And like ... yeah we should be able to question and reject if need be. But some things take time to understand. But to rationalists that seems like epistemic deference, which they're allergic to.

OpenAI and Anthropic have a lot of rationalists. A core part of the "rationalist" movement is the right of any person, no matter how ignorant of a field, to reject the views of experts, as long as that person obeys the epistemic rules of the rationalist crew.

Was he in the cast of Wake Up Dead Man?

No Thanks! was a landmark for me

Yeah I would prefer no one corner this market.

Decentralized Systems Aren't Below the fold is the text of a talk I gave to Berkeley's Information Systems Seminar exploring the history of attempts to build decentrali...

I agree with David Rosenthal that one of the main drivers of centralization is simple economies of scale. LLMs have the same dynamic. blog.dshr.org/2024/04/dece...

For some reason "I wonder is there some truth to that" struck me as a tell for an older person

I was hoping it was written by a 12-year-old but I'm afraid it was more like a 52-year-old.

But does he care if over half of Americans don't support the war? Serious question, can public opposition move him?

Good points about the wartime powers it gives him.

Is Trump gaining politically from this war?

Why not just limit how dirty the air can be after flowing over the car? Too hard to measure?

Or have comments grouped by day - days can be reverse chron, but comments within a day are chronological.

Torment nexuses! Get your torment nexuses right here!

Great to see Hamilton back in good form and enjoying himself, though.

The Ferrari F1 subreddit is the most delusional place I frequent, and it's not close.

Nope pretty sure RBR has a mandolin player

um this is Mike Mills

Bluesky defaults to my last open feed, which for a week now has been my Formula 1 feed. On net an improvement to my Bluesky experience.

Children will learn how bleak adulthood can be in their own time, no need to rush it.

Yep! Have been in tech for decades and have never felt more at home at a tech event. People who care about what matters (IMO) in software.

Thursday: wake up. dramatically simpler and more robust idea for handling Situation X greets me shortly after my first cup of coffee.

funny thing is that I'm re-reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and this episode could be ripped straight from its pages.

Tuesday: realize the new feature needs to handle Situation X

Wednesday: come up with a detailed, thoughtful plan for handling Situation X. immediately after writing it, get very morose. decide not to push myself to complete it, go do other stuff.

2, 6, 9

Is there a rebuttal you'd recommend?

Your post got me to the show! "Wonder if he's playing near here ... he is ... tomorrow???? okay, well, here we go"

y tho

(serious question, what are the execs worried about)

He's pissed that the Klan is back though

Am I allowed within the security perimeter if I don't have a dog

Securities fraud

Do you have an RSS feed I can subscribe to in a podcast app? Wasn't able to find one.