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grammar and rules of language has almost nothing to do with the difficulty of writing good text (ala, written prose fit for purpose). Understanding of grammar and rules of a langua…

Teach Yourself A* in Ten Years

> Would you turn every leaf in the forest around twice if someone is paying for this, then it must mean it is useful to the one doing the paying. If you're not the one paying, you …

> There's no way large companies outside the US will pay the "US AI lab" premium this has already happened with manufacturing, so it isn't surprising that other industries follow. …

> much intrinsic meaning now work should not be considered to have to have intrinsic meaning for it to be worthwhile - you merely need to make sure your pay is worthwhile. Find int…

And this is why you know age verification is not done to make sure kids are protected.

> The foundational knowledge is lost, meaning that even if we do look at the code, we won't understand it anyway. but this is similar to a lot of other technical fields that have w…

He's basically asking other people to do his job for him, because he knows that the AI doesn't truly do it well enough. I would say to him that if he wants me to do his job, he nee…

Why is railroad a better comparison?

> do you enjoy consuming AI-generated stuff? you might be in the minority, because a lot of people don't care for low quality, as long as it "works". The same effect happened with …

> require less employees, resulting to less positions in the market which i counter with the idea that more efficiency means more output for less - ala, more surplus. This extra su…

The fear in most people is not of losing the job, but of losing their value in the market as ai raises the floor of capabilities of other people competing for the same job.

The problem with QA is that from the POV of management, all they do is find issues and delay releases. If the QA team did their jobs well, then once all of the reported bugs are fo…

> Cancel could also be implemented by hiding a UI element, for example. Sometimes this can be confusing, because the hiding of the UI element doesn't prevent the submission of the …

> They should pay a fair amount. they should pay the marginal value that the next buyer would buy. Do you also think that a person dying of thirst ought to pay the maximum price th…

> the investment mania in SK and it's really scary. i mean, it shouldn't be scary, because their failure is their own, and i doubt there would be collateral damage outside of those…

This is a form of legal evasion similar to warrant canaries imho : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary i m not sure how legal a protection it is, and whether the courts wo…

There's a chilling effect from even just the arrest.

The police are there to enforce laws, but enforce it by punishment, rather than prevention. The potential deterrence effect still applies, as people do get discouraged from crimes …

> I wonder if the shares without these special rights will be substantially discounted it should be, but the market might be a bit irrational.

> Does anyone still believe there's some hope for personal freedoms? as long as such personal freedoms gives users the ability to skirt the profit motives of companies making these…

TINA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative

> send a photo to your mac/PC is "upload to google photos and hope it decides to sync". and conveniently, google now has access to your photo, the meta data, and potentially able t…

They securely share your private info with their advertising partners. You know that no hackers that didnt pay google would get access to that information.

Security, but not for you, is no security.