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What is your exact question? To me it makes sense that you’d not want to use NoSQL if you’re dealing with data that’s already relational, and heavily leveraging features common in …

My perspective from working both inside and outside of Google: The external spanner documentation doesn’t seem as good as the internal documentation, in my opinion. Because it’s no…

This is the lump of labor fallacy in reverse isn't it? Those people would eventually be employed by other industries - both the labor and $ formerly going to yachts would be used s…

I think this is a fair approach when things work well enough that a typical user doesn’t need to worry about whether they’ll trigger some kind of special content/moderation logic. …

I think you are using energy drinks in your example for effect, only because people overrate their caffeine content relative to coffee. Coffee drinkers who have a full tumbler/togo…

For people with high daily intake it’s not so much that they want to get “high” on coffee to enjoy the conversation, as it is that their brain is in acute caffeine withdrawal and t…

What does me telling LLMs to write articles for "best vacuum cleaners 2024" and putting it on the Internet have to do with the ability of LLMs to improve themselves? Humans write t…

The Internet is a pull model. I can go to Gwern's website directly and not care that most other websites have crap on them. People choose to use push models for content through met…

The internet is already mostly filled with low quality bullshit though, and GPT-4/Gemini are much better writers than whoever is churning out SEO as we know it now. It's a lazy arg…

I've seen this exact same fallacy happen several times throughout my career, which isn't even very long. I think in many cases it boils down to some subtype not being identified an…

Not everybody wants to sell their startup though. Accessing that liquidity without selling can be very very risky. Also, small companies like this can’t command big premiums becaus…

A lot of this is because of news media though. News media is in direct competition with big tech companies for advertising. The more eyeballs go towards big tech and not news compa…

I think there are a few different but related concepts bundled in “law enforcement” here. A low-trust authoritarian state that restricts personal freedoms has to use heavy handed p…

I mean, that was the case even moreso in the Soviet Union right? They are the inventors of the phrase “Trust, but verify” after all, as well as the term “politically correct” (befo…

The level of trust in society is game theoretical and unstable at the extremes. I don’t really consider it technology either, you can easily envision hunter gatherers having high o…

Microsoft is one of the few companies that seems to do a good job allowing employees to rise through the ranks from top to bottom. Most of the Partners I have met were cultivated i…

How convenient for all the OpenAI employees trying to make millions of dollars by commercializing their technology. Surely this technology won’t be well-understood and easily repli…

I think you are being unfairly downvoted. Campuses have the ability to do things like expel their residents and physically remove trespassers, which is only possible in the most dr…

Is it true that the quarks themselves, in isolation, have that charge? Or is it that combining quarks into a baryon or meson gives the resultant particle a charge according to a fi…

And on top of that, your social peers are very nearby. Whereas even in walkable cities like NYC or SF, the cities are big enough that your peers may also be in a walkable area but …

Worse traffic everywhere except Manhattan is the point. Whether it’s so bad that the policy is net-negative is an open question. Over a long period of time I think traffic patterns…

Agreed but in my opinion the problem is more fundamental than just hallucinations, it involves plain inaccuracy and inability to reason. Try asking chatgpt or Gemini about somethin…

This is a garbage opinion piece demonstrating the archetypical boomer mentality of caring about your pay being passe. Trying to market an “innovative” workplace to save money on em…

Having children still fuels consumption though. The difference is what is being consumed vs if that consumption spending were not spent on children. I think you are mixing up the c…

Capitalism does not tell us we should live our best life. I think there are strong arguments that capitalism (particularly concentrated private investment in housing) causes low bi…