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This does sound a lot like Washington Monument Syndrome but I’m happy to be corrected

Can‘t wait for A2 to finally come out - must be any day now

It’s odd to me how upset people get about this. Historic buildings seem very ledger-esque as changes and previous states get documented well and any modification isn’t truly erasing history but just appending to it. I doubt historians will have much trouble with some additions from our time. In any case, they would be a new historic artifact.

The European Parliament is advertising this as a win for the EU. Yet it isn’t entirely uncontroversial and there’s plenty of voices arguing it’s overreaching - easy to argue this matches the broad definition of political weaponization as-is.

Great read and amazing initiative. Relevance of findings seems to 90% depend on whether you believe the EFSA BPA intake thresholds over the FDA. Love how transparent they’re about it instead of doing what most do. The world needs more of this.

Maybe. Alternatively it could just be the marketing department milking the narrative over an extended amount of time. Going instantly 100% “carbon neutral” through carbon credits is certainly a worse move in this regard.

This funny old narrative of a revolution in that direction sounds pretty misplaced if we're talking about a future where you won't need humans to get stuff done...

I feel like a lot of that frustration comes from seeing "arts and culture" as the pinnacle of anything when maybe it's just an overvalued side-effect of human wiring to avoid boredom.

Imho. it's just really hard to reason that average non-educational entertainment has a positive net effect on global society.

Seeing it this way makes it way less surprising that "art" and "creative entertainment" is one of the first things that gets hit by automation.

Not an expert on the space but LexisNexis for example is using Anthropic's Claude 2 and GPT-4.

For any form of tech product work I'd rather work together with 10 very engaged people rather than 20 half-assers. Don't see why I'd wanna hire a part-time worker unless they're truly special and even then only for a consulting role.

Not saying 32h hours is half-assing but I'd be surprised if the avg candidate pool for <=32h was as productive per hour as the others.

Because they've been boiling the frog for 20 years.

This one might not pass today but in 5-10 years we'll likely just be fine with it if the narrative continues to evolve on its current trajectory.

Sorry for self replying but I just had a look at the repo and it's definitely worth fully automating this. A js/python snippet converting pngs to superwhite video frames should be fairly easy to implement.

Absolutely love reading about such practical little hacks. Really brings back the old excitement that got me into computer science.

Also given how prevalent the issue of QR code brightness is for many use cases this could actually prove useful.

I think the actual point is more about managing volatility rather than maximizing expected value as the investment horizon becomes more and more short term. Of course this doesn't apply if you plan to pass it on to your family - which might be what's happening here, besides people sticking to habits.

There's always "some" interface under the hood you can automate on - unless they start requiring captchas for every interaction. It might not be as comfy to use as the official API but still better than manually deleting hundreds or thousands of comments.

This is very basic but I read both at a young age and I'm massively happy I did.

1st one being "Thinking fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman - completely reshaped my model of how much we are in control of our thought process.

2nd one was "Thus spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche - which is a very difficult read. Overall Nietzsche's approach to philosophy just immediately resonated with me and sent me down a path of thought that's still the foundation of my world model today. The whole approach of seeing life as inherently meaningless so meaning can be chosen at will was a great thing to have growing up. You definitely don't need to read the book to get there though - just reading a summary of what Nietzsche is about will probably be enough.

Totally agree when it comes to "general insights" here. You're probably not gonna solve any major problems even though it feels like it in the moment.

However, imho. altering the thought process through drugs and really introspecting on what changes and how that relates to the sober state can yield a LOT of valuable learnings.

I feel like I learned a lot about myself just by introspecting on the effects alcohol, THC, etc. had on me. Really gave me some insights on how associations are formed, what euphoria does to decision making and so on.

How's advocating for nuclear power related to demonizing environmentalist politics? Shouldn't it be an obvious fit to help reduce CO2 - which is the currently the biggest topic of the green movement?

A neverending stream of dynamic content based on audience interaction. It's way more entertaining than I anticipated. This should also be fairly easy to monetize - either by having people donate for interaction or by including ads.

This feels like a solid glimpse of the truly new things that we'll likely see take shape soon.

Agree that the spiral as a core reason is total BS but for both the US and Europe it goes beyond just increasing the money supply.

Reducing the supply of goods/materials will have the same effect - even at a constant money supply.

In Europe the ECB/EU gov is hiding behind the War in Ukraine and global supply chain issues to hide what is mostly their own pandemic purchasing program and overspending driving massive inflation.

Then there's also their there's also sanctions, trade wars and over-regulation adding fuel to the fire.

Of course none of these are a "natural effect from market dynamics" - as much as they'd love to make it sound like that.

That doesn't mean you'd be trying to sell for lower prices, does it?

A (sufficiently rational) investor's willingness to sell is mainly a function of current price vs. expected future returns compared to other viable alternatives - which of course includes the dividends paid and any other benefits they might gain from ownership. And yes, there's also changes in personal need for currency, psychological reasons, etc. but I'd consider these special cases.

Even in your case if you had any good indication towards the stock you're owning being severely overpriced, the likely optimal thing to to would be to sell and dump the money into the next best alternative.

I'd also suggest to be careful in the assumption that "holding a stock forever" is a good idea. Very few companies have existed forever so far.

So let's just go with this and say we draw a line between short term + higher risk and long term + lower risk investors.

I still haven't seen the actual argument for what would make a difference when it comes to Dividends vs. Buybacks.

But unlike Hexagonal Architecture this one actually has a proper reason for being called hexagonal. Of all hexagonalisms, Hexagonal Architecture feels like the hardest to forgive.

They could've called it Avocado architecture - give the diagrams some color, even increase global demand for green whiteboard markers by 0.1% but nope... Would've sold just as well and would've made even more sense...

Either you've missed the /s at the end or you know a lot more about some massive recent advances in tunnel drilling and construction compared to the public.

Not saying it's not gonna get better... But at this stage, "convincing" GPT-4 isn't an achievement but more of a built-in quirk that's not very well calibrated.

When it becomes hard to convince of obviously stupid things, that's when it starts to become a good counterpart for actual discussions... But right now it just isn't there yet.

It's literally treating your statements as context. You can convince these models of anything because you can add any context you like.

It might feel like a real discussion to you but that's not what's happening. There's no actual reasoning behind it... More like clever parroting.

It's definitely not every city in Germany that has this problem.

You're trying to live in one of the objectively best parts of Germany by a lot of stats and thus you're competing with a lot of folks.

I'm honestly sick of this whining about rent in top-tier areas. Living there is a luxury, given the major move to cities and scarcity, driven by insane regulations and basic logic.

There are plenty of cities in Germany with very cheap rent, where apartment buildings get torn down because they're vacant.

But of course the entitlement seems stronger than the willingness to compromise.

I deeply disagree with putting the existential risk of AGI on a level with pollution, climate change or war.

If you exclude nuclear war, all of these things happen at a human timescale and accelerate fairly slowly and thus can be counteracted.

In many ways GPT already hugely exceeds human speed and bandwith and scaling this up is likely to be self-accelerating if we allow for it. Also there is a huge individual incentive to play with the fire here while the negative externalities could cause effective wipeout - which is why it's commonly equated with commodification of nuclear weapons.

Even if you're deeply pessimistic about the ramp-up, the economic shock of what was already released could still increase political volatility to a point where the likelyhood of wipeout by war becomes significant again.

Feels like you're literally repeating my point with added detail.

The only thing in your comment above I disagree with is the slight implication that education is underfunded in general.

Can't speak much about the UK but both the US and Germany (the ones I can speak about) put a shitload of money into education but manage to complete misallocate it. It isn't about the amount of pie, it's just the wrong pie.

A lot of subjects are literally self promoting nonsense without any sort of proven ROI. Haven't seen a western society with a school curriculum that would survive even the slightest bit of scrutiny.

Of course this isn't the teachers job to fix but obviously if one were to try and optimize this system, you'd start by fixing obvious flaws in allocation - as that's an even lower hanging fruit than technology. They completely failed to optimize both and I don't see any reason this would change now unless there's a collapse of the larger system.

Not saying the job isn't hands-on. But the system deciding resource allocation is a detached bureaucracy nonetheless.

It's not a competitive field. Teachers won't get replaced as new, more efficient modes of learning become available.

Barely any western education system has adapted to the existence of the internet - still teaching facts and using repetitive learning where completely useless.

We got high quality online courses which should render most of high school and university useless but yet the system continue in the old tracks, almost unchanged. It's never been competitive and it's likely always been more about certification of traits rather than actual learning. Both - I think - are pointers towards rapid change being unlikely.