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>Why bother playing when I knew there was an easier way to win? This is the exact same feeling I’m left with after a few days of using Claude Code. I don’t enjoy using the tool as …

My experience from these projects is the opposite. The projects are always secondary priorities for participants, and the difficulty of coordinating some dozen entirely separate or…

A hallmark feature of psychosis and schizophrenia is lack of "insight", meaning that the patient can't recognize that they are having delusions, nor the fact that they are sufferin…

There is a market for technical due diligence consulting, but the work is typically done by friends of investors; it's a difficult and tiny market to get into.

What exactly do you think you can learn at that point, that'd give you market value?

Pinboard was nice and simple once, but nowadays doesn't seem to be maintained and is broken in many ways. I've been trying to export my archive backup for almost a year without suc…

One reason why EA takes AI risks seriously is exactly because of how hard it is to define what is "good" or what "utility" makes humans happy.

Ability to bullshit on bullshit questions is a good test of both intelligence and subservience!

I'm in a similar situation. I think if you read a lot of HN and are reasonably successful, your expectations for life can get detrimentally high. And what happiness and meaning you…

OODA loop is often hyped, but really it is just a description of how humans (and animals) behave in almost any situation. "Look, Think, Decide, Act" in other words. It's not valuab…

> "There is not even complete agreement about the causal relationship between the swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome" > "Studies suggest that it is more likely that a pe…

Try finding out how many people have died from vaccines that have passed phase 1 & 2 in the past few decades. The number seems to be closer to zero than anything else. Even one of …

Every day vaccines are delayed costs thousands of lives. Bioethicists who have forbidden challenge trials in vaccine trials have firmly taken the no-action stance in the trolley pr…

This seems like a hostile interpretation of what he said. Cummings said he had warned about the dangers of pandemics. The original archived version of his blog post obviously warns…

I wouldn't place too much trust in the Finnish IFR estimate. Their IFR estimate a month ago was 0.05% - 0.1%. At the time there was no data to support that, and it turns out that t…

Finland and Norway have also had much stronger responses than Sweden.

All the Nordic countries underestimated the pandemic. Norway switched their goal from mitigation to suppression a few days ago, Finland is still teetering somewhere in between, and…

I don't have enough need to memorize anything.

It's probably one of the better government programs, though as a programmer you'll pay the entire grant's €2500-5000 value in one month of taxes.

I worry that if the "keep them talking" -heuristic becomes widespread enough, we'll experience a cultural evolution where people flat out refuse to talk. If you know the main strat…

The surest and most effective way to align developer interests with company interests is to give equity. Bonuses in software engineering get very complicated and messy very quick, …

Like so many studies about bias and heuristics, this one probably does not generalize well beyond trivial tasks. I trust that the research was executed well, but I doubt the result…

I bought the PO-33 thinking it would be a fun musical toy I could occasionally play with. To be honest, I was disappointed with how much repetitive labor was needed to do even the …

I don't think that we're prepared at all for how much, and from how little, machine learning might be able to deduce about us. Combined with how our behavior is tracked in high res…