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Folks who keep mentioning that this is no different than any previous upward leap of abstraction in human history are missing a key point that the frontier labs are certainly not m…

Sorry to disappoint bud, I'm a manager of managers. Being able to look critically at your own tribe is one of the first skills you learn if you want to survive as someone telling o…

>choose what tools I use to learn about my condition regardless of how well it works or even if it’s likely to mislead me. Even if it "works" so poorly that you're not actually lea…

The implication that tokenmaxxing was an intentional and thoughtfully considered approach rather than blind hype-following by an overpaid manager class who are too far removed from…

Outsourcing a specific task to a deterministic tool you own is clearly not the same thing as outsourcing all of your cognition to a probabilistic tool owned by people with ongoing …

You’ve offered no evidence of “DEI in maths” or any of your other confidently unsubstantiated arguments. You’re just parroting talking points. Unserious takes deserve unserious res…

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This is an enormously disingenuous take. When Usenet was the only game in town, children were not stumbling into hyperoptimized addictive experiences tailored to every flick of the…

It’s not super clear what you’re getting at here. The choice isn’t teflon or oil. Everyone uses fat to sear food in a pan, whether or not it’s a nonstick pan. Cooking with a high-s…

Most consumer PTFE coatings are declared to be safe up to 450°F. It is trivially easy to heat a pan beyond that temperature on modern gas, electric, and induction ranges in less th…

Assuming you're serious, I'm curious why you think Reddit's CEO shouldn't be chastised under that same category. Selling ads next to user-generated content, rent seeking with deman…

Is this actually a reinvention of the browser, or just another self-interested organization trying to grab a slice of the pie? I download Arc and am immediately greeted with a mand…

Given your comment history, it’s clear that you’re driven by motivations that aren’t at all universal. More bluntly, you’ve decided that consumer-surveillance-as-a-service is harml…

Charitably, this is a goofy take. Less charitably, your reference to a "vocal urbanist activist crowd" suggests that you're leaning more on partisan talking points than evidence. M…

What's interesting is that most thoughtful people in the industry agree that our conventions around interviewing make for an almost hilariously arbitrary hiring process, but very f…

What's your source for the claim that Tesla's system "doesn't detect stationary objects"? From the reference frame of a moving Tesla, both globally stationary and globally moving o…

Given this man's established ideological record, I think this article reveals more about Jason Furman's personal philosophical baises than it does about the objective costs and ben…

The fact that Clojure "hides the magic" behind less-verbose syntax can be a feature or a bug, depending on your opinion. What's certain is that it's disingenuous to say that you ha…

>Legitimate criticism of his views should be directed at him Meanwhile, on the GitHub issue: >Locking this one. Note sure which peanut gallery site linked this... This is clearly a…

This is Amazon's wet dream. Your app isn't an app at all, it's just a collection of configs on the AWS Console. When and if the time comes to migrate off of AWS, you realize you do…

Except people who buy physical gold don't have to worry about "the technical side of securing their own funds" because they can put their gold in a safe deposit box... at a bank. T…