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I expect lots of humans to not be able to make you laugh on command, so no it's probably not a good test

Among other reasons, if you turn temperature down to 0, llms stop working. Like they don't give natural language answers to natural language questions any more, they just halt imme…

I don't think so. Primarily because if you can ask that question instead of just being dead, then it's not the fast takeoff. On a less drastic note, if AI were autonomously canniba…

I don't think adding 20 bytes to every response, which are never read in practice, will improve the energy efficiency of the internet. Not to be mean, there's just a lot of stuff i…

It's not a silly worry and you're not alone. https://pauseai.info/ .

We're not it's competition in the same way chimpanzees aren't our competition. Some fraction of us are interested in their well-being for aesthetic reasons, but a lot of the time t…

I don't think it's right that Airbnb solved short term rentals - outside of a few dozens prestige markets that they monitor with humans, it's really a race to the bottom. Reputatio…

You could get healthcare from someone who doesn't have to go $100ks in debt first, and then expects to make more than you do. If no such person with that profile exists, then yeah …

At the end of the day, much like housing cannot be both affordable and a good investment, healthcare cannot be both affordable and a lucrative career. Avoid going to an MD if you c…

Kanban operates on a known product with a known manufacturing process. Many software products are undefined even at time of public release, and evolve continuously. "Deciding what …

I would guess not. An important feature of compilers is that they are guaranteed to emit code with certain properties in response to specific inputs (memory safety guarantees, asym…

Audio and video are encoded, compressed, and transmitted differently because of how humans audially/visually decode them. We fare better dropping late video frames than degrading t…

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If you're concerned that you've made/found something dangerous, the most appropriate solution is to disclose it to people who can evaluate how dangerous it is, and work with them o…

Not significantly. Humans are made up of matter already available at the earth's surface, so population increase alone effects neither the amount nor distribution of the earth's ma…

You ought to begin by getting really good citations on each of those figures. If you or the source you got them from had any confusion about how to arrive at those numbers, any res…

In order for passive investing to produce returns, stocks need to be regularly priced. Active trading produces the prices. Active traders are trying to beat one-another, but at an …

https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/designing-a-new-old-home-... Is highly opinionated but on-topic.

People are more impressed by things they cannot do than by things they can. The vast majority of people in the industrialized world are functional writers; the portion who are comp…

Focus on something you expect AI not to exceed professional humans at in the next couple of decades. If you're convinced there's no such thing, then I wouldn't worry so much about …

A script is a type of program, they're not two separate classes of things. I think classically a script is a program whose subunits are each complete programs ('commands') that ope…

I tried a language with which I am unfamiliar, and do not think I could learn anything this way. It was fun to practice with a language I'm functional with, but not a conversation.…

What's worked well for us is to adopt the framing that both of our time is equally morally valuable, if not equally financially valuable. One hour of my life spend doing work for p…

Beware survivor bias here. No-one regrets what they did well, but misses what they gave up to do well. A very viable route is to spend the next 5 years maximizing your money and ca…

Tried to load game in firefox, rejected saying I need to run in desktop Chrome. I was promised cyberpunk but what I got was a technologically mediated entertainment experience I co…