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> Since we started it in 2005 we've funded about 6500 companies. > Starting a successful startup is the most common way to become a billionaire, so in effect I've spent the last 21…

For me at least ChatGPT was down as well. Does anybody have an idea what they're using from Google?

> the ending went completely downhill for me The series was cancelled after 2 seasons, so many plot lines were left unresolved.

Is this sarcasm? Otherwise I'm not sure how that follows. Seems more reasonable to believe that they're hitting walls and switching to PR and productizing.

I find the outlined scenario well argued and plausible. What's more interesting to me though is the complete lack of mention of labor unions as a potential defense mechanism for en…

https://archive.ph/VtIMd

> sometimes you need the excellent dry theory and sometimes you need the more concrete but messy application, and in truth you will always vacillate between the two - this is the f…

I'm actually right now working through this book (3rd edition). It's pretty much the most abstract and most clear and simple maths books I've worked through so far (I'm not a mathe…

Assuming that that's true (which wouldn't make any sense to me, but let's say), why would Snowden defend Durov?

> Would Snowden have said the same thing if Durov didn't escape from Russia before he was arrested? Why not? What's the thinking here? > Probably not, Snowden is part of the Russia…

https://archive.ph/JgNQg

This is not a matter of class balance that much. If you want to predict which of two parties somebody will vote with, the most natural framing is that of binary classification. For…

As other commenters have pointed out in one way or another, the problem seems to actually be that this simplistic model of voter choice can't capture all the structure of the real …

The idea would be that language first evolved as a mechanism for thought and only later became used for communication. Spoken language would still be connected to the underlying me…

> The idea of thinking independtly like that though seems unbearably slow to me So, as a person who definitely has an inner monologue, I absolutely agree. It's not like I'm literal…

> I've never really had a strong internal monologue when thinking I'm curious, what is it like when you read something? Is it just not meditated by a monologue at all?

> There are many flavors of this kind of accounting. Another version of free attribution would allow the company to take that entire 30-pound batch of “33% recycled” pouches and sp…

Many interviews with him directly you can check out. Article is consistent with those interviews.

He has discussed this in recent interviews and talks e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chat... > his critique of BF Skinner’s “Verbal Behavior” had been …

https://archive.ph/4fB3T

> would generate way too much workload to follow up and thereby cost time and money for better leads Having lived a decade in NL, my impression was that keeping costs down is the t…