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Corporations don’t ignore expenses just because they reduce taxable income.

Fark hasn’t gone anywhere.

Any show I've googled has a widget at the top right showing me where it is, if it's included in my current subscriptions, and how much it costs without one. It's been getting confu…

"The war tried to kill us in the spring" from The Yellow Birds always stuck with me, for its complete decoupling of the war from the men who had come thousands of miles to fight it…

I would have really liked to see the cultural variation shown visually - i.e. do Eastern Europeans and Americans have different default ways of showing a pizza or a phone?

Particularly, subscribers to less wrong / rationality ideas tend to get obsessed with the GodAI's ability to create simulated virtual hells that it can trap you in a "I have no mou…

If you replace "AI" with "Adonai" in EY's framing, it reduces to biblical parables from his childhood about arguing with God to negotiate a new covenant. He's clearly a bright guy,…

Even in this article, he claims COVID wasn’t a big deal because, essentially, only a million people died in the US instead of everyone. No one ever claimed 100% mortality.

I’ve only made one comment here.

Carbon taxes are massively regressive. There is no political coalition that simultaneously wants to act against climate change and doesn’t mind driving further income inequality.

This is kind of backwards. There aren't as many CS grads in Israel in the first place, because they already put their top talent through 8200. It's essentially a fully socialized M…

Totally agree, I think it can get there. If you present the idea as "an idea" rather than "my idea", it's pretty good at challenging, solidifying, and refining it. It still leans o…

It's easy to focus in on particular linguistic tics, which will probably get smoothed away in future training. The underlying issue is that the LLM is trying to ape meaningful writ…

> This essay is not a hot take. It is an autopsy. This essay is AI slop with a fancy website design.

https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Prediction-Markets-... There was a big push post-9/11 that depended on exactly this.

Does Copilot behave differently in Excel depending on whether you got the premium subscription instead of what is included with Business? Many people I've talked to about Copilot d…

It’s like not differentiating between solving and verifying. “PKI is easy to break if someone gives us the prime factors to start with!”

If you tap the images on mobile, there is an animation.

I have grown to despise this AI-generated writing style.

I find they are very concerned about ever pulling the trigger on a change or deleting something. They add features and codepaths that weren't asked for, and then resist removing th…

Punchy sentence. Punchy sentence. It's not A, it's B. The actual insight isn't C, it's D.

What makes the level they chose a “baseline,” against which it would be appropriate to do statistical tests?

They cut the internet so they could machine gun people, not stop them from ordering DoorDash.

Makes me wonder which team is responsible for that feature generating query, and if they follow full engineering level QA. It might be deferred to an MLE team that is better than t…

I seem to be the only person here who prefers the author’s approach! The combination of adhd and colorblindness seems to make most multicolor displays just visual snow to me. It’s …