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> I'm trying to understand what the criticism is here You're correct in your understanding of prediction markets with respect to traders using insider information. There are a coup…

This comment violates several HN guidelines. Take your anger elsewhere.

> they are just statistical machine outputing whatever they training set as most probable. How is this sentiment still the top comment on an article about AI on HN in 2026? It's no…

On the other hand, not having kids is also a lot like a religion now. I want kids and have many friends who do not and they’re nice people and there is no issue, but there is a cer…

Clearly Rich Sutton is a giant in AI for his contributions in RL, but his recent brief talk "AI Succession" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgHFMolXs3U ) made me worry a bit abou…

This is a terribly ignorant take and disappointing to see coming from a science fiction author. > AI isn’t “artificial” and it’s not “intelligent.” “Machine learning” doesn’t learn…

Can you elaborate on why the increasing accuracy of these measurements indicates that the universe is metastable?

> malinformation Please do not normalize the use of a term that is being pushed by the government to justify censoring information they don’t like [1]. I understand that there is s…

Yeah the same author has a reply to that since the per-capita emissions point is brought up a lot: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-per-capita-emissions-i...

You need to realize that mobs are a real thing and in this case, they ruined a woman’s career for completely constructed, ridiculous reasons. This kind of behavior is disgusting. I…

Nobody said the causes the foundation is funneling money to are Democrat causes, though. They’re something entirely different.

Just a note to you and the other commenter with a similar comment, they said “counties”, not “countries” and linked to a piece about a county in the US.

As a 20-something, I see a lot of people my age that way, way overestimate the negative impacts of climate change, to the point where they admonish and make fun of people who want …

The thought of the current Twitter leadership presiding over a major media platform throughout the 2024 election cycle probably makes others want to cry.

Recently on a podcast John Carmack said somebody should look into building small fission fragment direct energy conversion reactors, since despite their lower efficiency, they’re a…

Tbh I think this is just the classic situation of “elite” humanities people dunking on “elite” nerds. I’ve had the same experience of having no idea what the actual definition of “…

> I genuinely think this author just made this whole thing up, or is severely exaggerating what actually happened. Was my first thought as well. Seemed far too caricatured to be re…

To offer a different point of view, I'm a software engineer at ASML in the US. I can only offer the experience I've had on my specific team, and I've heard that this does vary betw…

> But our society has conditioned us to believe that consumption and status are the only things that provide happiness: the smartest children of our generation are going to Stanfor…

Take this comment back to Reddit.

It is stable and is improving. I have a Comma 3 in my car and use it almost every time I drive. The team is also very active in the company’s Discord.

No we don’t.

Another way of saying this is we have tyranny of the minority. A handful of small states hold the majority of the political power and get to make decisions that affect the majority…

Your job sounds super cool, how does one get into this?