randallsquared

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by randallsquared 3d ago
Mao and Che have legions more fans than Elon Musk, while his contributions are net positive (even with all the deadline misses and terrible decisions on various things) and theirs are strongly negative.
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by randallsquared 3d ago
For context, Ellison was convicted of financial crimes which, in part, funded Manifund, and now is drawing a salary from Manifund. This comment on the Manifund substack (by a Manifund fundee!) lays out the concern clearly: https:/&#x2
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by randallsquared 10d ago
> I find it useful to distinguish goal alignment and value alignment. I think this is fundamentally a wrong path. Doing this imports all the confusion that humans have about their goals and values, including the consequence that a syst
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by randallsquared 12d ago
Decade and a half, really. Eternal September was 1993 or 1994, right?
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by randallsquared 14d ago
Predictions being hard is what makes them valuable as a check on insight and accuracy!
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by randallsquared 14d ago
Since almost everything eventually goes bust, I wouldn't agree that this was particularly valuable, unless the analysis proved out in other ways. It's like the saying that some economists have predicted 10 of the last 4 recessio
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by randallsquared 15d ago
That's very different from faking a bunch of excited chatter and making up happy customers, which is what the original comment was about: > Nobody cared about or was using Mac Mini's for OpenClaw, but there were all of these v
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by randallsquared 22d ago
Python 3(000) was an opportunity to fix all the things, so in a sense, the modern Python is less than 20 years old.
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by randallsquared 22d ago
Several of these do exist already, and one of them was never a promised project. This objection seems like it's from 2016.
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by randallsquared 22d ago
Terrestrial datacenter legal restrictions are how SpaceX expects to make a lot of its money in the next 10+ years, so I would be less surprised to find them lobbying for restrictions than against, presuming they spend at all on it.
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by randallsquared 22d ago
They may not have to ship many or any. The first launch of a Texas-constructed Starship could just land the booster in Louisiana for a small fuel penalty, and then ships could likewise land there.
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by randallsquared 1mo ago
> They’re finding patterns in our systems and in nature. Finding patterns in data is a pretty succinct description of what intelligence does, no?
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by randallsquared 1mo ago
You say that that this kind of thing is imaginary, but something like it must be happening when I repeatedly find that a given website/app is in the wrong mode, even though I feel like I've had to switch it before. This is not eve
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by randallsquared 1mo ago
> It is the situation we live in now. That's what > That's the bit that needs fixing. means.
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by randallsquared 1mo ago
> where simply going outside to get groceries or whatever doesn't count as consent to be plastered across the net. I think this is wanting a rule that doesn't draw boundaries in a way that aligns with the natural world. Your
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by randallsquared 1mo ago
"Economics" is like gravity: it doesn't dictate your goals, but you can't ignore it, and trying to pretend it doesn't exist means your aircraft will not work.
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by randallsquared 1mo ago
"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
There's so many kinds of microbe we don't have catalogued. The last 30-40 years have been pretty astonishing in that regard.
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
Hopefully you were using very specific decaf for which you knew the values. Decaf coffee beans in the US vary from nearly zero to 30 or 40% of regular. Various sites and articles claim that there's a legal requirement for 97% removal i
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
I dunno. Caffeine doesn't affect me very much (I mean to say, I can drink regular coffee and go to sleep an hour later without difficulty), though it is somewhat pleasant. I used to regularly detox from caffeine to get that initial rus
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
If you optimize for initial wait times, someone who is going to a floor not usually visited might effectively get trapped on an elevator which shuttles between more trafficked floors to reduce wait for elevators overall. Maybe this is very
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
Per the article, Netflix's attorney confirmed that the therapy factored into the decision.
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
So they couldn't come up with an excuse that would have been a legitimate reason?
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
To be clear, making clothing is not actually their business.
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
The part that is being charged for isn't the coding, but the operating. How little should someone charge to be on pagerduty 24/7?
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
> U.S. law though is highly non-autistic When the judge and officers of the court agree with me, the law is reasonable and just, but when they do not agree with me, the law is arbitrary and capricious. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Having the law be
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
There's a lot one could say about > following the law of the highest of high courts to the letter. but I don't think that "there is no 'high court' at all" is one, for believers.
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
> And of course, if you send them money, all the infuriating UX issues mysteriously disappear. In the context of paying for Kagi instead of using Google for free, paying for YouTube instead of using, uh, YouTube for free seems like a s
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
Or the search in the middle of the screenshot that tops the article.
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
You're suggesting that @anematode was asking why they didn't test the sandbox escape first? Yeah, I don't know. I've read other statements by both OpenAI and Anthropic about that very kind of test, so maybe they had, or

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