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by api 2mo ago
If they do that you’re using them wrong, or trying to use them as a substitute for thinking which they’re not. You are the one in charge doing the primary thinking and guidance. The AI is an amplifier and a search engine basically.
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by api 2mo ago
Guns have only one main function. Phones have thousands.
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by api 2mo ago
Facebook was on balance good until the algorithmic timeline.
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by api 2mo ago
At the very least I think we should seriously consider taxing advertising. It’d be almost impossible to pick and choose so just tax all of it. I think the knock on effects would be positive. It’s an almost unmitigated vice at this point and
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by api 2mo ago
The problem is not phones. Phones are fine. The problem is specific apps that make use of addiction engineering. These are bad on desktops too but the extreme portability of phones makes them a hundred times more potent. Like all risks it d
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by api 2mo ago
My experience is that AI is just that, a “mech suit for your brain.” It has no creativity or volition but has superhuman memory, superhuman speed, and superhuman context in some narrow cases. So it takes a thought and unfolds it, looks up r
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by api 2mo ago
I’ve toyed around with this hypothesis about dark music and edgy culture. The roaring 90s were full of this: dark music exploring critical themes or things like depression and addiction, lots of social criticism, and edgy offensive humor. T
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by api 2mo ago
Dune isn’t a straight hero’s journey because Paul isn’t a hero, or at least is a tragic one. He’s not Luke Skywalker or Frodo.
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by api 2mo ago
I don’t watch many movies due to time but those I do watch tend to be odd, unusual, experimental, and sometimes polarizing. A recent one I enjoyed was Rabbit Trap, a modern take on faerie lore. It was polarizing and got poor reviews. Years
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by api 2mo ago
The problem is the incentive structure. We could be doing good things with tech. The incentive is to use it to addict and destroy. Addiction and war is where all the money is, not education or health care or positive forms of entertainment
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by api 2mo ago
Stop calling them “social” media. They have not been that since algorithmic feeds driving infinite scroll replaced updates from your friends. That was more than a decade ago. There is nothing at all social about the latest generation like T
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by api 2mo ago
A Pi running macOS more or less. Not dissing it though. Killer machine for those who don’t need a lot of power locally. Also a great kiosk for some things.
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by api 2mo ago
I’m sure that hasn’t gone unnoticed.
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by api 2mo ago
Apple could dominate this niche if they decided, for a while until prices fall, to eat some margin and bump up RAM in high end models. Couple that with a new M series chip with even faster AI performance. It’s not a huge niche but it’s an i
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by api 2mo ago
Midwest here. It is insane. Private school isn’t much cheaper here. I’d have to see the numbers or I call BS.
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by api 2mo ago
Kenya influenced the entire English language by being an outsourcing site for AI RLHF. Sounds like a world detail from Snow Crash.
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by api 2mo ago
Honestly these days even the MCOL (medium cost of living) interior cities like Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Charlotte, etc. would be tight on 85K especially with any dependents. Our family lived in HCOL places like Boston and LA befo
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by api 2mo ago
Short form video is disturbingly addictive. I generally refuse to engage with it. A while back I started scrolling some YouTube shorts. Hours later my brain felt fried and… it was hours later? It was kind of shocking and frightening. It fel
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by api 2mo ago
Rationalism and EA is Scientology for the Bay Area.
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by api 2mo ago
All of it is addiction engineered.
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by api 2mo ago
I don't disagree, but history shows that people (and businesses!) can and will make such trades. Look at the privacy nightmare, and it's not just individuals. Large companies put all their Crown Jewels into things like Google Driv
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by api 2mo ago
This belongs to a class of thing I've been predicting for a while: as non-volatile storage (not RAM but flash etc.) gets cheaper and cheaper, offline snapshots of quantities of information that used to require an Internet connection to
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by api 2mo ago
I'd say I generally agree that the privacy problem has no techno-fix and must be solved by regulation. For example, we could extend HIPAA-style fines for leaked personal data to other forms of intimate data like location, biometrics, l
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by api 2mo ago
Imagine someone comes to you and says: "You must remove your door locks. Anyone can come into your house any time. You also need cameras across most of your house. But in exchange, magic elves will do all of your home chores: washing
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by api 3mo ago
Unfortunately when your power source black hole got smaller it would get hotter, finally reaching runaway at the end and detonating with hundreds of times the power of the Tsar Bomba.
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by api 3mo ago
“Anti” is a kind of super-meme that took over discourse in a lot of spheres, especially anywhere near academia, starting in the 1970s. If I had to trace it to one source it would probably be the Club of Rome and Limits to Growth. Paul Erl
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by api 3mo ago
It's a very strong consensus among physicists, but has not been observed. My understanding is it pops right out of the math. If it doesn't exist it means some new fundamental physics is in play, like quantum gravitational effects
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by api 3mo ago
There's a few obvious things. What you've got is an almost "vertical" gravity well near the object. A smaller black hole would actually have a steeper gravity well than a large one. (1) See how gravity behaves at those s
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by api 3mo ago
I believe it does, due to PBHs forming seeds for early accretion, but ask a non-armchair physicist (or a good LLM).
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by api 3mo ago
Not much. A black hole isn't a magic cosmic vacuum cleaner. It's a dense piece of mass. An asteroid mass black hole the size of a hydrogen atom would be... an object the size of a hydrogen atom with the mass of an asteroid. You co

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