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by peterlk 7mo ago
You have to read it all the way through. It’s a pretty hefty investment, but the series is truly a masterpiece. I had to read the whole series twice to feel like I was actually starting to understand some of the symbolism. I don’t blame peo
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by peterlk 7mo ago
I have quite a bit of family in Germany, and have had several friends move from the US to Europe. Europe absolutely knows that they have an opportunity to capture a ton of talent right now. If you have skills that are in demand, basically a
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by peterlk 8mo ago
Yes. Other humans are generally accepting of mistakes below some frequency threshold, and frontier models are very robust in my experience
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by peterlk 8mo ago
I think this article conflates (at least) two problems. The first is that very few people (especially rich people) are anonymous. A motivated person who has had a psychotic break can be very dangerous, and if you’re even a little bit famous
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by peterlk 8mo ago
Shameless plug. We’re working on something like this. thismachine.ai. It’s still early, but interested to get feedback. The slack/chat part is still behind a feature flag. Let me know if you want to use it
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by peterlk 8mo ago
The solution is parents! Stop making your bad parenting my problem!
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by peterlk 8mo ago
I have been having this conversation more and more with friends. As a research topic, modern AI is a miracle, and I absolutely love learning about it. As an economic endeavor, it just feels insane. How many hospitals, roads, houses, machine
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by peterlk 8mo ago
I see value here. Firstly, it’s a fun toy. This isn’t that great if you care about being productive at work, but I don’t think fun should be so heavily discounted. Second, the possibility of me _finally_ having a single interface that can d
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by peterlk 8mo ago
My dad has some stories of working in Burkina Faso (and Mali, and other countries) with a drone, and having to appease locals about his witch-bird. A lot if places in Africa still prosecute witchcraft.
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by peterlk 8mo ago
This argument does not make sense to me. If we push aside the philosophical debates of “understanding” for a moment, a reasoning model will absolutely use some (usually reasonable) definition of “user harm”. That definition will make its wa
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by peterlk 9mo ago
This is a reductionist perspective that is unhelpful. Does buying a water cooler in the office increase profit margins? What about a coffee machine? Across a wide portfolio of decisions, a business does need to be profitable. However measur
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by peterlk 10mo ago
The link is highly relevant to the executive order because this executive order attempts to place limitations on what laws US states can create.
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by peterlk 11mo ago
I’m working my way through “The End of the World is Just the Beginning”, and the main thesis is that everyone is preparing for demographic collapse. Global populations are declining almost everywhere, and this breaks the current global orde
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by peterlk 11mo ago
I am so, so, so tired of hearing this argument. At a minimum, AI provides efficiency gains. Skilled engineers can now produce more code. This puts downward pressure on jobs. We’re not going to eliminate every software engineering job, but t
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by peterlk 1y ago
LLMs can now detect garbage much more cheaply than humans can. This might increase cost slightly for the companies that own the AIs, but it almost certainly will not result in hiring human reviewers
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by peterlk 1y ago
You’re absolutely right!
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by peterlk 1y ago
Does this target any particular area? Or does it make people more hairy everywhere? If it targets a particular area, can anyone explain to me how scientists discover such specific pathways?
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by peterlk 1y ago
Counterargument: I can learn things at record speed (for me) because I can learn things in the order that makes sense to me. I find it much more motivating to start with: “why is AI bad at playing video games?”, than to start with “what is
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by peterlk 1y ago
Of course! We still have computers the size of mainframes that ran on vacuum tubes. They are just built with vastly more powerful hardware and are used for specialized tasks that supercomputing facilities care about. But it has the potentia
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by peterlk 1y ago
Because, similar to the US, they have authoritarian tendencies - strong nationalism and anti-immigration. How are you going to round up the bad people if you don't have surveillance everywhere?
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by peterlk 1y ago
> We also discovered an extra-pair-paternity event in Beethoven’s paternal line I’m not a Beethoven scholar. Is this a novel discovery?
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by peterlk 1y ago
This is not true any more. The vaccine has been shown to lower cancer risk for those who already carry the virus, so it is recommended even for people who are HPV positive
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by peterlk 1y ago
As a side note, I find it really interesting and a bit disheartening to follow the history of “web 3”. The original “web 3” was a beautiful vision including the semantic web and its cousins. The term was hijacked by cryptobros through what
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by peterlk 1y ago
You're right, I didn't know that. Thanks! In the US, this could be a municipal service (my.name@themunicipality.emailservice.mystate.gov), and then we treat everyone in a geography as an organization. This feels a bit more likely
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by peterlk 1y ago
The postal service is a federal service. If email offerings were, say, a municipal service, it seems like the Feds would have a much harder time regulating it. The federal government in the US can certainly put pressure on municipalities, b
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Ask HN: Why isn't email a government service?
5 points by peterlk 1y ago|6 comments
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by peterlk 1y ago
There is a group of wealthy individuals who have bought in to the idea that the singularity (AIs improving themselves faster than humans can) is months away. Whoever gets there first will get compound growth first, and no one will be able t
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by peterlk 1y ago
I don't think we need to redefine reasoning. Here's the definition of "reason" (the verb): "think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic" If Claude 4 provides a detailed, logical breakdown in its
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by peterlk 1y ago
A dismissive “no” is not a helpful addition to this discussion. The truth is much more interesting and subtle than “no”. Directed stochastic processes that reach a correct conclusion of novel logic problems more often than chance means that
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by peterlk 1y ago
I am never sure which notes I am going to reference again. Most of my daily notes go unread forever. But occasionally, that seemingly trivial thing that I jotted down in a meeting turns out to be _very_ important. I have AI assistants that

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