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And taking the labor and time of the employees is a value extracted. While there is some modest surplus I hope people get from their job (e.g. they'd do the same job for less money…

I think this draws too strong a line between the matrix-math core and the harness that uses it. Those harnesses undoubtedly were built with purpose and the systems fail to achieve …

The vast majority of the value provided vs extracted, for any business, is related to consumer surplus and gross margins, as opposed to payroll.

There exist both type I and type II errors, yes. But it's not absurdity, the South Korean Thyroid Cancer "epidemic" is one of the classic examples of the dangers of using tradition…

Exposing asymptomatic potential issues leads to medical care that often does not meet out standards for medical tradeoffs. Chemo is nasty, even the most minor surgery has risks. We…

This couldn't possibly matter, but 5 xor 3 is 6.

The aggressors not being the targets of the firebombing is central to the concerns here. They weren't military targets (largely).

They have developed an LLM, so they are an AI lab, but the quality of that model suggests they're not a frontier anything.

Confirming that saving genuinely works. Interesting stuff. Wonder if we can get trades working too.

Bananas are like transport and refrigerator maxing! It can't possibly be the literal optimum of that metric.

The carbon in food is not captured or emitted in any coherent sense here. The crops are grown (capturing the carbon in the first place) for the purpose of feeding people -- in the …

I feel like this pastiche burned through whatever comedy potential it had before mid-2017.

Isn't this a Goomba fallacy? The people trying to conserve energy and the people who are using vastly more energy than before are different individuals, no singular person is contr…

As a software engineer who has monitored LLM viability as a coding assistant, the idea that 90% of Anthropic's lifetime revenue up to the end of Q1, was in Q1 itself, seems complet…

Their stated non-profit goal was to benefit all of humanity. Changing OpenAI to benefit their financial backers in a formal sense could be a loss of nearly unbounded value.

I think you can report someone apologized, but cannot attest to their internal mental state enough to impartially report that they're sorry.

Non-profits are not the property of their donors, but of the general interest, with obligations to the public. It is part of the legal and social obligations of the legal structure…

Yes, next Friday is not the next Friday, those two phrases are very different despite that being weird. Not endorsing this, just reporting from usage.

Perhaps this is regional? I would identify this Friday as the 15th, and next Friday as the 22nd. Next Friday always means the Friday after the next one, which I notice is insane as…

Obviously LLMs would identify as binary. (But also, low effort meanness is bad, HN strives for better in both dimensions)

Incorrect, and mean-spirited. Come on.

I think some comments are missing the upside of it being precisely Rust, without any new semantics. If you want lisp that compiles to machine code, Common Lisp can get reasonably e…

Cud, I think, is the thing that gets rechewed.

This article is very invested in constant mockery. As someone who just wanted to understand better, it made it a tedious read.

Unions aren't acting in the interest of the people generically, often not even the members of the union. Otherwise they wouldn't go to court to force people who don't even want to …