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why is it news that a guy quits when his boss changes, and a company doesn't do enough to criticize itself? the internet is flooded with information about the risk that AI poses to…

The political changes that lead to the talent exodus from Goettingen are not, in fact, so different from the ideological oaths required by much of US academia now, and seem to me t…

> Who cares if they’re all women? What difference does it make? One of my main beefs is the mismatch between the headline "Brilliant Thinkers ..." and the contents of the page. If …

It's just pure sexism, an exercise in performative feminism. More absurdly, these people appear to have no idea how the dead researchers they feature actually thought. No archival …

The funniest part of the OpenAI post is where someone comes in breathlessly and says "hey have you read this ACX post on why we shouldn't open source AGI" to the guy who's literall…

Some form of at least partial superiority is inherent in the notion of "helping", as is a power dynamic. You say that your colleague's diversity-focused activity gets results, and …

A "sincere desire to help" is a form of self-validation, a move to serve the socially ambitious, and a show of power, in that "helping" implies superiority. It would be great if ed…

University faculty-activists are a perfect example of elite overproduction a la Turchin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction We create small, smart cadres of people …

No kidding. As they say on Twitter: "What did you think decolonization meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?" Racialism is the stovepipe for the revolution.

Great answer. Thank you.

Does the college remain a pipeline to good schools? In the past, a very significant portion of the student body, some years the majority, transferred to tier-one, four-year univers…

The brothel (The Cotton Tail Ranch) closed many years ago. Another neat thing about the "bus stop" was that the phone booth gave you no way to dial. There was no number pad. You'd …

TASP was renamed TASS a couple years ago, and it now offers only two seminars: Critical Black Studies and Anti-Oppressive Studies. The program has been taken over by woke radicals …

It's almost as though your physical surroundings are your true phenotype, creating a whole-brain activation with memory cues that disappear when you leave the room. The edges of th…

China runs on Intel chips like everyone else. It's AI researchers beg for Nvidia chips like everyone else. And its mobile companies use Android. Chips that break away from those st…

I'm surprised by the cluelessness of most replies here, given that this is HN. Hardware is only as useful as the software that can run on it. Radically new hardware requires rewrit…

Software determines whether good hardware succeeds or fails. China has yet to build successful software ecosystems on top of its hardware innovations.

DJI has been delivering payloads in Ukraine for some time now.

When I consider how much specious, fallacy-riddled reasoning is produced by EAs, all hunkered in their AI bomb shelters praying for and against the end, I suspect that the "problem…

Anyone interested in the military transformation of Europe and really Eurasia should read John Keegan's excellent "History of Warfare." https://www.amazon.com/History-Warfare-John-…

context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real

This is fantastic. The nursing home industry is dirty and sad, with for-profit groups squeezing every cent they can out of seniors who can't advocate for themselves, out of their f…

Intel spent more than a decade under Otellini, Krzanich and Swan. Bean counters. Gelsinger was appointed out of desperation, but the problem runs much deeper. I doubt that culture …

Fun fact: More than half of all engineers at NVIDIA are software engineers. Jensen has deliberately and strategically built a powerful software stack on top of his GPUs, and he's s…