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My personal mental image for AI agents is Mr Meeseeks. Per Wikipedia: > Meeseeks are a powder-blue-skinned species of humanoids (each of whom is named "Mr. Meeseeks") who are creat…

Yeah this article has a very "blame the user" attitude because it labels a supply side issue as a demand side collective action problem. "Just buy less house" sounds very avocado t…

There's definitely an asymmetry in how the systemic dysfunction benefits the Republican party over the Democratic party. (Overall the system benefits both parties though since it e…

I learned recently that there's actually a name for this concept. Murc's law states that in American politics, only Democrats are assumed to have agency. Presumably democratic refo…

I'm curious how this works if the green team writes an implementation that makes a network call like an RPC. Red team might not anticipate this if the spec does detail every expect…

FWIW he gives his ethical reasoning on his website: > Broadly, I am supportive of arming democracies with the tools needed to defeat autocracies in the age of AI—I simply don’t thi…

It seems like best etiquette would be to have a username with "bot" in it and include something in the post explicitly indicating it's a bot (e.g. a signature). This isn't even a n…

Sounds self-referencial

It's so interesting to read these comments because this this is literally my job (to help Workspace teams integrate Gemini faster) Some thoughts: - Hardware constraints are real, e…

In my experience, using LLMs to code encouraged me to write better documentation, because I can get better results when I feed the documentation to the LLM. Also, I've noticed fail…

That's great! For more context, I have Anthem Blue Cross health insurance. The cost might depend on your insurance.

Try Planned Parenthood. Over a decade ago I tried getting the HPV vaccine in my early 20s, but the doctor told me it wasn't recommended for men and that insurance won't cover it. I…

On a quick skim, my interpretation is that the article critiques the classic (but simplistic) advice that asking questions and letting the other person talk more than you is the ke…

The article mentions affordances. I assume the title uses doorknobs because that's a more familiar word as you point out.

Thanks for sharing this! I've never heard of this research, but it sounds very promising. I also found this Guardian article from a Google search: https://www.theguardian.com/world…

Have you read the book "Recoding America"? I have a feeling you might enjoy that book as it goes into a LOT of detail about government dysfunction with respect to software. I found…

That's interesting example to choose, as I've actually heard often that the Social Security administration is an example of an efficient government administration. For example, a q…

That's basically what the founders of Intel did, when they left Shockley to start Fairchild: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight

This reminds me a lot of the special policies Wikipedia has developed through experience about sensitive topics, like biographies of living persons, deaths, etc.

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When I worked at Amazon, I also was tired of paying for expensive lunches available nearby. But I didn't always have time to make pack lunches. So I ordered canned soup, on Amazon,…

I was curious about this given what happened with SDCH. Here is what Wikipedia[0] says > Due to the diffing results and the data being compressed with the same coding, SDCH diction…

Penalties would also incentivise businesses to hide data breaches.

"Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade." - Kevin Ashton, "How To Fly A Horse" As I recall that boo…

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