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> It's not calculated, and not personal. It doesn't have to be either of these things to be intentional. Pretty much every large system is too complex to be calculated or personal …

Your thought experiment asks: what if the banned book library contained out-of-print white supremacist books instead of historically banned books? The answer should be obvious: it …

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his net worth demands he not understand it.

More precisely, you need the idea and mechanisms to prevent competition, such as proprietary technology, network effects, economies of scale, and branding.

Would the National Labor Review Board's legal opinion count as an incorrect summary? https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4380791-NLRB-Advice-... > statements about immutable tr…

I think that's a really fun idea and I'd love to see it if you do it :) One thought is maybe you don't need the numbers? Like for n eg reddish purple is just rrb, and dark blueish-…

Unfortunately this is my broad experience of medical systems across multiple countries and, weirdly, it strikes me as one of the few problems that isn't caused by rent-seeking in t…

At some point, every man comes face to face with the lie of his potency. We're told our willingness to turn ourselves into ruthless avatars of purpose makes us powerful. Unstoppabl…

A curiously frivolous way to frame the decision to get involved with a notorious sex trafficker. Nothing to do with values, integrity or culpability, just some boys missing their m…

Market cap and it's not even close. Turns out financialisation is the classic you-get-what-you-asked-for-not-what-you-wanted of capitalism. We told the optimiser to make number go …

You know how it's considered a kind of low-effort disrespect to answer someone's question by pasting back a response from an LLM? I think equivalently if you ask a question where t…

And "picturing" is just a florid way of saying "imagining", no? The art of language lives in its redundancy; every unforced choice is a venue for self-expression.

> What I am saying is that women make bad choices [...] and later regret it Yes, especially when those women are also children. One of the many reasons it's illegal to have sex wit…

Only time I've ever been successfully phished was the App Store. I have an Android phone but I wanted to try the ChatGPT app on my iPad and naively clicked the first result, which …

This is a little puzzle game I made based on Wolfram's rule 30[0]. I was doing some sketches based on old Genuary[1] prompts and for some reason this idea stuck with me, so I polis…

Getting strong The Scorpion and the Frog vibes from this situation. Unfortunately, this is just the nature of a profit-maximising entity. Profit is the gap between how much it can …

DXMT has been advancing very quickly: https://github.com/3Shain/dxmt

It's been like this for decades. Remember Google+? Remember Google Talk/Chat/Hangouts/Meet/Allo/Duo etc? The company simply values internal political advantage over coherent produc…

Do you not think there might be a relationship between the lack of due process and the choice of terms? Like, maybe the defining difference between arrest and abduction is whether …

That's a very... pre-1748 kind of philosophy. Hume, Keynes, Russell, Popper and others have written at length about the limitations of prediction from past experience. You can read…

Really fun. Thanks for sharing! Some random ideas: It'd be cool if you could start the growth engine from manual mode. Maybe for breadth-first growth you could add all the placed c…

Same link :)

I think you're not getting his key point, or you are but you're being coy about it. He did say skin colour, in the form of "native Brits". How do you know that? Because of the arti…

As I said, the Wikipedia article is what the words "native Brits" links to. Here's the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London Here's what the article says: …

To quote DHH: "when much of the media reports a story like this, it's often without citing the specific words in question" I think you lose a lot when you abstract away someone's w…