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   by moomin 1y ago

   Depends if you’re comparing the people or the office holders. The office holder is a tuple.
2. 212.▲
   by moomin 1y ago

   New thinking on physics... by a self-described neuroscientist. I think we already know how seriously to take this.
3. 213.▲
   by moomin 1y ago

   My personal prediction: Claude is going to get really good at take home tests.
4. 214.▲
   by moomin 1y ago

   Problem is, when people start to analyse things like this, even apart from falling into utilitarian traps, they don’t apply regular business reasoning. There’s a bunch of effects to consider 1) improving lives right now may well improve sub
5. 215.▲
   by moomin 1y ago

   So is this essay the source of “Less Wrong”?
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   by moomin 1y ago

   I mean, I have no opinion on this, but I know that if someone asks me “Are you a member of an organisation it’s a criminal offence to be a member of?” I’m gonna say no.
7. 217.▲
   by moomin 1y ago

   Price, of course, was a vocal opponent of the peace process championed by Gerry Adams. Lord knows what she says on the Boston Tapes.
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   by moomin 1y ago

   I have a hard copy of this from back in the day. It’s a great read and a mixture of historical artefact and still relevant criticism. e.g. It’s really interesting reading about LISP machines but no-one’s building a new one. Equally, all the
9. 219.▲
   by moomin 1y ago

   IIRC, Gerry Adams was always performed by Stephen Rea, a moderately successful actor and heart-throb in certain circles. Adams said that SR “did me better than I do”.
10. 220.▲
    by moomin 1y ago

    The problem with the nitpick is it inevitably runs into the issue of who the authority is here, and, by the very nature of the beast, said authority is disputed here. It seems small, but in reality it’s the whole thing.
11. 221.▲
    by moomin 1y ago

    Unexpected application of Betteridge’s law.
12. 222.▲
    by moomin 1y ago

    Unfortunately, no-one’s investment in AR or VR has worked out. Even the “winner” (Oculus/Meta) has found the market to be disappointingly small.
13. 223.▲
    by moomin 1y ago

    I know someone who’s worked with her and yes, “talented” is an understatement.
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    by moomin 1y ago

    At least one former employee has confirmed that exactly the problems you are describing were a problem at Valve. https://www.wired.com/2013/07/wireduk-valve-jeri-ellsworth/
15. 225.▲
    by moomin 1y ago

    Knowing our luck it’s probably Jia Tan.
16. 226.▲
    by moomin 1y ago

    I’m surprised the average kid has the nous to set up a VPN, honestly. Doing it has always seemed like a proper faff.
17. 227.▲
    by moomin 1y ago

    Thankyou! The advantage of having been around a long time: short great usernames were still available!
18. 228.▲
    by moomin 1y ago

    James Cameron, maker of The Abyss, probably got the memo. But the memo read “You’re going to need to make much more successful movies before they let you do that again.”
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    by moomin 1y ago

    Checking I understand this right: the paper’s contention is that more R&D, whilst still producing productivity gains, is invalidating gains made from other R@D? e.g. everyone developing their own LLM. It’s an interesting idea, but why w
20. 230.▲
    by moomin 1y ago

    I’m guessing optimising for passing the Olympiad might be a bad idea…
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    by moomin 1y ago

    I know it’s not the point of the article but OP is dead wrong about what makes a good proof. Yes, they inevitably include a surprising concept but that’s just because all the obvious ones are already taken. A proof that only contains obviou
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    by moomin 1y ago

    Indeed, so famous it’s the subject of an entire OMM article (one of the guys behind OMM went on to write the script for Portal demonstrating he was a critic who could actually do the thing better than the people doing it). https:/&#x2
23. 233.▲
    by moomin 1y ago

    IIRC the principal cost overrun was a huge push to put nearly everything in tunnels in safe conservative consistencies. No project, good or bad, can survive that level of political interference.
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    by moomin 1y ago

    This entire article is framed as if China and America’s approaches to power provision are the only ones possible. The truth is, America is pretty much the only Western country that regularly suffers brownouts. European countries’ (including
25. 235.▲
    by moomin 1y ago

    Vandalism and destruction of property is a shockingly low bar. The suffragettes threw an axe at the king and no-one said they should be a proscribed organisation.
26. 236.▲
    by moomin 1y ago

    "A high-level language that's basically English." COBOL, you're inventing COBOL.
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    by moomin 1y ago

    Which, ironically, is used by the attacker in this case.
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    by moomin 1y ago

    I mean, I don’t have an answer to this, but I’ll bet Simon Peyton-Jones has some ideas…
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    by moomin 1y ago

    A small thing that drives me up the wall: * Microsoft has code that references a URL shorterner * The URL shortener is in-house and points to a Microsoft property. * However, the documentation team don’t keep this stuff up to date, resultin
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    by moomin 1y ago

    To summarise: * One actor in the space appears to have done a proof of concept takeover of 51%. * It’s not clear there was any malicious action nor intent in doing so. * Performing something like this is definitely expensive. * The potentia