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Look I'm all for reminding people that the US government has done a lot of awful stuff, but.. No. It's not a measurement problem or a propaganda issue. It's just the truth. USG jus…

I don't know much about SEO or content pruning, so I make no judgment on the conclusion of this article. What I can say is that this is genuinely one of the worst-written pieces I'…

I think this is kind of the point. There's a compelling argument that buggy humans are the root of all kinds of profound suffering.

I think my ignorance is showing here, but that paper's tldr to me seems to be: neural network performance is not a monotonic function of network width. Like the conclusion and the …

Yeah it's maybe not a concern for everyone, but where I live every once in a while someone gets held at knifepoint and forced to unlock their phone. I set up a screen time password…

You should review the psychological literature around sense of purpose. Basically every study ever conducted on humans has concluded that mental health is more or less impossible w…

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It is shocking to me that people spend so little time thinking about the matter that they believe this would be a good thing.

Yeah this is kind of a "Breaking: Water is wet" headline.

Gonna be honest, this guy lost me at 'I decided to learn Haskell—and needed to do that on a business timeline. This was the most difficult learning experience of my 40-year career.…