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So then, you are a bottleneck. You will only review things that fit within your preferred small niche and area of responsibility. You cannot oversee increasing amounts of automatio…

https://gwern.net/doc/science/1986-hamming#the-importance-of... https://theonion.com/study-average-person-s-life-plan-can-on...

That sounds like it is a good explanation of why the data is not junk. You either are expected to have superhuman knowledge of coding... or turn yourself into a bottleneck.

FYI, AI-written comments are banned on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between h…

I think you might be misremembering or confusing this with another essay; I only recently publicly published this in the past month or so (due to my Guardian Angel project), and I …

Very nice. May I make a suggestion? Add a metadata field for the use of red (ie. rubrication https://gwern.net/red ), which is a core technique of this kind of printing, I think, b…

A "yes" would have sufficed.

Wow, I obviously do not agree with that, and since you're trying to put words in my mouth and false dichotomies, I think that's the last question of yours I will be answering.

You're attacking a strawman. No one is claiming that you can pull off that multiplier at arbitrary amounts arbitrary amounts of times. And 7 months is plenty of calendar time for t…

> And even if it is good enough, once you're shelling out thousands of dollars a year in research costs, does that give you any remaining alpha? That's precisely why you would want…

That's what makes the contest interesting. Anyone can write an interesting 1k words about an interesting picture. But can you write an interesting 1k words about an uninteresting p…

Certainly. There's a lot more that could be done and many good research questions here, that I hope there will be followups on, and people running their own better contests. Maybe …

They sometimes do reduce various verbal tics. Have you seen many 'delves' of late? I haven't. It's now all 'quiet' everything and 'auditing' this or 'gating' that. Who knows how th…

Yes, it's extremely obvious Tallyeman = AI, from the assistant persona ("a clerk's voice, the kind that says may I help you ten thousand times and means it about as much as a turns…

(The quote is apocryphal and long after, so I'm pretty sure it's bunk.)

URL typo: "hange how he works](/productivity-velocity/)". (I make this kind of Markdown syntax error all the time and set up a lint for '](/'.) You should talk to https://www.mecha…

If you can't be awed by science and nature, you can't be awed by magic or alien worlds either... Reminds me of some of Eliezer Yudkowsky's essays like https://www.lesswrong.com/pos…

https://gwern.net/doc/cs/lisp/emacs/2026-karlsson.pdf

At least we still have https://www.ioccc.org/2025/index.html#inventory !

NZ/AU are also interesting options for Europe, if they can't countenance the USA: https://alethios.substack.com/p/why-new-zealand-is-an-overlo...

ELIZA has been refound: https://sites.google.com/view/elizaarchaeology/home

Ensembling is not compute or parameter-efficient, so compression per se is a terrible application. (This is related to why people train ever larger LLMs like 1 10t-parameter LLM, r…

> No web form can ever be worse than doing stuff over the phone like we’re still in the 19th Century. Yes, it can. Last year I challenged a Zoomer to try to order from the local ra…

Regrettably, I am not an expert or insider, and cannot generate that particular content. All I can point to is the void at the heart of articles like this, where supply and demand …

The phrase 'production committee' appears only once in OP, with no discussion of the implications or how they work or how they change things compared to TV network monoposonies. Di…