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Downright delusional.

This is a pretty low-quality article that didn't give me the impression the author spent any time in the "rationalist community." It's just a list of the few mainstream controversi…

I am referring to t.me/hackernewslive, 27k subscribers. This post was reposted on Telegram within 2 minutes of it going live on HackerNews, when it still had <5 upvotes, so I feel …

Who runs the HackerNews Telegram channel? I used to think they had some algorithmic repost script that grabbed top posts, but this is a 5 minute old post by a low-karma account and…

The world is so big, why spend 40 years in a single place?

It's like the people writing this shit have never been a teenager. I feel like an old man yelling at clouds, but damn, the internet was so much less sanitized when I was 13 and we …

Has anyone ever heard of this person? Why did this get posted?

Leetcode/hackerrank problems aren't that high variance, dedicate a weekend studying and you should be good.

I'm a new grad. It took me about three weeks to get two offers, both from cold applications. I applied to ~100 jobs in total and got first round interviews from 10% of the ones I c…

Please name one "third world country" that enforces gender roles less harshly than the US, particularly the liberal US cities where gender diversity is the most common.

Utterly asinine article that doesn't understand its own subject matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...

Can confirm. The people behind the website asked a voice agent to program it, and the STT parsed "agent" as "asian."

If someone wants to take Ozempic for cosmetic reasons, that's their business. I am almost certain you personally indulge in riskier activities than using Ozempic, or... modafinil? …

Depends on how they work. Many genes that are active during early development are entirely silenced throughout adulthood, or otherwise have no effect.

Quite a biased source, no? This doesn't provide evidence that these differences are biological. Boys are much more likely to exercise than girls due to social norms: https://pmc.nc…

You can debate what policies are the most fair without calling trans women "men."

Transition changes biology. We don't yet have the technology to fully reverse the effects of male puberty, so there can be reasonable debate about trans women who transitioned afte…

You don't understand how the technology in question works, and you're just making shit up because you don't want to admit to being wrong. What are you alleging here anyways? That a…

He is not using an LLM in some new and exciting way. The process of making a personalized mRNA vaccine looks something like this: 1. Collect and sequence patient's normal and tumor…

Have you ever tried writing a long, complicated document with an LLM? The last 20% takes 99% of the work.

ChatGPT did not make the treatment. ChatGPT summarized literature explaining how to make similar treatments, and then specialized tools were used to make the treatment. It is perfe…

The LLM did not design the drug. The LLM summarized some papers on how to design similar drugs, and then a dozen specialized tools were used in an established pipeline to design th…

It's not a radical medical breakthrough, it's applying a technique already documented in the literature and years into human clinical trials. The LLM is just doing literature summa…

The LLM didn't oneshot the mRNA treatment, it merely suggested the idea. Most of the steps in the process were done with specialized tools. And no novel treatments were invented wh…