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Are those documented anywhere?

It's helpful to read the ethics in light of the metaphysics. Beings aren't fixed but actualize their (possibly-growing) capabilities. Happiness lies in friendship, not fame or powe…

I'd be surprised if one's intentions or goals could be trained into LLM's; more likely one would emotionally migrate to the intentions that LLM's can represent because you+they wou…

Post-mortem's are very useful, though often not welcome. I appreciate the top-line summary and the approach looks promising, but I don't have time to sort through the data or detai…

unending thanks, as much for pandoc as for the example of a clear design+implementation that lasts.

But displacing individual ability is a feature, not a bug. How else could mind-virus like philosophy or religion or science or political legitimacy transit highly-variable humans f…

> Do it consciously Yes > These words apply to any investment [...] the entire culture has to change I think that's fatalistic. There are plenty of people and legal structures that…

Interesting reminder: Wall's statement of virtues was provocative as a counter to programmers following corporate rules and various software design fads. But both emphasized person…

These are the right bits to call out. But the effect is to make success more dependent on networks. (If they are using AI as an excuse to make networks more relevant than skills, i…

> mistake verbosity for authority Isn't that the essence of "attention is all you need"?

Willa Cather? Homer, or the Homeric tradition, arose as rootless people displaced by drought and war in ~1,000 BC needed to sell the idea that entertaining stranger guests who had …

> Apple could take the ChatGPT app down No. If Apple did that without a basis in their own App Store policies, they'd spawn antitrust cases. OpenAI damages are a droplet compared t…

motivated reasoning: study in advance of nursing union contract negotiations The sad thing is that there are many issues, but the study didn't really address them. One would hope f…

> Sounds like Correnti didn't negotiate well Are you sure this is negotiable?

Note that the objection is as much to the abruptness as the scale of the price increase. Large customers sinking millions into (here aviation) assets rightly expect that their vend…

pandoc purportedly can run as wasm: https://github.com/haskell-wasm/pandoc-wasm

Loved it. I would change the timer from text (which I'm constantly reading as it changes) to a progress bar or set of dots which don't require thinking. Also I would use 3 strikes …

If decisions are actually being made based on analogies instead of analysis, the whole thing is brittle. The entire military is predicated on physical possession and distance; that…

also, asbestos is too small to interact with T-cells, so it must be safe.

"Fair use" was always fuzzy. To be honest, I care a lot less about slurping up the public internet and private books to make models than about every profession on the planet being …

As prior art, see also djot (~2023), from the pandoc folks: carefully crafted as more well-formed than markdown. Notwithstanding the provenance and engineering, it had minimal upta…

In wikipedia-land, I read "primary source" as "motivated source", given their need to prune biased edits.

Paper title: Disinhibitory signaling enables flexible coding of top-down information in cortical networks (should be qualified as in-silico visual systems) Method: replicate fMRI f…

Hey investors: companies will pay big to save salaries! Hey people: not to worry, new jobs will come! 1 + 1 = 3 because growth!

This has a lot of potential; true disruption can happen for existing markets only when the transaction cost features change, and CloudFlare is ideally positioned to drive a new sta…