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I think it's a lot more interesting to look for practical markers of simulation than do a teleological thought experiment. How would a simulated universe differ from a "real" one? …

Tractable is solvable, the opposite of intractable, and a beachhead is a landing point for an invasion. A tractable beachhead is a solvable first chunk of work that sets you up for…

It's an indicator of AI progress. The solutions aren't especially revolutionary, but no person had been able to solve them after decades of collective attempts.

No taxation without representation?

Small social sites are just as dangerous in another way, as vessels for a toxic monoculture. Pro-anorexia forums, political radicalization, there was even a famous one that fetishi…

Does reading books have intrinsic value, or is it just a specific (archaic?) way of transmitting information? Socrates would be a podcaster today

The only people I've ever met who get excited filling out forms were German

Art is communication. If you can convey the message to an intern on a post-it, what's the point! My favorite art is the kind that describes to people how they already feel.

That's amazing! The "machines as woodland fairies" conceit imagines them as natural creatures, but nature has no laws "In developing countries, everything is possible and nothing w…

Yeah it's hot...

They have different personalities. I can only imagine Altman wants to stay on top of the chaos, and believes he will come out ahead whatever happens, while Dario is trying to stay …

The map is not the territory!

There's soft guardrails for "reputable" content. A publishing house has to buy it, stores have to agree to distribute it, and if people are upset they can raise a stink and get the…

Same as it ever was

And the EU wants to insulate itself from Russia with friendly, ideologically-compatible countries. Can't put a price tag on safety

Emergency medicine is the coding of medicine. Fast feedback loop, requires broad rather than deep judgement, concrete next steps. The AI coding improvement should be partially tran…

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Yeah, fractal means you see the same structure, or an equally complex structure, at the smaller scale. This is just details, there's no sustained complexity

So poor people and historical people are in the same bucket as dogs, got it. How lucky we are to be the only generation in history capable of thinking and reflecting!

Economy of scale, Lego can invest the billions(?) in machines and molds that don't leave connection points (?), partially by reusing pieces between sets.

This is a peak midwit, popsci, plausible-sounding but foundationally-bereft article.

Yeah it's fascinating to have an alternate source for intelligence, feels like a mental Rosetta Stone

Recklessness is based on effort, likelihood, and consequence. If you live in a small town, you might not lock your front door. No matter where you live, you probably don't lock you…

Is it healthy? Maybe every company is a profit-maximizer wearing a skin suit, and people support their siblings exactly twice as much as their cousins. When you slice down to the g…