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I think the quoted sentence is basically saying his work is workman like and doesn't cause the chills that reading something truly great does. (I don't agree)

You do realize that in the 1500/1600s when books were incredibly rare and valuable it was extremely common to write in the margins and that such writing is now usually treasured? A…

It was extremely common back in the 1500/1600s, when books were far more rare and valuable to write in them. Almost every copy of these truly old books has something written in the…

Then don't buy used books? They are _used_. If you want a new book, buy a new book?

Reminds me of this classic line from the 1973 movie The Sting: "What was I supposed to do? Call him for cheating better than me in front of the others?!" Said in response to being …

Truly curious - why did you choose to work at a content farm?

I get a 404 not found?

See the discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837460 You can absolutely still tell.

I used a placeholder for X ELO, but my point was the community should pick one value that makes sense and then not change it.

Yeah, I don't understand why the metric isn't "complete chess engine that achieves X ELO" in yyy bytes or something. Instead it seems to have been "minimal thing that kinda looks l…

I think you're relying far too much on an econ 101 idea to analyze a situation that's far more complicated.

At least for me, even income taxes as high as 53% have not discouraged me from trying to make more money. They have made me consider moving. At some level, certainly at 90%+, the m…

The test of "if it disappeared today, we'd all be fine", would eliminate most of the economy.

Data centers have negative externalities which is why people don't think anyone should just be able to buy land and turn it into one. Once of those negative externalities is water …

If the clubhouse is your idea of the valuable public good we can provide without 18 holes of grass.

Golf courses don't do that either...

How is this different from farming? It takes the limited resources of land and water from a community and sells the result for profit as food or fuel. The vast majority of profit i…

All of her books seem to be children's books and many of the 13 are illustrator credits. I found this blog from late 2021: https://medium.com/grimhistorian/coffee-the-sexiest-drink…

I would believe she wrote it in this style if you can point to any of her writing pre 2022 that is similar in style. Does that exist? Genuinely curious.

It matters because I don't like the style. I wouldn't like it if a human wrote it. I don't like the style so much that I won't read things written with it. So maybe she had somethi…

Seems like yours is? FWIW, on your own blog, the most recent post also reads as at least AI helped "Navigator Theory". This sentence in particular sticks out: "They affect what the…

It's clearly written by AI. I find it interesting that some people recognize it immediately and others do not. I don't know what to make of it.

The actual experiment is basically training a relatively large RNN (1000 units) to do a very simple copy-esque task. The weight values are constrained to be either positive or nega…

I don't think the argument is necessarily against the use of the tools entirely. My interpretation is that it's against delegating to them all understanding. Humans can only useful…