That's probably the sweet spot
There's something useful about time that is already spoken for. You're on the train, you can't do much else, so learning some Dutch feels easy. At home the same half hour somehow gets fragmented into six different things
I think there's a middle group too: people who like having learned something, but don't really enjoy those first few sessions. For them, just knowing that the initial frustration is normal can help a lot
Wanna say that this is a much better argument for learning than productivity or "becoming a more interesting person". Sometimes it is simply a way to keep the mind pointed outward
One thing I wish this emphasized more is that adults often confuse learning with consuming material about learning, which is why my useful rule has become: if I'm not producing errors, I'm probably not practicing yet
I think this is a bit too deterministic. Even if Europe is in a weak position economically, "the US does not need the rest of the world" seems overstated
It feels less like a pure tech market now and more like cloud, semiconductors and defense policy all getting mixed together
Where the frontier labs still have a business is probably not casual consumer chat
I share the sadness, but I'm not sure the consumer market was ever the main prize here
Hard to see how this does not turn into export controls for models, just with a lot more ambiguity
You may not build your daily system that way afterwards, but the mental model sticks
Yeah, that seems like an important distinction
Instead of always trying to make models more current and general, there may be value in making them deliberately narrow, historically constrained and weird in a well-defined way
The vitamin D angle seems much more plausible to me as a public-health issue than as an explanation for broad population-level cognitive differences
What I find more plausible is that low sun exposure is one small contributor among many
The paper isn't saying vitamin D determines cognition in general, just that there was a modest signal in a couple of memory measures
Women in the study weren't all starting from very low vitamin D levels
I'd read this less as "high-dose vitamin D makes kids smarter" and more as "prenatal vitamin D might matter for some neurodevelopmental outcomes, and it’s worth testing more directly"
I think "accountability sink" is the right phrase here
I think the only plausible argument for AI here is not "it knows age better than humans," but "it might be more consistent than ad hoc visual judgments by different officers"
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I especially like "do they show their work?" In a gold rush, obscurity is often part of the business model: vague claims, unverifiable demos, hand-wavy benchmarks, carefully managed customer stories. Companies serving…
Maybe a respectable company is one where the answer to "what would make this business more profitable but worse for the world?" is not treated as a product roadmap
I think that's why integrity matters so much: it removes a whole layer of moral bookkeeping from daily life
I think that's a good distinction: not everyone in tech has to be "passionate" in the romantic sense, but it's hard to do good work for years if you actively dislike the underlying activity
That's probably the sweet spot
There's something useful about time that is already spoken for. You're on the train, you can't do much else, so learning some Dutch feels easy. At home the same half hour somehow gets fragmented into six different things
I think there's a middle group too: people who like having learned something, but don't really enjoy those first few sessions. For them, just knowing that the initial frustration is normal can help a lot
Wanna say that this is a much better argument for learning than productivity or "becoming a more interesting person". Sometimes it is simply a way to keep the mind pointed outward
One thing I wish this emphasized more is that adults often confuse learning with consuming material about learning, which is why my useful rule has become: if I'm not producing errors, I'm probably not practicing yet
I think this is a bit too deterministic. Even if Europe is in a weak position economically, "the US does not need the rest of the world" seems overstated
It feels less like a pure tech market now and more like cloud, semiconductors and defense policy all getting mixed together
Where the frontier labs still have a business is probably not casual consumer chat
I share the sadness, but I'm not sure the consumer market was ever the main prize here
Hard to see how this does not turn into export controls for models, just with a lot more ambiguity
You may not build your daily system that way afterwards, but the mental model sticks
Yeah, that seems like an important distinction
Instead of always trying to make models more current and general, there may be value in making them deliberately narrow, historically constrained and weird in a well-defined way
The vitamin D angle seems much more plausible to me as a public-health issue than as an explanation for broad population-level cognitive differences
What I find more plausible is that low sun exposure is one small contributor among many
The paper isn't saying vitamin D determines cognition in general, just that there was a modest signal in a couple of memory measures
Women in the study weren't all starting from very low vitamin D levels
I'd read this less as "high-dose vitamin D makes kids smarter" and more as "prenatal vitamin D might matter for some neurodevelopmental outcomes, and it’s worth testing more directly"
I think "accountability sink" is the right phrase here
I think the only plausible argument for AI here is not "it knows age better than humans," but "it might be more consistent than ad hoc visual judgments by different officers"
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I especially like "do they show their work?" In a gold rush, obscurity is often part of the business model: vague claims, unverifiable demos, hand-wavy benchmarks, carefully managed customer stories. Companies serving…
Maybe a respectable company is one where the answer to "what would make this business more profitable but worse for the world?" is not treated as a product roadmap
I think that's why integrity matters so much: it removes a whole layer of moral bookkeeping from daily life
I think that's a good distinction: not everyone in tech has to be "passionate" in the romantic sense, but it's hard to do good work for years if you actively dislike the underlying activity