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This is a glossary I built after spending several weeks in recursive dialogue with GPT-4. It's not a technical paper or alignment whitepaper—just a working vocabulary for describin…

Lately I've been reevaluating my predictable sci/techy pro-nuclear stance. I still roll my eyes at folks who don't really know what radiation is but think it's inherently bad, and …

awh do you really find this narrative tedious? because now I feel silly, like I just got caught watching Jersey Shore

Generally I detest font geeks, but I'm going to defend them here. First off: yes it's true that many intellectuals, designers, and hipsters have a genuine prejudice for Comic Sans.…

Offhand, do you know of any material that delves deeper into that taboo topic? Sociologically I find it really interesting but like you said, it's not a popular subject.

So if we ran this simulation for 4 billion years would it pass the Turing test?

Sounds identical to my first job outta college. I knew that some of the senior neckbeards were just toxic people, but at the same time I knew I was really inexperienced so it was h…

Agreed...why would someone bother filing a patent for an idea they fully intend on sharing freely?

You speak like someone who probably hasn't spent a good chunk of their life as a patient. You are correct; the best doctors know the limit of their own knowledge and will respect a…

One might argue that the "default state" for all forms of property, including my car and dinner plates, is in the public domain. What fundamental law that transcends the Constituti…

I don't know much about reverse eng, could someone explain how you can recompile machine code with new compiler flags? And changing getters and setters to be inline?

I feel like there's an elephant in the room all debates on US education dance around. My experience with school from K-postgrad was that my education was 90% dependent on what I pu…

I think rationality is useful because it is the only reliable path to truth. And truth is required to accomplishing almost everything. Except happiness...which may have been your o…

eih...isn't every dollar a Federal Reserve Note, i.e. the monetization of US debt? I'm pretty sure they're intimately related.

I thought the article brought up points worth discussing, but surely you're being disingenuous when you imply that it wasn't partisan?? FDR praise...complaints on "Republican polit…

Economics is not like religion; there are actual correct and incorrect answers. As a newer field, we not always know how to find the correct answers yet. But that isn't an excuse t…

sounds like you had a pretty awesome attic growing up! all I had was my sister's old REO Speedwagon LPs

"In the data surrounding the threatening traffic, they found traffic containing Ardolf’s name and Comcast account." What do you suppose this means? Did his decide to check his pers…

Lately I find myself going straight to the comments hovering around -1 because they're frequently the more nuanced, non-circlejerk replies. I smell a Greasemonkey project...

I think he was pretty clear with "Making sure you're making money is just a way of making sure you're doing something of value to others." Maybe it's like this: getting paid implie…

Disagree strongly with #6. It's too easy to find counterexamples of brilliant artists who've created immeasurable value and died penniless. Market value != intrinsic value.

re: health insurance and pre-existing conditions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-existing_condition#Pending_...

hah...I actually went to high school with that kid. My parents went broke sending me to a private school they couldn't afford, so I had the pleasure of growing up with spoiled mill…