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Fortunately, there are enough books out there to keep one occupied for a whole lifetime without reading anything published after 2022. The classics are classics for a reason.

Bad economic policy is subtly "evil", by way of allocating finite resources inefficiently. Usually this is unintentionally done by not appropriately taking second, third, ..., nth …

> And therefore, if an AI had more data that mirrors that experience in some way would it be sufficiently creative to create something "truly original"? An important distinction se…

Have you ever seen transplants to a colder climate trying to navigate icy road conditions? This is a valid point that self-driving cars solving the issue once and losslessly deploy…

> Reform wasn't passed, it was forced via a technicality after riots made it politically unpalatable, and it has put France in a governing crisis ever since. You can call it a tech…

> Any attempt to change those results in the country being taken hostage by rioters, thus nothing changes. Your theory doesn't actually match with reality, given that Macron's reti…

I usually use free archived versions to read mainstream journalism pieces. Seeing this convinced me to subscribe. I've always loved The New Yorker, and am happy to support serious …

I don't need any of these statements to be true to want to divest from a US monopoly on essential software. It's about decentralization, always has been.

I fail to understand why you cited ChatGPT in the first comment instead of just linking the sources in the first place. That was obviously the critique of your comment, and it seem…

The whole pitch of AI is that the model is going to be able to make exploit general knowledge outside of the local scope of the problem, just like a human would do. So I would also…

> All of this capability emerging from a company (Anthropic) that’s just five years old. Imagine what Claude will be capable of in 2030. I don't believe VC-backed companies see mon…

> I wonder if it will reduce risk-taking I understand this argument in engineering and medical fields, but in clothing industry, does incentivising risk and innovation really matte…

It's the name of a french-developed open video conferencing software[0]. See the 1st prize result in TFA... [0] https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/visio

Well, nobody needs Google-level money...

> Installation Process Enhanced by AI Proceeds to use requirements.txt in 2026... Old habits die hard for our LLM overlords. But at least it sure knows how to market itself!

I think it's more likely that Chinese EVs are banned in the US because they would absolutely obliterate the domestic car manufacturing industry.

I feel like the normal reaction is to see it in both and maintain a distinction between these two entirely different contexts without ignoring the crimes of the lesser.

It's some utopian dream to think the death of the EU would decentralize power. It's currently a necessary evil to put pressure on the already centralized power of the US global heg…

If you can't reason about the concept of 'price sensitivity' without a slippery-slope invocation of slavery, then I think capitalism isn't for you.

It works if you know the person and have a baseline for how much confidence you give their opinions. If it's just a random person on the internet, they need to support their argume…

The post is just about doctors, but I hear similar arguments about professors (in the US, at least). These two fields attract the greatest minds and most dedicated souls to do actu…

Makes sense, but how does this explain the fact that this problem seems recent, or at least to have worsened recently ?

I personally prefer some grammatical errors or awkward phrasing over AI-assisted writing. It's a blog post, not a diplomatic transcript.

At this point, is the most "effective ethical" career path for a software developer to work on LLMs to flood social media and ad-clicks to speedrun the collapse of digital marketin…

No surprise that claude- haiku -4.5 was one of the few models able to see through the poetic sophistry...