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Humans are great at making up purpose where there is absolutely none, and indeed this is a helpful mechanism for dealing with post-scarcity. The philosophical problem that I see wi…

Your comment summarizes what I worry might be a more widespread opinion than I expected. If you think that human extinction is a fair price to pay for creating a supercomputer, the…

One avenue of hope for successful AI alignment that I've read somewhere is that we don't need most laypeople to understand the risks of it going wrong, because for once the most po…

To be fair, ants have not created humanity. I don't think it's inconceivable for a friendly AI to exist that "enjoys" protecting us in the way a friendly god might. And given that …

For one thing, we could try to come up with safety measures that prevent the most basic paperclip maximizer disaster from happening. At this point I almost wish it was still the mi…

Not you specifically, but I honestly don't understand how positive many in this community (or really anyone at all) can be about these news. Tim Urban's article explicitly touches …

Ooohh, I didn't know this name for it, thanks. I somehow came across it as The Sultan's Riddle on the internet: https://explainextended.com/2016/12/31/happy-new-year-8/ I prefer th…

Self-correcting because frustrated users will simply start their own Google? Even if that happens, their second generation of employees will start a revolt if their company doesn't…

Here's what I would consider a boring example of such anti-vaxx heresy: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/maximum-vaccination According to this Guardian article, the "Center for Counteri…

I agree about the engineering failure, but I'm not sure if mass hysteria is the right term. It was messier than that, we also saw a few leaders chilling out too much too early. My …

I disagree. The appeal to solidarity w.r.t. masks would never have worked because a tiny minority of scalpers can ruin it all. But the white lie didn't work either, so it seems lik…

Agree with everything you said, but want to add one more point: I have made my peace with all of these bureaucratic failures. Maybe a certain amount of contradiction and chaos is p…

Notably, the Mac Mini does not have a stupid external power adapter, but just uses a standard cable that costs like $1. I did carry mine around for a while, and it was glorious! I'…

I went from a 16" MacBook Pro with an i9 and 32 GB of RAM to the MacBook Air with 16 GB of RAM, and my build times at work were almost exactly the same. But the single-core speed m…

Exactly: Most studies that I've been referred to are shiny McKinsey pages that boil down to big companies having more diverse boards on average. Besides what you said, that's not a…

If you look at some PRs on elementary's GitHub, you will see that neither Cassidy James nor Danielle were cranking out mountains of code at any point in time. Both were involved in…

elementary's daily/preview builds are only accessible to GitHub sponsors over a certain amount. I wonder how that worked out, because I like this pseudo-subscription model a lot be…

> people who clearly have no idea what the actual majority of people pushing for inclusive language are typically suggesting and shy. It does not seem to matter what any majority w…

> You have inflected nouns and adjectives -- you'd have to come up with new endings for those Two proposals that I've seen replace all endings with either -x or -ens. German source…

German unfortunately has no equivalent of singular they. The concept is a non-starter because "they" and "she" are both "sie". The new PC spelling is to always write he*she or he:s…

There is (was?) always a lot of C++ in Core Animation stacktraces, and Core Animation was really foundational to the iPhone UI.

> Things like Fitt's Law and so on. It was not just opinion. Here's another one: "users were roughly 37% faster at finding items when visual indicators varied both in color and ico…