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> Meh. Writing like this was formative for me (before Gwern; I'm old), but I've come to realize that the biases of the rationalist community are really no different from the biases…

Oh, thanks for the correction. I misread the abstract indeed.

It is true for gun ownership, so I guess it is true for noise. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11143840/

The copy on the main page gives a first clue. "A daily reading club for language learners" available on 7 languages, on a .club domain... Now, look at the number of books on each l…

oh, YOU go to your room and think about what YOU did. You can't (accurately, beautifully and incisively) show us the real culpable in a very engaging way without repercussions.

Yes, but Claude (cleverly disguised as "storica.club") does not agree with the facts, and would rather show you a story with virality potential. This is an obviously AI-generated s…

Yep, my thoughts exactly. This comment should be at the top. The poster should disclose it is AI...

I was an avid reader, then I had to stop due to eye problems and because I did not want "staring at a thing" to be my hobby when it was also my day job as a data scientist. While I…

> Same goes for HN, yet it does not take kindly to certain expressions either. > I suppose the trouble is that machines do not operate without human involvement Sure, but HN has at…

He did the best he could with the information he had at the time. Yes, it is sad, and it may even feel more a "selfish" life in many ways in a "modern" society. (I would say "Weste…

It is incredibly hard to judge actions taken in the past with a values system from the present.

You could add writing to that list of topics...

Yes, pedantry is justified in this case. Froggies doing wrong cultural appropriation again... maybe the "Emilia Perez syndrome" is becoming a thing.

lol yeah... "tell me you are lefty without telling me you are lefty"

"Smrt" means "death" in Czech, so...

Yep. Good sleep makes many other decisions easy. Anecdata, but while I normally have a healthy Mediterranean diet (after many years of binge eating), if I don't sleep properly, hel…

Its existence is irritating. Could we stop it from existing?

I remember a few years ago that an activist businessman started a campaign against a comically overpriced website for buying the highway stamps: https://www.wmcgrey.cz/hackathon-zn…

Click on the link and you will find the button for signing with Identita Občana

Sure, it's not. But often on AI papers one sees remarks that actually mean: "...and if you throw in one zillion GPUs and make them run until the end of time you get {magic_benchmar…

In the end, what we all want is to have a good barbecue around friends...

Sometimes I can't believe how much money I make for that little input, and whether that is ethical at all. This idea popped in my mind while on "home office" (sightseeing on the vi…

There's a lack of skilled workers *willing to jump through their hoops*. For at third-world country immigrant, jumping through hoops is a first-world problem.

I'd argue that Mastodon and Telegram hardly count as social media (and 450 contacts on WhatsApp... come on) If someone with a site on X/WhatsApp/Instagram/FB repeats the experiment…