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by ip26 5d ago
Take garbage hauling. You have five haulers running the exact same routes through town, stopping at different houses. Government is unhappy with the tremendous added wear on the roads from the redundant trucks, and the extra traffic, so it
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by ip26 5d ago
Regulation is usually what you accept in exchange for a monopoly. I would argue a granted monopoly without any regulation is evidence of regulatory capture. If you want to argue from first principles, and we accept for a moment that grant
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by ip26 9d ago
I question whether that's the dominant assumption. I know there's hoarders, but there's also loads of "stuff" associated with day-to-day life. Live in one place and you'll have boxes of bandages and aspirin,
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by ip26 10d ago
We can dream that every human should be self reliant enough to personally inspect a used car, test knife steel for ductility and carbon content, inspect the stitching in a pair of pants, on and on. But if you need vast expertise and extensi
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by ip26 10d ago
The dark part is you, as a consumer who is willing to pay to not watch ads, are worth considerably more than a few cents to advertise to. In fact, the more you are willing to pay to have no ads, the more valuable showing ads to you is…
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by ip26 10d ago
A large fraction of the innovation in CPUs is driven by working around the memory wall. I anticipate AI inference will follow the same trend, and innovations that work around the autoregressive nature will be enormously impactful. Speculati
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by ip26 10d ago
I've got bad news for you jsrozner, John down in accounting at <your employer> did something very unethical last week. So you, jsrozner, a first level manager in customer support who has never even met John, are going to jail for
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by ip26 14d ago
You can't give all citizens effective veto power and then expect it will only be used for good in cases where the law is behind.
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by ip26 18d ago
It sounds more like a joke or a lampoon of always-connected culture.
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by ip26 25d ago
you need to be able to experiment With what? It’s not prima facie bad to have limits or bounds. I’d agree it’s good to be able to be goofy, but there’s plenty of actually-illegal activities teenagers used to “experiment” with (and skate b
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by ip26 1mo ago
Clearly the point of this paper was not to flag a specific lake as being a specific problem. It seems pretty clear it's a case study meant to provide generalizable information and principals for remediation, and while they didn't
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by ip26 1mo ago
It’s a cop out, but depends on the company and it’s somewhere in between. Even with success-of-the-company as your compass, other stuff always matters. Good work done invisibly can’t be rewarded. Working on the lowest-profile projects is
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by ip26 1mo ago
I'm always suspicious we read far too much into most works, as if they were all live examples of The DaVinci Code. It feels inevitable that one day, centuries from now, someone will "realize" that JK Rowling embedded a map of
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by ip26 1mo ago
An intelligent person can convince themselves of anything Not to mention via shortcuts, reductionism, and other (ironically) lazy thinking. After all, they're too smart to take a shortcuts that lead them to the wrong answer, so if th
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by ip26 1mo ago
Seriously, aside from the folks with the “ 2hrs of sleep is enough ” gene, it’s not. It’s an actively harmful myth that is sold hard. Start gathering your own evidence, with a critical fact-finding eye. Don’t just accept the narrative. It’s
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by ip26 1mo ago
I've started peering behind the curtains when I get the chance, and I've not yet found someone wildly successful who is also a model parent. Time after time, their spouse is quietly shouldering an enormous load, or their children
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by ip26 1mo ago
I had roughly the same realization about the pillars of math & science years ago. Many terrible, terrible parents whose children suffered mightily. While I had aspired to intellectual impact all my life, I had an unexpected realization.
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by ip26 1mo ago
Exactly, it feels dishonest that this point is so rarely brought up in essays on formal methods. You can do things like prove that all possible faults are always caught, or any memory that is accessed has first been malloc’d, or that the AP
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by ip26 1mo ago
What exactly does a bespoke ISA buy you? What will justify hundreds of engineers writing a new good one & working through the compiler support? I bet it would be pretty easy for a user to interoperate between 67 different drafts of the
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by ip26 1mo ago
Have done a lot of “parallel invention” where I invent something genuinely novel & new-to-me, only to later discover it was first developed eighty years ago. The part that’s really disheartening is there’s so much knowledge out there, I
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by ip26 1mo ago
They even loudly declared how they were going to clean up all the messy corners and warts. The underlying truth seems to be that a “clean” ISA doesn’t by nature make the beer taste better, and many of the warts probably have a reason for ex
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by ip26 2mo ago
It's usually a pretty clear case of reaching for statements that both sound impressive while also being broad and vague enough they are less likely to be factually wrong. In this regime, being difficult to parse is actually part of the
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by ip26 2mo ago
It’s getting everyone to understand the problems, working together (etc)… There are manuals for this too, and interestingly enough this has been studied since the Romans at least! Is it then really the hard part?
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by ip26 2mo ago
There’s an ego element though. Being mission driven and choosing to work for Anthropic is implicitly validating of the “peril” and of the leadership team as the ones to steer through it, so they are indirectly asking for this validation.
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by ip26 2mo ago
Certainly room for such discussion. However if the parent waits to first save a large sum before moving there (instead of moving there straight out of high school), their revealed preferences suggest even they do not feel the tiny village i
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by ip26 2mo ago
If you have dependents that are children, I feel there is a moral consideration. If you have earned $1M and then take the family to live who-knows-where slowly drawing on that $1M.. will your children be able to replicate your success? Will
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by ip26 2mo ago
If it's just sitting there in your kitchen beckoning you, I think that's called beer pressure?
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by ip26 2mo ago
There seems to be a line of thinking that past unicorn startups had bad risk-reward profiles, and therefore a good founder should be taking lots of bad risks. If they take good risks, they will never succeed and become a unicorn. Very &quot
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by ip26 2mo ago
I’m not sure where this idea came from that farming was idle and only industry required constant work. Every hundred-year old book I’ve ever read that features farming includes themes of how the farmer’s work never ends and runs from dawn t
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by ip26 2mo ago
It’s rather “libertarians as cats”. The heroism of being content doing nothing but drink some coffee, stands upon the backs of hundreds of people seeking to better themselves who brought that coffee to your lips.

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