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It's hard to read Gwern's accompanying article without seeing this for what it is, which is a kind of mania. I'm sure he means well and is genuine in his aspirations, but what's ou…

If you didn't have the time to write something, why would you expect someone to spend the time to read it? Did _you_ read all of the documentation you generated?

"Hyperactive and distracted" is not necessarily the exact reason, but there is a large, well documented gap in performance for boys vs girls in elementary school (at least in the U…

Well put. I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment. Maybe this is me just being angry at the new world that's being created, but the beauty of the open source ecosystem was human…

Maybe not every 12 months / session, but I definitely think having a way to "sunset" certain types of laws would be a net positive on society.

Lovely. Thanks for sharing. Are there directories for similar items? I love the idea of a simple, single purpose device that has maintenance and repair-ability at the forefront.

You're getting downvoted, but this is really the only answer here. Companies won't stop acting this way as long as their shitty behavior is rewarded, and people keep rewarding thei…

Unless you have worked with Oracle or other big enterprises, you may not realize the scale of how these companies operate and the breadth of what they actually do. Just by looking …

One thing that I think goes under discussed when it comes to the big AI companies is the _insane_ transfer of knowledge from sources like Britannica (among others) to the AI compan…

I couldn't agree more. I think what has happened is that everything has become so fragmented due to the sheer volume of content being created that discovery is still a challenge. I…

As a parent, this is a hilarious comment. This is like saying "why don't you just teach your cat to use the toilet instead of using a litter box?". I mean, yeah, that sounds awesom…

There's no need for (local) AI acceleration if you are leveraging a remote LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, etc). The vast, vast majority of users are most likely just making API calls to a r…

I agree with the sentiment, but that is completely unrelated to the topic at hand. Just because Congress is stuck doesn't mean the Executive gets to do whatever they want.

You would think that if you genuinely wanted to curb illegal immigration, then this would be the way to do it. People come here for money. Take away the money and they will no long…

Yeah, I'm not aware of any regulation preventing new painters/drywallers from entering the market that would drive up costs. This is a pretty straightforward example of the Baumol …

I don't doubt that they have improved a lot this year, but the same claims were being made last year as well. And the year before that. I still haven't seen anything that proves to…

This has been my biggest question through this whole AI craze. If AI is making everyone X% more productive, where is the proof? Shouldn't we expect to see new startups now able to …

QA? What's that? /s In all seriousness, it's been a long time since I've seen a dedicated QA position instead of just assuming that devs will test as they go.

The mummy example is interesting, but we're not trying to reanimate mummies in an artificial way so I'm not sure it poses the same issue. There's also an educational and historical…

Maybe I'm getting old, but, I have to say, seeing stuff like "Alan Turing™" (a legend and titan of computing history, followed by a ™) really bums me out. I don't believe for one s…

Exactly, they wouldn't even need all of the emails in gmail for that example, just the ones from a specific account. The real equivalent here would be if gmail itself was injecting…

> I haven't studied much about political/economic ideologies and at this point don't even know where to start. "The Road to Serfdom" by FA Hayek[0] is a good start. There's also a …

I don't mean to be rude, but why would you give them even more money after screwing it up so bad the first time? You're just rewarding bad behavior at this point.

What I don't get is how did the pilots not see it? Are they that hard to see, or was vision obscured? The balloon in the attached picture looks pretty large.

> You could buy three for the price of a Tesla. Except you could actually buy a Tesla today, which is not something you can do for a Slate. Also they don't even have expected deliv…