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I can’t tell if “table of context” is a clever new phrase or a typo.

If things have a similarity as you change scale and if things also reduce to strings, then we would expect to see strings at all scales, which we definitely don't.

That said, she makes the following observation at the end of the interview: "Asymptotic safety could be compatible with these other approaches. Perhaps at the fundamental scale there are strings or loops or something, but then as you zoom out you hit a realm where things change so slowly for a while that it looks as if you’re at a fixed point."

So while asymptotic safety is not fully compatible with string theory, the physical difference between them could be very small.

If there’s surplus land, why build something unwanted in someone’s backyard? I’m a suburban NIMBY homeowner and I feel like you’re actually making my argument without realizing it. I’m all for building new houses on unused land. Can you please just do it without ruining my neighborhood? Build nice new neighborhoods and make them as dense as you’d like, but don’t try to force density on older, established neighborhoods that can’t support it.

It would be more boring to watch at the end, and frustrating for the loser to be forced to play a losing position.

> "Hey Claude, summarize, this document I downloaded from the Internet"

I think you've created confusion with this example due to its ambiguity. Let's be clear about the difference between a chatbot and an agent: Asking a chatbot (e.g. vanilla Claude) to summarize an unknown document is not risky, since all it can do is generate text. Asking an agent (e.g. Claude Code) to summarize an unknown document could indeed be risky for the reason you state.

Yes, and I’m talking about the time before that, when experts doubted whether Fox could survive. (I’m old.)

I remember when Fox News was considered irrelevant compared to mainstream news outlets. Don’t underestimate the reach of billionaires with an ideological agenda.

I think you are missing the point: If we assume that AGI is *not* yet here, but may be here soon, what will change when it arrives? Those changes could be big enough to affect you.

To double nitpick: She's a delegate, not a representative. There are also non-voting members from Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Citizens of Washington, DC are in the same boat. They can vote for president, but have no representation in congress.

It looks like you submitted a random page within the website instead of pointing to the home page.

The code in question is:

    if (sprtemp[frame].rotate == false)

Note that this is explicitly comparing two values, which is very different from checking whether a single value is true. Surely you wouldn't expect -1 == 0 to evaluate to true.

> memset (sprtemp,-1, sizeof(sprtemp));

Yikes. I think this article undersells the point somewhat. This line of code undermines the type system by spraying -1's into an array of structs, so the only surprise to me is that it took this long to break.

> Anxiety is the second leading cause of disability and mortality worldwide.

I think this comes from WHO, but isn't consistent with other information from WHO, so it's pretty debatable.

I believe the source is this[0], which says "Mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression are highly prevalent in all countries and communities, affecting people of all ages and income levels. They represent the second biggest reason for long-term disability, contributing to loss of healthy life."

However, elsewhere on their site[1], WHO lists the top 3 global causes of death and disability in 2021 as heart disease, COVID-19, and stroke.

[0] https://www.who.int/news/item/02-09-2025-over-a-billion-peop...

[1] https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/theme-details/GHO/m...

> every month there's a 14-day period with no solar power

So it's dark 50% of the time on the moon... just like here on Earth.

I would suggest the US is slightly better. At least we don’t have an unenforceable law that offers the illusion of privacy protections.

In my house, the bedrooms are two flights of stairs above the dryer in the basement. Good luck wheeling.

This seemed like a bad idea to me from the beginning. Giving personal biometric details to a monster corporation is a nonstarter for both techies and normies.

Because we’re interested in AGI (emphasis on general) and LLM’s are the closest thing to AGI that we have right now.

Wouldn't have expected something like this to end on a cliffhanger, but... what happened next?

> To Make America Healthy Again, we must return to the basics.

Who knows, these guidelines might indeed be sensible, but anything labeled “Make America Healthy Again” has no scientific credibility.

With dozens of agents running at a time, it must cost $1000's to build anything non-trivial. Is there a business model behind this project, or is he just made of money?

This is an interesting concept, but it is presented so abstractly as to be opaque to even most functional programmers, I think.

The basic idea, as I understand it, is a typeclass that is more powerful than an applicative, but still less powerful than a monad, called a "selective applicative". I would summarize them like this:

* Applicative: Fixed computation graph, but no conditional structure.

* Selective applicative: Fixed computation graph with some conditional "branches".

* Monad: Dynamic computation graph and control flow, can generate new structure on the fly.

I'm sure I'm still missing a lot, but I think that's the 10,000 foot view.

Why would you do additional work after he failed to pay?

Good wired headphones (or in-ear monitors) still sound noticeably better than wireless. This makes a big difference when listening to music.

By this logic, shouldn’t you be prompting an LLM to design the language and write the compiler itself?

(2023)

They need to pay more if the US wants to avoid becoming an aristocracy. The top 1%’s share of income is growing rapidly, while the bottom 90%’s share is shrinking.

https://www.epi.org/blog/wages-for-the-top-1-skyrocketed-160...

Ah, that makes sense. Thank you. As long as every use of sqrt has such a condition.

If sqrt -1 = 0, then (by squaring both sides) -1 = 0, which is clearly unsound.