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Defining who "really" invented something is often tricky. For example I mentioned in the article that there is some dispute about who discovered backpropagation. A According to Wik…

Author here. What do you mean? The article this thread is about has hardly any opinion in it. Or consider this piece explaining how LLMs work: https://www.understandingai.org/p/lar…

What isn't really true? The passage is about a hypothetical LLM so obviously the exact steps depicted here don't correspond to any particular LLM. But LLMs undoubtedly modify hidde…

I actually don't have a job! I'm a self-employed writer who made low five figures last year.

I discussed this in the final section: "The level of employment across the economy is ultimately driven by macroeconomic factors: If consumers spend more money, then businesses wil…

My argument that it won't cause mass unemployment is that most jobs in the economy are not jobs AI can automate because (1) they involve physical work that current robots can't do …

Yes exactly.

I'm old enough to remember them too! I'm not saying that system was better. I'm just saying it's weird that the new system is so much more expensive to run.

And then people frequently complain about these varieties—for example, that the BLS produces a "core" version that excludes food and energy even though there's also a version with …

OP author here. I wrote a shadowstats debunker back in November: https://fullstackeconomics.com/no-the-real-inflation-rate-is... tldr: they don't actually reconstruct the old metho…

There wasn’t a 2010 long form. The 2010 census had about 10 questions: sex, race, age, ethnicity, as well as your relationship to the primary homeowner and whether the home was own…

Right, that was my point: the nanny does more than just keep the kid safe.

No, this was before she became a successful author. About half of it was an inheritance on her side. The other half came from his side.

What do you use?

Sorry, but this is not an accurate summary of the state of the law. Whether Android's implementation of Java was fair use is one of the questions the Supreme Court is considering. …

No, it's closer to the opposite. The statute says that the courts "may, only to the extent necessary" charge fees for access to PACER. I don't think there would be any legal barrie…

Man, you're reading way too much into my headline. The headline describes the article accurately: I created a deepfake. It took me two weeks and I spent $552. The headline doesn't …

Absolutely, but they have that influence and so far they've mostly been using it in ways that make journalism worse (creating powerful incentives for shallow articles with clickbai…

The question is how you want to characterize an iPhone. If the phone is Apple's property that they're letting you use, then Apple's app store restrictions are analogous to McDonald…

Nope.

Mainstream news sites aren't going to give you the kind of super-deep insights you're going to find in academic research or trade press or whatever. 90 percent of any site's audien…