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This piece changed how I work with LLMs and made me much more optimistic about how "fun" it can be to work with them: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-..…

LLMs are trained to convince a typical human to click the "I like this one better" on their response. Convincing a human law professor to click the "I would prefer to deliver this …

Sorry for the lack of clarity. 1. some people argue that the implication of this (along with other deaths of science-adjacent people) is that there's a murder campaign against scie…

Conspiracy theorists don't understand base rates and denominators. They make a list of deaths of people who seem vaguely STEM/"government secret" adjacent and forget to think about…

Exactly what pool of people are we drawing from here? How big is our denominator? - Anthony Chavez was a foreman supervising construction at Los Alamos. Retired in 2017. - Melissa …

As someone who lives in the US I'd kind of prefer if people didn't flippantly mislead my countrymen to claim that assassinations are beneficial. I found zero sources on Wikipedia f…

The claim was not "UHC made prior authorization easier for many procedures," the claim was "rejection rates by health insurance companies plummeted." I found several sources claimi…

This doesn't appear to be true at all. Do you have a source?

In this conversation, you have repeatedly referred to "all of the data" and "mountains of data," yet you have posted none. Meanwhile I have posted every major study on both sides o…

Do you think that car seat mandates (up to age 12 in my state) are good policy if the net effect is: - a small reduction in minor injuries, - worse childhoods and parenting experie…

See my comment summarizing the evidence as I understand it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590700 What articles did you find, exactly? What primary evidence are they b…

The evidence that car seats save lives is significantly weaker that you probably believe, as I detailed in another comment in this thread. But look: even if car seats make sense fo…

We have 4 kids. Before we had our 3rd, we needed to buy a new vehicle solely because we couldn't fit 3 car seats into the back of our old car. And when traveling with kids, carryin…

For millenia, about 50% of children died before reaching adulthood. https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past We work less than our counterparts 150 years ago: https:/…

Say I own a spoon company. The government says "hey, I'd like to buy a million spoons from you!" I say "sure, sounds great." We sign a contract stating that I'll give them 1M spoon…

You seem more interested in debating the imaginary version of me in your head than in having an actual discussion here, so have fun, I think you can do that on your own.

You're proving my point here - the original comment claimed that the left was merely defending the pre-existing, settled rights that trans people have "always" had against the righ…

I would be very interested, thank you. The flag is probably justified since HN is not really the place for these culture war things :) but I'm genuinely trying to understand the pe…

This article is a great example of motivated reasoning. It's comparing two wildly different numbers: the Ford Pinto number is the total number of deaths that the NHTSA found to hav…

This is really, really bad. The Ford Pinto number is the total number of deaths that the NHTSA found to have occurred between 1970 and mid-1977 (so not the full 9-year period) in r…

> It’s funny because the Ford Pinto is thought of as an example of an unreliable death trap but the deaths from Tesla’s poor craftsmanship and design heavily outweigh the Pinto by …

> I don't know where this delusional that dudes are just hanging brain around women is coming from. You're right, that doesn't happen. That's a conservative's wet dream. I'm sure y…

> They weren't, and they still aren't. The idea that transwomen want to be around ciswomen and hang brain is a conservative fantasy. I think you're probably right that the vast maj…

I don't claim that there are hundreds of examples of this. My claim: - A: today, the left, broadly construed, insists that there is a right for transgender women to go into women-o…

> The reality is that transgender Americans have been doing these things, all these things, for many decades. Do you have any evidence for that? For example, do you have evidence o…