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Every science and tech person who is currently on the bandwagon calling for the vaccine doctor to go on Joe Rogan to debate RFK should be ashamed of themselves. If you care about...
How many remember the first dot-com boom+crash? Although the internet was a true world-changing technology, many startups failed because "lots of traffic" just meant "high server...
The majority of human beings cannot fully comprehend a statement that has a conditional as a key part of its meaning. This sounds incredible to those who can, but I'm pretty sure...
The thing that gives me pause is not the sci-fi doomer scenarios, but the fact pattern that in the majority of instances throughout history when a technologically superior populati...
What most people donβt realize is that deep down, both China and the United States are isolationist countries, but have been put on their current geopolitical paths by circumstance...
All of these supposed interactions really just highlight how the AI really is just a large language model parroting the exactly kinds of responses youβd aggregate from being traine...
If I had to bet on whether Elon will pull through and Twitter ultimately succeeds, Iβd probably still bet on the success case. Social networks are surprisingly durable. Still, the...
This is not even fraud. This is like⦠they did not bother to use math to count money. Somewhere, Andrew Fastow is laughing his ass off. https://t.co/XDTJszVoto
A fair amount of commentary around Twitter employees getting fired for criticizing Elon seems to revolve around criticizing the employee for being clueless about where/how they are...
@moskov I feel like there is an orthogonal issue at play, which is that the exercise of power requires precision, and as power grows, the precision required grows super-linearly (w...
@alex_cryptomd Ok, so there are some complex dynamics that emerge at scale, roughly like this: Bad behavior that prompts difficult moderation decisions usually arises because lots...
I feel like there is a non-zero chance that the logic of "I will be able to do more things to help people if I'm not locked up in prison" may cause SBF to abscond before he is brou...