Liron

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by Liron 9mo ago
Wait I know Google search to content sites is largely dead, but I thought Google ads still worked fine.
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by Liron 1y ago
I don't know what you mean. Circle is a US company that needs to follow US laws. There is no USDC without Circle.
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by Liron 1y ago
Yep, I mean regulated with respect to who's allowed to offer and hold digital accounts in the currency. Circle itself may not do anything too funky, but big chunks of USD then get stored elsewhere online for banking-like activity in a
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by Liron 1y ago
It's entirely at the whim of the US government whether they allow non-KYC foreign people to have USDC accounts. Right now they say USDC:Yes and USD:No. They could easily say yes or no to either one at any time. Blockchain as technology
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by Liron 1y ago
Let me help explain whether blockchains are useful or not: They're not. The US gov let Circle be a less-regulated bank than other banks. This is called "regulatory arbitrage". You can take advantage of it by checking the box
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by Liron 1y ago
I think the balls stop when the tab isn't focused
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by Liron 1y ago
What if you want an HTML-first page with a canvas in it, but then you realize you want some layout/styling for the text within the canvas? Seems unnecessary to propagate that situation up to the type of top-level page.
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by Liron 1y ago
I often don't endorse the behavior of Israeli settlers. I'm responding to the question of what Israelis think about the news in general, a question to which I wanted to contribute the context of Israel's precarious existentia
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by Liron 1y ago
Israeli here, can't directly answer your question since I've lived in the US for 99% of my adult life, but I consider myself pro-Israel and resent the way Israel is currently/always being portrayed. I see the key problem as p
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by Liron 1y ago
The "Do you want a Pebble?" "No" button is hilarious
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by Liron 2y ago
Being a toy implies some niche of users is getting fun out of the product. Who's having fun here and how?
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by Liron 3y ago
There are countless use cases for a good AI agent. The problem is temporary: good AI agents don't exist, because sufficiently intelligent AI doesn't yet exist. (Agency and broad-domain intelligence are basically the same thing.
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Relationship Hero (YC S17) is hiring relationship coaches(relationshiphero.com)
1 points by Liron 3y ago
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All Humans Are Stupid(lironshapira.substack.com)
2 points by Liron 3y ago|1 comments
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by Liron 3y ago
This is decent as a "rah rah techno-optimism" piece, but it continues Marc's pattern of cheapening the discourse when opining on the topic of AI existential risk. It's easy to mistake this piece as making an argument f
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Relationship Hero (YC S17) is hiring couples coaches(relationshiphero.com)
1 points by Liron 3y ago
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Eliezer Yudkowsky on If Humanity Can Survive AI [video](youtube.com)
2 points by Liron 3y ago|0 comments
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Don't listen to Marc Andreessen about AI(lironshapira.substack.com)
4 points by Liron 3y ago|2 comments
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Lies, Damned Lies, & A16Z's Statistics(blog.dshr.org)
4 points by Liron 3y ago|0 comments
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by Liron 3y ago
Here's how OpenAI could show they're minimally competent at AI security: Before beginning training on GPT-5, submit a version of ChatGPT that’s immune to prompt injection. If no one can successfully jailbreak it within 1 week, go
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Lex Fridman Interviews Eliezer Yudkowsky on Dangers of AI [video](youtube.com)
8 points by Liron 3y ago|0 comments
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Yann LeCun has major blind spots in his worldview about AI(ravisparikh.substack.com)
4 points by Liron 3y ago|0 comments
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No, Bitcoin isn’t pumping because it’s a “safe haven” from banks(newsletter.mollywhite.net)
34 points by Liron 3y ago|14 comments
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by Liron 4y ago
I downloaded a huge Firebase backup looking for a particular record. I ended up using the “split” shell command to get a bunch of 1gb files, then grepping for which file had the record I was looking for, then using my own custom script to s
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Relationship Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Sales Associates (Remote)(relationshiphero.com)
1 points by Liron 4y ago
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by Liron 4y ago
Really important for folks to understand what the AI doom argument is. It's surprising how the key concepts still haven't percolated this late into the AI revolution, though they are somewhat complex. Here's my Twitter thread
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GPT-3 is much better at math than it should be(ravisparikh.substack.com)
50 points by Liron 4y ago|37 comments
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Relationship Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Sales Associates (Remote, Non-US)(relationshiphero.com)
1 points by Liron 4y ago
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by Liron 4y ago
This is a kind of product that’s easy to scope creep so I’m curious, how many person-months did it take you to build this MVP?
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Super Bowl will not feature any crypto ads this year(sportsbusinessjournal.com)
32 points by Liron 4y ago|23 comments

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