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by nradov 6mo ago
Oh how I hated having to write in longhand throughout my schooling. It was always so slow and painful no matter what I tried in terms of pens or techniques. Typing is much faster and more fluent. In the real world no one writes longhand any
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by nradov 6mo ago
Body cavity search https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1201734274/chess-hans-niemann...
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by nradov 6mo ago
Educators absolutely can teach students to think. The scientific method is one example of a key mental tool which provides an organized, disciplined framework for thinking. If you read a lot of stuff written before the scientific revolution
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by nradov 6mo ago
Of course the take home interview assignments will be made using AI. Isn't that the point? For most white collar jobs we should hire candidates who can make effective use of AI.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Most jobs, including white collar jobs, don't require the skills and knowledge learned at a college level. For employment purposes, a college degree primarily acts as a signaling and filtering mechanism. It shows employers that you can
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by nradov 6mo ago
OK but why? That will reward students who are good at taking exams, which has very little relevance to being a competent worker or well-rounded citizen or innovative leader or anything else that we need.
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by nradov 6mo ago
In what sense is Meta a monopoly? It seems like they have a huge amount of competition in the form of Google (YouTube), Microsoft (LinkedIn), Reddit, X, Snapchat, Telegram, TikTok, Signal, etc.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Yes, that was a great move. I wish Meta would do the same in all countries. I don't go to Facebook to read news.
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by nradov 6mo ago
It's not a matter of stigma, it's a matter of lax enforcement. The majority of shoplifting is done by organized criminal gangs. They'll do it if they can escape without serious punishment, regardless of any stigma. https:&#x
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by nradov 6mo ago
I sympathize with the instructors to an extent, but the reality is that LLMs will be a pervasive part of life going forward. Schools need to completely reinvent their curriculum around that new reality. It's going to be a painful proce
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by nradov 6mo ago
That same basic "payvider" business model has been around since Kaiser Permanente pioneered it in the 1940s. The problem isn't with the business model per se, but with consolidation that has effectively eliminated competition
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by nradov 6mo ago
It's not that simple. Something like a quarter of all healthcare procedures aren't justified on an evidence-based medicine basis and do nothing to improve patient outcomes. Higher quality care actually costs less . But there&#x27
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by nradov 6mo ago
There is no such law. But many employees in healthcare provider organizations are ignorant about the law and just repeat what someone told them.
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by nradov 6mo ago
It might seem that way to you but that legal theory hasn't succeeded in court. Feel free to try again, though. I'm not claiming that the current legal situation is a good one but any significant change will require an Act of Congr
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by nradov 6mo ago
The CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) is driving some industry improvements in this area and there's a lot of opportunity for technologists to help implement it. While the rule mostly only applies to
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by nradov 6mo ago
Your guess would be wrong. At least at the federal level there is no such law. (It's possible that some states might have more stringent laws.) https://healthlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Vannem
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by nradov 6mo ago
Legally speaking the health plan employee isn't practicing medicine in that circumstance. The requesting provider is still free to treat the patient, they just won't be reimbursed by the health plan. The requesting provider can do
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by nradov 6mo ago
In certain ways my dog has more generalized intelligence than any LLM, and I trained her in only a few months with a modest investment in dog treats.
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by nradov 6mo ago
I don't know why. You'll have to ask the chat group administrators. I'm just telling you how things actually work. https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-t...
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by nradov 6mo ago
What a hilariously uninformed comment. LLMs are not the limiting factor in biowarfare.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Those guys are all on the same private group chats.
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by nradov 6mo ago
There is zero evidence that the current LLM scaling approach could ever result in true ASI. If I start driving south from Seattle then I'll eventually reach Los Angeles. How long will it take me to drive to Honolulu?
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by nradov 6mo ago
How would they prevent distillation? That would seem pretty tough to block for any LLM available for commercial use.
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by nradov 6mo ago
All that compute is not needed. We have an existence proof from biology in the form of natural intelligence that much greater efficiency is possible. However, achieving dramatic improvements in compute efficiency will depend on unpredictabl
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by nradov 6mo ago
LLMs don't rely completely on received wisdom. The training process works in a higher dimensional space so some data points that might seem unrelated to humans end up being clustered close together if there is a hidden or unrecognized
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by nradov 6mo ago
And do those countries have large and rapidly growing demand? A free market is the only reliable way to respond effectively to changing demand signals. Economic central planning always fails over the long term.
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by nradov 6mo ago
This is one of the areas where AI will accelerate scientific research, by scanning through the journal archives to make connections that no one had noticed before.
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by nradov 6mo ago
It's not going to consume 9GW because it won't actually be built. There is no financing. The entire project is a scam. https://youtu.be/RWoV0EXxa7c
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by nradov 6mo ago
You can make a reasonable case for transmission and distribution to be a government operated public utility. But we need aggressive private industry competition on the generation and storage side in order to prevent shortages.
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by nradov 6mo ago
We have no shortage of cultural value. There is far more excellent writing out there than anyone can possibly consume (at least in English and other widespread languages). This is not something that we should subsidize with tax dollars. For

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