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For me, it was having children that really forced me to learn to travel light. We lived in Chicago and going to the airport meant walking to the transit stop to get to the airport,…

The advantages of packing light aren't always obvious[1] until you experience them, so you can pretty much tell someone's level of travel experience by how small their luggage is. …

Strip malls at least offer something to the local residents. I recall from my time in Chicago that some of the best immigrant-family-run restaurants were in strip malls on the nort…

I fear they are laying the groundwork to ban US citizens from using Chinese models, so that they can make sure that Brockman gets his money's worth.

I get what you're saying and I see that how my comment could be interpreted. I wish I had worded it better. The most vibrant places in the world (again, IME) have a diversity of ab…

Also, IME, places with no employers tend to be populated primarily by addicts, disability fraudsters, and other criminals.

Gotta fuckin love hn, where you can't say the simplest thing without getting thrown into a well, actually. I wasn't claiming to have run a damned study. Just making an observation.…

What a weird question. The amount depends on what you hope to accomplish. Want to be able to get on the floor and play with your grandkids? That's going to require a certain amount…

Favored companies get access to frontier models, which gives them a competitive advantage, starving out smaller companies. Any smaller companies that do manage to innovate ultimate…

Just because a policy is legal doesn't mean it cannot be disastrous.

So you think Anthropic is using internal AI assistants to pull away from competitors and the leapfrogging we've seen over the last several years is now done? That seems to me to be…

> I am not cynical enough to believe that Anthropic's warnings are pure marketing hype. Nor am I. I think they believe that AI poses a grave danger, and they are playing the prison…

I grew up in Illinois in the 80s and 90s, so I had a front-row seat to that gutting. Watching my dad move from factory to factory, go to night school to learn tool-and-die and then…

I don't understand that this argument. Why does the net improvement of the technologies listed imply that AI will also have a net improvement? Are you just arguing that there's no …

For people worried about their livelihoods, there's value in slowing AI adoption to give our economy time to transition rather than just throwing a lot of people out of work all at…

> Not a single social media restriction experiment has included people under the age of 16. We do not know how social media bans will affect the young people being targeted by them…

I can't speak for anyone else, but I find AI to be very effective. It can do nearly all coding tasks many OOMs faster than I can. And I'm able to get it to produce high-quality cod…

The map is not the territory

It’s pretty simple. People think that AI will take their jobs and maybe murder them, probably because the people developing AI have said it’s going to take their jobs and maybe mur…

So it's not where you buy those shirts that say "Female Body Inspector?"