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Those plans might work to give a nice sane internet experience to the folks that are willing to put in some money and effort. But most people will still opt to stay on the slop-fil…

always startling to see people discussing gwern with he/him because my mind defaults to assuming they're female because "gwern" scans a lot like "gwen"

i think there are a lot of college-educated folks that would love to switch into a trade, but there are cultural barriers to starting such a career. a not-insignificant number of t…

i think major federal funding agencies should track department-level stats on "how many phd students did you admit?" versus "how many tenure track positions did you hire?" and use …

I’d love if there were different “layers” of meta discussion on top of everything on the web. Every blog and website would have an untold number of communities having discussions t…

our brightest phds are attacking attention from all fronts (ads, social media, news), but the news one in particular is particularly insidious because for years you were told that …

the twenty-four hour news cycle's unyielding need for urgent content has broken many people psychologically and we need to 'deprogram' them. i've often thought about making a site …

that's where they computed numberwang, right?

I think AI discourse is revealing some new contours to the information bubbles that we all live in. folks in the US have been pretty aware that bubbles based on political opinions …

> Maybe he found that telling it that it works for him nudges it in a direction that is beneficial I think that’s call “spooky Acton at a distance”

I find it absolutely insane that there’s a golf course in Death Valley

A working prototype like that is good if the debate is “is this possible?”, the problem above is more for problems where it’s possible and we’re arguing which path to take

Same as programming, I feel like the underlying tension is between math lovers who want new math to be done vs those who want to be the ones to DO the new math. Both groups love ma…

A pattern I have seen: The “old way” would be lots of debate (both bike shedding and useful) among engineers during design phase, and then you’d implement. Now it’s shifted so ther…

stock options/rsus are a great example of some sort of cognitive bias (maybe it's the endowment effect?). give somebody $1000 worth of shares in their company, and a lot of folks w…

it's also why you shouldn't hold equity in your own company any longer than necessary (e.g., an apple employee shouldn't tie up the majority of their networth in apple stock).

I like creatine when I’m lifting because it reduces soreness. For some people that effect helps them push further and train harder, for me it’s just proactive pain relief

Yeah, but most current corporate radio sucks. It’s not a human broadcasting and allowing their idiosyncratic tastes to sneak in. Nationwide each station is just shuffling one of th…

There’s a human connection element to old radio that streaming will never replicate. And I worry that it’s gone from modern automated radio too. It used to be if you were driving d…

proofs by counterexample are effective but ultimately unsatisfying. they get you to an answer but they don't help help you understand and bend you r mind into seeing how the math w…

And manias are so foundational to the relatively young field of AI that they made the term “AI winter”. We should brace for the third (I think) AI winter soon

i feel like the useful applications of AI get silently integrated into workflows. the ill-conceived moonshots by and for a non-technical audience get labelled as "AI projects/initi…

"They Live" vibes

a feature that i thought would be good for llm-centric languages would be making something like python's doctest prominent where you put simple little unit tests in the docstring o…

What percentage of folks in this thread saw the Vasa because of “Intro Days”?