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Yes. Productivity tools make programmer time more valuable, not less. This is basic economics. You’re now able to generate more value per hour than before. (Or if you’re being paid…

But it’s clearly statistically much safer ( https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport ) 7 million miles before an accident w FSD vs. 1 million when disengaged. I agree I didn’t lik…

Thanks, I’ve never heard this and it’s quite profound. It’s always bothered me that there even is a top speed, and further that mass becomes infinite as it’s approached. But “speed…

When I say “new knowledge” I mean in the David Deutsch sense. Like the discovery of new physics which Sam mentioned.

I want to be wildly optimistic too, but I still see no evidence LLMs generate new knowledge. They always hew in-distribution. Please correct me if I’m wrong

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Is the score of 28 comparable to the score of 29 here? https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/ai-mathematical-olympiad...

Define “waste”. Then explain why your opinion should trump a free market. Then tell me how much coercion will be required to enforce it.

Problem with most chairs (including Aeron) is the bowl-shaped seat pan. It feels comfy / cradling when you first sit down, and that’s why people buy them. But as the minutes and ho…

> I often wonder what Minsky would think about the current generation of AI. I suspect he'd react similiarly to Chomsky who in, a recent interview (MLST), was highly critical of LL…

Scientific progress has slowed, but engineering progress is only just beginning. For instance, the electronic transport chain of respiration/photosynthesis, is a series of quantum …