Herring

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by Herring 2mo ago
Actually, I think I'm pretty much done here. Cynicism is a symptom https://alexriosme.substack.com/p/engineers-cynicism-is-a-sy... Requesting a full ban please!
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by Herring 2mo ago
This is like your typical 2-story US house "eating" a baseball. Completely trivial occurrence, cosmologically speaking, unless you're specifically looking for it.
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by Herring 2mo ago
Oh yeah I can't wait for the next election. Things get so toxic when money/power is involved.
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by Herring 2mo ago
> If you're using randomized testing as "extra credit", to catch a few more bugs, or to replace traditional software testing processes, you can just tell an LLM to look for risky areas of the code and find invariants that
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by Herring 2mo ago
America is like a trust fund baby given all the advantages and then the baby goes "fuck it, life is too hard, I am just going to do coke and die early”.
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by Herring 2mo ago
America is like a trust fund baby given all the advantages and then the baby goes "fuck it, life is too hard, I am just going to do coke and die early”.
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by Herring 2mo ago
So many people have to get burned before they realize working with a rich sociopath is a bad idea.
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by Herring 2mo ago
Hmm, it might be better to just go straight to what leading countries currently do (Finland/Estonia/Japan/Singapore/etc). Other factors probably play a bigger role, like school funding, school autonomy, teacher professio
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by Herring 2mo ago
The story around Bloom's two sigma is a bit complex https://nintil.com/bloom-sigma/
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by Herring 2mo ago
I hope you're right.
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by Herring 2mo ago
This comment is another example of "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened." There's a massive push to add unnecessary complexity to everything out there, because complexity pays all our bills.
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by Herring 2mo ago
I don't know how much I really trust polls when it comes to Americans and socialism. Look what happened in 2008 https://news.gallup.com/poll/4708/healthcare-system.aspx (first graph) Democrats saw what seemed
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by Herring 3mo ago
Yes it was, by constantly rejecting the only cures: redistribution and unionization as socialism. Unregulated capitalism always trends towards concentration of wealth/power. Another thing I’ve noticed is Americans are extremely non-sel
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by Herring 3mo ago
It’s not like Americans were invaded and forced to accept this. They repeatedly voted for it. Obama tried to work on healthcare, then had the largest electoral losses since Eisenhower, all up and down the ballot. Instead they voted for the
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by Herring 3mo ago
Ok that probably explains it. We're just talking past each other. You're doing really good work, and Seattle is one of the top transit cities in the US, but those three cities I mentioned before are in a whole different league as
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by Herring 3mo ago
The problem is not AI. It's an excellent technology. The problem is there's an underlying power grab (e.g. layoffs). When humans do that to each other they inherently dehumanize/invalidate/insult each other. Implement st
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by Herring 3mo ago
I see what you're getting at. That's not going to work. Public transit falls into multiple well-known market failure modes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure You need considerable govt intervent
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by Herring 3mo ago
Try discussing this issue with a LLM. I'm getting some pretty good responses from Gemini pro. Just as a first pass. It can help you avoid major errors.
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by Herring 3mo ago
But then you'll run into traffic/parking issues unless you have a good public transit and land use policy (e.g. bikes, trams, mixed use development, etc). That requires such good design skills few cities have mastered it (Tokyo, C
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by Herring 3mo ago
Yeah pretty much the only way to scale exercise to entire populations and over entire lifetimes is to design it directly into the cities.
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by Herring 3mo ago
I'm confused. The study doesn't mention "Zone 2" even once ...
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by Herring 3mo ago
The poor and rich alike have a deep-seated cultural aversion to poor people. It's no use warning about inequality when a sleazy billionaire wins the popular vote. Nobody is listening. They have to experience the bad results first-hand.
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by Herring 3mo ago
Yeah. This discussion is hilarious. Some people just can’t wrap their heads around generosity. “Why don’t you just let them die in the wars?”
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by Herring 3mo ago
That's probably a good litmus test for political capture by elites. The Netherlands introduced a weighted lottery for medical schools in 1972, abolished it in 2017 for basically the same reasons, studied the (worse) outcomes for a bit,
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by Herring 3mo ago
It kind of was. I really hate gaslighting, but GP is not inaccurate. Google claimed it did not meet their bar for publication because it ignored recent research on how to reduce the environmental and bias-related risks of LLMs. On the other
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by Herring 3mo ago
Is that you Musk? Twitter lost half its revenue, more than 80% of its valuation.
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by Herring 3mo ago
Americans are very confused when it comes to societal/collective issues. We saw this during the pandemic.
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by Herring 3mo ago
Yeah I’d go even further. Singapore-style public housing is pretty high on my wishlist. But it’s a long wishlist.
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by Herring 3mo ago
Well yeah. Key policy choices in housing/healthcare/education/banking/etc have financialized basic human necessities, forcing the working class to give up a growing percentage of their income to the asset-holding class.
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by Herring 3mo ago
You didn't read the article, did you? People there are getting radicalized because of cuts to social spending.

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