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I still remember a time where finding information on Wikipedia was mostly disqualifying, even if you read the sources! I guess a lot of new tech works this way until people build trust with it.
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I still remember a time where finding information on Wikipedia was mostly disqualifying, even if you read the sources! I guess a lot of new tech works this way until people build trust with it.
Tough call cause if I were gonna eat margins anywhere it’d be on the box. Microsoft are currently throwing away the bag and you could have console-level penetration if you can somehow sell the thing for $400. Box could always be the loss leader to draw people into the frame.
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Tough call cause if I were gonna eat margins anywhere it’d be on the box. Microsoft are currently throwing away the bag and you could have console-level penetration if you can somehow sell the thing for $400. Box could always be the loss leader to draw people into the frame.
I noticed in this excerpt that the language is also much simpler and aimed at a general, non-technical audience :^)
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I noticed in this excerpt that the language is also much simpler and aimed at a general, non-technical audience :^)
anth thinking they’re important enough to attract govt attention when all these orders are obviously aimed at google and openai
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
anth thinking they’re important enough to attract govt attention when all these orders are obviously aimed at google and openai
for example in the EA community people have been using automated submissions to enquiries to lobby for animal welfare and AI safety. if the tools diffuse enough (and by extension, the tools to read and summarise thousands of submissions), it could actually be good!
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
for example in the EA community people have been using automated submissions to enquiries to lobby for animal welfare and AI safety. if the tools diffuse enough (and by extension, the tools to read and summarise thousands of submissions), it could actually be good!
like perhaps the immediate effect is bad, but planning submissions already overwhelmingly favour nimbys and feel like a strange tool of power that the government grants to interest groups anyway.
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
like perhaps the immediate effect is bad, but planning submissions already overwhelmingly favour nimbys and feel like a strange tool of power that the government grants to interest groups anyway.
actually how cool would it be if this is how we get direct democracy
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
actually how cool would it be if this is how we get direct democracy
Gonna make the most unhelpful thing ever, an auto blocklist for pro-AI sentiment
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Gonna make the most unhelpful thing ever, an auto blocklist for pro-AI sentiment
I’m sure a chunk of this is also subtle racist types going off the name only and being too proud to say they’ve not heard of him
October 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I’m sure a chunk of this is also subtle racist types going off the name only and being too proud to say they’ve not heard of him
`five``plus``”);process.exit(0)` type shi
October 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
`five``plus``”);process.exit(0)` type shi
ooo are you using github.com/dy/subscript or something else?
October 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
ooo are you using github.com/dy/subscript or something else?
If you can’t beat Sridhar, join him
October 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If you can’t beat Sridhar, join him
realistically it’s over for samizdat. but authentically verified content from central accounts can still happen. it’ll be interesting what that one way effect creates
October 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
realistically it’s over for samizdat. but authentically verified content from central accounts can still happen. it’ll be interesting what that one way effect creates
you could still create an app for your high res macbook that follows your phone’s gyro and displays an image of whatever you wanted
October 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
you could still create an app for your high res macbook that follows your phone’s gyro and displays an image of whatever you wanted
On other sites if you want to reliably prevent a user or group of users from causing harm, you have to make demands of the centralised mod team. Here, blocklists or separate PDSs are that solution (and a better one!) but people are still in the old mindset I think.
October 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
On other sites if you want to reliably prevent a user or group of users from causing harm, you have to make demands of the centralised mod team. Here, blocklists or separate PDSs are that solution (and a better one!) but people are still in the old mindset I think.
someone should organise a grant for him to quit his job and go indie again. i miss him
September 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
someone should organise a grant for him to quit his job and go indie again. i miss him
Don’t forget where the money comes from :)
September 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Don’t forget where the money comes from :)
i think in particular most people, including very smart people, project reasoning about certainty of evidence (i.e. in the weird quasi-bayesian way we all implicitly do).
the people who go nuts seem to project emotions onto them (love, but also sycophancy-coded emotions like awe and excitement)
the people who go nuts seem to project emotions onto them (love, but also sycophancy-coded emotions like awe and excitement)
September 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
i think in particular most people, including very smart people, project reasoning about certainty of evidence (i.e. in the weird quasi-bayesian way we all implicitly do).
the people who go nuts seem to project emotions onto them (love, but also sycophancy-coded emotions like awe and excitement)
the people who go nuts seem to project emotions onto them (love, but also sycophancy-coded emotions like awe and excitement)
i feel like i have a pretty good mental model of what they are, in a way that feels more like a machine than a person. for example, i don’t really project emotions onto them.
do you have some good intuition-breakers here that reveal that they feel human to you?
do you have some good intuition-breakers here that reveal that they feel human to you?
September 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
i feel like i have a pretty good mental model of what they are, in a way that feels more like a machine than a person. for example, i don’t really project emotions onto them.
do you have some good intuition-breakers here that reveal that they feel human to you?
do you have some good intuition-breakers here that reveal that they feel human to you?
yeah, at the very least it’s a bellwether for how the times have changed
July 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
yeah, at the very least it’s a bellwether for how the times have changed
probably not a novel observation, but interesting policy on which rationalist-adjacent bloggers they decide it’s acceptable to name vs which they’re happy to protect
July 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
probably not a novel observation, but interesting policy on which rationalist-adjacent bloggers they decide it’s acceptable to name vs which they’re happy to protect