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Define "republican". I am sympathetic to many sides. I would equate this comment to a comment that asks "how can you liberals/wokists/etc defend this" if the post were about Califo…

It also goes to explain why comp is so high for executives. Executives leaving may also leave a terrible impression to the market. To be clear, even if this is an accurate observat…

> The market rewards being right in a way that no argument ever will. Identifying the market is also important. There's the free market of capitalism. Then there are the other powe…

> nobody other than Justin is owed a clearly articulated reason Justin has made this a public issue through their public declarations. If Justin is owed a clearly articulated reaso…

Create a product that people loved? This could have been redirected to make leadership look good. This event demonstrates that impactful products can be extremely polarizing - you …

I currently work at Google. If the Eye of Sauron ever casts its gaze on me, I'm sure my history of critical posts will be silently used against me. The public face that Googlers pu…

This is also my experience at Google, and I have not really figured out the incentives. Plenty of people seem _perfectly comfortable_ with the idea that they are being paid tens of…

> I've heard tales of 300k/yr engineers that just sit there and wait for a manager to ask if they're blocked, or just sit there until they're told what to do. This is widely presum…

Your story (and the other posts commenting on lack of intellectual curiosity) fits into a larger model of the world that I prescribe to. Being labeled "well-known" or "smart" doesn…

> It has never been cheaper or easier to influence millions of people, either deniably-subtly (though omission, selective results, "hallucinations" etc) or via sock puppetting. I w…

While I work for Google, I don't speak for Google. I might have some observations that might help explain poor documentation. If I had one word, I would say "politics". The less po…

The first one to reach AGI is the winner-takes-all. AGI or something similar will result in exponential progress to super-intelligence since AGI can just improve itself.

The transformer architecture itself was published 8 years ago

This is amazing ingenuity and collaboration. I wonder if Rainbolt (or other GeoGuessrs) gets regular requests for consultation, or maybe he should if he is not already: https://en.…

I also suspect there is a vortex of temptation as you become an increasingly interesting person. Rich, famous, powerful, well-connected, beautiful etc are all interesting character…

Is it particularly wild? There are many possible interpretations of your statement. Do you expect the people on this site to be particularly different from the voters who almost pu…

(As a US citizen self-identified moderate) I think I understand some of the intentions of de-dollarization. Being the reserve currency is an exorbitant privilege of forcing the wor…

It's nice to see someone else (unsurprisingly) reached identical conclusions as me! I would like to try adding a 3rd reason: dumb subordinates don't upset the apple cart because th…

Money has limited impact and has all sorts of drawbacks. A more impactful change from firms might be to celebrate and reward community contributions of their own employees. This ca…

The Google of 2026 is a very different Google of 2006. In 2006, everyone who left Google had only praises to sing about the employer they were leaving! It is very telling when the …

As a Google engineer, I believe it is largely accurate to say that we "don't care", or at least "not caring" is the emergent behavior at Google. There are many things we don't care…

I got one of these: https://chompshop.com/collections/chompsaws/products/chompsa... So long as you have a steady stream of cardboard (whether from packages shipped to your home or …