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That’s right. And use taxes can and should be calibrated to not just collect money but achieve public policy objectives. If the real marginal cost were close to 10 cents a page, we…

Right, but 1: We already pay for the fixed costs and 2: the real marginal cost--however you want to measure it--is still closer to 0 than 10 cents.

The problem is threefold: the true marginal cost of a PACER page is closer to 0 than 10 cents; the fixed cost (building an electronic record system) is already paid by the public; …

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The AI wouldn’t care obviously but I thought we’d find less maximally ironic engagement bait to be made by machines. I think I didn’t have enough imagination.

I’m continually surprised by just how many “AI is ruining X” posts are obviously AI-written. Just not a genre of writing I predicted would appear.

There’s also no evidence for it aside from “stars go up too much” and “my social circle isn’t talking about it”, so that could be a reason!

It's not protestware, it's a special military operation.

Don't be obtuse.

Willingness to play. It is similar to the problem with the neutron bomb. On the surface the idea of the neutron bomb (a bomb which kills humans via hard radiation but leaves infra …

It’s a puff piece written by someone who didn’t know (or didn’t care) they were being managed.

I mean you confused the 737-max problems with the general notion of automation, so...

2 things. First, landing a plane is abnormal! You're shedding a huge amount of energy and you're transitioning from a state where you can keep flying due to your speed to one where…

And you contend that autopilot makes that situation more dangerous? Do you have any support for this?

Landing is an abnormal situation for an aircraft which we make SUBSTANTIALLY less dangerous through intense automation. Do you want to rip out automated landing systems?

The crew and the plane are a single system. It is meaningless to imagine pilot “skill” without the plane. Further, we killed so many pilots in the 20th century through impossible w…

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You didn't bother to read the article or learn about the subject but you feel qualified to put "journalism" in quotes?

Even in the US which lags behind in this area it would be obscene to claim that grocery cashiers aren't being actively replaced. That's just not connected to reality. Most grocery …

This is cool! Thanks for building it.

What's the point of reading someone's writings on a subject where you know they're not typically correct? How would we know what we 'learn' from Ed is right?

"a sales manager making a bad call when images are not available" It seems nearly impossible to imagine that to be the case. I'd have to disregard the kinds of manipulation entirel…

That remains to be seen.

I was talking to a Claude Opus 4.7 chatbot about low-discrepancy sequences and made the mistake of framing a thought experiment as "deceiving" a vendor who owns a scrambler by maki…

>I am here to light up the dark path you are unknowingly walking, like lamplighters who used to light street lamps for those brave enough to walk the night alone. What the light re…