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I skimmed the paper but I couldn't figure out what they're doing to make concepts fundamentally different from tokens. I would think that the purpose of concepts is to capture info…

I think that considering Amazon, a company with independent business units in completely different business (retail and cloud computing) as an entity with a single personality is a…

I imagine there's a lot of value in having your employees share a timezone for the benefit of easy cooperation, so it might make sense to have at least timezone-dependent salaries.…

I'm wondering whether the point you're making can be made even stronger. I would phrase your argument as simple as: you estimate the world is much more likely to become uninhabitab…

I think much of the software might be the same as at any another company. These companies are so profitable that they're willing to offer more $$$ to get slightly better people to …

Here's an alternative to TypeScript that people who dislike type complexity but want better tooling, might find interesting: https://github.com/keyboardDrummer/typeless Disclaimer:…

Shorting a stock and having that information be public seems like a big risk, since it opens you up to people trying to make money by short squeezing you. Why isn't short trading d…

I think any single-seat election, regardless of voting system, stabilises when there are only two popular parties from which candidates can get elected. I don't believe voting syst…

Isn't YouTube banning certain content exactly what free speech is about? YouTube, a corporate entity with its own goals and beliefs, exercises its right to say what it thinks is th…

While reading I wasn't convinced this was going to work due to the collusion problem, until I read the comments on collusion which add an extra condition: "we need votes to be so p…

There's a lot of talk in this thread about what intelligence is. Personally I found the AIXI model from algorithmic information theory a very convincing definition: https://en.wiki…

I'd be very interested in understanding mainland Chinese sentiment better. My impression is that there is a lot of love for the current Chinese political system, and I'd like to un…

> After selecting a particular phrase using my cursor control commands, I say “clip [foo]“, and every time I want to enter the same phrase after, I say “paste [foo]“. I therefore o…

They could have also implemented flat in terms of flatMap: flatMap(x => x) I personally feel flatMap is a much more used method than flat, so if you want to remove one, I would rem…

So, what would be an effective way of making censorship impossible? I imagine a system where you publish news using your device (a mobile phone), and encrypted in a way so that onl…

What's the use-case for many virtual threads? I thought the main case for using threads was performance, where you need to use them to fully utilize the machine, although rather yo…

Although I don't agree with their way of communicating, I think the protestors' concern is valid: they will be forced to move because Google's rich employees will price them out of…

Well, I think I can make a simpler argument. Google will change this neighbourhood. The culture will change, the cost of things, not just rent, will increase. Assuming that the aut…

I think the author is correct in thinking that Google will cause him discomfort by creating this campus. Everyone in this area not employed by Google will have to move because Goog…

Blender is a toolset for creating nanopass compilers: https://github.com/keyboardDrummer/Blender

Himself, that's exactly what he's saying.

That simply moves the problem. An agent such as AIXI if it worked would start by upgrading itself to beyond what its original programmers were able to design.