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Beyond scientific knowledge, being there would (much more quickly) yield quite a lot of (higher quality) knowledge about "how to navigate and do things in the Grand Canyon." If I'm…

> There's so much natural wonder in the world in and around your home. Sure, no doubt. But I don't really think "video of my local state park + imagining the parts that aren't conv…

> only worth so much. Worth... quite a lot imo. First, in the slightly objective sense of "What is this place like in real life, under X conditions." But, more subjectively, watchi…

I've been to a few natural wonders (including the Grand Canyon) that I saw in advance on video. At least for me it isn't close at all. Even if audiovisual elements could be near-pe…

Some parts are pretty annoying to read... the paragraph beginning in "Our mission is straightforward:" has many lines with just 2-3 words, massive font, and tons of unused whitespa…

What percentage of people work at a startup though? Not just new/small business, which could include restaurants, local services, etc., but tech/science startups that would meaning…

Agreed, a LOT of UBI advocates gloss over the "B" in UBI. If AI increases human productivity overall, the only morally acceptable outcomes (imo) are that everyone's standard of liv…

> others are in denial about whose living standards are actually going to be uplifted. I don't know if it is fair to say they're in denial. For my part, I don't expect life to get …

> suddenly then there came to be a lot of talk of 'prompt engineering' as a skill. I would've thought pretty much the exact opposite. "Prompt engineering" was somewhat important in…

I agree somewhat, but for the most part the signal is that you can succeed in some kind of knowledge work. If AI replaces ~all knowledge work, that signal isn't actually going to b…

> The net effect of this appears to be that we'll see far fewer, but far more elite math Phd's, potentially discouraging many young people from the field. It seems plausible that t…

I agree with the general premise with respect to current SOTA, but for making nice plots that I would've never otherwise made or learned how to make (to the same standard), easily …

The outcome that you're describing of AIs facilitating education for disadvantaged people is great, but isn't AI simultaneously significantly devaluing education (excluding of cour…

> If AI obviates the need for human labor, then obviously those who control AIs will become the elite while the rest are left to rot. Absent political intervention, I think we agre…

> for ushering in the technofeudalism that will put us all in the permanent underclass. Why is unlimited access to SOTA AI less likely to put us here? If AI obviates the need for h…

> Arxiv is full of pre-prints that anyone can upload. You now (at least for some categories) have to receive endorsement from someone who has multiple recent papers on arxiv in the…

Agreed. I know nothing about nuclear physics. I still doubt you could pick a random person off the street and have them convincingly pose as a nuclear physicist to explain a "nucle…

I get 0% (accurately) on my latest paper. Not super surprised, as I intentionally avoid some LLM-isms that I used to use because I don't want reviewers to have even the slightest i…

> As a software developer, I am used to finding and fixing the underlying problem instead of relying on the quick fixes these doctors were offering me. I'm skeptical that avoidance…

> I mean, you can read them even without the colors I'm not colorblind and I was depending on the textual context implying Sol was better than Terra. I had to zoom in quite far to …

I was wondering the same thing. From textual context it is clear enough that Sol should be above Terra, but I had to zoom in really far to actually differentiate between the colors…

I agree with the general sentiment of this comment, but national labs do hire foreigners/non-citizens, albeit possibly not from all countries with eligibility for all roles.

The funniest one I've noticed lately is a bunch of Capital One ads saying "We built a multi-agentic system for finding a car to buy!" I'm not saying I 100% wouldn't use AI to help …

Presumably ~100% of the employees want to feel secure in their jobs, so I don't think this would happen unless the benefit to the 51% is extreme.

> There are some people that believe that writing is an act of creative expression. I think "some people" might be underselling it, as evidenced by the borderline innumerable ficti…