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If stuff like this shows up in GAI I wonder what that means for how common such material is in the wild. Frightening.

Hopefully the satisfaction of owning the normies isn't the only benefit you'll get from this technology. Because that would be pretty sad.

> his abiding and unabashed love for possessing extreme competency whenever satisfying cunningham-esque laws. Though the post-dwarkesh clout certainly tainted things a bit. I can't…

Previous technologies eliminated single categories of worker at a time. The machine learning that people are working on these days threatens to replace very broad swaths of the wor…

Or maybe not, since it's Europe who are objecting here?

It's about brazen corruption in one of the world's most famous institutions. Taking an interest in it isn't as irrational as all that.

> Lobbying is cheap because it’s just making powerpoint presentations to Congressional staffers. No. It is not. For starters, ask anybody who works at a DC restaurant or sporting v…

I'm reminded of a remark I read somewhere that the em dash is "almost excessively versatile." > As for semicolons, semicolons are neat, they are like the coolest punctuation mark a…

> One of Damore's mistakes was opting for a high-decoupling route on a politically charged topic instead of a low decoupling route. Why does the formation of correct beliefs, a top…

That doesn't sound to me like a consequence of their free-as-in-beer business model. It sounds like an accurate reflection of business culture and the way people talk in that sort …

As far as I can tell neither Callard nor anyone else talk about this concept anywhere outside this interview. Odd.

What about "Germanic" society are you saying is incompatible with this? (English is a Germanic language, by the way.)

What technology is this using? pYIN? Deep learning? I don't see any indication.

I was able to do that using SoundHound on my Windows Phone 10 years ago.

It's an arbitrary metric that creates an illusion of rigor. That looks to me like an instance of the quantitative (or McNamara) fallacy, and a pretty typical application of pseudos…

Smells like EA. The "Evidence stance" measure in particular, which purports to gauge a study's rigorousness as a simple percentage, is rank pseudoscience.

> Most of my cards are handwritten by me and accommodate my brain. I'm guessing from all the talk about Anki that people are missing this part. I think these frictionless, digital …

I spent a day or so traveling through Germany with my parents a few weeks ago as part of a (much longer) trip and a common refrain during that day was, "So much for German efficien…

The English article for "let it rot" (or a related phrase) seems to be here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping

More like demanding cash. This looks like a manic episode. The post was flagged, and now it's gone back to not being flagged, which I don't understand.

There's plenty of reading material about her controversies: https://unherd.com/2019/02/techs-dark-overlords/?edition=us https://www.yahoo.com/news/rogue-occupy-wall-street-account-…

The candidate you're describing is a unicorn. Even assuming that this acqui-hire routine is a good way of finding such people, that doesn't answer the question why they're needed f…

The few mentions of plugins lead me to believe that Files.md won't have them, and this: >Do we really need this feature? Will it help us to do the real job, or does it just give do…