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by bbor 2y ago
A) Looks really good, will be checking it out in depth as I get time! Thanks for sharing. B) The endorsements are interesting before you even get to the book; I know all textbooks are marketed, but this seems like quite the concerted effort
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by bbor 2y ago
Thanks for posting, I'm so excited to finally have a good summary! El Pais killing it, as usual. A comment and a challenging question: 1. We all pronounce it wrong apparently, even the Mexicans who just substitute "ach" for &
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by bbor 2y ago
What other pictures are you thinking of? I don’t recall any rovers since china’s (?) last year. These pictures in particular are taken from a very high altitude, which may explain why they look unnatural?
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by bbor 2y ago
…I really don’t think Nazis are taking over because of a lack of bad faith Internet discussion.
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by bbor 2y ago
Or is the culture of "getting right to the edge of getting banned but not crossing the line for lulz" and "act in a way nobody knows whether you're actually trolling or not" dead? Yup, among the sane! If the
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by bbor 2y ago
Yup, they pretty much state that explicitly right in the abstract. I think we have a relatively rare example of a clickbait scientific paper title, here! “If everyone’s doing takeout, you need fewer employees” isn’t exactly a shocking revel
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by bbor 2y ago
Discord is cool! Anduril is both evil and overvalued. The rest… I mean, I think the names speak for themselves ;)
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by bbor 2y ago
That’s… fair, I guess. Both are majority controlled by MANGA, but they are indeed new companies. That’s kinda illuminating: it takes the breakthrough of the century to establish a new name these days, and even then you’ll probably end up se
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by bbor 2y ago
A) Very true! B) peaked* :) C) Can you think of any tech companies from the last 10 years that were successful? The answer is ultimately "they exist, but the victory condition is to be bought by MANGA, so you don't remember them
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by bbor 2y ago
Surprisingly, the administration who first devised an economic strategy and then found one (!!!) economist to support it[1] is bucking conventional wisdom on how to run an economy. The article says it well: when the president is telling us
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by bbor 2y ago
Good instinct -- this is absolutely being explored in the academy[1], and IMO it's only a matter of time before Palantir, Anduril, or even Sauron (yes, all real companies interested in ideas like this...) start pitching such a product
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by bbor 2y ago
Great, short article -- thanks for posting. I saw Richard Moore die Nov. 1, looking serenely at the ceiling as his lawyer, who became close to him while fighting for his life over a decade, wept... Also etched in my mind: Sigmon talki
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by bbor 2y ago
I love me some capitalism critique, but I think it’s important to understand many scientists are legitimately terrified of an intelligence explosion and the resulting singularity. You can disagree with their arguments of course, but it’s be
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by bbor 2y ago
This one is actually super critical of AI funnily enough, and is just a barely-hidden libertarian screed. FWIW, if I were a robot with a Time Machine, I wouldn’t need to invent social media in the past — I wouldn’t simply use bioweapons dur
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by bbor 2y ago
I'm totally with you, but to pull the tent up even further: you don't even need to be scared of billionaires to be scared of Thiel -- I would trade a thousand Buffets for a single Thiel. In case anyone hasn't read it yet, I h
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by bbor 2y ago
Well said! In case anyone is curious how this is discussed in AI, this whole conversation is pretty well summed up by the idea of the "Frame Problem" https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frame-problem/ Thu
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by bbor 2y ago
Which is—to use the latest philosophy lingo—dumb. To be fair to Penrose, the “Gödel’s theory about formal systems proves that souls exist” is an extremely common take; anyone following LLM discussions has likely seen it rediscovered at leas
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by bbor 2y ago
What is the role of congress, if its enumerated powers do not imply that any of those things should actually happen...? Honest question. Are you honestly saying that there's an implied 100% veto available to the executive for anything
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by bbor 2y ago
I appreciate the perspective, and I know it's trite, but it's important: how would you feel about a resident of 1933 Germany writing your comment? Some good people fled, true, but staying and complying because mass protest seems &
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by bbor 2y ago
A) The answer is impeachment -- regardless of partisan policy discussions on what we should do with these agencies, there is a strong legal argument that overruling congress via impoundment and/or the actions discussed here violate t
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by bbor 2y ago
Yeah I’m plenty critical of the NYT myself (esp. in their last month of coverage), but they do ostensibly cover any big news story, including the ones about Trump. Re:fascism, I specifically remember them covering the “I need generals lik
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by bbor 2y ago
`I.i` the San Francisco Bay Area – probably the most productive place in the Western world That is absurd. Beyond absurd -- insulting. Every day I only feel more shame for being associated with Silicon Valley, because of how arroga
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by bbor 2y ago
Ha, wow -- great minds think alike. Somehow I ended up at the exact same file (only went to one!) and was coming back to comment on exactly this line. What makes this especially funny is that this is the very second line of the entire game,
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by bbor 2y ago
I think the point being made is more subtle than you're appreciating: it's not just any defense firm, it's a defense firm founded by engineers who have worked on multiple Elon projects. I understand we try to stay away from p
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by bbor 2y ago
Which, by the way: $20/month for a voice assistant is absurd . Absolutely absurd. People pay that for ChatGPT and Claude because you can use it for work! But maybe I'm just a curmudgeon/poor -- do y'all see this as reas
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by bbor 2y ago
Just as humans use a single brain for both quick responses and deep reflection, we believe reasoning should be an integrated capability of frontier models rather than a separate model entirely. Interesting. I've been working on
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by bbor 2y ago
That's why founders sometimes get so rich so young now. The low initial cost of starting a startup means founders can start young, and the fast growth of companies today means that if they succeed they could be surprisingly rich j
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by bbor 2y ago
The big companies do, thus the pressure from Vance earlier this week on the EU dropping any regulations the US doesn’t agree with. Obviously that plan is questionable in terms of efficacy and morality, but it’s definitely in progress
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by bbor 2y ago
I think that’s the one and only sin, and it’s a serious one! Just mind boggling stuff. This is like the product launch to summarize headlines: why??? Certainly an interesting wrinkle to keep an eye on as AI takes up progressively more of
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by bbor 2y ago
Heh, you actually highlight a funny frustration from my time there: TLES technically has a capital "S" too, but it's basically always discussed in the plural -- so I would very frequently forget to capitalize the "S&qu

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