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And that's what's going to happen now. No amount of complaining about it online is going to stop it. They literally just passed a bill that prevents regulating AI. Rich people and …

You chuckled silently to yourself as you posted this.

Whenever people claim that LLMs are not capable of reasoning, I put them into a category of people who are themselves not capable of reasoning.

The discussion is completely useless without defining what thought is and then demostrating that LLMs are not capable of it. And I doubt any definition you come up with will be wor…

AI is here to stay, and you do not have agency over that. You can choose not to use it, but that has zero impact on the broader adoption rate. Just like when the automobile was int…

Watch out, HN. The em dash police are here. Hands up

If America's responsibility is deterrence, why do we invade countries that don't have nuclear capabilities? Don't you suppose that incentivizes every country watching this to devel…

What planet have you been living on the past 25 years? Iran has a population of almost 100 million as well as a sizeable diaspora across the world. If even a small percentage of th…

Orwell was not a good writer. 1984 in particular is a slog. His work was mostly popular because it conformed to anti soviet narratives, so schools naturally added them to the curri…

The idea that "power manufactures truth" sounds profound but it's ultimately a truism, and a somewhat unhelpful one due to the imprecise language of power and truth. Anyone who's w…

I'm saying there's a cost to that mentality. There's a personal cost, which is you giving up a part of yourself--not just your time, but your personality--to grow your net worth. A…

My preferred modality: "Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will."

>CBT can definitely veer into gaslightning territory. But then, if it helps you cope, so what? That's myopic. There's only so much "reframing" you can do before the tension begins …

There's a mental cost to that. Essentially having to put on a mask and performatively "play their little games" is taxing. Some are better at it than others. But in those quiet mom…

The problem with these kinds of discussions is, we tend to get more abstract and further and further away from real-world examples. And it all hinges on what you actually value. I …

It's not difficult to imagine a number of scenarios where that perspective could bite you in the ass. If you have a false impression of a person's character because you've jedi min…

The idea that there are varying degrees of depression is not a difficult concept to grasp.

On the other hand, some studies show that mildly depressed people have a more accurate model of the world. So what if you were right about your job initially, and the CBT is basica…

The premise of your question is incredibly dumb

Great. What do you think that proves? That doesn't negate my inital argument. The data is largely useless, and often counterproductive. The evidence shows the vast majority of plot…

The data is obfuscated and the cost to unlock the value of it is often not worth the effort.

Well, at least someone does.

There's skepticism and there's talking around the actual subject. The latter contributes nothing.