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I think it's a dishonest essay: >The first step is to decide what to work on. The work you choose needs to have three qualities: it has to be something you have a natural aptitude …

>brilliant

I don't think it offers any. I got tired of switching between Codex and Claude plus I wanted to start using glm and kimi so I switch to pi. Then I got tired of VSCode eating up bat…

>As of May 2026, the following 76 participants have signed the treaty: Algeria, Angola, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Co…

How will you stop 15 year olds from getting non-kids hardware?

This would require hardware manufacturing. Seems expensive. Locking down hardware is also something I don't want the government getting into. What about poor young suzie who got hi…

Because this is for stupid people, it will be done in a stupid way. They aren't interested in cash bought anonymous auth tokens that require you to be over 18 to the store clerk or…

>Ah, OK, so you admit a problem exists. That's step one... Okay but for your position to be tenable you have to then go to step 2, which is some parents are incompetent at doing th…

Raising almost all children in these government socialist barracks is so dystopian. What you call "worse" conflict resolution and social skills I call superior confidence and auton…

He has a master's degree in physics from Oxford. Also there is a toggle to normal notation. Well, CS notation. I'm not a fan of transpose marks everywhere. I like an even more math…

I agree 100%. This field is not amenable to progress from people with a pen sitting in a corner proving theorems. The math is mostly uncertain vibes and to test it you need million…

It's all vibes.

This is always going to happen with these types of laws, because they can be broken with very little effort from anywhere. That directly causes it to be easy to frame people for br…

> Published in 2004-05. By 2007 that was being used for in-vivo MRI reconstruction with substantially undersampled data I have argued exact claim before and from what I recall, Tao…

Quantitative scientists are also mathematicians. I'm not attacking mathematics, just probably-useless subfields. Is there any good quantitative evidence that actually estimates wha…

So now the Emperor walked under his high canopy in the midst of the procession, through the streets of his capital; and all the people standing by, and those at the windows, cried …

So overhyped. Yet they have no power but some prestige among nerds. The reason why it is bad is that the money/status is very limited relative to the amount of smart people. I woul…

The solution is banning dark patterns at big tech companies, not banning privacy.

When they run out of other rights to destroy, they will pipe videos of little girls crying from food poisoning into your e-verified telescreen during ChildSafe^TM viewing hours, an…

It requires reason to understand the consequences of your decisions. Reason is something democracies have a shortage of. Thus, democracies structurally suffer from issues like this…

their parents won't protect them and everyone else has to pay for it. maybe they shouldn't have been allowed to have kids.

Hundreds? 200 years ago most people did not even have birth certificates. I can think of multiple famous examples of people who lived in Europe 500 to 800 years ago where we don't …

Privacy is way more important than protecting kids from consuming content online. Kids already have more protection than it's worth, probably, this is moving in the wrong direction…

You're really charitable to the "United States." There is approximately no reason behind what it does for the most part, it's just an AI made out of biological serfs.

And as we can see with Biden and Trump, 86 is past the the optimal compromise between experience and cognition.