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by derektank 17d ago
A large number of those are far less accessible than tech, requiring either extensive travel or superlative physical capabilities (and the one’s that equally accessible don’t strike me as particularly more exciting than tech.)
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by derektank 17d ago
>Replicating a paper is just as valuable scientifically as publishing it, but how many careers advance through replication? I don’t think this is true, especially for novel or unexpected results. I suppose it depends on what you mean by
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by derektank 19d ago
This year has really cemented Daniel Kokotajlo‘s reputation for me. Even if the rest of the predictions are way off from this point on, its really impressive how accurate his forecast for 2026 has been
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by derektank 19d ago
People seem to forget that Sunny Balwani also went to prison over the Theranos fraud.
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by derektank 19d ago
Correct me if you disagree, but this is more because children have poor world models and don’t fully understand the complexity of certain concepts than that lying itself is necessary. The intent should be to tell them something that is as c
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by derektank 20d ago
Meta is well known for having strict rules on nudity[0], particularly the display of women’s nipples. I would want to know the base rate at which the instagram accounts of strip clubs get suspended before assuming the motive was political.
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by derektank 21d ago
I’ve never thought to ask, do websites like Genius and AZLyrics pay licensing rights for their lyrics? I would think Genius does since it at one point had investments from people in the music industry but I don’t even know who operates AZLy
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by derektank 22d ago
>The Colony Terrible nominative determinism implications
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by derektank 22d ago
>Unit commanders have your social media accounts and monitor what you do there. I’m prior Air Force, so never been deployed to a FOB, but I have never had a commander ask me for my social media accounts. I’m not sure how this is even pos
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by derektank 23d ago
Second paragraph, “During the pandemic, I built one of the largest mask manufacturing factories in the US”
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by derektank 24d ago
Are there any other candidate particles besides WIMPs that the observation could be from, assuming it’s a real signal?
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by derektank 25d ago
That is a thing (though arguably there is still value in the reformulations). A good current example would be orally administered wegovy, which received an additional patent on top of semaglutide for combining the drug with an absorption en
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by derektank 26d ago
Yes, decentralized execution of commander’s intent is the bread and butter of military operations, at least in the Air Force.
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by derektank 27d ago
The Uvalde police department exhibited both cowardice and incompetence, but can we stop pretending they are representative of cops everywhere? Just a year later during the mall shooting in Allen Texas, cops took down the white supremacist,
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by derektank 27d ago
To extend these metaphors, AI is adding supports to your tunnel, nudging your steering wheel to keep you going straight, and ensuring that the code you produce doesn't have vulns.
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by derektank 28d ago
> Bugs and security flaws are just oversights. Those oversights are caused by inattention either through fatigue or acting too quickly. Being able to work more quickly is pretty much the definition of productivity.
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by derektank 29d ago
I don’t know, the $166B in refunds returned to importers after the IEEPA tariffs were ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court seem pretty meaningful
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by derektank 1mo ago
I agree with everything you said, but is worth mentioning that while, “There is put simply no way this experiment ends in a way that is positive for New Yorkers,” is true, the most likely outcome is that (a) the stores will open and consist
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by derektank 1mo ago
I think it’s also important to disaggregate consciousness from suffering. We could create a conscious system with no ability to suffer (or no ability to suffer in a way we would recognize as suffering). Most of what causes us suffering (lon
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by derektank 1mo ago
I wouldn’t because the CIA is explicitly barred by Congress (Title 50 U.S.C. § 3093) from conducting influence operations intended to affect American public opinion since the Intelligence Authorization Act of 1991.
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by derektank 1mo ago
My question is simply, “Which technology?” The author I think made a very apt comparison to hot water heaters. I expect in days gone past, there were probably amateur plumbers and HVA/C specialists that were just as obsessed with novel
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by derektank 1mo ago
One hypothetical outcome of AI-mediated job loss is that more and more people wind up working in the services (private and public) providing human judgement. Is this person qualified to receive that benefit? Are they truly deserving or just
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by derektank 1mo ago
>the receivers in this case are the bureaucracy As someone that has worked in a bureaucracy, yes, bureaucrats are themselves victims of bureaucracy. One could even say the primary victims, if you’re going by total exposure time.
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by derektank 1mo ago
Yes, it’s the second one. “Strapped” alone generally means “broke” or “in a bind”, but native English speakers would rarely if ever use it in the imperative.
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by derektank 1mo ago
There are some peptides which have been abandoned by the pharmaceutical industry before completing phase 3 trials and which can be sold through an FDA exception by compounding pharmacies. That being said, there’s usually a reason they were
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by derektank 1mo ago
Hassan’s own account of being recruited into the Moonies while he was in college really highlights an important point too, almost anybody can fall into a cult. They prey on nearly universal human traits. I wish we had an effort to equip eve
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by derektank 1mo ago
The author alluded to it, but I really think the BITE model of authoritarian control[0] is something everyone should know about. BITE stands for Behavioral, Information, Thought, and Emotional, which describes the 4 categories of controllin
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by derektank 1mo ago
It’s no more state media than the BBC is. Journalists at the Stars and Stripes have historically been given substantial independence to report on the news as they see fit. They covered the spread of Covid on the USS Theodore Roosevelt and A
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by derektank 1mo ago
Sure, it’s one avenue that exists along private military and national defense outlets and blogs such as War on the Rocks, Task and Purpose, Breaking Defense, Foreign Policy, etc. I am more concerned that this change means the troubles our s
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by derektank 1mo ago
This is obviously a terrible decision, but let’s be real. The overwhelming majority of US servicemembers aren’t getting their news from Stars and Stripes; they get their news from the same place everyone 18-30 gets their news, social media.

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