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That's just a parallel fact, no one's "acting" like anything? What were you actually trying to say?

> This is a short trip in an automobile, essentially a fancy uber ride. We need a regulatory body that can fine people for making analogies this bad

> What's the goal of the US/Iran war? kneecaping china by cutting off a huge source of its oil imports. Russia will not be able to make up the difference.

HN is a beautiful lesson on the hard limits of a contrarian's usefulness.

unfamiliar with chess.com but correspondence chess(day/move) and rapid (game 30+0) should fall under two different rating classifications. Having different ratings between them is …

interesting to see in the replies such incredible pearl clutching on behalf of the poor, poor businesses whenever unionization gets brought up. brain folds lighting up like a firew…

Reframing someone's disagreement as them "struggling with something" is incredibly patronizing and condescending and dirty conversational pool.

Changing "cube" to "kube" would just look like it's pronounced "koob" (e.g. rube, tube, lube), so we swap a minor spelling aggravation for a minor pronunciation edge case. unless y…

I don't know about romanticizing a hard life but I'll definitely get hit with a very strong sense of wanting to escape and leave it all behind. It hits me every summer like clockwo…

Kinda but kinda not. I'd agree that 75% you speak of is generally hostile to the mere concept of PMs, but that's usually from a misapplication of PMs as proxy-bosses for absentee p…

I think you shouldn't presume to know better than the author what they meant.

having known dozens of friends, family, roommates, coworkers etc both before and after they started them. The two biggest telltale signs - 1. tendency to produce - out of no necess…

What if we're just not onboard with the premise that campers/squatters need to be pandered to in the first place?

well, using larger denominations helps.

Well, almost always. There was that brief period in 2023 when Bing just started straight up gaslighting people instead of admitting it was wrong. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/15…

I'd say it's actually completely useless. The definitions of "weak" and "strong" are extremely malleable depending on your own subjective assessment of the person/people. It's an a…

How would more AI help? "given this goal with these parameters, figure out if another AI will ever game it into eventual thermonuclear war. " Feels halting problem-esque.

I feel most bad for the other frogs in roles whose pots haven't even been put on the AI stovetop yet. I have general feeling they feel they're safe. Looking at you specifically, Pr…

Deep down I believe such things about both dogs and cats to some degree. But also this is also a survey of pet owners about their own pets' behaviors, and I can't shake the feeling…

"Seeing" something in your imagination isn't a literal hallucination. It's an altogether separate form of visualization that doesn't interfere optically.

> They genuinely seem to think the age of employing people is ending which I guess isn't a shock since that's what Sam Altman and the media have been telling them. I wonder if they…

Before you asked the first question did you try to put yourself in someone else's (running) shoes and figure out their motives? If you haven't, try. Steel man the case for running …

Though unaffiliated myself, I still have very clear opinions on policies. This leads to voting exclusively for one party anyway. It's just the label and tribalism I reject, not the…