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Yeah, disappointing to see it so highly upvoted. So many tells of AI slop: > There’s a clean exception to all of this, and it flips the entire logic. > If letting go of the argumen…

Are you talking about LLMs in general, or specifically ChatGPT with a default prompt? Since dabbling with some open source models (llama, mistral, etc.), I've found that they each …

Thanks for the thought-provoking post. I don't think I share the perspective, but I'm curious to understand it more. On a personal level, I'm not happy to see a medallion-owning ta…

I uploaded the PGN to lichess: https://lichess.org/rzSriO6I#97 After reviewing the chat history I actually have to issue a correction here, because there were two moves where ChatG…

I played chess against ChatGPT4 a few days ago without any special prompt engineering, and it played at what I would estimate to be a ~1500-1700 level without making any illegal mo…

As someone who was affected by this (non-U.S.), I have to say I was very satisfied with how PokerStars handled everything. When Full Tilt was shut down I essentially treated the fu…

Sure, easy piracy is a part of reality and businesses should, as a pragmatic matter, adjust their business models -- that's neither here nor there. When I talk about being able to …

That's a good clarification, and I agree that willingness to pay is the relevant metric to use when talking about being priced out of the market. The same point applies, though; it…

What makes you think pirates are priced out of the market? If we're talking about, say, the U.S., your typical pirate doesn't seem to be "priced out of the market" for a variety of…

This sounds fine in the abstract, but I'm suspicious of it in practice because it's hard to make an honest evaluation of your willingness to pay for these goods when you have the e…

I agree that it's compatible, and further that taking care of yourself is crucial to being able to effectively help others. The author might agree too, but in that case it's rather…

I can see how my post left room for misinterpretation; my intention was to express that the creators are in the set {people for whom it's most lucrative}. The earliest adopters are…

It's effectively the same thing, except that the set of people at the top of the pyramid is larger. It's still most lucrative for the creators, it's just also highly rewarding for …

I'm also dying to know who was rapping about web development from ~2003-2009: http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=html%2C%20javascript

Yeah, the translation in the OP was almost completely wrong; I'm not sure where they got the idea that there was a joke that said "kill yourself". Actually, the depressing thing is…

If you pay attention to the self-congratulatory subtext of such complaints, it becomes clear that it's not really anything to do with being apocalyptic. No one is concerned that th…

Yes, there's reciprocity in this world, but it should be obvious to any unbiased observer that this wasn't part of some elaborate scheme on Patrick's part to grab the money of HN u…

Mathematically, you're correct that it isn't necessarily true that half of all current players are losing. It isn't even necessarily true if the pool of players is fixed, since the…

Pursuing poker as a career is usually a poor decision for a variety of reasons, but the cost of learning is not one of them. The overwhelming majority of poker hands are now played…

Here's my impression of the sequence of events, based on the blog post: 1) You post an article which includes several facts that are taken directly from Joshua's article. No credit…

Pay attention to the language you're using: "smug", "huge ego", "overblown response", "idiocy", etc. You're trying to make this out to be a principled stance about "spreading ideas…

I agree, and I meant to emphasize more clearly that I don't think the 5% figure is meaningful (and that it shouldn't have been stated without the appropriate caveats in the article…

That would certainly be better experimental design, since you would be controlling for other factors. On the other hand, precisely measuring the improvement in conversion isn't par…

Perhaps I'm just neurotic, but I do find it uncomfortable to write code with someone scrutinizing my work. When figuring out how to implement an efficient algorithm, I find that it…

In this case, observing the actual spending practices of people can only set a lower bound on willingness to pay. If you're obtaining something for free, it certainly doesn't precl…