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New comment by concordDance in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"

concordDance — Wed, 21 May 2025 07:10:14 +0000

Examining is fine in my book. But examining the ability to think of recognizably distinct demographics should be done with great care and sensitivity.

And that was not an examination, just some low effort attacks on the out group.

New comment by concordDance in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"

concordDance — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:01:42 +0000

> inability to process information clearly and think in reality in lieu of ideology is the cornerstone of conservative thinking.

Can we not do this kind of thing please?

New comment by concordDance in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

concordDance — Fri, 16 May 2025 08:10:55 +0000

> This is the party of so-called "rationalists".

Eh?

New comment by concordDance in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

concordDance — Fri, 16 May 2025 08:03:02 +0000

What was the question? The rampant flagging here is quite annoying.

New comment by concordDance in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

concordDance — Fri, 16 May 2025 08:01:09 +0000

Do you have some further reading where one can understand the basics of the subject?

New comment by concordDance in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

concordDance — Fri, 16 May 2025 07:59:50 +0000

The vast majority of non-EA charity givers to not expend effort on trying to find the most dollar efficient charities (or indeed pushing for quantification at all), which makes their altruism ineffectual in a world with strong competition between charities (where the winners are inevitably those who spend the most on acquiring donations).

New comment by concordDance in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

concordDance — Fri, 16 May 2025 07:44:49 +0000

This is already true to a great extent. A family with lots of genetic health conditions are probably going to remain poor.

New comment by concordDance in "Slow software for a burning world"

concordDance — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:52:11 +0000

While steelmanning is a great practice, it sometimes feels a bit unfair that many positions are not allowed to be steelmanned (socially or otherwise).

New comment by concordDance in "Google to back three new nuclear projects"

concordDance — Fri, 09 May 2025 08:16:40 +0000

Sadly I don't have time to go into it now, but they're massively overpaying due to miscallibrated risk tolerance. (Paying tens of millions per QALY is not a good use of money, 1 milliSv per year is an utterly insane goal)

The actual disaster had noticably bad short term effects on only a small area and long term effects on a tiny area.

New comment by concordDance in "Google to back three new nuclear projects"

concordDance — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:42:04 +0000

> Fukushima - meltdown, too-small containment vessel, large disaster.

Probably overselling the "large" there... at least on the scale of global power production.

New comment by concordDance in "Possibly a Serious Possibility"

concordDance — Tue, 06 May 2025 08:12:48 +0000

And yet somehow there are infinity times more reals than rationals...

Very hard to get your head around!

New comment by concordDance in "I'd rather read the prompt"

concordDance — Mon, 05 May 2025 08:08:08 +0000

Honestly, a future where diplomas are just noise and employers stop caring about them and thus young people stop wasting years of their lives "learning" something they don't care about sounds like a huge improvement.

LLM cheaters might incidentally be doing society a service.

New comment by concordDance in "The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)"

concordDance — Sat, 03 May 2025 08:12:40 +0000

Can't see any eugenics there, can you quote?

New comment by concordDance in "The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)"

concordDance — Sat, 03 May 2025 07:53:22 +0000

They probably suspect you to be a slow coder who writes code with bad abstractions because they percieve the maths skills as how one does things in software engineering.

New comment by concordDance in "How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment"

concordDance — Thu, 01 May 2025 08:13:19 +0000

This is silly, many countries use consumer messaging for internal communications. The UK government famously uses whatsapp for example.

Can AI Change Your View? Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment

concordDance — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:59:24 +0000

Article URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Eo4SHrKGPErTzL1t_QmQhfZGU27jKBjx/view

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43810999

Points: 3

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New comment by concordDance in "Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining"

concordDance — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:08:31 +0000

This doesn't apply to literal ASI, mostly because copy-pasteable intelligence is an absolute gamechanger, particularly if the physical interaction problems that prevent exponential growth (think autonomous robot factory) are solved (which I'd assume a full ASI could do).

People keep comparing to other tools, but a real ASI would be an agent, so the right metaphor is not the effect of the industrial revolution on workers, but the effect of the internal combustion engine on the horse.

New comment by concordDance in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

concordDance — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 11:02:15 +0000

This entire thread is worthless social media junk food.

New comment by concordDance in "Careless People"

concordDance — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:47:17 +0000

Disgruntled ex-employee disparaging their old colleagues and bosses is extremely common, I don't get why this is getting so many upvotes...

New comment by concordDance in "I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective"

concordDance — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:39:50 +0000

Right now, sure. But when a 21 year old is picking a field they need to think 10 years from now.