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It doesn’t matter whether it is a good move; just whether they think it’s a good move.

What could possibly go wrong?

It seems appropriate to mention Jonathan Livingston Seagull here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull It's an allegory about personal development, told through…

> My prediction: In a couple years, the main way we'll talk with our AIs is with our thoughts. They will not be a super-smart automated intern or coworker that you desperately try …

Nice!

I also ride a recumbent: Catrike Expedition. I'm not sure I would get the subtleties of the chain guides correct. What's yours? https://www.catrike.com/expedition

Depending on how deep you want to go down the rabbit hole, that's possible-ish now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5xi3Usi0i8

It's funny to me, because I have a very strong spacial sense, and a lifetime of riding bikes. To the limit of my ability to draw, I can draw a flawless bicycle, down to the interlo…

I think you're underselling where we'll get to in the next 5-10 years. I'm thinking: Best Beatles song recorded between Rubber Soul and Revolver, composed mainly by McCartney but L…

Great, now all I need is (checks the closet) any of the dozen or so powermacs I owned over the years to not have left my possession...

For anyone working on a Mac, I highly recommend Sim Daltonism. It gives you an interactive display on your Mac that you can place over any section of your screen to simulate what i…

I'm not doing anything the government should be worried about. Nevertheless my pin has for a long time been longer than standard, specifically on the very long-shot possibility som…

> my memory retention of the work done with an LLM is worse than doing it myself self Do you think this is more because you are less close to the work? Or because there is simply m…

The standards we set are off: I recently discovered 75 hard, and it's mind-boggling to me that the mental equivalent of "do two separate workouts, 45 minutes each" is "read 10 page…

I guess I get the clarity (of vertical slides as you describe), but I'm wondering if two dimensions is limiting -- slides could be a flow chart, with various forks/side quests alon…

This feels like it's a hair's breadth from being a Notion competitor with a very different set of page-design skills

Very nice! I spent something like 30 seconds scanning the top row of controls for the "Present" option -- is there logic to special-casing it by putting it (and zoom controls) at t…

Good thoughts, thanks

Wow, 97% that there will be elections. That's high, but if you handed me a gun with a 3% chance of being loaded and offered me a billion dollars to point it at my head and pull the…

If they will pay me $10 million I will guarantee to find voter fraud or refund half their money...

Isn't this exactly what we should expect/hope for? At least initially, chess computers were better than humans not because they were more creative or inspired, but because they tho…

This argument seems, frankly, absurd to me on multiple fronts. First, it assumes that lack of genetic diversity in humans would be a serious handicap, when we're considering humans…

I read the main trilogy many years back; why would a faithful adaptation be a problem?

The IMAX screenings are pre-committed to future movies -- it might be the case that Spider-Man takes over in two weeks and the window for The Odyssey is closed, even if more people…