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iab··on The hype is over: time to ban ChatGPT and integrated solutions
This is sticking the finger in the proverbial dike at this point. Might as well ban c++.
iab··on I cannot wait for this deluge of AI products to be over
It's a salient point
iab··on Eliezer: Why the danger from AGI is way more serious than nuclear weapon
> 5) You can calculate how powerful a nuclear weapon will be before setting it off.

> 7) It would be hard to do a full nuclear exchange by accident and without any human being having decided to do that.

> 17) When somebody raised the concern that maybe the first nuclear explosion would ignite the atmosphere and kill everyone, it was promptly taken seriously by the physicists on the Manhattan Project, they did a physical calculation that they understood how to perform, and correctly concluded that this could not possibly happen for several different independent reasons with lots of safety margin.

Giving nuclear-weapons developers and scientists a lot of undue credit here

iab··on McDonald's temporarily shuts its U.S. offices and prepares layoff notices
This turned me vegetarian
iab··on Zuckerberg: Early-career eng tend to perform better when in person '>=3 d/week'
Zoom for me but not for thee?
iab··on 9-year-old girl wanted to save her goat from slaughter. Then came the warrant
> Cedar had been purchased in April 2022 by Long for her 9-year-old daughter

> “She loved him as a family pet,” the lawsuit says.

> The family entered Cedar into the Shasta District Fair’s junior livestock auction on June 24, 2022,

iab··on Is Y Combinator worth the money? Brutally honest review of W22 batch experience
This is the nature of all advice. If there was a surefire playbook to do X and get Y result, then everyone would do it surely?
iab··on SVB Hall of Shame
Yes, this is quite naive
iab··on Samsung's response on 'moonshot' controversy
Great, so I have to pay for their exotic lifestyle as well? Where does it end??
iab··on Bizarre Amicus Brief Filed by Software "Engineer" in SEC vs. Ripple Labs, Inc [pdf]
> ... As my peer and fellow discoverer, researcher, scholar the late Professor Albert Einstein remarked: ...

10/10, no notes.

iab··on Ask HN: Is the Secret of Elon Musk's Success Stanford University?
Exactly, the actual source of his success is Glendale Community College
iab··on Flexport slashes 20% of global workforce over weak 2023 volume forecast
They raised two gillion??
iab··on Why Is Elon Musk Lighting Billions of Dollars on Fire?
There is no reason at this point to believe there is (or ever was) a plan
iab··on Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports
New life motto, thank you
iab··on I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion
I also suffer-from/actively-encourage this mentality
iab··on Sam Bankman-Fried Denies Knowing Scale of Bad Alameda Bets
"John Hammond: I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them."
iab··on Elon Musk Says Neuralink Should Be Ready for Human Testing in Six Months
It's a brain interface, greg, how long could it take? 3 months?
iab··on SBF tells investors FTX needs $8B in emergency funding: WSJ
Wasn’t this 4B like 20 minutes ago
iab··on Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator
> most of the roads look the same in Kansas or something

Working as intended it seems

iab··on [dead]
“Where is Ja-rule?”
iab··on A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes toll on America’s arsenal (2017)
History is replete with examples of this
iab··on Let’s Not Have a Beer
No beer, kosher-only foods, no golf prizes (no sports prizes at all), no family prizes (I’m single!), no prizes for imdividuals (I have a family!), etc. etc. etc.
iab··on The resentment on HN is repulsive
I resent this post
iab··on Man who threw away £150m in Bitcoin hopes AI and robot dogs will get it back
Dogs are named “Hail” and “Mary” respectively
iab··on Nuclear sky hotel not impossible
Says creator of impossible sky-hotel
iab··on SEC charges 11 people in alleged $300M crypto Ponzi scheme
But you can also buy permanent hyperlinks on a random database, so maybe a wash overall?
iab··on Ask HN: Would you continue interviewing for a company in this situation?
Hard pass
iab··on Elon Musk’s Friendship with Sergey Brin Ruptured by Alleged Affair
Honestly, where does he find the time for all these escapades
iab··on LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Turns DALL-E AI Art into NFTs
> However, OpenAI launched a new beta version yesterday that enables commercialization rights for creators who generate images
iab··on Ask HN: Does SpaceX have a chance at making life multiplanetary?
Absolutely; by completely disregarding planetary-protection protocols and taking bacteria etc. inadvertently would be my bet
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