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It’s comforting to think of medical professionals as competent and trustworthy, but it’s simply not universally true. Medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the U…

Assuming the pool of engineers is growing exponentially, I’d expect a very small population of seasoned engineers.

What are some good examples of countries with a different healthcare policy and more entrepreneurship, small businesses, and/or craftspeople than the USA?

Oh nice! The one thing that confused me about this article was what search space the author envisioned adding to language models.

I think I understand the game space that Leela and now Stockfish search. I don't understand whether the author envisions LLMs searching possibility spaces of 1) written words, 2) m…

If it did that, it’s not intelligent, not “AI”. Let’s agree to stop abusing the term AI, for the sake of people like this.

Thank you, that’s parsimonious and makes sense.

This study focuses on adolescents because they have data available for a large cohort. I’m curious what one would find with adults. I’m morbidly curious what the world’s various in…

Introducing novel ideas and making strong statements will almost always generate some anger and denial. https://paulgraham.com/useful.html

What's the invisible cost when cigarette advertising is banned, eliminating the arms race to out-advertise the competition?

The map may be mislabelled, it appears to indicate countries where people aren't dancing enough

I am! In my experience, you need to keep a human in the loop. This implies that you can't get the technology to scale, but I'm optimistic because LLMs have rapidly gotten better at…