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You trim, yes, but AI content surely invades (all?) areas of written material. People are increasingly using AI to assist their writing. Even it if's for slight editing, word choic…

Mechanical engineering interviews seem to do the same as software: "Engineers always ask about beam bending, stress strain curves, and conservation of work. Know the theory and any…

You can easily demonstrate that an LLM does know certain fact X AND demonstrate that the LLM will deny that they know fact X (or be flaky about it, randomly denying and divulging t…

I wish they tried to solve the 1989 4x4 crossword puzzle optimization with a modern solver, but a small memory limit (~8MB) and perhaps a severely underclocked CPU to showcase the …

I think there is something special. Some special coupling of emotional states between us (manifests as empathy, feeling of community, feeling of connection). Not saying that this c…

I sometimes wonder how people managed in the 19th century. Many went from villages to increasingly crowded cities. With no savings, minimal or no education. Industrial production w…

I don't know. Look at hundreds of thousands of pages of regulations, many layered regions and municipalities, meddling politicians; agencies and bureaus involved in US market (or E…

Sonny: Yes! Rapidly and repeatedly. [then add the actual quote:] Can you ? Human: ... Oh how the tables have turned.

These two effects are not similar in scale. Fertility across the globe is falling by a lot. Africa went from 6.7 to 4.2 in a span of 50 years. Asia went from 6 to 1.9. Anywhere but…

Isn't the utility of the cycler that it can be a massive object with a lot of shielding for humans and permanently installed life support systems? Like a big space station for whol…

I think the root cause is increased abstractness of jobs. A job where you cut and plane wood to make planks that are used to build houses has a straightforward connection to basic …

Good health -> athletic ability + mental ability + good outcomes all around

In this video, a cardiologist from UK directly addresses the problems that full body scans cause for both individuals and healthcare systems on aggregate level. I think this answer…

On the other hand, looking at lived experience the story is quite tricky. From the perspective of an individual it is very hard to detect this level of climate change. I can't tell…

I just had a thought. A thin robotic worm. Can squeeze through and around important organs/vassels. When its head reaches the tumor it gently chews and siphons the tumor. I’m imagi…

To me it became unbearable after it became flooded with people trying to add content without bringing any actual insight. They'd largely reuse existing materials or top google/wiki…

If I was to attack the CICO argument I would say: - you control CI, but there could be feedback loops where the type of CI influences CO: eg consume 1000 kcal of steak vs 1000kcal …

Home deeds, loans, mortgages are not accounting concepts, but more in the ... contract(?) land. When a loan is made, a loan document exists; and accounting entries exist somewhat s…

This is true only if your definition of “computer nerd” includes terrible shape and never working out.

Metaverse being “not-engaging” is not an engineering type of observation, rather some kind of psychology/marketing type of insight. I wouldn’t trust engineers telling me something …

In a large corporation, different precesses can be handled and developed by separate teams often working in silos. After many years, there may not be a force to assure these proces…

Many animals will multiply and consume available resources without stopping. Cute bunnies left to their own devices on a lush meadow will multiply and keep eating grass until the i…

Chess is, in a way, doomed. At this point cheating by a smart perpetrator is nearly impossible to detect. - Miniature devices can even be implanted. You can probably already have a…

There is little hope for stopping cheaters. example: Moon Ribas, an artist, has a small vibrating sensor embedded permanently in her feet that communicates wirelessly and vibrates …