rayiner

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by rayiner 2mo ago
Stay out of Hilton Head, SC too. There's gators everywhere and the coffee sucks.
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Idaho has lots of guns but a homicide rate similar to Canada. Boise is one of the few substantially sized cities in the U.S. with a homicide rate in the same ballpark as European cities (around 1 per 100k). The combination of orderliness an
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by rayiner 2mo ago
I’m talking about the rule-followingness of your average american, which is the bedrock of civil society. Every society has rot at the top. Few societies can survive rot throughout the base of the pyramid.
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> That depends entirely upon what you mean by "fairness," which will itself be loaded with presumptions about how the world is and ought to be. If you’re an immigrant from my home country of Bangladesh, you’ll be treated more f
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by rayiner 2mo ago
They don’t actually have to be neutral, people just have to accept them as neutral and elevate them above their own sense of right and wrong.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
> But who decides which rules are neutral You’re correct that rules are themselves to an high degree arbitrary. They can only be imposed by a source of authority that’s beyond question: God(s), elders, founding fathers, kings, etc. In th
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by rayiner 2mo ago
> Civil society only exists when there is a collective general trust that most people are trying to do the right thing The phrase "the right thing" is load-bearing, to steal a Claudeism. The Muslim Brotherhood that ran the coun
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Have babies and enjoy doing inherently human things that don't involve generating bits.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Audited financial statements of all kinds of hospitals, both non-profit and for-profit. Here’s data from Moodey’s a credit rating agency: https://www.chartis.com/insights/hospital-margins-trend-high... (“This month, Mo
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Why does it feel toxic? It's literally like the computer in Star Trek.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Apple has a $4.5 trillion valuation, and it just makes pretty consumer widgets. The global B2B economy is massive.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
> I just can't believe that LLM haters really like computers or technology, because we haven't seen anything this interesting in decades. Yup. As someone who thinks computing has been in decline since Mac OS X 10.4, LLMs are th
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by rayiner 2mo ago
No, it was from a random substack: https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/some-things-to-learn-from... . I’m not sure what historians could debate here. The EIC ultimately failed as a business once it became a government—th
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by rayiner 2mo ago
> Disneyland. Walt Disney's conception of "The Happiest Place on Earth" was brought to life in 366 days. Source: Under Construction: A look inside Walt Disney’s Disneyland. I love watching the “making of Disneyland” movies
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by rayiner 2mo ago
> Ultimately the only antidote to US propaganda is nationalism. Ironic, isn't it?
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These laws don't "protect democracy," even the most charitable interpretation of them is that they protect liberal values against democracy. They're inherently counter-majoritarian. Democracy doesn't mean liberali
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Yes, I agree, AI's risk creating a huge pipeline problem.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
> And sometimes this intern which can produce code at blazing speeds get some subtleties wrong, so you can never trust their output and have to check every time. You're just describing junior employees lol.
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> The conclusion also completely contradicts a previous point, which is that managing an LLM is not like managing a human. For small scale stuff, it seems very much like managing a human. I've been using Grok and Claude for some sma
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Not at all. I think you have a mistaken view of who the average human is. They are terrible at turning their thoughts into written language. It's just nebulous clouds. Claude is like 75th percentile at communicating ideas.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Organizational effectiveness and efficiency is a moral virtue. It's a force multiplier that you can apply to whatever end you think is moral or ethical.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
> Effective at what though? The article is not exactly painting a rosy picture of EIC, nor should it. The EIC overthrew a gunpowder empire with vast resources and one of the largest militaries in the world with 1,000 European soldiers an
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by rayiner 2mo ago
I'd argue we have over-corrected on that stuff. Go back and look how processes worked in the 1950s and 1960s. People used to write relatively short proposals to do quite massive works. It's the meme: "You can just do stuff!&q
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by rayiner 2mo ago
> X86 is the best argument that you can build a fast efficient RISC-V chip... because the X86 instruction set is a much bigger mess. I don't think that's actually true. There's weird historical baggage and whatnot. But if
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Isn't almost everything in MIPS long outside patent protection?
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The difference is giving more power to researchers directly and side-stepping university administration and overhead. See: https://www.nsf.gov/policies/document/indirect-cost-rate
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by rayiner 2mo ago
What statement did you find antisocial? That richer people are on average smarter?
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> Constantly using inanimate nouns as the subjects in sentences in order to unlock variety in verb choice, especially when it helps construct a sentence where the real action can 'land' like a surprise at the end. A lot of peop
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> Less wealthy parents are likely working more hours The top income decile in the U.S. works 10% more hours than the bottom decile. Only a bit over half of low-income kids live in a household where a parent works full time.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Are you defining "poor" to mean everyone who doesn't send their kids to Philips Exeter?

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