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If it really was the case that the harness is at fault here, that'd be much more terrifying, as it would imply that current frontier-adjacent open models (like K3) would be able to…

10 Axios's within 5 days.

Why not?

Engineering is done in the context of constraints, cost is one constraint - and its a relatively conserved constraint. Saving labor in one area allows for more care in other areas.…

Mobile app compatibility is presumably the biggest seller.

In Iraq, JSOC operational doctrine was literally to target assassination campaigns based on 'nodal analysis' from contacts lifted from cellphones; if telegram had existed, they cer…

That wasn't my point. My specific argument is about US operational policy on the ground in similar engagements. Based on precident, we would expect them to engage in the behavior t…

See: Panama, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.

The problem is the same problem with crypto dao projects - cryptographic certainties only apply to mathematical structures; you can't validate that someone actually holds a quality…

In a mathematical sense - absolutely. You can dual halting problem against many very tangible qualities - like whether a (proved) statement is true or false. A (large-n) halting pr…

An LLM - which has functionally infinite unverifiable attack surface - directly wired into a payment system with high authentication. How could anyone anticipate this going wrong? …

I think that's called Myst (1993)

`M(ultimodal) Ag(ent) [ma]` maybe

I'm honestly not sure that their analysis passes muster. It seems that the main consideration is that Harris underperformed compared to down-ballot races and that the underperforma…

I agree that it's not the best term, but I don't think its so disqualifying that it makes the claim untrue: it's misleading at worst, and that imprecision only kinda interacts with…

"Recorded history" in the title refers to the period of history where the agency has been recording the numbers. It might not be the best phrasing, but it's not strictly untrue; th…

The actual work underlying the essay - the one published in Cambridge Core - is pretty strong and has a lot of pretty compelling analysis. It's just long.

This seems an insufficient analysis. The meaning expressed by contemporary music, film media, or streaming television isn't very profound, but they at least still make a passing ef…

Your conclusion is the exact same one the above essay comes to in the next paragraphs. It concludes that the "alignment" between MrBeast and his work is a result of the larger thes…

Contact Mike is one of the most important encyclopedia checks in the game, honestly. Its one of the few direct hints you get to HDB's backstory before the literal last scene, which…

Oh shit I totally misread the policy - I interpreted "payments to such accounts" to mean donations etc. made through channels that the host supported. As written, it's not really a…

They hope to offset some sort of imperative burden (presumably moral) of hosting onerous content by countermanding the effect of hosting that content with paired monetary support o…

Maybe its unfair pessimism, but I definitely believe that Kiwifarms (ex) is way more efficient at turning money into targeted hate than - say - the Trevor Project is at countering …

This relies on an EA adjacent market fallacy where we can resolve all moral action down to funding actors of various moral alignments - there's no reason to believe that the end ut…

you pay them in the only resource known to humanity to be worth more than money - petty forum power predicated on exclusivity.