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Yeah absolutely. And obviously I’m overplaying my naïveté and idealism for effect here, a little bit, but I was still surprised how much it really did improve my quality of life. I…

It’s funny, people are so different! I’d always taken it as an axiomatic Truth of the world that money doesn’t buy happiness. When I finally caved and took a high-paying job, I was…

More importantly, why are there always 30 people who insist that you can’t know it’s claudeslop? Or, “so what if it is,” or something like this? It boggles the mind.

Yep, that’s the one!

I didn’t know there were HREaboos out there. Please, how do I take this pill?

Maybe you’re thinking of the Eastern Roman Empire, which, unlike the HRE, was actually a continuation of the classical state?

Fascinating how different peoples’ intuitions can be. Thanks for the earnest response.

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I am not a religious person, but this feels to me, intuitively, for lack of any better word, and with only the mildest flippancy, satanic. ‘Tech’ culture has gotten very, very weir…

“Now I know exactly what is going on” is what Claude says right before it commits a baffling blunder.

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This Fox has a longing for grapes: He jumps, but the bunch still escapes. So he goes away sour; And, 'tis said, to this hour Declares that he's no taste for grapes.

It costs advertisers three whole dollars for a user to click on one of these things? That’s hilarious. I’m switching to ChatGPT and I’m going to click on every one. Maybe I’ll even…

Assertions are for testing at runtime. They demonstrate that the behavior is correct on one input when it runs. Formal verification proves that the code is correct on _all_ inputs …

Only four Maya codices survived destruction by the Spanish…

They do. Often for different kinds of things. It’s not “government good, private bad” or the other way around. Both are facile views.

They do, and they often do collect accurate data. Philip Morris, for example, knew about the danger of smoking for decades, and Exxon knew all about the greenhouse effect. They did…

It’s astonishing how quickly attitudes have shifted on this forum since engineers have been reminded which side of the labor/capital divide they’re really on. I can scarcely believ…

comment reads clean. drafting response when it lands. ＊onanizing…

Me too. It feels like I’m taking psychic damage from reading so much of this stuff. Contrary to the theory that it’s “just the contract workers’ Nigerian English,” I think the mode…

I literally will not buy a car that has a microprocessor in it (I will, apparently, never buy a car)