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Why punish S.E. Massengill? It’s the parents, after all, who willingly allowed their children to drink sulfanilamide. Hell, if the children simply closed their mouths when the spoo…

The class you’re thinking about is not made up of workers.

Yes I love this comment! GPs are awesome. Prompting is conditioning, that is what it is. The visual of a GP (like the thing you get if you google image search “Gaussian process”) i…

It’s true across the board. How to get good results with coding using AI? Be a good coder. How to get good financial advice? Be financially literate. How to get good medical advice…

The liberal arts education was originally conceived to educate the leaders of society. That is where the free-minded pedagogical angle comes from, it's explicitly privileged. The i…

I love driving around when there's no traffic. It's only natural that I should have the right to restrict the number of cars on the road. Oh, you want to buy a car? Too bad -- it's…

It really does seem like they should have been able to do an incremental rewrite with FFI. Could have easily done it with AI too.

Absolutely true. But China’s industrial dominance is also the government immiserating its people, just in a different way. Domestic consumption in China is famously low, work cultu…

This is why capital accumulation, of the extreme kind we see today in the USA, is wrong. Not because greed is a sin (although, it is, and most of these guys are going to burn in he…

I went on a backcountry camping trip last year and was stargazing as one does. Kept seeing satellites. Was cool at first (used to be a rarity) but it got more and more annoying. An…

For the general consumer, they were basically right though. Most people don't use laptops except for work. The primary computing device is the phone, and phones have basically beco…

Ah, but you forgot private equity, that's about $2473 of profit per ride that needs to be accounted for. This high cost is what we must pay to keep our economy dynamic and efficien…

An infant begins to mirror the emotions of his caregiver at 3-4 months. He can distinguish his own body in a physical mirror at 18 months.

I like this reply. I think you and I use AI the same way and probably have a lot in common. But I read things more cynically than you do. Things to ponder: Read the GPT Live announ…

What would you call it? Anti human, corrosive, powerful, uncanny... but not evil? I am fully encountering this, believe me. My conclusion is that it's evil.

Human beings require interaction with other human beings to identify the self. It is impossible to live without others. Read up on solitary confinement sometime - enough time witho…

The extent to which it's true is the extent of the evilness of the technology. Go search the phrase "ai boyfriend" on reddit sometime; imagine what it will be like when society is …

I'm sure you'd have no problem in solitary confinement. Why not make life easy?

Yes, every minute you spend texting or talking to a chatbot is a minute that you'd have spent talking to another human beings. Literally the only important thing in life, the basis…

Safety critical embedded just doesn’t need as many lines of code. Your typical embedded codebase is small and long-lived, and if you’re spending a fortune to do verification and va…

I have read this article already and "reality has a surprising amount of detail" has become a phrase for me. But, I read it again today because the writing is so good. This guy is …

I'm not a Marxist, far from it. I think the best possible thing is the free market. The problem here, is that the wealth is concentrated so much that the markets are no longer free…

Arguably that is worse. If a criminal misuses his own resources to commit crimes and then you take that away from them, it only affects him. The companies should be liquidated stil…

Man you guys are so close. "Somehow." Indeed, it is a mystery. 0.01% of the population has direct control over something like 50% of society's resources. Society moves to enrich th…

"Writing specs" is the essential complexity of programming. What you're saying is that there's no silver bullet. Agents or no agents, punchcards or interpreters, programming is pro…