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So the new way to contribute is to fork Make a better Ladybird successfully to the point the original contributors take notice. If the barriers to doing that are truly lower, then it should be easier.…

OTOH it’s pretty bad if the the general public can’t participate in the upside of AI and it’s only concentrated in a few private investors.

I take 10 g a day and have maybe noticed muscles seem to bulk more after a hard strength workout. But other than that I feel about the same.

No I am steelmanning. Making the best version of the other argument. https://www.lesswrong.com/w/steelmanning Personally, I am sympathetic to the idea that science has stagnated.…

To steel man this move You could argue peer review has become a mechanism to encourage incrementalism. That it doesn’t reward big leaps. And the public isn’t getting ROI on science funding compared to…

Yes, but even following APA, the order doesn't have the strength of statute. They can follow APA to come up with all kinds of illegal rules. And the actual rules are so broad they could be used f…

The thing about this is it’s incredibly easy for a denied institution to claim legal standing to challenge the governments scientific funding decisions. The institutions that get funds (universities) …

Seems like a cautionary tale of not ruthlessly reinventing yourself as market conditions change.

It’s regulation on consumers, not companies Banning or limiting addictive features like algorithmic feeds would be regulating the companies.

All this because public institutions have lost the will or capacity to regulate the companies. So they switch to burdening the consumers.

Not only is changing laws harder. Changing regulations requires following the Administrative Procedure Act. They might also be short circuiting APA - as in typical for this admin to attempt.

One thing with this policy, its not all green card seekers, its those deemed to be under temporary visas (student, tourist, etc). Apparently these comprise the majority of applicants, but not nesc. …

The will of the country is also expressed in who is elected to Congress. And they make laws, the President implements them. So yes what you say is true, if what the President is doing actually is with…

Ironically GOP talks about European sovereignty over their own defense, but economically want to treat them like a vassal

To take advantage of AI orgs needs to optimize for giving humans broader agency, not AI usage or skills. These large companies aren’t well positioned for this. There’s too many human bottlenecks to ev…

Add to this if China keeps adding pressure to Taiwan, escalating in a soft blockade, we might see something worse than what’s happening in Hormuz.

Tech execs made choices that made the public hostile to AI. They told everyone they were going to lose their jobs a not participate in the upside (implication: they get all the wealth). They cozied up…

The real problem is that FiveThirtyEight wasn’t run as an independent P&L. They didn’t have autonomy to make business / product decisions like as Nate says putting up a paywall etc. they were…

We should have a drinking game in Nate Silver thread anyone complains about 2016 prediction. Then everyone piles on to point out how probabilities work.

Just to say great idea. But the name "Haystack" is used by several dozen things FWIW :)

People consistently have a hard time understanding that 30% probabilities happen all the time.

The real problem is we make it too hard for international researchers to stay here. These high end student visas should have strong paths to permanent residence - maybe even an expectation

I noticed a lot more joy using AI from people at smaller companies or working by themselves :) I say this as someone self employed that burned almost $1000 on tokens last month. And had. A lot of fun …

Meanwhile private rail is connecting cities in Florida. Somehow with less fuss. Something about blue states make progress on basic things costly, time consuming, and difficult. Every stakeholder needs…

It’s just hard to make them not part of the training data. We see this a bit with BrowseComp plus and other deep research datasets. Not because frontier labs are trying to cheat, but just from trainin…

I feel like education, not abstinence, is the way forward. Prohibition doesn’t work. Educating consumers and holding companies accountable works. It historically takes time though for that pressure to…

This article is just a summary of other articles. Specifically these two more detailed ones: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/meta-to-start-capturing-emplo... https://ww…

Increased defense spending actually makes the US less, not more, safe. Everyone we're going to fight is prepared for an asymmetric, cheap war. We're vulnerable in how much they can make us s…