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I would argue that Opus 4.6 lived up to the hype. My work changed completely a couple months ago, and most other coders I talk to say the same.

> everyone with sense avoids the whole thing Or the majority of the residents of New York City on their daily commute? I like to think I have sense, and I happily use public transp…

We're not disagreeing that exercise is good. I also happen to be very pro-exercise. What I'm trying to do here is reckon with the fact that, as you say "exercise, athleticism, spor…

Maybe it's a bad idea, but it is an idea. "People should get out more" is _not even wrong_

I’m not sure what you’re advocating for. Is “pro-exercise propaganda” hinting that you’re against exercise? I think it’s cheap and easy to dismiss large scale social problems as th…

> I guess we need to delete the internet and tv from existence. If only. My preferred solution is a 4 year national service. College is a key place to form a friend network, but no…

This is good advice for your friends and family, but a bad answer to the question. "How can we solve the obesity epidemic? Stop eating so much and get some exercise." Well sure, bu…

I guarantee that once we do know people will start appending the word “just” to the explanation. Complex behaviors emerge from simple components. Knowing that doesn’t make the emer…

Ironically, OpenAI was conceived as a way to balance Google's dominance in AI.

Maybe someone can help me wrap my head around this. Let's say you have a box of gas in a low entropy state: all the particles are on one side of the box. A moment later, the partic…

What were the deeper patterns that don't exist?

I disagree, but we'd be arguing semantics. In any case, the point still stands: you can just as easily argue that these rationalist offshoots aren't really Rationalist.

When I was looking for a group in my area to meditate with, it was tough finding one that didn't appear to be a cult. And yet I think Buddhist meditation is the best tool for perso…

I think it’s the “just” that they are taking issue with. We are “just” neurons. But we demonstrate interesting emergent behaviors that, in principle, can be reduced to firing neuro…

Also excellent for those public transport riders who can't afford car ownership.

> I'd really love to talk to someone that both really believes this to be true, and has a hands-on experience with building and using generative AI. Any of the signatories here mat…

Changing human pride, greed and envy is hard. We know how to build housing. Or we used to.

I agree with you but addressing that wouldn't be a goal of this particular policy.

Cars are the leading cause of death of children in the US. More than cancer. Maybe you're right, I don't know, but it's not the "obvious goal".

I’m having a hard time believing power chords only account for 5.8% of chords in metal.

The AI emotion discussion is interesting, but at the end of the day, does it matter? The question is, is it safe? And if it's not safe, how unsafe is it?

Simple game that is meant to facilitate AI X-risk debate. Knowing where you "get off the doom train" will hopefully aid in communicating why you aren't worried about X-risk, and il…

So I think you would get off at the station asking the question "Will superintelligent AI systems develop sub-goals that include self-preservation, resource acquisition or power-se…