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https://joshbradley.me Personal blog about engineering and startups. My old article on LISP made it to the HN homepage once. I’ve learned much since and would love to update it. ht…

Those were Beats, not Bose, and it was true. IMO Bose does a great job of being both consumer friendly and high quality. There are others with higher fidelity for the same price (S…

Will Kākāpō be riding bicycles soon?

Dude what? This is incredible knowledge. I had been fearing this exact problem for so long, but there is an elegant out of the box solution. Thank you!!

This sounds like the “t-shirt printers” of the 90s. While everyone was busy trying to invent the future, boring old manufacturing got ignored. Turns out printing t-shirts isn’t tha…

The problem is there isn’t an alternative for people who want one. I’m self educated and self employed, and yet I’m forced to pay for healthcare I don’t need, and compete against t…

Many people are. Several of my immediate family members. And several prominent intellectuals including Yudkowsky and Hinton, both fathers of the field. Yudkowsky wrote a 250 page b…

I think smart people across all domains fall for the trap of being overconfident in their ability to reason outside of their area of expertise. I admire those who don't, but alas w…

I largely agree with what you’re saying. Certainly alignment should be improved to never encourage suicide. But I also think we should consider the broader context. Suicide isn’t n…

I have been lied to. Dammit.

Damn. I really wanted to hate coconuts.

I’m not so sure that’s true. There are many examples of OpenAI putting in aggressive guardrails after learning how their product had been misused. But the problem you surface is re…

Many people are arguing for a ban. I did get reactive, because I’ve been hearing that perspective a lot lately. But you’re right. This article specifically argues for consumer prot…

You’re not wrong. I got reactive, that was my bad.

Mostly whataboutism, but I think my point about cars is valid. I think nuclear is another good comparison. Nuclear could power the world, or destroy it, and I’d say we’re on the po…

I fully agree with you. I do think my argument came across as more hand wavy than I intended, I definitely did a “what about” and wish I hadn’t. What I’m really after is thoughtful…

Im not resisting that at all. I fully support AI safety research. The think mechanistic interoperability is a fascinating and fruitful field. What I’m resisting are one sided views…

Fair point. I actually wish Altman/Amodei/Hassabis would stop overhyping the technology and also focus on the broader humanitarian mission. Development coupled to DAUs… I’m not sur…

It is the only reasonable measure. Thank you for your support.

Not guilty!

Not fully preventable, of course not. But reducible, certainly. Better cars aided by AI. Better diagnoses and healthcare aided by AI. Less addiction to cigarettes and alcohol throu…

It surprises me how hyper focused people are on AI risk when we’ve grown numb to the millions of preventable deaths that happen every year. 8 million people to smoking. 4 million t…

I see, I appreciate the clarification.

As Buffett says “Show me an incentive and I’ll show you an outcome.” I’m not one to think in conspiracies. But here is a clear, structural issue. The reward to NGOs should be grant…

I engaged in good faith, made a nuanced point, and you open with an insult? I appreciate the knowledge you bring, but I’m not exactly sure what you’re defending here. Breathe man, …