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The lossy compression of language is why we should find it unsurprising that LLMs tend to perform better at code, than at human language tasks or reasoning. While there can be subt…

"Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell."

NOSTR [0] is a store and forward relay service, ostensibly a distributed Twitter clone, but also highly extensible [1] to support other functionality. [0] Notes & Other Stuff Trans…

> does it simply skew deckbuilding into a new "broken" exactly, that's why it probably isn't feasible other than casual/social play: there's no change to the fundamental rules that…

My thinking is that there's a tradeoff, that you slow your ramping in exchange for cycling ( replacing your land for turn). You trade your acceleration towards big spells for more …

It's alive and well, and the community is welcoming and happy to teach: https://nullsignal.games/players/around-the-world/ Cards release more slowly than the FFG era, but the curre…

My biggest beef with Magic isn't the lands system, but that the game is fundamentally stingy with cards, leading to many non-games, and/or turns where you pray for the right top-de…

> There's a reason why leftists support it I run in some far-left circles, and trust me, they don't :) Georgism is the neglected middle child of political economy: libertarians see…

What article? This is an HN-only discussion post.

Half-agree: zoning restrictions and non-essential building regulations are a de-facto government handout to existing property owners. At the same time, apologists for rentiers will…

Cool! Disappointing there's so much focus on the non-sandboxing, I think it's a reasonable trade-off to release early, and follow up with signing later. - Website looks great overa…

Colorado has an alternative service which is entirely driver-owned: https://www.coloradodrivers.coop/

Sufficiently advanced negligence is indistinguishable from malice. This is not to say that this administration is definitely not targeting civilians or infrastructure on purpose; j…

I don't disagree. I trimmed "religious and mythological memeplexes" down to avoid repetition. (Also worth considering: de-facto religious behaviors need not be supernatural or "myt…

The fascinating paradox: there are clearly "tells" (slop-smells, like code-smells?) of LLM-generated text. We're all developing heuristics rapidly, which probably pass a Pepsi chal…

Examples abound; but for good and ill, the language-using ape seems to be a religious animal, having co-evolved with mythological memeplexes. There's the old salt from DFW, "one ca…

This is (tragically) the reason why I remain a tab hoarder: the UI carries an implicit nudge (a costly signal of visual real estate), for my future self to engage with it. In a sim…

The emails are bizarrely sloppy with spelling and punctuation, perhaps many usages of "don't" ended up being typed as "don t", triggering an automated find-and-replace.

I don't like "Wrappeds" (low-key social hack to manufacture normalization of surveillance capitalism?), but with HN being public, I succumbed to temptation. Very fun, 10/10 no note…

"I'm not a capitalist, I am a creativist... Capitalists make things to make money, I like to make money to make things." - Eddie Izzard It's more about the viability of making any …

I feel like it says a lot, when intelligent amorality seems genuinely preferable to blundering incompetence. Many such cases. One wonders how much "enshittification" is intrinsic t…

They're inherently different: creative work (especially in a digital, trivially replicated format) is non-rivalrous, and at least partially non-excludable. "You wouldn't download a…

If it is the case that consciousness can emerge from inert matter, I do wonder if the way it pays for itself evolutionarily, is by creating viral social signals. A simpler animal c…

The dilemma is, the one thing we can be sure of, is our subjectivity. There is no looking through a microscope to observe matter empirically, without a subjective consciousness to …

I, Pencil (Revisited): https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kevin-carson-i-penci...