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I'd strongly recommend you read back what I've said and what you've said. The idea that I've presented anything "very passionate" while you've just been "nuanced" is a little silly…

Obviously it’s not “perfectly consistent”. There is at least a bit of incongruity in these three, no? A sniff of something off? Also, I’m not conflating anything. I asked you to sa…

Can you spell out a bit more how these three thoughts live together consistently for you: 1) The price is insane 2) The price is a work of great financial engineering 3) The price …

Really surprised not to see Pope Leo's recent encyclical on AI/tech mentioned here. https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/docume...

examples?

> eacher uses AI, creates lesson plan -> AI creates assignments -> Teacher gives assignments to students | Up to this point, it's actually completely fine. LLMs do an excellent job…

I feel like in the context of AI in education, "wisdom through dogma" still doesn't capture it. It's not even wisdom nor dogma, but something in the form of wisdom developed throug…

So you think they weren’t getting paid for this? You think they just freely mention corporate food companies purely for users benefit?

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2619/BillHistory SECTION 1. The General Laws are hereby amended by inserting after chapter 93L the following chapter:- Chapter 93M. Massachuset…

>literally hundreds of orders of magnitude slower I'm sure this is just a slip of the tongue (finger), but the idea of being a numerical googol times slower is funny.

Imagine taking up a hobby of drawing, then bemoaning the existence of a printer. Or learning spanish, and bemoaning google translate. Or trying out woodworking, and bemoaning IKEA.…

From the article this one links to: >Microsoft has been piloting Scout as an internal tool for employees it was calling “ClawPilot,” since March. ClawPilot—and now Scout—are part o…

>the study where it beats our highest caliber of knowledge workers may have some methodological deficits. That isn’t even remotely what this study is looking at.

Those feelings fall apart very quickly though. A project from a non-technical person may seem to roll out well, but they aren't seeing the parts that are misguided, not generalizab…

I think the problem is there isn't a fortune there. It would be a successful endeavor, but not something to rake in huge piles of cash. The kinds of leaders and investors who could…

I feel like if you’re going to write an article like this, you should at least engage with why it’s happening. Maybe deep down for some of the participants it’s a kind of moral thi…

Police and fire fighters have tons of opportunities for overtime. they get paid absurd amounts of money to do it. It’s another thing that badly needs reform.

I’ve definitely replaced iphones because the battery wasn’t holding a charge. My understanding is that this is a pretty common issue, no?

Every time a drug addict uses, they’re actually learning about biology and the sociology of addiction.

The judgement also includes interest, 6.75% per year.

I find the idea of learning from simulated data so unintuitive. How can you radically improve your model with just your model? I take it people do it, so it must work, but i just d…

i really doubt the downsides of adding that layer of complexity can compete with the upsides of surveillance pricing.

Can’t you guys just read a book and take a nap?

There’s something mind-boggling about the prices that get charged for these things. $2k-$3k for a not particularly complicated array of steel and plastic. I bought my (used) car in…