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Tokens do have a clearly calculable intrinsic cost. There's the marginal cost of production (i.e. the inference cost) and the amortized R&D cost that goes into the model producing …

Matt Levine often says something like "insider trading is not about fairness, it's about theft." The problem isn't that it's less fair to some stock traders than others, and that s…

The point of a humaniod is compatibility with systems that have been built for humans, which is...nearly all systems that have been built. Environments and tools that exist in the …

Put a comment on this below, but the claim is highly misleading...consumer spending is ~$5 trillion, AI investment is ~$100 billion. The graph is looking at something like contribu…

I've seen this quote in a couple places and it's misleading. Using non-seasonally adjusted St. Louis FRED data ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NA000349Q ), and the AI CapEx sp…

The overlap between the Effective Altruism community and the Rationalist community is extremely high. They’re largely the same people. Effective Altruism gained a lot of early atte…

The answer is a little nuanced. We train on real records, and even though they are de-identified in training we still have to keep the model closed and under careful management to …

(Co-founder of PicnicHealth here; we trained LLMD) Accuracy and deploying in appropriate use cases is key for real world use. Building guardrails, validation, continuous auditing, …

Gas taxes are a direct mechanism to price the negative externalities. Yes, gas taxes also cover road infrastructure, but the amount of gas purchased (and therefore taxed) is direct…

Google groups is also the mechanism for defining groups for viewing/editing permissions, comments, calendar invites, etc across Google Workspace and for access permissions in GCP. …

I’ve had mixed success typing things verbatim vs hand writing verbatim. When learning to program, I found typing out code samples had a similar effect to writing them out by hand, …

Echoing other comments, the issue might be as simple as not being at the right company. Interviewing elsewhere seems like the right thing to do. I'm confident there are environment…

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PicnicHealth (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time, Onsite, Remote | https://picnichealth.com | Can transfer visas PicnicHealth works with patients to collect, digitize, and man…

PicnicHealth (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time, Onsite | https://picnichealth.com | Can transfer existing visas PicnicHealth works with patients to collect, digitize, and ma…

PicnicHealth (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time, Onsite | https://picnichealth.com PicnicHealth works with patients to collect, digitize, and manage their medical records, em…