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Whenever a game of this kind has a massive launch, a bunch of criticism will come from people who are either unfamiliar with the genre or just plainly don't enjoy it. That said, th…

Another (very) short story that plays with this idea is Neil Gaiman's Other People: https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/other-people/

Scott is a lot more accessible and engaging as a writer and did a lot to turn SSC/ACX into a platform for other like-minded bloggers. Gwern’s content is a lot more niche and he’s a…

Yandex Search is decent, but over-indexed on Russian content. They’ve also suffered major brain drain since the war began so I don’t expect them to keep up with the AI arms race.

Not clear how to deal with this either - you can improve authentication but it won’t prevent the properly auth’ed users from running LLMs. You can watermark the output of officiall…

The quote in the title doesn't appear in the body of the article, I can't tell if either of these CEOs actually said that.

A simulated hurricane would kill simulated people.

Eh, Armenia losing its war wasn't particularly detrimental to the Russian interests in the Transcaucasia - if anything it helped bring Pashinyan back into the fold, as evidenced by…

I've been thinking about Starlink too. Rural Kazakhstan should actually be pretty good for reception with all that barren steppe.

Afaik HPPD and schizophrenia are distinct conditions, most people with HPPD don't report any symptoms common in schizophrenia.

That line doesn't mean anything - should we make any type of computation that contributes to a pyramid scheme illegal? How do you even define a pyramid scheme in a way that doesn't…

> Humans have been playing games literally for thousands of years - there is a value in entertainment, especially with our busy lives of 21st century. Who gets to decide that? You …

> BTC mining is just one of those operations that is resistant to a carbon tax since the price of BTC and therefore the mining rewards can just rise to compensate. But if it's stil…

But Brexit hasn't really changed that - most of Eastern Europeans you're describing aren't EU citizens and needed work visas even before Brexit.

Which legitimate projects are you referring to?

The common thought seems to be that large scale decentralization can only be achieved with the kind of incentives cryptocurrencies provide (i.e. people get rewards for running thei…

I mean, Telegram also supports fully-fledged microblogging (with personal channels) in a way Whatsapp just doesn't.

Those types of jobs typically require the employees to get a security clearance.

That's my question as well - does EEG have any compelling everyday use-cases that aren't already covered by a heart rate monitor?

The Soviet withdrawal was a bit different since the Union was actively falling apart and the occupied territories were pushing for independence. It wasn't all that smooth either - …

A Latin language website from 2004.

> The interesting thing is that the same kinds of comments were made about GPT-2 and I guess we'll see them with GPT-4 and so on, also. What was exciting about the GPT-2/3 was how …