Exactly. It turns out a lot of the things in the banking system that cryptocurrency people complain about are actually features, not bugs. IMHO, cryptocurrency is technically interesting but for pretty much every…
> Some people find authoritarian despotism attractive as long as it targets their perceived enemies It's not that simple. For instance: a prison sentence is "authoritarian despotism" from the perspective of a murderer…
> So, theft. Got it! > That will make a lot of businesses focus on success here and not somewhere else. You have a weird definition of theft. We're talking about nationalizing them instead of handing their shareholders…
> https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/rjgshsl6fe You linked an article about a single Israeli criminal getting extradited to stand trial for a crime. Do you not understand the distinction between "the Israelis"…
> Yeah totally not israeli hackers... it has to be scary kim. The Israelis don't have any problem acquiring hard currency. North Korea does, and has an established MO of stealing crypto and running online moneymaking…
> I’ve added to my system prompt in perplexity “ignore unreliable sources” and “make sure claims are supported by multiple sources” and that seems to help. Don't forget to add "don't make mistakes!"
> Wow, Japan has a lot Of course: it's long been a developed country and it's densely populated.
The only thing that surprised me was that Canada was so small compared to other Western countries. But I suppose that might be an artifact. The map shows IPv4 proportional to land area, but a "fair" allocation would…
> This is an interesting corollary to a thing I'm seeing where "devs who thought their job was writing code" are in like existential danger. I think you're misunderstanding that anxiety. I think this is what's going on:…
You raise good points, and I think there are actually at least two phenomena here: 1. The liars: people cynically playing up fears of "losing democracy" as a political tactic to support some other political programs. I…
> in a post-truth world where the internet is full of non-obvious ai-generated mostly-but-not-quite-true information, academic journals should be more important than ever; unfortunately, the companies that run them had…
> The very foundation of Democracy is at stake!! …again for like 30 years straight now. There's a very easy method to tell if someone making that claim is a liar: ask "what major ideological compromise are they making…
> And, 5 million years later, which is the time it took to design this very complicated thing, Mr. R&D came up with a lung system with both an entry point and an exit point, with hollow bones and air-sacs to temporarily…
> - why don’t birds get gigantic? They weren't sauropod gigantic, but there were these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae: > Phorusrhacids ranged widely in size, with the smallest members like Psilopterus…
> Or maybe we want the robots to do our jobs so we can spend time with people While scrounging for food from the trash, since we'll all be unemployed and poor.
> What I find much worse than someone talking directly to an LLM is when you are communicating with another human and they respond with LLM. And what's even worse than that is when they don't know what they're talking…
> 1. It was hard to ask any question. Sometimes it felt if a few characters match it will be closed off as dupe. Besides no thought was given to the fact that same question might change entirely from pov of the answers…
> This just sounds like replacing working for one large corporation with working for two large corporations. Even if that's the case, one is at least one is technically accountable to you. I mean, I suppose you could…
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271809 I understand your frustrations, but you can't strike without a union. The power of a strike is all (or most) of the workers stop working at once in a coordinated manner,…
Also he's banning the term "human," the new official term is "stupid obsolete meat-bags."
>>> If Claude is to significantly increase the rate of new cures, we need to work with many more biotechnology firms and integrate Claude more deeply into their development processes > Sounds invasive. If it's not…
> Aluminum used to be more expensive than platinum. Now we crumple it up and throw it in the bin. AI has done the same thing to the cost of a line of code. And hopefully it will to that to all labor, so we can finally…
> If the "other side" doesn't put aside the culture war issues too, then "our side" will lose on them. You can't have it all. Would you rather burn your energy to make little progress on them and lose on working class…
> The Democrats (in the US) of the 1980s did very little to stop or to slow down the big threats to working-class economic power of the 1980s, namely automation and offshoring (then called "globalization"). Wasn't that…
> This article is entirely written by an LLM. Save some time - point your LLM at it and ask it to give you an executive summary. You’ll eat less cardboard that way. Also helping Dario become rich. Nothing more moral and…
Exactly. It turns out a lot of the things in the banking system that cryptocurrency people complain about are actually features, not bugs. IMHO, cryptocurrency is technically interesting but for pretty much every…
> Some people find authoritarian despotism attractive as long as it targets their perceived enemies It's not that simple. For instance: a prison sentence is "authoritarian despotism" from the perspective of a murderer…
> So, theft. Got it! > That will make a lot of businesses focus on success here and not somewhere else. You have a weird definition of theft. We're talking about nationalizing them instead of handing their shareholders…
> https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/rjgshsl6fe You linked an article about a single Israeli criminal getting extradited to stand trial for a crime. Do you not understand the distinction between "the Israelis"…
> Yeah totally not israeli hackers... it has to be scary kim. The Israelis don't have any problem acquiring hard currency. North Korea does, and has an established MO of stealing crypto and running online moneymaking…
> I’ve added to my system prompt in perplexity “ignore unreliable sources” and “make sure claims are supported by multiple sources” and that seems to help. Don't forget to add "don't make mistakes!"
> Wow, Japan has a lot Of course: it's long been a developed country and it's densely populated.
The only thing that surprised me was that Canada was so small compared to other Western countries. But I suppose that might be an artifact. The map shows IPv4 proportional to land area, but a "fair" allocation would…
> This is an interesting corollary to a thing I'm seeing where "devs who thought their job was writing code" are in like existential danger. I think you're misunderstanding that anxiety. I think this is what's going on:…
You raise good points, and I think there are actually at least two phenomena here: 1. The liars: people cynically playing up fears of "losing democracy" as a political tactic to support some other political programs. I…
> in a post-truth world where the internet is full of non-obvious ai-generated mostly-but-not-quite-true information, academic journals should be more important than ever; unfortunately, the companies that run them had…
> The very foundation of Democracy is at stake!! …again for like 30 years straight now. There's a very easy method to tell if someone making that claim is a liar: ask "what major ideological compromise are they making…
> And, 5 million years later, which is the time it took to design this very complicated thing, Mr. R&D came up with a lung system with both an entry point and an exit point, with hollow bones and air-sacs to temporarily…
> - why don’t birds get gigantic? They weren't sauropod gigantic, but there were these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae: > Phorusrhacids ranged widely in size, with the smallest members like Psilopterus…
> Or maybe we want the robots to do our jobs so we can spend time with people While scrounging for food from the trash, since we'll all be unemployed and poor.
> What I find much worse than someone talking directly to an LLM is when you are communicating with another human and they respond with LLM. And what's even worse than that is when they don't know what they're talking…
> 1. It was hard to ask any question. Sometimes it felt if a few characters match it will be closed off as dupe. Besides no thought was given to the fact that same question might change entirely from pov of the answers…
> This just sounds like replacing working for one large corporation with working for two large corporations. Even if that's the case, one is at least one is technically accountable to you. I mean, I suppose you could…
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271809 I understand your frustrations, but you can't strike without a union. The power of a strike is all (or most) of the workers stop working at once in a coordinated manner,…
Also he's banning the term "human," the new official term is "stupid obsolete meat-bags."
>>> If Claude is to significantly increase the rate of new cures, we need to work with many more biotechnology firms and integrate Claude more deeply into their development processes > Sounds invasive. If it's not…
> Aluminum used to be more expensive than platinum. Now we crumple it up and throw it in the bin. AI has done the same thing to the cost of a line of code. And hopefully it will to that to all labor, so we can finally…
> If the "other side" doesn't put aside the culture war issues too, then "our side" will lose on them. You can't have it all. Would you rather burn your energy to make little progress on them and lose on working class…
> The Democrats (in the US) of the 1980s did very little to stop or to slow down the big threats to working-class economic power of the 1980s, namely automation and offshoring (then called "globalization"). Wasn't that…
> This article is entirely written by an LLM. Save some time - point your LLM at it and ask it to give you an executive summary. You’ll eat less cardboard that way. Also helping Dario become rich. Nothing more moral and…