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What did Andy Yen really do? I mean it is clear what the "cancel force" accuses him of, but I am curious what he really did or said to trigger this. Feels way too organized to be organic.

> Remember infrared file sharing? Of course you don’t.

I don't, but I do remember using my Siemens ME 45 as a GPRS modem through its infrared port and an IR USB dongle.

Law is programs running on humans.

That can not the whole story, because the countries with the highest birth rate are not even remotely close to "our" standards of living.

Even we accept your premise that moderation is _some_ form of censorship, it still holds that we may not want _other_ or _all_ forms of censorship.

The last sentence of your comment, therefore, is manipulative. It's like saying "ice is a form of water, so you can't have drinks without water, and the only difference is who waters down your bourbon".

There is a difference between being taught and being preached to. Intelligent people are particularly sensitive to this distinction, and that category of people happens to be the audience of the magazine.

You did not experience a trait of humans generally, but a trait of the specific, historically rare instance of high-trust society that had been consciously invented, built and protected, and that you were very lucky to be born into or live in.

> I guess I don't see how this is news worthy?

BBC hasn't been "news" for quite some time now.

Which is why it is not really open.

Turns out, Opus is pretty good at one-shotting Obsidian plugins - it doesn't even need to be shown a sample - so I "made" a few for myself. (They only make sense in my vault structure, so no use in publishing them, especially when it costs only a few bucks to "make" your own.)

If they want better school infrastructure, why are they burning schools down?

"Stable" here means mechanically stable (they don't fall apart as quickly as was expected), not radiologically stable (the radioactive elements, of course, still decay at their normal rate).

> unpaid household management jobs

Such a drab, dystopian, ultra-capitalist, and essentially dishonest description of the homemaker role.

Actions like yours are why I left Reddit many years ago, and generally why we can't have nice things.

Have you seen the episode "Darmok" of Star Trek The New Generation series? It is about a people with an impenetrable language aimed at packing as much information as possible by using references and metaphors, not descriptions. I guess this is where LLM language output is heading.

Same. I don't think I remember the last time I came across actually "FAR right propaganda" recommended by an algorithm. Could be that the author and I differ in what "far right" means.

Not according to my observations...

Peoole who score high on moral elitism and a need for recognition need to give me back my master branch (and my blacklist too, preferably).

> Why would someone invest in an elaborate and expensive design when they could simply throw up a slab of brutalist concrete and punch some windows into it?

But why do the students of architecture prefer brutalism? I don't believe they factor the financials in when they choose which picture they like better.

> Your perfectly drafted plan could easily be derailed by technical limitations, customer request or company reorg.

These are not guaranteed to happen. But if you don't have a plan, you will be derailed very soon and practically inevitably.

"Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences", as some people like to say

> For actual web search I actually like using Yandex

These periodic astroturfing campaigns for a Russian product on HN are annoying, and appaling if you have any morals.

Every time I bring this phenomenon up, I hear from HN commenters that it used to be like that, but today it is solved by modern powerful models, harnesses.and workflows. I don't know. At work I still direct and review everything LLMs generate, because if HN are wrong and I am right, I am in huge huge trouble.

Not sure about that. Writing detailed specs you deal just with the inherent domain complexity. Writing code you also get accidental complexity that has nothing to do with the business, whuch not only piles on top, but tend to interact vexingly with the detais of the domain.

Where you would have a point is if you'd say we have excellent tooling for wrangling code, but less tooling and tradition to write and manage specs.

AI is a computer program. It calculates numbers from other numbers. By itself it does not "want" to do anything and "cannot" do anything. Before it becomes an agent in the universe (in the classical meaning), it requires being supplied by an execution environment, energy, initiative (agentic loop, specific instructions), and modality (readonly and mutating connections to real world). It is like a game of chess - it does not exist just by itself: someone must play it, having the board and the energy to do so. With the huggingface incident the AI was supplied with all of these components by humans before it broke out. So unless humans are actively involved, I so far cannot see how AI can become truly autonomously agentic and start doing anything on its own, thus posing danger. I could be wrong of course, but I do not see it for now.

You can say "yes and you have to fear the humans weilding the AI" - that I agree with.

> how LLMs can develop new previously unseen biases for demographic groups, even when there are no differences between groups in the first place!

In real life there ARE differences between groups, and models are trained on real life data, so I do not find surprising that models anticipate differences in this synthetic situation as well, and fail to see the significance of this result.

> X. Dev/prod parity Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible

Notably, there is no requirement or recommendation that the dev environment be a single, shared environment. Development processes where this environment is single is shared is as terrible as it is ubiqitous.

Person outside the USA here (reasonable, hopefully).

First off, it is too simplistic to try and categorize a political regime as "ok" or "not ok". A political regime, the problematics of a large country, and and a huge voting base of people like the US population, are an extremely complex phenomenon. One will not reach useful insights by labeling a regime as "not OK" and its voters as unintelligent or evil (I am not saying you are doing so, but lots of people do).

Talking about reasonable people: for reasonable people, the Trump regime, and any regime for that matter, is a mixed bag of things to like and dislike, to weigh and trade off. For sure, for each reasonable person the scales will tip in different directions. But for a reasonable voter this not a sports game where one roots for their team just because it's their team.

For many reasonable voters Trump is not "ok" or maybe even "good", but he still responds to some of their pressing priorities and concerns enough that he merits voting for. I personally voted for politicians in my country that I disliked deeply, but I'd done the calculus and concluded that the alternatives are worse. Similarly, you shouldn't conclude that the electorate of Trump predominantly loves him. You hear mostly from the loud MAGA crowd, but they do not decide.

What are the concerns and priorities that may force a reasonable person to hold their nose and vote for someone like Trump? I wouldn't like to engage in a political debate here, so I will keep things meta. But as an outsider I can see political and social trends of the last decade that are quite prominent, rather sudden, pretty radical from my vantage point, and concerning to conceivably reasonable voters enough to tip the scale, even if you or I may not really align with them specifically.

> Being poor has zero correlation with being “lazy”.

This doesn't sound right. If that were literally true, and the level of industriousness didn't affect prosperity at all, why would anyone bother to work?

Health improvements are not measurable any more if you go below 5 mcg/m2 average level of PM2.5 particulates. For 50x reduction to be beneficial, you need to live in an area where the pollution is 250 mcg/m2, which is an extreme level found only in a few unfortunate places on Earth. 5-10x reduction is reasonable almost everywhere.