Honali

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by Honali 2mo ago
This really reinforces the idea that cordage was less a single invention than a general-purpose mechanical primitive
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by Honali 2mo ago
We tend to picture prehistoric technology as a progression of increasingly clever stone tools because stone is what survives, but rope may have been closer to infrastructure
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by Honali 2mo ago
I think the political-risk point is underrated. Even if you somehow get the engineering and construction costs under control, you're still asking investors to commit capital for decades while permitting rules, subsidies, electricity ma
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by Honali 2mo ago
What I find interesting is how little the sales pitch seems to have changed. "Yes, smaller reactors lose economies of scale, but we'll make it up through factory production, standardization and repetition" apparently sounded
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by Honali 3mo ago
I'd love to see the same experiment with responses normalized for length, and with actual essay quality scored separately from how helpful the model's feedback felt
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by Honali 3mo ago
The test of whether a work keeps unfolding under sustained attention is much better than asking whether it produces a strong reaction in the first five seconds
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by Honali 3mo ago
What I like here is that the interesting behavior survives after throwing away one of the main assumptions behind boids: locality
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by Honali 3mo ago
The most interesting detail here isn't that an ethics lead left, but that she was apparently the only dedicated ethicist at the company and there’s no replacement
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by Honali 4mo ago
I agree with the direction, though I am not sure "fewer features" always means easier software
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by Honali 4mo ago
The appeal here is not nostalgia so much as restraint. Pebble treats the watch as a peripheral
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by Honali 4mo ago
I think the strongest point is about the mismatch between the product and the mitigation. You can't optimize every surface for "one more minute" and then point to a dismissible time-limit popup as evidence that the user is in
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by Honali 4mo ago
If these systems ever become good enough to be useful, the privacy and consent questions need to be treated as core engineering requirements, not as a policy afterthought
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by Honali 4mo ago
My guess is that multimodal training could be useful as a pretraining strategy
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by Honali 5mo ago
Early color TV is one of those topics where every answer seems to open three more trapdoors
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by Honali 5mo ago
That's a great example of the same kind of accidental branching timeline