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I think this is mostly just software benchmarking. The most science that can probably be extracted from this case study is probably a couple data points on where we are and where we can improve with AI agents. It seems like a decent task to optimize for. It might also work as a proof of concept for an economics study or theoretical political science.

It's possible that any such technology would be too complicated to ensure a clean supply chain or have weaknesses that would allow it to be tracked or jammed. Real devices have some kind of engineering tradeoff.

But I generally think that trying to solve social problems with technology is a futile endeavor. Someone will always have violence on their side. And violence is the ultimate weakness.

Is this actually how water pumping works, or are we extending the metaphor to imply that the AI is creating knowledge? Because I would dispute the latter if the effect is that the number of people with a deep understanding of a subject declines.

There's the grandmother hypothesis that holds we could just not have menopause and reproduce more, but we don't because there's greater evolutionary advantage for having the elderly provide support to their kin. Maybe this type of kin selection is bounded by consanguinity though, and that limits the advantage? Or maybe population pressure discourages family units from getting too large?

It seems like Utah could do mostly do this by intercepting all consumer traffic.

In my experience, that was pretty much true until I started doing small discussion-group-style graduate classes. But those are necessarily capped by staff-to-student ratios.

Sounds like I'm not buying a computer or a phone for 2 years. I hope my Pixel 6 lasts that long.

There could be a link there. I've known people with eating disorders who only drink spirits because of the calorie content.

Probably to similar purposes as the 2024 opioid settlement: housing assistance, schools, subsidized child care. Legislators will probably try to align it with goals that seem like they would counter the stuff Meta's doing. Smaller communities will probably fail to allocate it promptly.

I'm a little unclear on the timeline here, but Mullenweg just got back from Burning Man. I suspect that's related to both the content of the post and the board's timing.

One thing that's a occasionally annoying (because I deleted my account) but understandable is that a lot of the non-English speakers have stayed on X because it's easy for them to ignore the Nazis.

It seems to me that the law in the US is set up to only establish standards of negligence after a bunch of people die.

I used to think this but it seems to me that the most scarce and valuable resource will be having humans pretend to care about you.

Chronological feeds tend to be gameable by growth hacking. Still better than a lot of things.

One of the tricky things for me is feed aggregation for balancing subscriptions between people who post a lot and people who don't.

It also might be interesting if video recommendations were curated feeds by the creator.