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It's clearly co-written by an AI

This entire post was written/prompted as a pitch for the author's own concurrency framework. These types of "current state of the world - bad, my solution - good" posts have been a…

It has dual HQs. The one in Dublin is tiny (or at least it was the last time I visited), all the executive leadership is based in SF.

There seems to be a prevalent pop psych view that a bunch of these conditions (Autism, ADHD, Anxiety-Depression, OCD) are sort of clustered together and people who manifest one wil…

> The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us. I'm ambivalent about a lot of other cited examples (could be AI, could just be bad ghostwriting) but this particular sentence d…

Reminds me, there was a Stephen King interview from a ~decade ago where he observed that when he passes away his son (Joe Hill) could probably keep publishing under his name for at…

My issue with that as a reader is that when I purchase a book authored by Suzanne Collins I expect it to have been actually written by Suzanne Collins, not by somebody she contract…

Most people use Echos as voice controlled music players with occasional smart assistant functionality, this shouldn't be too hard to replicate in OSS. You could argue that the exte…

"Please stop referring to this thought experiment because it has possible interpretations I don't personally agree with"

> how long it'll take to Neuralink to turn their army of computer connected paraplegics into some Mechanical Turk-esque Grok clean up It's really hard for me to imagine that making…

Once Elon gets a robotic arm, steel teeth and prosthetic eyes that's when we know we're in real trouble.

At this stage in the war keeping your social spaces free of malicious users seems like a much higher priority than providing the other side's civilians with accurate information. R…

Tbf a lot of the thought experiments around human consciousness hit the same exact conundrum - if your body and mind were spontaneously destroyed and then recreated with perfect pr…

> even people that some people decry as bad and terrible people (for example Elon Musk) still can make amazing leaders None of the leaders in this conversation are good people . El…

The goalposts seem to have shifted to a point where the "AGI" label will only be retroactively applied to an AI that was able to develop ASI

Depends on what your definition of "good jobs" is but I know plenty of people from no name unis in third world countries who landed well paying jobs in FAANG thanks to the current …

I can think of a few reasons, most obviously that it's a security nightmare - you've got a non-employee accessing and modifying your company's code and possibly having access to cu…

> with a "maverick" view of how organizations worked derived from reading Warhammer books or something Did they want to serve the god emperor of SAAS?

Do you want the industry to go back to only hiring from the top ~20 schools and by word-of-mouth networking? Coz that's the only viable alternative to the current interview process…

I see a version of this reply every time somebody mentions that cannabis is not entirely harmless. Without getting into the weeds (lol) of what is and is not brain damage, surely y…

Having had my share of experiences in my 20s going out sober with both drunk and stoned friends I can attest that tipsy people are usually a lot more coherent than the comparably s…

You parsed it wrong - it's a large budget feature film. A feature film is a theatrical movie too long to be called a short film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_film

Most of them have pivoted to LLMs since that's where the money is

I used to think that but newer models' increasing coherence coupled with the astonishing success of RLHF makes me think that LLMs that can effectively intuit "reality" will emerge …

It really sucks that "Saddam has WMDs" broke an entire generation of Americans into knee-jerk contrarianism regarding any global conflict US is involved in. What's the "WMD" equiva…