where ~72F is 0, and +X represents the same lev…

Our values satisfied through friendship and ponies.

What's wrong with asking the user on account creation and OS install?

What's bullshit? You mean to say the dishwasher buyer would legally be on the hook for billions?

The quote about ineffable/divine/mystical is indeed the one I was implicitly referring to. No worries, I should've been more clear. Most math people I know don't have a religious c…

You can't remove the humans entirely and still be said to be in the business of doing math. On that I fully agree. We should still be spending the same number of hours on math, jus…

> Every single knowledge worker is going to face this kind of crisis. It will be worse for people who cared deeply about their craft, but the crisis will have the same shape. Norma…

Irrelevant to your point, but drug users dying is more often the result of a dealer cutting their supply with something dangerous than it is the result of purity.

My honest first impressions, since I think the project is well intended: This writeup is itself AI, and I would venture to call it slop. The Calibration section is borderline unint…

In REBT (rational emotive behavioral therapy; a cognitive behavioral therapy focused on rational introspection) the excessive "need" language is identified with "musturbation": htt…

> Yet, people still seem surprised when I tell them I'm not willing to run a slop cannon and excrete software which is _good enough_. Cue the usual propaganda: "Oh but that's just …

No one else has mentioned it here, so on account of my own experiences I feel the obligation to say: Be aware of this developing into suicidal ideation, if it hasn't already. I get…

There are three people in this thread with this "personal" problem.

Too late, we now exclusively stock NicoSugar broccoli in the stores. I mean, I guess we chose it? It's not the market's fault that the human brain likes sugar and nicotine.

Why do some Americans build their whole political and philosophical personality off of 1A maximalism? I'm an American, and it's a great principle. Freedom of speech deserves to be …

When it came time for website owners to decide whether they (1) would remove unnecessary cookies, (2) receive consent from their users for extra cookies via reasonable banners, or …

"Manually" would be a charitable reading. Most of these prompts and answers appear AI generated. On your average HN front page submission, there is literally no effort too easy nor…

Wretch, huh. I don't think we want you here.

Their argument would be, "If meth is a negative externality, we should just tax it instead of banning it in stores for kids to buy." Kids may die, but I'm sure with all that extra …

Most disorders in the DSM-5 are defined by polythetic criteria, i.e. meeting X out of Y symptoms from a list for a given duration of time, or by conjunction of polythetic criteria.…

> Obviously, understanding someone else's proof is much easier than writing your own. Unrelated, but once you get to a more mature level, say grad school and above, I can say this …

Looking into his biography, it seems that he was indeed pitching the engine not as a means of efficiency, but as a means of avoiding mistakes in mathematical tables. It would have …

> You (a smart human) should be able to converge on it by cross-examining your LLMs. What makes you think this is fundamentally different from cross-examining ELIZA? There is no gu…