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Not sure why anyone has a taste for the kind of butch, chest-pounding performative foreign policy we have these days. Not only does it not work, it's dangerous to national security…

If you're getting 2x you are likely at the limit of your own ability to coordinate or plan intelligent work effort, and you have plateaued such that even when models are twice as p…

Perhaps, but things like Sora burned a lot of compute -- a high percentage.

While I completely agree with your take, I think everyone has been surprised by how quickly LLMs have become highly useful and extremely powerful, and by how possible it is for rel…

How is merging identities the solution? The goal is not "how can I do blackmail-worthy activities without being blackmailed?" the goal is "how can I participate in a narrow way wit…

Does it really matter that a review was written by "Ronald B Smith" vs "BrewersFan4000"? I'd argue that it only matters when the goal is to convert "real name" accounts into someth…

There are some of us (late generation-X / early millennial) who saw this coming and still maintain a variety of separate identities across many domains. I don't know why someone wo…

I'm very pleased to see open source mapping/navigation systems. I have had the hypothesis for a while that many of the UI/UX designers on the google maps team do not actually drive…

I make code review and PR approval optional for my teams. A solid process should emerge from respect and peer pressure alone.

This article is sort of a self-advertised red flag that the writer is rationality-challenged. 1) many disagreements are not ultimately about facts but about intentionally different…

They are focused on the things you do when you are not over-capitalized and you can’t get unlimited nvidia hardware to train on. And the results speak for themselves. Meanwhile we …

Thank you so much to everyone at DeepSeek who is working on this and who have the courage and generosity to open source this for humanity. We in the United States will never forget…

China’s leadership is pragmatic, transparent, mature.

Regulation at the state level (which is what Sacks and the toadies were so against) is far superior to this bc it is local and bad ideas only affect those in one state! Bad Federal…

This is what we get when the president is a nepo baby who inherited a fortune and bankrupted many companies and had mainly business failures before entering politics. I’m quite con…

You're right it's not only trade policy, but I think most of the fab contracts on current models were already negotiated and Apple ate $3.3B of tariffs as a COGS increase (delaying…

Expect this trend to continue -- firms have delayed price adjustments to avoid retaliation from Trump as doing so would draw attention to Trump's many inflationary policies. Now al…

to train models to be smarter than they are, one needs examples and cases to train on, and once you get close to the top percentiles of human reasoning there is extremely little su…

It's not surprising if one has the mental model of the probability that the request gets enqueued. Then when you add variable time to process requests it becomes more clear why som…

It's not surprising that Trump is as bad as he is at many of these things, but what is surprising is that he's worshiped by his supporters.

Great point. I wish more people realized that intuitively.

I tried it and it was extremely broken and dramatically overhyped. Which I guess is what Elon finds appealing about it, as that seems to be his preferred type of business.

While there is some irony in the AI is dangerous marketing Anthropic uses, the main story here is that the Trump administration is apparently retaliating against Anthropic for refu…

Please point to a video or example of some way that Cursor is remotely state of the art at anything...

> another competitive, American coding harness Isn't the Cursor founder British?