will-burner

The advice about deleting youtube history and setting and auto-delete cadence (though every 3 months looked like the most frequent possibility for me) is good and I wasn't aware of it. I don't have social media, but I do have a personal gmail email address, which links to youtube making it hard to avoid spending time on my phone watching youtube videos.

It's crazy that insurance companies are (rightfully) viewed so negatively that the killing of a CEO is responded to positively in a lot of circles. No doubt the jokes on twitter have been great, and it is a good release like I've heard people say about breaking a window with a brick during a protest. It (edit: represents) a lot more than just property damage. It's unlikely but maybe some good will come of this from insurance companies.

Capitalism baby, you always need to grow to increase share holder value.

True, but you could also frame this as a way for Anthropic to try and break that trend. IMO they've got to try and compete with OpenAI, can't just concede that OpenAI has won yet.

It would be cool to see one of those word diagrams where the size of the word is how often it appears (a word cloud), and to have one of the word clouds for the word in 1970 and one for the words in 2018 with maybe some years in between. That would make it a lot easier to digest the information than a grid of frequency line plots. It's information overload when I open the page and it takes a lot of energy to read all the different words and compare the plots. The word clouds would get the point across easier and clearer imo.

Love the name Chonkie and Moo Deng, the hippo, as the image/logo!!

edit: Get some Moo Deng jokes in the docs!

An assumption of the article is that in addition to getting readers, bloggers want to make money from their blogs via advertising, brand endorsements, etc. That's fair and true for the author in this case, but not necessarily true of all bloggers, especially the tech type that are on hacker news.

I agree that's most people's problem, but it's now mine. I've tried to think about effective altruism from first principals. For me, I can rationally understand effective altruism and why it's attractive. I even believe people that follow it (and actually do good) may in some sense be "better" people than me. But it none the less rubs me the wrong way and I can't follow it, so I've tried to understand why.

Lol this is a perfect encapsulation of the white savior problem. Thank you.

I'm surprised the article and non of the comments I've seen in this thread mention effective altruism, which in the framing of the article is an attempt to scale caring in some sense.

The article helped me realize why so many people in the startup/tech/software engineering scene are drawn to effective altruism, it's a way to scale helping humanity in the best way possible. The effective altruism argument is that it's more productive to by mosquito nets in Africa than to volunteer at a food shelter because buying mosquito nets will save more lives.

But this article helps explain why I don't personally feel drawn to or buy into effective altruism. Because caring doesn't scale, you can only really care about a handful of people close to you. And to me that altruism feels better and seems like it goes further than donating money to help more people that I can't truly care for.