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I just thought of another way to restate. Suppose you give me any finite set of points, any finite set at all, and you also tell me that when the 9 year old draws any line through …

Well put. A similar way to say it: ask the 9 year old to draw ALL of the possible lines connecting two points in the set — of course this is possible, just might take awhile. The t…

Had been consulting for equity with one startup out of an accelerator, so it was natural to go paid once I went out on my own. For the next few clients, approached investors I knew…

The author replied quickly and described his use of AI as very limited and just for grammar and wording. I believe him, based both on the text of the article itself and what he tol…

Thanks for writing that up. You convinced me that there was more Claude here than I'd thought, but I didn't see evidence that the author hadn't edited and supplemented, which is wh…

The article is well-written and makes cogent points about why we need "centaurs", human/computer hybrids who combine silicon- and carbon-based reasoning. Interestingly, the text ha…

Drone view is so high it's unusable. How about an inside-the-blimp view? Rural areas are trivially easy. May not be anything to do about that. how about labelling famous locations …

This is not true for business books like mine. It's vital to write a proposal first in that world; publishers want to influence the content (as in the OP article). I think the same…

Certainly, we're at the "bash it with a hammer" stage not ready for anything nuanced. I just wouldn't want to assume that the right outcome is "less autism"; I suspect most people …

As I commented in another thread, there's no a priori reason to believe that the "average" glutamate receptor level is the "right" one. Isn't it possible that there are: 1. "Normal…

It seems you are assuming that because the majority of people have a certain quantity of glutamate receptors, that they are the healthy ones and that we should be trying to bring a…