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How do you know what a PhD is telling you is truth? Unlike the PhD, the AI model has benchmark scores on truthfulness. Right now, they're looking pretty good.

I fail to see how furries are culturally important. Please enlighten me

Hi HN, With deep learning on a meteoric rise and eating up a large chunk of the attention space, what other dev trends to look out for in 2023? What will be the next beat after RL?…

This is post-modernity. Object level reality and symbols exist independently. Tesla is a signifier without a signified.

Counter-signalling partly explains why pure status symbols are not among Gen Z. Taste, or aesthetic sensibility, is also an explanation. An expensive watch, such as a Patek Philipp…

It’s difficult to articulate but something as pure symbol of status as Mercedes is actually low status. Tesla, which is also an environmentalist symbol, is high status. This is an …

I love this one. I can also recommend Letter from Utopia.