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Good catch I read 20x6 and my brain filled in the wrong digit

The claudespeak immediately irks me now, then there’s also the irony of using Claude to complain about Claude

Almost all EA takes I’ve read strike me as basic contrarianism

A significant number of people in positions of power in the AI industry get their moral framework from science fiction books and a particular Harry Potter fanfiction. It’s hard to predict what ideas and philosophies will become important.

Bad no matter which side you look at it. Fritz Zwicky coined the term as spherical bastard

“Come with me to Canada. Toronto is just like New York, but without all the stuff”- Steve Martin on 30 Rock

If I wanted moral philosophy I’d read a better moral philosopher

Debt creates debt crises. Throughout history it’s been a major function of any government to resolve these. Notably this function predates any concept of a market in the modern sense. For the most part markets were created by fiat by the government for its own purpose (usually supporting its armies) rather than springing from the ground organically only to later be regulated.

I’m not advocating for Islamic finance, it’s just a funny artifact of history that the closest thing to a “free market” unfettered by government interest, did not happen in the “western” world most of its advocates come from.

It never did.

In debt the first 5000 years Geaeber makes the case that pure “free market” trade has never really existed in “the west”. The closest to this ideal that’s ever happened was during the Islamic golden age enabled by religious prescriptions against usury.

I don't know about better but it's certainly different. It's painfully slow through claude code vscode extension compared to copilot but maybe "smarter", I feel like I have to correct it less using sonnet on both. I don't use opus much because of the cost but coworkers say the difference between harnesses there is also pronounced.

They have said in depositions that they just did substring searches or fed lists to chat gpt, it’s not even a question.

The best intelligence apparatus in the world missed the Oct 7 planning which Egyptian intelligence noticed, told the Israelis about directly, and still went ignored?

He’s pretty obviously referring to the extreme emotional reaction Hashimoto had, not his choice to use a different git solution

To maybe save others a google. Appen is an Australian company focusing on linguistics/translation. Different from Appin, the hack for hire service out of India.