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testaccount28··on Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
do you know of a better source of predictions, and if so, why are you not using that knowledge to make a killing on the prediction markets?
testaccount28··on Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
yeah, Tao has been extremely reasonable throughout this, while the coverage has been... maybe 'motivated' is the right word?
testaccount28··on GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
you could pause the game between actions, while the model reasons about what to do next.
testaccount28··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
random sites generally don't log carefully, or watch their logs if they do. so the risk to hacking them is low. this site almost certainly logs very aggressively. so the risk to hacking it is high.

based on differential risk, attackers will choose targets differently. they might reason that the risk/reward on this obvious trap is not worth it. but on joe shmo's php emporium, the reward is less, but so is the risk, and it might pencil out.

testaccount28··on What on Earth Is Dekton?
investor?
testaccount28··on Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
are you really asking? modafinil.
testaccount28··on Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n
for any fixed size, populating the lookup table is constant.
testaccount28··on Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n
why do you accuse me of this? i'm deeply uncomfortable with that, as well. it's possible to object for multiple reasons.
testaccount28··on Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive
if you squint, it's a halfway compelling argument to legalize and regulate. that $1.80 in tax revenue could pay for treatment programs.

(i do not think the second order effects can be ignored so totally; nothing ever goes as planned in this world of madness. don't at me.)

testaccount28··on Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n
nah dude. i'll allow any finite size lookup table, but not an infinite one.
testaccount28··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
i mean, presumably so could ukraine?
testaccount28··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
neat. why can't you put the heat in the mountain?
testaccount28··on Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
man, i'd be icked by someone who was cruel to a rock with a face painted on it. let alone a chatbot.
testaccount28··on Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red
with such a fat harness, this is more like watching a walk thru play the game.
testaccount28··on Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"
yeah i mean i'm gonna chalk that one up to the nukes.
testaccount28··on Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"
the optimizer controls the future. it doesn't kill humans directly, it just outcompetes them for all resources, including livable human environment.
testaccount28··on Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"
climate change was never going to kill all humans.
testaccount28··on AI Responsibility – OpenAI and Anthropic
4) Realizes the best path for it to not be detected is to create a distraction - like hacking into a random ai-related target that it could plausibly believe has the answer key to its task, creating a captivating but ultimately hollow news cycle.
testaccount28··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
> we'd have to prove that firing the gun caused the murder. how would we do this? we'd need to redo the murder many times, with and without my client firing his pistol. that's extremely expensive and not really feasible. therefore, we must acquit.
testaccount28··on Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
what is "the engagement algorithm"?
testaccount28··on How Universities Should Prepare Founders
i'm sorry you're feeling upset about this.
testaccount28··on How Universities Should Prepare Founders
this is also good! we can have both.
testaccount28··on How Universities Should Prepare Founders
in the examples i can think of, this happens mostly because the company provides a product or service that is valuable to many, and shares the surplus with consumers. i am thinking about companies like microsoft, apple, netflix, google, stripe, walmart, costco, albertson's, starbucks, sysco.

what are the companies you are thinking about?

testaccount28··on How Universities Should Prepare Founders
could you explain your perspective more?

i see it as: large companies are proof that much trade and consumption has occurred.

testaccount28··on Universal Housing
the sentinelese are sovereign, in my book. we could go do something which we call 'arresting them', i guess, but they would throw spears at us and chase us away, and then we would be at war.

i'm fine with people "living off the land", as long as they don't consume the services my taxes pay for.

colonization is obviously mandatory if we want more land. tax policy does not change that. nor does it make land more or less productive.

i do not support the use of force to seize assets. however, i believe that an overwhelming majority of people would -- upon reflection -- consciously and without duress agree to pay taxes in exchange for a working government.

testaccount28··on Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders
maybe they vibed up some prompt injections. anyway, nice of them to tell on themselves.
testaccount28··on Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders
see the font, close the tab
testaccount28··on Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer
some candid feedback for claude:

    - the demo on the page makes no sound and is visibly off (triggers happen when the token is at the wrong location, or not at all)
    - the demo video is boring
    - it doesn't even _do the thing_? it's just a 1d piano roll in a circle? there's no fun petri net dynamics?
(who is upvoting this?)
testaccount28··on KOReader
you will spend much MUCH more time as a power law user than as a new user, such that almost any % gain in productivity once familiar is worth almost any months of unproductivity when new.
testaccount28··on How real are real numbers? (2004)
"Make a line of 10 apples and declare it to be 2 units long" <- what number does this physically realize?
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