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I think your criticisms are mostly fair but I think most tech people are aware of the potential downsides but ask themselves, "what is the alternative course?" We stay the same? We…

Why would being "100% safe and all diseases are solved and we have endless surplus" be abhorrent to you?

This line of reasoning heavily discounts, or ignores entirely, complex emergent properties that can arise from simple rules in large systems (the actions of an ant colony being a g…

http://archive.today/hIFIC

For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and …

Yeah, I don't know why this is being upvoted.

You don’t have to self censor to appease others

I think any reasonable person would come to the conclusion it meant for you to chill your hands in ice water.

It's fairly common to briefly cool your hands with cold water or in an ice bath before working on certain recipes.

"That will wildly hallucinate" feels wildly hyperbolic considering how fast models are improving in their abilities, especially with proper safeguards built into the model harness.…

The same thing as what? Respectfully, in my opinion, you have not explained anything. You've just made a series of statements without qualifiers, which is not convincing. Are you a…

https://archive.is/IdIzP

The newest frontier models automate substantially more real freelance work than their predecessors.

I'm not saying we should have unlimited immigration or open borders. Countries can and do have immigration rules. My problem is with using nationality as a stand-in for a person's …

I'm not saying that non-citizens have identical political rights to citizens or that temporary residence can never end. What I'm saying is that persons legally present in a country…

I have not called you racist anywhere in our conversation. I've simply asserted that a policy may be discriminatory. I also don’t see how universal human rights leads to “nation-st…