You're weirdly concerned about how much I'm reacting, which is pretty minimally. Like, I can't imagine how I could have raised this while reacting any less. But yes, I also saw your other post and got your message that…
The name they've decided to give these, "emergency" chickens, knitting them for hurricane survivors. It's all a step up from just "we like these and they're nice" and into "these are Helpful with a capital H". My point…
Huh, I'd liken school in those grades to a series of meetings basically all day, that are mostly presentations, every day of the week, with a lot of restrictions and harsh conduct & expectations from the people leading…
I'm more stressed out than like... during Summer, when I was a kid. I've never, ever been as stressed out as during school, grades 7-12. If the rest of life had been that stressful or worse, I'd have checked out a long…
Framing everything in terms of mental health is one of those things were I can't tell if people are participating in some kind of mass social joke, or are serious.
I learned way more on most topics on my own than in school. Reading was the main skill that unlocked that, though things like PBS and (when somewhere with cable, and before these channels went to shit) Discovery & TLC…
Too much of that should, but probably won't, set off every alarm and siren with the conservative justices, for stepping way over the line, after their reasoning on Chevron.
God. The WTO penalties are gonna be epic (if much of this stuff ever actually goes into effect).
I think the 3rd or so time that all the work I'd been doing for months or years just got thrown in the garbage, having never provided more benefit than it cost, or even without ever providing any benefit whatsoever due…
> Even companies don't really talk about the future anymore, just vague AI thoughts (and often crazy negative ones, witness the CEOs talking about the white collar bloodbath coming). The currently-ascendant business and…
We must still not think cushioned chairs are that important, or we wouldn't make kids spend 13 years straight sitting 5+ hours a day in hard chairs.
It’s really just interviews, and even those are nothing like any exam I’ve ever taken. They’re closest, in terms of the kind of stress and the skills required to look good, to some kind of solo public speaking…
A small set of professionals do, yes. A lot more stay near family and friends instead.
I used a really low-end system for a while some time back, running Linux, and WebKit-based browsers were the only ones with a mainstream (so: actually renders correctly for practically all sites) engine that was usable…
Even with the social fix, there’s usually one person (sometimes two!) in a four-player game who does nothing wrong but is basically out by the second or third time around the board, just hanging around to help the one…
Monopoly’s maybe the only board game I prefer playing in computerized form. Even the one on the NES is totally fine. Rules enforced without having to remember them, auctions run for you, nobody has to be the banker, no…
I've been like fuckin' Nostradamus since early in the Dubya admin just because I skim GAO and CBO reports on big legislation sometimes, can read graphs, take the things Republicans say they want to do seriously, and…
> it's not to stand out when every person types like this Yeah, OK, I should have written "for social signaling". > basically, it doesn't make it harder.…
My newest router doesn't have any of that shit and works just as well, with at least as much range, as the one it replaced, which had six(!) of those insectoid antenna things. I wouldn't be surprised if the damn…
Kids doing weird shit to stand out, like every generation. It makes reading harder, and with modern tools it certainly isn't any easier to write—with both those things working against it I doubt it'll stick around.
Especially if one of the children's David Friedman. Yeesh.
I figured you had, and posted it for others. Should have made that clearer. FWIW I didn't find Zitron's framing of it misleading, having now read it (I'd read excerpts of that book before, and maybe even that chapter,…
Yes, and "that question is in not-even-wrong territory", respectively.
I remain unconvinced they're (the whole LLM/"Attention Is All You Need" industry) even barking up the right tree to build anything usefully-close to "AGI".
GDP (or equivalent) gains. Ricardo only says big aggregate number go up (with a bunch of caveats). Not for whom within that aggregate. It can (hypothetically) be one person seeing huge gains while every single other…
You're weirdly concerned about how much I'm reacting, which is pretty minimally. Like, I can't imagine how I could have raised this while reacting any less. But yes, I also saw your other post and got your message that…
The name they've decided to give these, "emergency" chickens, knitting them for hurricane survivors. It's all a step up from just "we like these and they're nice" and into "these are Helpful with a capital H". My point…
Huh, I'd liken school in those grades to a series of meetings basically all day, that are mostly presentations, every day of the week, with a lot of restrictions and harsh conduct & expectations from the people leading…
I'm more stressed out than like... during Summer, when I was a kid. I've never, ever been as stressed out as during school, grades 7-12. If the rest of life had been that stressful or worse, I'd have checked out a long…
Framing everything in terms of mental health is one of those things were I can't tell if people are participating in some kind of mass social joke, or are serious.
I learned way more on most topics on my own than in school. Reading was the main skill that unlocked that, though things like PBS and (when somewhere with cable, and before these channels went to shit) Discovery & TLC…
Too much of that should, but probably won't, set off every alarm and siren with the conservative justices, for stepping way over the line, after their reasoning on Chevron.
God. The WTO penalties are gonna be epic (if much of this stuff ever actually goes into effect).
I think the 3rd or so time that all the work I'd been doing for months or years just got thrown in the garbage, having never provided more benefit than it cost, or even without ever providing any benefit whatsoever due…
> Even companies don't really talk about the future anymore, just vague AI thoughts (and often crazy negative ones, witness the CEOs talking about the white collar bloodbath coming). The currently-ascendant business and…
We must still not think cushioned chairs are that important, or we wouldn't make kids spend 13 years straight sitting 5+ hours a day in hard chairs.
It’s really just interviews, and even those are nothing like any exam I’ve ever taken. They’re closest, in terms of the kind of stress and the skills required to look good, to some kind of solo public speaking…
A small set of professionals do, yes. A lot more stay near family and friends instead.
I used a really low-end system for a while some time back, running Linux, and WebKit-based browsers were the only ones with a mainstream (so: actually renders correctly for practically all sites) engine that was usable…
Even with the social fix, there’s usually one person (sometimes two!) in a four-player game who does nothing wrong but is basically out by the second or third time around the board, just hanging around to help the one…
Monopoly’s maybe the only board game I prefer playing in computerized form. Even the one on the NES is totally fine. Rules enforced without having to remember them, auctions run for you, nobody has to be the banker, no…
I've been like fuckin' Nostradamus since early in the Dubya admin just because I skim GAO and CBO reports on big legislation sometimes, can read graphs, take the things Republicans say they want to do seriously, and…
> it's not to stand out when every person types like this Yeah, OK, I should have written "for social signaling". > basically, it doesn't make it harder.…
My newest router doesn't have any of that shit and works just as well, with at least as much range, as the one it replaced, which had six(!) of those insectoid antenna things. I wouldn't be surprised if the damn…
Kids doing weird shit to stand out, like every generation. It makes reading harder, and with modern tools it certainly isn't any easier to write—with both those things working against it I doubt it'll stick around.
Especially if one of the children's David Friedman. Yeesh.
I figured you had, and posted it for others. Should have made that clearer. FWIW I didn't find Zitron's framing of it misleading, having now read it (I'd read excerpts of that book before, and maybe even that chapter,…
Yes, and "that question is in not-even-wrong territory", respectively.
I remain unconvinced they're (the whole LLM/"Attention Is All You Need" industry) even barking up the right tree to build anything usefully-close to "AGI".
GDP (or equivalent) gains. Ricardo only says big aggregate number go up (with a bunch of caveats). Not for whom within that aggregate. It can (hypothetically) be one person seeing huge gains while every single other…