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Seems like there are many ways to get toward the best of both worlds -- don't allow people to upload pictures of kids who are clearly under 15 to social media would get us a lot of the way there.…

There's no "we take your word for it" that'll ever happen. Once you've proven you can't regulate yourself, that trust will never be regained with "trust us this time…

Maybe the takeaway is that the things we assume we really want aren't the things that make us happy. Okay living in our own perfect little apartment sounds ideal in our head, but a completely mun…

(continuing this incredibly silly game for fun) If they aren't invisible, my cat would have caught and killed dozens of them, and then I'd be smelling their rotting corpses around my house a…

Well my broker (fidelity) requires certain degrees of experience and wealth before allowing certain types of risky trading. Perhaps sports-betting should fall under that category -- e.g. must be an ac…

I don't really agree, moreover I haven't had the same experience at all. I find engineers almost never using spreadsheets, ever for clearly tabular data. My coworkers certainly never use nes…

I think that piece is half right and half wrong. I think it's largely correct that hiring bad engineers is dangerous to the company. But that's always been true, especially those "hack …

Building on this, as evidence: If you have shop where you have the best product-owner in the world, and exact clarity on how you want to build something, how all failures are handled, all the tradeoff…

Well, maybe you've been blessed with a better pool of juniors than the ones I've worked with. The ones I've worked with require exactly what an AI would require -- completely defined ti…

Really? Though the show initially showed some promise, I think I've found it disposable so far. I'd put it out there with Foundation, the LOTR remake, and so many others. I don't know i…

What am I reading here? A matrix fan-fiction? As far as I can tell this is something masquerading as something it's not.

Well, this can be interpreted as a reason to give up, but if it has any marginal improvement it can also be taken as a reason to try harder. Imo it’s actually good to run large experiments like these.…

Yeah that's a good point, in order to see a 10x gain it would require at minimum coding be 90% of your day [7 hours, 20min) (or somehow for AI to replace meetings)

I think given that 75% of americans are overweight and 40% is obese, certainly food would be a very reasonable first hypothesis of any neutral, objective scientist. I would be surprised if food you at…

Well, good luck to them. If I'm on the jury and he argues "I got my passcodes confused" that's reasonable doubt for me.

No, you're being very dramatic. Lying to cops is very often your best strategy. I doubt this person will be found guilty. They will be able to prove he wiped his phone, but it will be hard to pro…

I think people are aware that the government can physically do a lot of stuff, e.g. shoot you in the face for no reason. And vice-versa for that matter. However there are arguments morally, and consti…

Well maybe you should have a bit more hubris is in the face of science. You can power a lightbulb just by standing under certain high-voltage lines.

> A lot of modern technology is harming kids (and I don't mean dirty videos, social media seems to be much more harmful). If that's all we want then that's trivial -- just make cert…

Cool bro, only 20 years into my career, can't wait to soon discover that! Gonna be so awesome to try hard to keep a mental model of every single director's desires and kiss their ass and mak…

My proposal for step 1 -- Allow people to "ban themselves" from certain social media for certain period. Every platform/app MUST support the ability to set limits on usage for all time …

It's more than that, some of us actually believe in a thing called "good work." The idea that powerful manager saying untrue things shouldn't be contradicted may seem like "ob…

Today it's discord, we just don't call it social media because it's private by default with no intent to force you into a networking & self-disclosure hell hole

That's not true at all, that's a weird generalization that's patently false. Take things like even certain physics propositions (e.g. discovering new particles) -- can take billions of …

That's not right, a negative study often still can give evidence that something is true, but it just didn't meet the p=.05 threshold.

> but far less strong evidence about its actual effects. Yeah, but we shouldn't take absence of evidence as evidence of absence. The fact is that it's just really really hard to establish…

" We tested about 30 different construction materials trying to find some that didn’t contain plastics, but also didn’t contain plastic [additives] such as phthalates, but we couldn’t find any. E…

What the literature definitely finds is that CBD ratio is crucial for anxiety (higher CBD = less anxiety). Some of the first lab experiments were pure THC and quite intense/unpleasant relative to…

I wonder if they're doing these studies, finding no significant effect, and just dropping them.