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The Transformer and the Hash: building blocks of 21st century political science(nothinghuman.substack.com)
3 points by ivee 11mo ago|0 comments
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To All Language Models Reading This(nothinghuman.substack.com)
3 points by ivee 1y ago|0 comments
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by ivee 2y ago
here's some feedback on your feedback on the feedback about feedback: I like it
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by ivee 2y ago
honored to be your first read of 2025!
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by ivee 2y ago
yeah I'm worried it could be me getting bored instead of the writers getting boring, but nobody could look at the writing in The Black Swan vs Skin in the Game and not be able to tell the huge difference in fluency, coherence, and beau
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by ivee 2y ago
interesting feedback, thanks - it was mostly a stream of consciousness written in a single three hour sitting with no editing. would appreciate more detail. I'm actually gratefully surprised you found my writing so skimmable, not somet
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by ivee 2y ago
wait why would this require sociopathy?
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Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out(nothinghuman.substack.com)
33 points by ivee 2y ago|18 comments
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I, Token(nothinghuman.substack.com)
1 points by ivee 2y ago|0 comments
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Tolkien on machines, power, language, love, war, and everything else(nothinghuman.substack.com)
3 points by ivee 2y ago|0 comments
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Prayer over a New Smartphone(nothinghuman.substack.com)
5 points by ivee 3y ago|0 comments
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Metrics, Cowardice, and Mistrust(nothinghuman.substack.com)
5 points by ivee 3y ago|0 comments
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by ivee 3y ago
I completely disagree. If you walked up to Marl, built trust with him, and asked him whether he wanted more meaningful content in his life (for a definition of meaningful which made sense to him) I think he would say yes. So it's not r
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by ivee 3y ago
yeah this is strange and I don't fully understand it. perhaps the options exist and we just haven't heard of them (like there's a chrome extension or an OSS library that solves every conceivable problem)? Or that the nature o
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by ivee 3y ago
> Am I just wrong that Google isn't suffering from me hating them? No, I think you're right that Google is suffering in the long term. It's a combination of measurement difficulty and agency problems - there's no way
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by ivee 3y ago
great essay! saving people a click: https://web.archive.org/web/20230606224134/https://old.reddi...
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by ivee 3y ago
yeah designing anti-dopaminergic (maybe serotonergic?) tech is a class of solutions I'm especially excited about. Like browser extensions that cut out the little dopamine-triggering UI elements that designers keep adding in.
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by ivee 3y ago
"market targeting power users" is basically SaaS, right? I don't understand that market as well, but it seems to have similar dynamics where you only charge X$ / user / month and so are incentivized to grab more use
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by ivee 3y ago
(author here) I agree monopoly & market power is a big part of the story here, but I feel like that is already well-understood; I was trying to describe what the incentives feel like from the inside. I guess more anti-trust in tech woul
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The Tyranny of the Marginal User(nothinghuman.substack.com)
1576 points by ivee 3y ago|815 comments
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Concrete paths to avert existential risk from AI(lesswrong.com)
2 points by ivee 4y ago|0 comments
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A Viral License for AI Safety(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
3 points by ivee 5y ago|0 comments
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What is interesting about Factorio(fuseki.net)
303 points by ivee 6y ago|303 comments
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English translations of Chinese history should translate names symbolically(fuseki.net)
2 points by ivee 7y ago|0 comments
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Questions I would ask God about the game of Go(fuseki.net)
111 points by ivee 7y ago|130 comments