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I’m going to start replying to everything like I’m on Hacker News. Unhappy with Congress? Why don’t you just start a new country and write a constitution and secede? It’s not that hard once you know how. Actually, I wrote a microstate in a weekend using Rust.

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I knew this was good stuff when the majority of HN commenters where huffily complaining about the tone.

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Repeating a comment I made in another forum here…


The Nobel organization is basically all about PR, and while as the nominating body they’re nominally independent, the Royal Academy of Science knows on which side their bread is buttered. Having a prize adjacent to AI in the year of our LLM 2024 is a no-brainer.

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“It’s bad because of EU regulation” is the new “it’s bad because it’s woke”.

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L O and I cannot emphasize this enough, L

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I think we can all agree now that US Rationalists are basically all ex-Christians who are looking for the same thing but with the serial numbers filed off.

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As for the prospect that AI will enable business users to do more with fewer humans in the office or on the factory floor, the technology generates such frequent errors that users may need to add workers just to double-check the bots’ output.

And here we were worrying about being out of work…

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“tenant of white supremacy”

White Supremacy is the worst landlord.

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This is the inevitable evolution of climate change denialism - accept it’s real and happening, just that it’s too late / too expensive to do anything about it.

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