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> You don't have to have health insurance at all, There are (or were) tax time penalties for failing to have healthcare coverage. Possible USA laws have changed recently.

> What gp wanted to say is that models are now so smart and useful that even if they managed to be EVEN MORE smart and useful, you wouldn't even notice it. If benchmarks across the…

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> "--speculative-config", Regarding that last option: speculation helps max concurrency when it replaces many memory-expensive serial decode rounds with fewer verifier rounds, and …

> specific type of manipulable gullibility A congregation trained to say “amen” on cue.

Not a bad idea, but how do we prevent this from creating incentives to engineer similar situations in the future?

Sound like Singapore's system rewards competence + stability, and that makes it hard for opposition to scale, because the incumbents can absorb popular ideas while keeping institut…

Money is less about personal consumption and more about a voting system for physical reality. When a company holds billions in IOUs, they are holding the power to decide what happe…

FYI: Newer LLM hosting APIs offer control over amount of "thinking" (as well as length of reply) -- some by token count others by an enum (high low, medium, etc.).

I hear you on intergenerational stuff. I just don’t think “public education is a scam” fits what most kids actually receive. Kids are not only getting classroom time. They inherit …

> I do not believe there exists a way to safely use LLMs in scientific processes. What about giving the LLM a narrowly scoped role as a hostile reviewer, while your job is to stren…

There is no single definition for all scientists. However if you define free will as choices that are completely free of deterministic or even statistically deterministic causes th…

> closed lid would flex slightly in your backpack, and press keys on the keyboard, FYI: Over time, this repeated pressure + rubbing (especially with dust or grit in between) can le…

I mostly agree with your intuition, but I’d phrase it a bit differently. Temperature 0 does not inherently improve “quality”. It just means you always pick the highest probability …

I agree that consumption is the point of production in the long run, but that does not mean consumption is neutral in terms of tradeoffs. When someone consumes, the underlying real…

One of the big advantages humans have is that we are really good at working around constraints rather than just fighting over them. Health care, education, and even things like pre…

Capitalism ties decision power to how good you are at accumulating wealth. Other systems give decision power through birth, status, or bureaucracy. But so far none have matched cap…

You’re slipping into a version of the broken window fallacy here. Consumption isn’t automatically good for society just because it “creates activity.” When you eat an apple, the ap…

Faced with subtle lies you may prefer the obvious ones.

One thing I keep wondering, though, is whether “life” is tied more to the particular chemistry and environment it uses or to its patterns (the abstract information structure that c…

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> evolution by natural selection only applies when the adaptation in question affects survivability before reproducing > Anything that happens to you after reproductive age does no…

> Our entire societal system is based on increasing revenue (due to inflation). Yes that is capitalism however if inflation cuts value of money in half and in the same time your re…

I get the worry. AFAIK most of the current capex is going into scalable parallel compute, memory, and networking. That stack is pretty model agnostic, similar to how all that dot c…