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I think your example hinges more on the fact that $10/hr is a desperation wage. It's not enough to buy you a life where you're not stepped on by others. The further up that chain y…

I had a similar reaction to this article. "Why are they talking about these returned astronauts feeling like I feel all the time?" I recently got diagnosed with ADHD after talking …

The feeling one gets from observing and thinking of cosmic scale events, and the feeling one gets from eating a really good risotto, and the feeling one gets from watching through …

What a wonderful looking piece of software :) My child is far past toddler age but I shall keep this in mind as a gift for friends of mine that are about to have children.

Having a child was a profoundly selfish act for me. I wanted one because I can't imagine any challenge more fascinating and rewarding (for me) than raising a child. I don't underst…

Disclaimer: I am not a physicist and this is merely semi-informed speculation by an amateur enthusiast of understanding physical phenomena. I had assumed that those were steam bubb…

I'd point out that pointing at those largely powerless people is a tactic used by domestic power centres that have their own regressive views and policies which they want to draw d…

An obsessive stalker police officer that's angry at their ex girlfriend moving on and finding a new partner will probably not be interested in EVERY car, just the one she drives an…

Isn't that just leveraging the benefit of having access to a higher level of government which does have rules?

I read through the article, and I'm not sure this is dependent on quadratic scaling. Are they allowing all oscillators to influence all others, or are they picking modalities where…

Isn't it more that the Republicans have co-opted many previous stances that used to be talking points to be pointed at as examples of "leftist examples of extremism"? The anti-vax,…

Yes I've found this to be the case as well. I've also found that it's useful to split these documents into three broad distinguished classes: goals, design, and idioms. The goal do…

Why are you under the impression that you have a choice? Those that are violent will always exist, and will always attempt to leverage their willingness for violence, and those tha…

Super neat concept, sort of like a stripped down chatroulette. However, in today's age I have to say that these sorts of little fun social experiment projects are just a lot harder…

The business plan is really different depending on your starting capital. If you have none, don't bother you can't afford the wood. If you have a little, maybe your approach above …

What if over time, the system degrades in such a way that there's a group of people that extract more and more value from the system while adding less and less value themselves? Is…

Interesting. So what's the strategy there? Just assume that each expert will learn some underlying clustering of semantic associations, but not direct it?

I feel like the talk about "world models" is trying to reach at that, but cast it in different terminology. World model is just domain model, and once you're at domain model, there…

This is a reasonably well-examined take of the situation. On the technical side, one of the additional things I've had on my mind is the potential that these mega models are in fac…

I can speak towards building large-scale systems from scratch with these tools. I've been working since late last year on a project that was barely a tech demo, and the progression…

I learned to snowboard in Wapiti Valley which is a little river valley skislope setup way out in the middle of nowhere saskatchewan. I know what you're talking about. I took the li…

I have a 10 year old boy and I'm facing these issues right now. I'm also in Canada so culturally adjacent to the US and similar enough with regards to this topic. I don't see child…

Always interesting to get an insiders take! I really appreciate the insight.

I remember being very disappointed when Apple went with the NeXT tech instead of the Be tech. I was in undergrad when that happened. In retrospect though, the company wasn't making…