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The cure for high prices is high prices. Selling out creates scalpers and sometimes even a speculative bubble. High prices means producers invest in new fabs (though it may take ti…

Also AI seem pretty good at constructive proofs. Most of the breakthroughs so far have been finding counter examples. They can just search tirelessly to find one. Finding a good al…

PCB contamination passed on from their fish meal in 2004, not sure if it's still an issue.

Until you ask it to juatify your poor decisions, I bet.

Hot take, copyright law should be reformed to be more like patents. Want the government / courts to stop your employees leaking source code? Escrow the code, and release it in 20 y…

Which religion? Christianity is arguanbly the irritating grit that created the pearl of modern science. A strict text that had to be taken literally ... this led to great intellect…

> If you feel genuine responsibility for the people, then figure out a way to NOT fire them. That kind of sounds like saying "if you're poor, make more money". It's not bad advice …

AI pessimist view. Even if AI gets smarter it will still be agreeable, and people will use it to more confidently reinforce thier stupider ideas, especially in areas where they lac…

So Trump was right to call for tariffs?

> Right. So what you're saying If you start a sentence with "so what you are saying", and then say something obviously silly ... The argument would be that it's a large burden to h…

There's a great academic book called "Stupid Rules". Excessive rules (or KPIs - often rules in disguise) exist because we don't like authority. Get the doctor to assess the nurse. …

Both sides are wrong. Resusitation is more likely for a donar (if there is any bias). OK, maybe a panel of neurologists looking at an ECG are going to be biased if you are stable b…

I saw a slghtly odd youtube video by a small creator who thinks it was at least partly because the gods stopped talking to people. No, hear me out. Obviously they weren't real, but…

Now do maternal death rate. Like I said, a good place to have cancer but they aren't good at stuff that matters. The US leans aggressive on tests and heroic end of life care. I dou…

The US healthcare system just upsells on unnessessary crap. It's junk volume or at best it's heroic high tech solutions mostly making up for the fact that people stay away from hos…

Everyone is gonna say nurses are underpaid. It's a caring, female dominated profession, it's a motherlove sentiment. And they are not paid as well as doctors. Yeah, most pink / blu…

And the US also pays a TON of tax dollars to a broken, overregulated system. IIRC if you look at the cost of Medicaide, Medicare, VA, and other federal and state spending it's the …

I'm just waiting for Bezos to order all work with human agents to use the same API and guardrails as an LLM.

Individual gains from llm seem much larger than net productivity increases. I think a major source of this discrepency is people creating more work for their coworkers at the speed…

I think they mean the use of UE5 in movies.

Selling get rich quick schemes, workout plans, etc?

As an Australian it's hilarious to hear that. We have less than 10% the density of the USA. And yeah, we blame everything on density too, even though 90% of the country is a desert…

Partial agree ... I suspect: If you know what you are doing it is a power tool. If you don't know what you are doing it's also a power tool - if you measure a lot of devs then the …

I'm not paying for a super computer to do my taxes if a cheap pc can do it for free. So yeah, commercially it might be a death knell. Yes there's still a market for super computers…