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by modriano 5mo ago
Offloading cognition is what one does when they use abstractions that other people made through intense cognition. And it's fine to do that; people can build great things with great abstractions. A woodworker doesn't have to desig
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by modriano 5mo ago
Laws against impersonating law enforcement exist so that law enforcement officers can get compliance from people that they wouldn't be obligated to provide to regular civilians. You can't impersonate something to a text editor as
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by modriano 5mo ago
Maybe he's never heard of Google.
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by modriano 5mo ago
So, what will AGI be able to do that will make that bet pay off? Human-like intelligence is already very common. Vastly better than human intelligence seems like it would be worth the expense, but I don't know where we'd get suita
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by modriano 6mo ago
I can't imagine the bots could ever cost McDonald's less than people cost. 15 years ago I worked at McDonald's for a few months after graduating into the Great recession. I worked from 5am to 1pm-ish 5 days a week. They paid
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by modriano 6mo ago
Imagine there's a camera continuously recording a cookie jar. A child eats all of the cookies and then deletes the footage from the time they ate the cookies. A parent returns to find their child covered in crumbs, loudly proclaiming t
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by modriano 6mo ago
He had a very close, decades long friendship with the most notorious sex-trafficker-of-children-to-rich-creeps in modern history for decades. And when imprisoned, that infamous pedophile died while in a federal prison under Trump's con
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by modriano 6mo ago
*was
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by modriano 6mo ago
> You can do that interactively with LLMs. Instead of aiming for a finished product you ask a question, then refine your understanding with more questions. Yeah, I regularly spend a lot of time with Claude fleshing out ideas and scoping
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by modriano 6mo ago
This reminds me of a talk I attended many years ago given by the director of UChicago's writing program (and found a recording of the talk [0]), and his thesis was that writing IS the process of thinking. That talk changed the way I wr
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by modriano 6mo ago
> The government has less competency than small businesses with 5 employees. And not just a bit less, a lot less. The US government manages a more diverse array of problems (critical, life and death problems) than any other US organizati
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by modriano 6mo ago
I learned math long after the advent of the calculator and went on to study math-heavy fields (physics, mechanical engineering, and data science). I wasn't ever able to really develop deep intuition about/understanding of a calcul
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by modriano 7mo ago
The prices may be falling, but if you can still make more profit (per unit time) building in Austin than elsewhere (due to less red tape or more local builders or whatever), building will occur.
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by modriano 8mo ago
That sounds like most social media over the past decade.
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by modriano 9mo ago
Gambling is frying the brains of a disturbing proportion of genZ and millennial men. It's destroying sports and infecting politics. It's quite detrimental to society.
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by modriano 9mo ago
What are you talking about? Fatal alcohol poisoning hits long before infinite self-administration. And there actually are many other far safer painkillers than alcohol.
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by modriano 1y ago
Are we talking about survivorship bias or are you comparing comparably important levels of papers?
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by modriano 2y ago
For the threat profile of top leadership of the US government, yes, Signal is not secure. Signal runs on phones and phones can be compromised or lost, which can grant non-authorized individuals the ability to read the messages. Spyware like
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by modriano 2y ago
I'm not OP, but he used mermaid.js's Entity Relationship Diagram model [0]. GitHub renders it automatically [1]. [0] https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/entityRelationshipDiagram.html [1] https://github.
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by modriano 2y ago
Thank you for this excellent post! I've been developing [my own platform]( https://github.com/MattTriano/analytics_data_where_house ) that curates a data warehouse mostly of census and socrata datasets but I haven&#
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by modriano 2y ago
If the majority of voting Americans' lives got better in Trump's first term, then Trump would have won in 2020, but he got blown out losing by 7 million votes. Cleaning up the mess Trump left was painful. The unavoidable consequen
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by modriano 2y ago
How did it take this long. I was a regular reader of Car and Driver magazine from 2002 to 2006 when I was in high school (in a Detroit suburb) and I remember them absolutely dragging the BMW iDrive system that eliminated a ton of physical c
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by modriano 2y ago
> ... historically, the US is a car-centric suburban-centric culture, and that's just who we largely are. While we now do have a suburban-centric subculture, the car is just a tool that enables that subculture to easily access econo
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by modriano 2y ago
> Even if this thing is 30% more expensive than a non-repairable toaster, I bet many consumers would pick the cheaper one, despite it probably not being the long term financially optimal decision. Toasters are so cheap that I can't
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by modriano 2y ago
In addition to looking like a terrible President, Trump is also very bad at governing, especially in a crisis. Last time he was President, he inherited a great economy that he was focused on looting (giving himself and other billionaires a
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by modriano 2y ago
Nah, Trump was never going to offer Ukraine the security guarantee needed to end this conflict. Trump is just extending this "give us $500B in mineral rights in exchange for nothing" deal to manufacture an excuse to cease all aid
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by modriano 2y ago
Trump announced DOGE on Nov 12th, 2024 [0] and the transition doesn't all just happen on Jan 20th. The Presidential Transition Act has provisions that allow some members of transition staff to get access to federal IT systems, and with
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by modriano 2y ago
> Roe v. Wade was objectively a bad ruling. It was a wild reach to suggest that the US constitution implied anything about abortion; Wrong. The Constitution grants a right to privacy. * The 3rd amendment secures our privacy in our homes
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by modriano 2y ago
> ...the doxxing _might_ be entirely justified and be in the public interest. I don't know. No, you did express an opinion. Reporting on people carrying out unconstitutional and illegal orders is clearly in the public interest and f
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by modriano 2y ago
Journalists reporting on people abusing government power is good. These people should be deeply scrutinized and shouldn't be able to hide while they destroy the machinery that hundreds of millions of people depend on.

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