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> LLM generated content often (perhaps by definition) seems acceptable to LLMs. In my experience (albeit with non-coding questions), ChatGPT 5.2 is often quite eager to critique sn…

I'd argue that environmental regulations that impede building modern nuclear power plants to replace coal power plants are net harmful. Nuclear power safety has advanced a lot sinc…

For non-broken cryptographic hashes (e.g., SHA-256), the false-positive rate is negligible. Indeed, cryptographic hashes were designed so that even nation-state adversaries do not …

> machinery, toys, lifts, medical devices, and vehicles All of those seem high-risk except toys.

It's the other way around: with the new change, the blockee will be able to see (but not reply to) the blocker's posts, but the blockee's posts will still be hidden from the blocke…

> ultra-processed foods such as ... yogurts > Frozen and canned vegetables are often classified as ultra-processed I think this goes against the common usage of the term "ultra-pro…

ChatGPT is arguably a general intelligence, but it hasn't escaped AFAIK -- it's still contained within OpenAI infrastructure, and OpenAI can easily pull the plug on it.

Most individual shareholders (especially those who just buy index funds) have neither knowledge of corporate wrongdoings nor, in practice, power to prevent them. A better model wou…

I've heard that recent changes to reduce sulfur emissions from maritime shipping have caused a sharp increase in global warming: https://twitter.com/RokoMijic/status/16746977433804…

The "software" part of an LLM is pretty trivial -- the interesting piece is the the weights. Since the weights are mechanically generated by a computer, it can be argued that the w…

I guess there might be a distinction between "development" of software and "maintenance" of software (e.g., bug fixing, refactoring, etc.)?

I imagine a VPN is sometimes still useful when torrenting, to avoid copyright complaints to your ISP.

Highly relevant: https://AstralCodexTen.substack.com/p/the-media-very-rarely-...

I keep getting "You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets" when I try to tweet.

> #4 ... "Hacking is Cool" is a really dumb idea. This has aged poorly; nowadays, the most notable attacks are conducted by state actors (e.g., Russia and China) or for-profit crim…

In regards to the difference in effect between Adderall and illegal street meth, Scott thinks the biggest difference is the dosage size, effectively around 50x higher for street me…

Question is a bit ambiguous whether it refers to a 'second-preimage attack' or a 'collision attack'. 'Second-preimage attack': You are given a message, and your goal is find anothe…

Oh, I guess I was thinking mainly about online censorship by tech platforms. I think most censorship from the right nowadays is about public schools?

>I love it because it's fast and minimalist. Minor quibble about this: On large pages, it can be quite slow. E.g., on https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t..…