matthewdgreen

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by matthewdgreen 3mo ago
What are the confusing words? You gave a quote that sums up the long-accepted understanding of who's exempt from the citizenship clause: "This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, alie
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by matthewdgreen 3mo ago
There's nothing terribly confusing here. In fact it's a helpful set of quotes. This is one Senator saying "hey, second-generation Chinese immigrants will be citizens. And that's fine because I don't think there will
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by matthewdgreen 3mo ago
The thread was about someone misunderstanding what "subject to the jurisdiction" meant. Someone suggested that it meant subject to US laws including conscription and income tax, another person said "what if the law in questio
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by matthewdgreen 3mo ago
Here's part of the Senate debate where they discuss it. It turns out that they were extremely precise about what it meant, and they described the exceptions in great detail. It's even typewritten. The downside: you can't come
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We got wrecked in a major land war in the 1800s, just to be pedantic.
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I don't have to imagine it. I live there. It's the richest and most powerful country on the planet. I hope you get a chance to live here someday!
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by matthewdgreen 3mo ago
I think this take is overly complex and silly. If you're subject to the laws, that's that. As an exercise, go read the Federal code and put each law that might potentially be applicable to people on a work visa into a pile. I guar
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by matthewdgreen 3mo ago
You're trying to impute complexity to a thing in order to achieve a goal that is not achievable. The 1866 Congress that debated the amendment understood and intended that Indian tribal nations would not be covered by the clause becaus
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by matthewdgreen 3mo ago
The exception listed in Wong Kim Ark are: Indian tribes, children of diplomats, births on public foreign ships, and children of enemy occupiers. These were basically well-understood exceptions under common law and most were discussed during
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by matthewdgreen 3mo ago
Durable control of elections, and maybe one or two more justices.
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It's worse than that. The text of the statute is literally the same as the text of the 14th amendment's birthright clause. So he's basically saying the text means one thing when it's a statute, but the exact same words m
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
The great thing is that many of the Chinese open-weight models can be run on US providers. Some promise not to retain data for training or other purposes. (Which I think is a credible promise most of the time.)
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
I think that’s an assumption. Just because an LLM might be able to find some bugs does not mean every attacker has a packaged attack, or the right prompting. The easiest way to find a vuln is just to Google for it.
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
Vulnerability reports are a voluntary service to help a vendor or software project. It’s often an annoyance for the security researcher. I understand people are getting slammed and it sucks, but the main result of rejecting them is going to
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
The SpaceX S-1 says they’re going to be making $320bn by 2030 on AI services at a profit margin of 74%. That dwarfs all the launch business and even Starlink, which they very optimistically project as well. This is how they supported the IP
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
I'm thinking of something on the order of Heartbleed. Sure, you fix it in your own servers. Are you sure you're ok with the entire Internet being vulnerable for two months? You don't have any data stored on servers that are o
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
Doing the fix yourself is almost always the easy part. Disclosing it and getting a patch shipped across the entire Internet is the hard part.
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
The correct way to read the sentence is “all cancers do not have the same causal mechanism” but people don’t talk like that because it’s off putting. Language is fluid and it’s generally on the reader to infer meaning from context. If we ca
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
It's a lot more interesting to actually look at the mechanisms, then just to play "I'll believe it when I see it." Right now there are huge drawdowns of storage capacity in the US and Europe and China. Those have finite
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
Have you met Tesla shareholders?
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
I was recently offered a sale price by a restaurant on Doordash, when I was logged out. I logged in as a subscriber and the sale deal went away, which meant that the delivery actually cost slightly more. I've noticed this pattern a lot
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
I'm not arguing with you that science and technology can produce nightmares. And I'm not saying that science is all sunshine and roses. But the original post said "science does not provide the kinds of answers people want.&qu
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
The distinction you make doesn't make any sense to me. Every single one of the technical advances I listed was preceded by a scientific advance, usually a series of them. To take one example: how do you think we discovered the role of
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
Science in my lifetime has produced tiny pocket computers, machines that talk and think like humans, cars that drive using the sun as a power source, effective treatments for a variety of afflictions including HIV, and a drug that lets me s
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
I had the experience recently of asking an LLM about the Buddhist view on reincarnation, and then hearing its views on what this means for its own existence. I'm not sure any of it left me feeling better about death, but it was a fasci
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
My financial advisor might have recommended that expensive fund to me because it was a good idea, even though he also received kickbacks from the fund for doing so. The point of being a trustworthy index is to avoid the perception of confli
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
Because hardware depreciates quickly, datacenter rentals are a competitive business with much lower profit margins than the IPO prospectus requires (even if there is a temporary bottleneck now) and there's no real moat.
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
We can prevent anything we want. If there's a major AI crash analogous to the Depression, we'll probably institute a lot of new regulations.
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
SpaceX's S-1 says they're going to make more than $320bn by 2030 at a 74% expected profit margin. That implies they're going to succeed at selling high-value AI services, not compute, which is a competive business with typic
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by matthewdgreen 4mo ago
A company can have poor fundamentals compared to its stock price, and also have an enormous P/E multiple if it has committed investors. We've seen this with multiple meme stocks and Tesla. I have no doubt SpaceX will fly high for

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