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by hx8 6mo ago
Press red and you might kill.
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by hx8 6mo ago
The bad outcome for choosing red is that people that choose blue die.
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by hx8 6mo ago
Blue side definitely includes the population of people that would rather die than live in a world without blues and fully understand the consequences of that choice.
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by hx8 6mo ago
Technically for red to win the number of dead people will be between 0% and 49.999% of the population. The entire reason to campaign for red is to reduce the dead percentage.
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by hx8 6mo ago
So you agree, there is a population of blue pressers. EDIT: The mere existence of blue-pressers makes being a red presser violent and selfish in my opinion.
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by hx8 6mo ago
You've structured ways to think about the problem in a hierarchy of intelligence, which is a classic economics mistake. People are not rational actors, and the primary factors determining who pushes the button will be self-preservatio
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by hx8 6mo ago
In The Prisoner's Dilemma, the point is that the best option (Both Cooperate) only works if people are willing to work together. It almost always ends up in the worst option (Both Defect). What this points out is that purely selfish
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by hx8 6mo ago
This is a purely theoretical concept, but ties nicely into existing game-theory which has real world implications.
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by hx8 6mo ago
Hello, Blue Presser here. We learn something about humanity based on the results of the poll. It's naive to think that 100% of people will press the red button. Some people will die if red wins. I think pressing red is selfish and vi
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by hx8 6mo ago
There's two major reasons to loop in humans. 1. How can we be sure ChatGPT knows it's correct or not? It gives out incorrect answers to complex questions all the time. The very fact that it gave out a correct answer is worth tal
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by hx8 6mo ago
Yeah, for direct to Claude you need an API key. You can use other subscriptions like GitHub Copilot that expose Claude, but that path has been blocked.
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by hx8 6mo ago
> “I didn’t know what the problem was—I was just doing Erdős problems as I do sometimes, giving them to the AI and seeing what it can come up with,” he says. “And it came up with what looked like a right solution.” He sent it to his occ
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by hx8 6mo ago
I don't buy the fraud explanation as the full explanation. Other areas of medicine (stem cell) has had bigger incidents of fraud on top of other major headwinds, and still has made more progress. Fraud is everywhere and we still move
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by hx8 6mo ago
There are multiple factors, but the one that contributes the most is that it's actually a very challenging disease to study and improve on. 1. It acts on the brain, one of the organs we understand the least. 2. It's relatively slo
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by hx8 6mo ago
Meta actually pioneered the Buy The Competition strategy in a brand new way. 1. Larger acquisitions. IG was $1B for a 13 employee company. WA was $22B. We were all talking about how big those numbers were at the time, but looking back they
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by hx8 6mo ago
The idea of sovereignty is a cornerstone of how we organize our global society. This was an overt statement that the US controls South America, and that South America doesn't rule itself. Previously, we were relaying on covert method
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by hx8 6mo ago
I use Open Code as my harness. It's open source, bring your own API Key or OAuth token or self-hosted model. I've jumped from Opus 4.6 to Opus 4.7 to GPT 5.5 in the last 7 days. No big deal, intelligence is just a commodity in
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by hx8 6mo ago
It sounds like the other side of the bet was the actual winning bet when compared to Truth. Maybe they have great climate models and actually make a bet that they have an edge on. Maybe they have a gambling problem. Either way, they are
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by hx8 6mo ago
I tend to get an average of 5 hours of enjoyment while reading a novel book, usually divided into about 10 thirty minute sessions. I read an average of 50 books a year, so I spend about 250 hours a year reading. I usually spend between $10
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by hx8 6mo ago
This is very true in non-fiction, where you can clearly see authors take an idea that should be a long blog post and stretch it out to 150 pages. The same authors usually have blog posts that should have been tweets.
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by hx8 6mo ago
I think "legalize it" in the platform is more likely to help a democratic presidential candidate than hurt one. Specifically, I think it might attract more liberal voters to the polls in swing states with illegal weed such as GA,
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by hx8 6mo ago
Cannabis did not belong in Schedule 1. Yes Cannabis use comes with risk, but compare it to Fentanyl which is Schedule 2.
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by hx8 6mo ago
The argument essentially breaks down to "smart people buy more solar panels, dumb people buy less solar panels". I think this argument is simplistic. I imagine the primary indicator of how many panels per capital a region will h
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by hx8 6mo ago
> If I sold this place and bought somewhere on the grid, the first thing I'd do is cut the cord and set up my own system again. Why?
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by hx8 6mo ago
Player Piano is a 1952 Sci-fi novel by Vonnegut which explores the social and economic impact of automation replacing labor. If I recall correctly (I read this 15+ years ago) it is told from the perspective of one of the last people with a
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by hx8 6mo ago
The tech job market was about 2019 levels a year ago. It's materially worse now.
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by hx8 6mo ago
Yes! That is exactly why they talk about "the permeant underclass" and hold onto their RSUs.
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by hx8 6mo ago
Good, I hope Microsoft lost a lot of money in the deal.
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by hx8 6mo ago
Bingo. Github Copilot is mostly for organizations that have an existing Azure bill and would rather see that go up then get a new vendor bill. Professional middlemen.
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by hx8 6mo ago
I was accounting for that in the 1% of value. I don't see a ton of value in this for development, you end up just always using the smartest model, with maybe tuning subagents to slightly dumber but much faster model. You really only

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