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Potentially controversial take: "AI safety" and "AI alignment" largely seem like pointless, unnecessary grift. Anthropic's recent posturing has made it abundantly clear it's all just marketing nonsense.

It's almost as if they learned exactly nothing from the last genocide they played a major part in 🤦‍♂️

Democracy: Incompetent people making bad decisions with an electoral mechanism for accountability Technocracy: Incompetent people making bad decisions without an electoral mechanism for accountability One of these is very clearly superior to the other.

The most convincing argument against democracy is a 5-minute conversation with the median voter. Unfortunately, we have yet to devise a better system (and all of the alternatives are much worse).

Random thought: LinkedIn needs negative reaction emojis. The current options all convey a fake sense of positivity, but sometimes people's bad takes deserve a 👎, 🤬, 💀, or even a 🙉🙈🙊

The real problem is that they're fucking ugly 🤷

I feel like people outside of Texas really struggle to comprehend how big the Dallas-Fort Worth area is. Like, you can be in DFW proper and still be 1.5 hours outside of Dallas on a good day.

It's only mildly concerning that GitHub Actions going down completely destroys our ability to ship things on my team 😬

So, I pay remarkably little attention to electoral politics these days. What is the tl;dr on why people are upset about Michigan?

I'm old enough to remember when people still thought SMOTE was a legitimate solution to class imbalance in predictive modeling 😮‍💨

A p-value is what you get when you try to do statistical decision theory, but you've tried nothing, and you're all out of ideas.

The problem with the new "Seems like AI Slop" button on LinkedIn is that like 95% of LinkedIn content seems like AI Slop... 😬

Got to see one of my all-time favorite songs live, so that's one more item checked off the bucket list

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I will never not chuckle at this beam at Billy Bob's, directly adjacent to the stage.

Finally making up for fucking up and booking my honeymoon the wrong week in 2023.

Man, if you think tech companies intentionally making social media addictive was bad, wait until we start to see the effects of a not insignificant portion of Gen Z developing a gambling addiction. We of course won't even try to regulate this abomination until the damage is already irreversible.

Most of the hate Nickelback gets is probably undeserved.

This is your periodic reminder that the best approach to dealing with anonymous accounts with cartoon profile pictures is to block them on sight.

People should have the option to work where they are most productive, and RTO mandates are almost exclusively driven by narcissistic leadership and managers who can't feel effective unless they can see their serfs working.

I think one of the most important lessons I've learned over the past year is that my ideal job is at a company of between 5 and 50 people.