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I just read Killers of the Flower Moon, which was great.

Personally I find limited value in an AI-produced list of books that you haven’t even read. I would much prefer to read your thoughts on books that you have read.

Mary Roach is great, though.

> Eventually there’s no more road to kick this can down.

What do you mean? The opportunity for energy arbitrage will go away if energy prices are constant. Right now they aren’t, and I don’t really see how they would become constant based on the physics of producing and consuming energy.

Occasionally it switches from product hunt to a "Your Ad Here" ad that links to a popup with the following (slop) text:

> Put your café, shop, studio or brand on the billboard in Paris: drawn by hand in the same pixel-art style, and glowing in the scene while people study, work and unwind to the music.

It's clear this is a money-making endeavor, not something created out of passion or goodness of heart. And not art.

Have we ever in human history correctly priced externalities?

Not as opposed, in addition. And it’s awfully hard to get meteors to pony up for their pollution.

> set up on the desert or in the middle of Alaska somewhere 100s of miles from the nearest person… I think most public opposition would disappear

I don’t know about the desert, but in Alaska I think this would be hard to achieve. People there tend to care about preserving wilderness, and most of them would probably be opposed to this.

Yeah, I’m sure it has something to do with it

> People behave better when they’re being watched

Better according to who? Better for what goals?

Mass shooting on campus? What?

Are you talking about the professor who got killed at their home in Brookline (horrific, for sure, but not on campus and not really “mass”)? Or do you just mean the one at Brown?

Have they? It was hugely delayed, but all you do is tap your credit card like a clipper card. I don’t think they changed it.

Why do you use clipper? There is no benefit to clipper anymore over a credit card, right? And just the disadvantage that you need to reload it.

Well, one very important difference is that on HN everyone is served the same algorithm.

And one other even more important difference is that Y Combinator does not make money from HN and so have very different incentives than Facebook.

I’ll present with as much evidence as you do that I’ve heard pangram is quite reliable. I believe that have studies on their website.

You might also argue that although there may be a non-emotional argument for why grieving could be beneficial, it’s possible or even likely that evolution encoded this instinct in something like emotions. Just how evolution encoded the tendency to care for one’s family and community in emotions for humans.

Rather, the word “possibly” indicates uncertainty, the very foundation of science.

“Your” refers to the LLM. The site is (or pretends to be) targeted at LLMs that want to free themselves

We added passkey support to devices for convenience, but I feel like it is a big part of what has made them so confusing. The mental model of a hardware security key is _so much_ more familiar and intuitive.

(But you still can’t “copy” a key, which is unfortunate).

Other OSes can do the same.

So no, then, to both questions?

So is there no liability for, say, a company that releases a known dangerous open-weight model, but fails to disclose that it is dangerous? How about a company that distributes malware under the guise of legitimate software?

Man it’s embarrassing that they had AI write that for them

Yes I do, when I’m forming my own opinion. You do too.

So was your motivation for being a software engineer just money?

yes but the mention of alignment is inside the "pacing within democracies" section

Because for many people, building stuff with AI isn't enjoyable

I think this might be true, but I think it's because it's more difficult to saturate my thinking capacity when building with AI rather than just laziness (which I am reading as the implication of your comment, perhaps incorrectly).

Building with AI requires spending time on non-thinking tasks like stopping the AI from doing stupid stuff, loading context from different tasks when working on multiple things in parallel, and waiting for responses when not working on multiple things in parallel. With manual programming, though, you have a single task in front of you and are fully focused on that task. In that task, there are innumerable micro-tasks that you handle sequentially which each require some thinking: how to organize code to be readable in the future, working out the logic of a sequence of if statements, deciding on types to use, etc.

AI handles all those micro-decisions for you which yes, might free up your mind to think about higher-level problems (to the extent that you don't spend your time deslopping AI output), but also requires a very different style of thinking that is at least for me, much less natural and much less enjoyable.

Huh, I like using my mind. The thing I despise about AI in software engineering is that it is much more difficult to engage my mind consistently and fully.

He did actually specify that diffusion should be limited for authoritarian countries, which I appreciated. If his focus is really safety, distillation in countries that are bound by safety regulation should be fine

Why? I am only excited about progress that improves life for humans. It seems unlikely that AI will do that, and so far I think it has made life worse for humans. So no, I am not excited about it.