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by enoch_r 3mo ago
This piece changed how I work with LLMs and made me much more optimistic about how "fun" it can be to work with them: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-... Before I would j
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by enoch_r 4mo ago
LLMs are trained to convince a typical human to click the "I like this one better" on their response. Convincing a human law professor to click the "I would prefer to deliver this response to a student" button, and t
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by enoch_r 4mo ago
Sorry for the lack of clarity. 1. some people argue that the implication of this (along with other deaths of science-adjacent people) is that there's a murder campaign against scientists 2. but this "implication" is actually
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by enoch_r 4mo ago
Conspiracy theorists don't understand base rates and denominators. They make a list of deaths of people who seem vaguely STEM/"government secret" adjacent and forget to think about what their denominator is. Implicitly,
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by enoch_r 4mo ago
Exactly what pool of people are we drawing from here? How big is our denominator? - Anthony Chavez was a foreman supervising construction at Los Alamos. Retired in 2017. - Melissa Casias (from this article) was an administrative assistant a
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by enoch_r 4mo ago
As someone who lives in the US I'd kind of prefer if people didn't flippantly mislead my countrymen to claim that assassinations are beneficial. I found zero sources on Wikipedia for what you claimed. Seriously, if you are too &qu
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by enoch_r 4mo ago
The claim was not "UHC made prior authorization easier for many procedures," the claim was "rejection rates by health insurance companies plummeted." I found several sources claiming that denial rates increased followi
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by enoch_r 4mo ago
This doesn't appear to be true at all. Do you have a source?
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by enoch_r 6mo ago
In this conversation, you have repeatedly referred to "all of the data" and "mountains of data," yet you have posted none. Meanwhile I have posted every major study on both sides of the debate! Your argument seems to b
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by enoch_r 6mo ago
Do you think that car seat mandates (up to age 12 in my state) are good policy if the net effect is: - a small reduction in minor injuries, - worse childhoods and parenting experiences (difficult to quantify, but real), - and a few hundre
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by enoch_r 6mo ago
See my comment summarizing the evidence as I understand it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590700 What articles did you find, exactly? What primary evidence are they basing their claims on? Many of the numbers
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by enoch_r 6mo ago
The evidence that car seats save lives is significantly weaker that you probably believe, as I detailed in another comment in this thread. But look: even if car seats make sense for a typical 5 year old on a typical drive in their typical
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by enoch_r 6mo ago
We have 4 kids. Before we had our 3rd, we needed to buy a new vehicle solely because we couldn't fit 3 car seats into the back of our old car. And when traveling with kids, carrying 4 gigantic car seats plus your other luggage is not e
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by enoch_r 6mo ago
For millenia, about 50% of children died before reaching adulthood. https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past We work less than our counterparts 150 years ago: https://ourworldindata.org/working
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by enoch_r 7mo ago
Say I own a spoon company. The government says "hey, I'd like to buy a million spoons from you!" I say "sure, sounds great." We sign a contract stating that I'll give them 1M spoons and they'll send me $1M
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by enoch_r 1y ago
You seem more interested in debating the imaginary version of me in your head than in having an actual discussion here, so have fun, I think you can do that on your own.
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by enoch_r 1y ago
You're proving my point here - the original comment claimed that the left was merely defending the pre-existing, settled rights that trans people have "always" had against the right's aggression, I'm saying that the
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by enoch_r 1y ago
I would be very interested, thank you. The flag is probably justified since HN is not really the place for these culture war things :) but I'm genuinely trying to understand the perspective here, because it does seem like a big gap bet
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by enoch_r 1y ago
This article is a great example of motivated reasoning. It's comparing two wildly different numbers: the Ford Pinto number is the total number of deaths that the NHTSA found to have occurred in rear-impact crashes that resulted in a f
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by enoch_r 1y ago
This is really, really bad. The Ford Pinto number is the total number of deaths that the NHTSA found to have occurred between 1970 and mid-1977 (so not the full 9-year period) in rear-impact crashes that resulted in a fire. This is not
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by enoch_r 1y ago
> It’s funny because the Ford Pinto is thought of as an example of an unreliable death trap but the deaths from Tesla’s poor craftsmanship and design heavily outweigh the Pinto by a wide margin. What are the stats you're referencing
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by enoch_r 1y ago
> I don't know where this delusional that dudes are just hanging brain around women is coming from. You're right, that doesn't happen. That's a conservative's wet dream. I'm sure you, and others, would be be
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by enoch_r 1y ago
> They weren't, and they still aren't. The idea that transwomen want to be around ciswomen and hang brain is a conservative fantasy. I think you're probably right that the vast majority of trans women are completely uninte
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by enoch_r 1y ago
I don't claim that there are hundreds of examples of this. My claim: - A: today, the left, broadly construed, insists that there is a right for transgender women to go into women-only spaces, including nude spas. For my point, it doesn
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by enoch_r 1y ago
> The reality is that transgender Americans have been doing these things, all these things, for many decades. Do you have any evidence for that? For example, do you have evidence of any of these happening in the US before, say, 1990? - a
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by enoch_r 2y ago
Millions did not die of starvation during the Great Depression in the US. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/12297/how-many-p...
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by enoch_r 2y ago
The good faith version of this would be that he is telling the truth, he didn't share or offer to share the photos with anyone, and the rumors the plaintiff heard about people seeing the photos were just rumors. (I think it's clea
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by enoch_r 2y ago
Do you honestly think, as a principled position, that police officers should be personally liable for enforcing a law which is later decided to be unconstitutional? For example, if a police officer in 1994 arrested someone for violating t
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by enoch_r 2y ago
It's a commitment device - e.g. leave your "mindless scrolling" NFC tag at home so you don't mindlessly scroll while you're out.
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by enoch_r 2y ago
Look, in any system, there are going to have to be arguments where patients or doctors say some treatment is necessary, and the entity paying for the treatment says it's not. For example, in Canada, the Ontario government refused to co

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