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Timnit’s backpedaling regarding her email and her ultimatum was absurd. You seem completely unwilling to factor Timnit’s own behavior into the chain of events, so it doesn’t make s…

None of that disputes what I said or excuses her behavior. The “resonant” email is public, we can’t pretend it was in any way professional or appropriate. Vanishingly few people ca…

I suspect it was Timnit’s behavior after the paper didn’t pass internal review that actually got her fired (issuing an ultimatum and threatening to resign unless the company met he…

Will my car still get broken into every few months? Will I still have to walk over needles and human waste on my walk home? Will toothpaste still be locked up? San Francisco has a …

It’s odd they label the voices as “soprano” and “baritone,” because they don’t sound like it. I suspect it’s to avoid labeling the speakers as “male” and “female.” What a joke.

Yes, he believed the covert cheating device was an industrial-strength vibrator powerful enough to visibly shake the chair she was sitting in. Because that wouldn’t arouse suspicio…

You’re linking to the “report” by the accuser that consisted entirely of character attacks and borderline paranoid speculation. It contained none of the evidence he had promised. S…

This sums up the problem with the pro-cheating side – the argument boils down to: “This person didn’t behave how I think I would behave in this situation, so she’s probably guilty.…

Yes, there were enough coincidences to at least make cheating a possibility, but without any credible evidence I don’t think the “100% guilty” people should be taken seriously.

If you’re bad enough to cheat like that, you’re not good enough to avoid a pattern of suspicious behavior.

This arguably makes cheating less likely. If someone in production knew both players’ hole cards, which was the theory, this would be a nonsensical place to cheat. It was still a c…

It’s common knowledge to keep your mouth shut at this point. You don’t need to have highly-regarded lawyers advising you to know this, but SBF had (at least) two: his parents, who …

Nearly everyone in a field starts out behind. MS and PhD students start out behind and they’ll spend most of their time during the next 2-5 years on irrelevant things (e.g. 95%+ of…

ChatGPT solves this problem readily. Maybe they should hire ChatGPT. The problem always bugged me though. The word “inverting” makes me think of flipping something upside down rath…

He’s playing stupid. The jury will need to decide if was incompetent or evil, and in that case, you definitely want them thinking you’re incompetent.

Most people would be advised to say nothing in this situation. Instead, he’s launching an aggressive PR tour to rebrand himself from a genius wunderkind to a hapless fool who made …

Dialing into BBSs at 11-13 years old, making ANSI art, downloading shareware games, and playing MUDs was so much fun, and makes me so nostalgic. I don’t know what the equivalent is…

Sustained profitable growth for nearly 24 years is the exception, not the rule.

> “so many people are apathetic to the atrocities commited by Google.” Maybe so many people simply don’t view these as “atrocities”? Your wording suggests a privileged life, and ig…

The same way money is often repaid: take it from future income. The Democratic committees raised $853M in the 2022 election cycle, compared to $805M for the Republicans. If they ha…