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They both read as hyper-polished pastiches of existing, well-established aesthetics. The cyberpunk one in particular employs just about every genre trope I can think of. There's no…

So the solution is to have less ladies in charge? Who's going to wipe snot off the kids' noses, pull legos out of their mouths, and tell them not to hit each other?

I think the answer for most people is one of "I wasn't dealt the right hand of cards by fate" and/or "I don't want to spend my life acting like a sociopath and exploiting others fo…

Thank you for illustrating another feature of the billionaires' defensive bubble: anyone who dares criticize them from a position of lesser wealth is just "jealous" and their criti…

The human faces of the machine are our only hope. The alternative is, in the short term, a machine face of the machine, whom you can't argue with and who will summarily deny your b…

Sure, the state has always had theoretical power to do this, but when was the last time something remotely like this actually happened?

The whole reason this is a story is that the government won't just refuse to contract, it will put the equivalent of soft sanctions on the company because Anthropic refuses to cont…

The "disparate impact" test applies mainly in civil rights act litigation, and it's extremely hard to make a case under that theory. It's a three-part test, and showing that a part…

I love this article because I think this is the conversation we should be having. Lots of advertising is harmful, some of it is useful on balance, and some of it is too hard to ban…

> His great transgression, according to Berlin, was to say aloud what everyone knows but no one will admit: multiple ideals cannot be simultaneously attained. We can’t have everyth…

also, the person who owns the land is often liable for what happens on it, unless the land is owned by the public (a la BLM land).

I think it's that both were websites that catapulted you into truly random, non-targeted interactions -- Omegle with a random person, StumbleUpon with a random site.

how about we build a robust social safety net so that stealing less than $1000 worth of stuff is not the best way to survive

the distinction is real in the model of the turing machine, and it's close to real in many of the machines and programs we've built so far. It's not real in nature, in brains. Code…

> Except, now I sell my house. And I come to you and tell you that I'm homeless. Are you going to give me permanent, free housing too? yes. it probably won't be as nice as somethin…

they should stop spending it on bullshit bandaid solutions and just give people permanent housing. there are a lot of countervailing forces that make that difficult, but conceptual…

advertisers, mostly, displacing the print media who used to do that

if your hate speech filter hits one party harder than the other, that doesn't necessarily mean it is broken

it's funny how whenever a big company does something bad that's actually an example of how socialism is bad

openAI is in the business of releasing impressive tech demos, Google is in the business of providing search results. I would believe that Google is further along towards creating s…

good. police should share less data across state lines unless they have very good reason.

all the engineers at an early stage company are "gambling" with exactly the same stakes as the founder. If they fail, they're all out of a job. The founder risks nothing more than …

I don't think anything about high-performance GPT models is standard, since they are only a couple years old and only a handful of organizations have developed them

what is the acceptable number of people to die during bridge construction