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literally one of the main reasons america spends so much on healthcare

What's interesting is that the LLMs' coding personalities seem to match their policy WRT to strategy, which suggests an underlying consistency. Claude, for example, is very eager t…

The article is really vague and a bit misleading, but the bill text appears to be surprisingly readable, and honestly not much longer than the article. https://leginfo.legislature.…

A lot of agricultural water usage (more water than AI) is for growing corn to turn into ethanol so we can add it to gasoline. It's not a small amount either, 40% of all corn in the…

This was the same logic that was used when building nuclear weapons, and many of the scientists involved in that tried to find a different path (most notably Niels Bohr). I think w…

They also removed the words build, develop, deploy, and technology, indicating that they're no longer a tech company and don't make products anymore. Wonder what they're all gonna …

Could also be great for maintenance dosing. I'm reaching the end of my ~ weight loss journey ~, and it's not a sure thing that the insurance company will continue paying for the in…

You can't call something a bad-faith argument just because you disagree with it. I mean, you can, but it's not at all convincing. As I said, if AI companies reproduce copyrighted w…

Every artist and creator of anything learned by engaging with other people's work. I see training AI as basically the same thing. Instead of training an organic mind, it's just tra…

The navy comment is a bit unfair, as it's well-known that Amazon is more of an airpower (hence "the cloud" etc.)

You think the SF parking enforcement agency is tracking everyone?! That's one of the wilder conspiracy theories I've heard recently.

Well, it's not the first time Germany has had a problem with Marx.

I mean, if you're that fatalistic, why worry about AI (or even climate change) in particular? If we're all just doomed no matter what, you may as well just enjoy what you can from …

You're still missing it, we are not in a deadlock. Developed countries are in fact decarbonizing. China too is decarbonizing, though they're behind where the West is, but their goa…

We are much greener though, at least in the West. Climate emissions peaked in Europe and North America in the last few decades (earlier in Europe.) In Europe, forests are growing b…

Is the issue that the suggestions from the AI tool are not good, or is that bad code is making it into the repo? The latter problem should be prevent by code review (first by the d…

Pretty troubling!

I think your definition is completely reasonable, but it's not how people answer the question (again, based on reading the report, which has a lot more detail.)

The living paycheck to paycheck stat is meaningless. It generates headlines, because bad news wins, but if you dig in, even the surveys that ask about this reveal that a large perc…

> Requiring benefit is a huge step from where we are. The phrase "requiring benefit" is doing a huge amount of heavy lifting in this statement by assuming benefit is something that…

IIUC, I think it was built to have water in it, but sealed up, so it never did. So not quite the thrill you're describing.

Reminds me of the stories of people in NYC's diamond district making their living by looking for dropped gemstones and tiny bits of gold. https://nypost.com/2011/06/20/got-his-mine…

I initially agreed, but then I had the thought that this would lead to people just knowing which lights have camera and being extra careful around those, while freely running the l…

I don't know how I feel about all this, but I came up with an amusing idea I wanted to share. What if we refund the money to everyone, but only those who didn't get a ticket in the…