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Definitely pretty far along imo. But maybe they consider the progress bar to be at 75% or 80% rather than 100%.

Not sure why you got downvoted on this one. You're right and you even turned it into a bit of language history. It's bury the lede, and now I know why.

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I think you're right that there's no principled or well-reasoned stopping point that aligns the behavior with any notion of consistency. But I think for a case like this no further…

To try to contribute some real discussion of the actual content of the article, the data revealed in the database is impressively organized, almost indulgently futuristic in its gr…

Agreed. I could be biased here but it seems to me that, to much greater degree than I would have expected, criticism of China is held to a uniquely escalated standard for factual v…

I don't think of non profit bloat as enshittification. Enshittification is gradual reduction in quality of a user facing service over time that used to be trusted. Here it's just a…

Agree. It was the watershed moment that represented the break from "don't be evil", a cheeky slogan that was remarkably effective at conveying a sense of what they were about by ta…

I mean you're right, but also Google had one of the legitimately best options at the time and massive visibility and seemingly credible institutional commitment. And it was early t…

Exactly. Reader was maturing into a proto social network in its own right (I started commenting on articles with friends in it in college right before it started getting deprecated…

Someone who gets it! This whole branch of comments is like a comedy of errors of distractedness in multiple directions. The wrong theory, dramatically inadequate evidence in suppor…

>if I remember correctly, the plot point wasn't a "civilization level reaction" Your memory is exactly right. But in this instance, what I'm reacting to is not the book but to an H…

>That also stuck with me as weird: there are any number of places you could sabotage a precision physics experiment by injecting tiny amounts of noise, which would drive the scient…

That's actually a great example for what it is. If I were a scientist I probably wouldn't be reacting with "yay science" to every next failure that destroys civilization, even if n…

>Given that we have seen this play out We saw two examples, definitely unfortunate for what they were but well short of a built in civilization level reaction to scientific progres…

Yeah, I think we're agreeing. The breakdown of scientific progress in the book is due to an actively malicious campaign that scrambles data, intimidates researchers and worse.

Those are definitely unfortunate examples and I can see how those environments pushed them to their limits. But if we're talking large-scale systematic thinking about what kind of …

I'm pretty sure they're referring to scientists on Earth. Edit: Though I agree that alien scientists of Tri-Solaris probably lead more depressing lives than their counterparts on e…

>This is not at all what I would expect because it's trivial to change the training data to replace Claude with Kimi. Wait what? The reason you wouldn't expect it is because if it …

Probably the safest bet is to pay your bill in full to stay in good standing and then get refunded the difference when they revise it down.

TL;DR: Still no smoking gun, but a conspicuous absence of data where it might have reasonably been expected (deep ocean acoustics data) that might shift where the investigation foc…

Thanks for the link, and boy is that a whopper. Do my eyes deceive me or is there literally a shot of the computer looking at them from its computery perspective, through its scree…

I love this on a number of levels. First, a great question, and more than half the battle imo is asking the right kind of question. David Cain has touched on a version of this also…

I got the same impression especially from reading the about page. And it wasn't the em dash this time but the triplet of one word sentences. But just to comment directly on it and …