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> Aaronson has worked for OpenAI and probably has stock options. IIRC he explicitly stated that he doesn't.

At this point the term "AI psychosis" is the more apt label for AI skeptics. Here we have literal Fields medalists vouching for correctness and relative importance of the result, b…

Switzerland is the closest you can get to USA without leaving Europe. Taxes in Zurich are lower than in the Bay Area, at will employment, healthcare that is primarily funded by fla…

So are you buying Roblox hand over fist? Didn't think so. It's easy to talk big, it's hard to beat the supposedly stupid, myopic market.

A human representing the company should be physically present in the provider's office to perform such an action or what? Otherwise you would just grant your agent a way to imperso…

> IIRC no fewer than 5 naval drones attacked the Moskva missile carrier at once, and successfully sank it eventually. That's a hallucination, Moskva was by all accounts sunk by a c…

> Sorry, but maybe some people should feel shame sometimes Yes you definitely should try that.

There is no connection between profits and dividends, some monstrously profitable companies pay little to no dividends and return money to shareholders via buybacks. The act of doi…

The author is the former lead developer of the Rust's LSP server, so it seems natural to have a preference for languages that would allow him to do a better job. Slow compilation (…

In Switzerland most people rent, in Zurich/Geneva it's more than 80% of inhabitants, doesn't help one bit. I kid you not, we have the renter association that is working tirelessly …

This point is irrelevant when discussing capabilities. It's like saying that your brain is literally just a bunch of atoms following a set of physics laws. Absolutely true but not …

How much tax breaks and subsidies did Brin and Page get? I'd think it's close to zero. And apparently they are asked to give half of their wealth ( https://x.com/garrytan/status/20…

But they can do that regardless of what arguments the company makes to the antitrust authorities.

> They didn't because the purchase price would be lower He said that alright, but what's his source of that information?

Why the price would be lower? Presumably the price was already agreed upon. Having a provision in the contract that the price is reduced if this argument is made to the antitrust a…

... You want users to risk their money to make your product better? Might as well just remove the report button, so we're back at the model being poisoned.

Screening for the Down syndrome has been available to consumers for a long time, it's eugenics in exactly the same way. While technically correct, I think in practice this term is …

> I can't thank my parent enough for having me to continue playing in my teenage years. Counter-example to anyone reading this and thinking about imposing this misery on their chil…

It's probably more about pandering to unions to keep an uneconomical plant running. What kind of national security concern the plant that is completely dependent on imported ore an…

In this particular case the impending layoff was basically obvious to everyone months in advance (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893463 ).

Kofman among others. He has been saying for a while that "the war is on a negative trajectory for Ukraine", i.e. they are currently losing, no?

I think that's probably a good estimate for the Russian side, while 200k casualties total for Ukraine is a joke. Aren't even their official figures for wounded in the 400k range?

The military experts I listen to all more or less agree that the focus on territory is just wrong. It's a war of attrition unsustainable in the long run for both sides, the questio…

I mean, are Zelensky or Syrskyi willing to share truthful information with you in private? If so - good for you, otherwise I'm not sure what "first hand" reports you can use. I'm r…

It's bad, but not as dire. Russian losses are very likely higher, but if I have to guess - multiples of 2 and above are just propaganda mixed with wishful thinking. They still didn…