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wagwang··on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet
What is your point again? Why are you listing iranian domestic problems when we are talking about foreign policy. There are lots of failing countries all around the world and most of them don't hate America because the CIA didnt coup their popular leader.
wagwang··on The housing market isn't for single people
yes thats how society works, you give up certain freedoms for structure, safety, and access to resources. This idea that society should conform for lifestyles that dont support the continue existence of the society is pretty dumb
wagwang··on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet
lol we are here because 75 years ago in the era of peace and tranquility, CIA deposed the democratically elected secular leader of iran
wagwang··on Indifference is a power (2015)
Stoics always think they are above caring about stupid shit, but that's the fun of life. The last sentence of Nietzsche's quote is completely right.
wagwang··on Open Infrastructure Map
Gigachad french nuclear versus virgin german coal in map form.
wagwang··on Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents
I think this article is moreso referring to support and other rote processing-like agents.
wagwang··on Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents
Ur in a software bubble, there are millions of sales jobs where you sell a simple product and the only thing that matters is sale volume and maybe "dont be a dick". The really strategic sales process we employ in tech is the exception.
wagwang··on Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents
Bcuz the performance is usually not fuzzy and also the law only applies to certain jobs -- you would not apply the law to salesmen or customer support agents.
wagwang··on MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies
Why are you making this political; besides one of the brown victims was the vp of the college republicans so whats the angle here again?
wagwang··on AI will make formal verification go mainstream
Disagree, the ideal agentic coding workflow for high tolerance programming is to give the agent access to software output and have it iterate in a loop. You can let the agent do TDD, you can give it access to server logs, or even browser access.
wagwang··on Thin desires are eating life
i have meaner names, but lets just call it nod along content
wagwang··on Thin desires are eating life
Also the ideas are just reframing the old maxim of "its not the destination, its the journey".
wagwang··on Understanding carriage
Bruh what

> The solution, one that Netflix would probably benefit from, is to offer to adopt more of a YouTube approach to carriage–allow anyone who produces video content to show it on Netflix. Pay them based on views.

The relationship is inverted; netflix pays IP owners a fortune to get the right to show stuff.

wagwang··on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
I wish my ev has dope perks... too bad California is dead set on making EV charging more expensive then gas lol.
wagwang··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
Maybe, maybe not, maybe like teflon, the real poison is an intermediate ingredient, but I think its bullshit that we're just creating chemicals that linger in our water supply for eternity. You literally cannot find anyone in America without traces of the dangerous variant of the PFAS in their blood stream. Like every sip of water is some ridiculous dupont cocktail and we have to tolerate it because people have dry eyes and want non stick pans. Why cant you just use theratears?
wagwang··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
How do you think pfas got into the water supply in the first place.
wagwang··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
Ok and there are around that many atoms of pfas per tear drop?
wagwang··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
so 1 liter of eye drop per 1ppt of km^3
wagwang··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
Pfas are measured in ppb or even ppt
wagwang··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
What the fuck... what's stopping this from poisoning our water supply?
wagwang··on Fighting the age-gated internet
PLEASE give me an age gated, geofenced internet. I would pay for such a service.
wagwang··on The New AI Consciousness Paper
Ok so its like a deep comparator on the sensory and processing units in the "mind".
wagwang··on The New AI Consciousness Paper
> By ‘consciousness’ we mean phenomenal consciousness. One way of gesturing at this concept is to say that an entity has phenomenally conscious experiences if (and only if) there is ‘something it is like’ for the entity to be the subject of these experiences.

Stopped reading after this lol. Its just the turing test?

wagwang··on A Chinese firm bought an insurer for CIA agents
This is the funniest headline I've seen all month
wagwang··on Being poor vs. being broke
china 1962
wagwang··on Being poor vs. being broke
My parents grew up poor in manner that is more extreme than anything OP described in the post and they always remind me that its just hard work and grit.
wagwang··on Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix
going the speed limit is actually a good thing, even on the 101
wagwang··on Collaboration sucks
This is so dumb, its how you end up with 37 versions of the same thing.
wagwang··on Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k
This is the same argument that utilitarians use to argue about how we don't have to define morals because everything is taken care of by a utilitarian calculus. The problem with that view is, even if you can define what correct for any choice (which you can't, lets be honest), you end up with a trillion parameter equation for arriving to that conclusion which makes the discussion worthless. So of course we have to rely on general truths and narratives to drive society forward, that's what your ancestors did using religion and tradition.
wagwang··on iPhone Pocket
The us dropped taiwan 50 years ago when they removed them from the UN
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