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It’s hard to say exactly what the folks in the article are grappling with, not working with them personally. I never got to the point where I was anywhere near personal crisis from…

It was, on a technical level, the most interesting work I’ve ever done. What people say about the US government being ahead of the commercially available technology curve is certai…

Used to work in this field. You're correct: not being able to talk about it is the worst part. This is equally true of successes as well as challenges. I did some cool, very impact…

I did this in the summer of 2019. My girlfriend and I lived in her Subaru for the summer, and drove across the country visiting a bunch of national parks. Writeup here: https://cus…

I wouldn’t describe the people this blog talks about as “normal people”, or “average people”. Most people don’t behave this way or have these kinds of problems. A reminder: tech jo…

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This is a real problem. I suspect that part of it is that people don’t have enough time to mentally incorporate the fix. Is it weird to submit the MR later, after people have had a…

> Yes, if they are "responsible" for the code delivered, where responsible means they understand the code, the architecture, the decisions made, etc. This is a good principle to ma…

Uber was too expensive once, too, and yet they seem to be currently functioning as a profitable public company. “AI is too expensive right now ” is an accurate title. Plenty of thi…

Personally I hate how badly internal users are served by the majority of their systems and am willing to take some calculated long-term governance risks This, I think, is the LLM/v…

Zero of these instances were due to shipboard reactor failure.

The engineering side of running reactors safely is a solved problem, the US navy has > 7500 reactor-years with a perfect safety record. It’s also worth noting that the US Navy is t…

I was one of probably eight people who played the Emperor: Battle for Dune RTS game, and I always think of the Fremen character sound bite whenever I see the Old Man of the Desert’…

geohot definitely ticks the box for “so ambitious he occasionally sounds unhinged”.

Don't forget Sauron. https://www.sauron.systems/

One other commenter asked a decent question - does going lighter (Zig) or harder on memory safety (Rust) confer any meaningful advantages against the phenomenon you describe?

Repeatability and/or an actual negative effect. POC generally means “you can demonstrate unintentional behavior”. “Exploit” means you can gain access or do something malicious. It’…

Fair critique. Mueller was a pretty upstanding example of how to run the FBI, however.

It's equal opportunity corruption. ...and look how nice it sounds it live in Russia.

If they can build a peaceful relationship with Taiwan without military involvement where both countries can continue to prosper we really will have a new super power Ah, if only. T…

The last 15 years has significantly changed peoples' opinions on that matter. I’m gonna need to see some immigration statistics on influx of foreigners into the PRC to believe that…

A few weeks ago my friend Aadil and I were at Whole Foods buying a birthday cake for a friend. We wanted to write something clever on the cake but couldn’t really think of anything…

Not sure what you mean, but I’d never heard of Sarah Paine before that. I thought she gave a very concise yet nuanced view of the modern world order in her lectures for Dwarkesh.

Love the interviews Dwarkesh sponsored with Sarah Paine from the Naval War College. Also, somewhat spitefully, find it funny that he has multiple roommates.

it's usually coding something more precise in a sort of plausible deniability. Yep. I'm a director now. This is exactly how it is. A big part of being effective in this role is und…