> So what is the answer then? My best advice so far is that most things you do… more
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> Here is the actual Kalshi goat herding contract I want to make a few points… more
From @ifixcoinops' very long thread about Internet communities: more
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> We can all agree: the incentives are bad. Everywhere you look, people are… more
> China’s tech giants — Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu — were all founded between… more
> Suppose we’re torn between multiple moral theories, accounts of which… more
> This page details several common, half-thought ideas about “cosmicness.” A… more
> OK, so the linguistic content of reasoning traces may be dubious. But surely… more
> As a researcher I’ve also been spending a lot of time with models, talking… more
> Suppose that apples sell for more than oranges and Parliament in [its] wisdom… more
From millionaires to Muslims, small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans
> When it comes to estimating the size of demographic groups, Americans rarely… more
> So let me get to the nut of this thing before I do my usual meandering.… more
> We use words as tools to get things done; and to get things done, we… more
> All of this went down far too fast for a human-driven response. The only way… more
> Kudos to OpenAI for sharing their recent experiences with a misaligned… more
> Hume called it the problem of induction; a catchier name is the No Free Lunch… more
Context: Ruriko, the author's wife, is Japanese, and has different expectations… more
> Moreover and more importantly, we won’t know before we’ve already… more
> In response to struggling renters and frustrated first-time buyers,… more
> For the past year and a half, the team building Roc's compiler has been… more
> [...] People feel more and more programming is completely modified by AI and… more
> I've been following the Ukrainian-Russian war since 2022. Most Western… more
> In this scenario, humanity delays the development of superintelligence until… more
> In Mason’s view, the evidence that rent regulations discourage construction… more
> What I expected when I started was the obvious stuff – faster literature… more
> How do you ask for help from people? There is only one principle. Put… more
> In 1914, before the First World War, there was this belief: “a European war… more
> The thing is, LaMDA sounds too damn much like us. It claims not only to have… more
> On Tuesday, the Supreme Court blessed this Kafkaesque nightmare by a 6–3 vote… more
> A modest, mid-level funeral in Ghana costs about $5,000 U.S. dollars; a… more
> Today Super Heavy is a piece of pure electric-guitars-and-screaming-eagles… more
> There's a dark underside to this business. It doesn't get talked about… more
> [T]here is one insular, loose tradition of science fiction that has been… more
> Thus the right question isn’t whether YIMBYism would lower the user cost of… more
> In my first Substack post, I (half-jokingly) declared that we had been wrong… more
> Recent overuse by language models has led many to declare it bad writing. I'm… more
> It turns out interviewing was broken long before I learned the trade, and… more
> I’m not saying AI is superintelligent or can decide better than you can. I’m… more
> Suppose, as an illustration, that you live in a very different time and… more
> Unsurprisingly, the broad public reaction is to read this as a massive… more
> Interestingly, one suggestion that Hamilton made for increasing the supply of… more
> But very few of my classmates really belonged to the area’s elite. It wasn’t… more
> Louisiana offers two theories of standing. Theory #1 goes like this: if it’s… more
> The cases that matter are the ones a replay cache does not explain: more
> Like biographies use their subject as a prism for the world around them, I… more
> The problem with logic is that if you do it wrong even once it blows up. The… more