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Fair, maybe "long term" wasn't the right choice of words, I meant more like "indefinitely"? But I guess that's not really fair either since nothing lasts forever.

Employers have tried this and there is no possible wage that satisfies the supply/demand curve and doesn't use immigrant labor for some jobs. Not sure about cleaning mall bathrooms, but this has already been demonstrated for many crops: strawberries will rot in fields rather than American-born workers picking them, for any price.

I think this is largely a function of when those waves of immigration happened, and how long ago it was. In another hundred years we'll see the Bangladeshi-American descendants having a fully superficial, historical curiosity type of connection to their heritage, like you describe for the Swedish-Americans. It just takes a few generations.

I guess we'll see if RAM prices come down any time soon. At current price increase rates I think no console stands a chance in the next few years.

To be fair it kind of remains to be seen how successful all of those are, long-term (I kind of expect Microsoft to exit the hardware console business at this point).

Except every single Ralph ends up curled up in the fetal position having accomplished nothing?

Several companies (I believe at least Apple and Costco) still have DEI programs internally, if you count that as saying no to Trump. Though it's still crazy to me that most companies killed those programs voluntarily because Trump and Republicans don't like them, not because of any real law or contractual obligations.

But the main reason I wanted to reply was just to say -- saying no to Trump, by itself, does not mean that one is not evil. Not all evil in the world is Trump's evil.

I was going to say, why System 6 and not 7?

For the commercial flight industry this is very easy to calculate: zero deaths are acceptable. This is not like car manufacturer recall calculations (famously, referenced in Fight Club: if the lawsuit costs the manufacturer less than the recall, they don't recall). The airline industry is built different thanks to heavy regulation.

You could ask: is it _worth_ making it that safe? But we don't ask that. We just make it that safe.

I think there is a good point to be made that this level of safety (it costs what it costs) is probably not worth it for cybersecurity, in general, even if it's largely considered worth it for commercial aviation.

My 2019 iMac is actually great with Linux on it. It had some issues (built-in WiFi not working, sleep resume bugs) but Claude fixed them for me.

They dropped it before the switch from Intel chips; my 2015 iMac could do it (I think) but my 2019 Intel iMac can't.

Don't use the only platforms that have millions of people on them to organize millions of people in the future?

As far as I know at least Anthropic also rents space in Musk's gas generator powered data centers.

I didn't even realize attention was a biological thing! I thought it was more metaphysical.

Only if you don't go back to retrieve it on camera.

On the other hand, he gets to go to prison now for sure, which was only slightly likely if he just kept working there as an employee.

Perforce can amortize the cost of Claude, but Anthropic can just use idle Claude-hours for free. They're already renting the datacenter capacity.

In the age of AI writing code, maybe the question flips from "why not license it" to "why not reimplement it"?

It's called "alignment". It's just as impossible for humans as for computers, it turns out.

I think we learned the wrong lesson from Clever Hans, which is that animals don't communicate and it's always the human handler doing it.

The real lesson we should have learned is that horses are stupid and we should have been testing a Border Collie.

Getting closer apparently!

Lots of animals communicate with each other, I think we agree. If we can automatically translate their communicative utterances into English (or any other utterances that we understand), in general, that would be remarkable, and useful! Who cares whether those utterances qualify as "language".

We'll see if this comment ages well.

It's accessibility that's the novelty, if we're comparing the timelines of say the MTA vs. the ADA.

Each additional copy? Only if it's really, really big. Otherwise it's under 2 seconds.

With paper ballots or even an auditable paper trail from electronic voting machines, it's basically impossible to commit large-scale voter fraud, and every audit that I'm aware of in recent first-world elections has shown voter fraud to be a tiny number of votes at most.

We should be very, very wary of non-auditable electronic voting though.

The draft also requires registration (I believe to this day, 18 year old males are required to register?), but unlike voter registration, they never "forget" to send it in, or "fail" to do it, or incorrectly "purge" the draft list.

A website to register doesn't prove it's easy. Texas has one of those too, but obviously it's not proof of it being easy since we're here discussing it.

But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it's actually easy in Australia. That still doesn't really explain why it's necessary.

> without jailbreaking, something alignment teams cannot control

This is precisely what alignment teams are attempting to control.

This to me is the craziest part. Soft cloth baby carrier use is banned because of a 1994 study that tested car seats -- meanwhile I am allowed to put my baby in their car seat in the plane for the full duration of the flight including takeoff and landing.