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I think this idea (and I necessarily don’t believe in it, but let’s give it a fair chance) is more like a few-weeks detox. Avoiding any news at all half a year seems a bit disorien…

No-news-at-all was the suggestion in the post they responded to. It seems like a detox type idea (it doesn’t seem sustainable). I think you are right that there’s some middle groun…

How about: The yaks have started shaving themselves, who can keep track of how good a job they are doing?

Well the best code is no code. Nop could be second best though.

On the bright side it could probably run for years without hitting the mistake as well. But it is nice to get it out of there.

It sounds not as bad as Moon dust. Realistically the Mars is about as habitable as the Moon, not habitable. So it’ll be a one-off problem.

That’s what some politicians here mean when they say it. The poll seems to indicate pretty negative results for “socialism,” which seems less likely if people were just interpretin…

How much of coding is weeding?

> You can't convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. I think this is true. But it doesn’t get rid of the possibility of hyperpersuasive bots, just, points to a reason the…

> One of the experiments I've heard proposed around here is to somehow create an LLM from all text up to 1980 or 1990 and see if it can get back to making itself. This is an intere…

Their web chat UI seems to be called “Vibe.” I think? I’m not sure if that’s the name of the product or just what they decided to label it in the browser. I wonder if -strap is jus…

Yeah, everyone knows the best content is on a professor’s site from the 90’s, with no images. Maybe some figures, but if so, they should look like they were printed, physically cut…

Is that actually true though? I think it is an analogy, and as an analogy it seems quite risky because “convex hull” and “linear combination” are technical terms that might give th…

The plot in the blog post seems to be very symmetrical around 50% (to the point where there must be some identity going on). The plot from the paper seems to cross over around 75%.…

I think the third one is a separate thing. I don’t know of a name for it, but I’d call it the engineer’s (or physicist’s) blindspot or something like that. I can’t remember of DK s…

I didn’t read the whole essay, but it seems to be more like: find something you are interested in, interested enough to work very hard at it, and don’t worry about what others thin…

IMO allowing package adoption makes sense in the responsible/intended use-case: AUR packages aren’t trusted, you have to read the PKGBUILD anyway, so the reputation of the contribu…

Having made the mistake of writing a couple of them, I’m pretty sure the only uses of non-fiction documents longer than ~30 pages is * As a reference; people can look look up just …

I think that might have been semi-sarcastic. I mean, there are lots of reasons to do this sort of thing, some are bad, some are not so bad, most are not war.

I’d expect the mail carrier who goes from the mail center to the bank to be slightly more trustworthy than the one who visits me off in the middle of nowhere. Or at least, if that …

Eh, I think I disagree. We should support a convention of reading all of the paragraphs to the posts we are responding to, not just the first one.

The specific swings are a little surprising, but only in the way that a macaroni jumps around in hard to predict directions if you put it in boiling water. We’ve made the weather l…

I want to applaud your choice to not include anything like quotes here. That would be misleading because it isn’t an actual literal quote. And, we’re too used to just skimming post…

If the poster agreed with the opinion, they wouldn’t have included “actually” (indicating that they think the reader will be feeling incredulous at that point) and “otherwise intel…

Oh, that seems like it would be quite nice, actually. It is vaguely annoying when my touchscreen moves my mouse cursor.