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Dan McKinley
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(20 minutes into an unscripted ramble in front of 5000 people carrying signs who are mad as hell and getting sunburned)

You know what would really get their attention, is if we didn’t pay taxes this year
January 11, 2026 at 12:23 AM
More like auto foggy memories
January 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
I‘m assuming you have tried Lee King’s. That’s gotta be the most honest pricing in the game
January 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
All you need is a deli slicer and a dream
January 10, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Anyway fuck nazis
January 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Assumptions:
- You'd put this money in the stock market instead (~7% annual discount on future premiums)
- The price of health care in the US outpaces inflation (5%/yr)

Ignoring:
- Tax differences or other COL factors
- Denied claims, copays, etc
January 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
But at age 60, you are still getting screwed! This is surprising even to me.
January 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
A dominant factor is going to be health care: we pay much more for it and the quality is worse. The answer varies by age. A $100K check at age 65 or older is a windfall, since even in America you won't pay that much in premiums before you qualify for Medicare.
January 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
and presumably take away their universal health care
January 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Yeah I mean an LLM is a sharp knife whose handle is also a sharp knife, and you can see the results of this in every attempt by the naive to hook them up to something
January 6, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Yeah “how will we verify / constrain what it’s doing“ is the whole ballgame. With an agent writing little changesets using tools you know you can just inspect. More than that, you need a sophisticated strategy.
January 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
It reflects its author's revealed preferences in terms of complexity and verbosity I guess.
January 6, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Gas Town itself is seems like an example of that. What with the Winchester Mystery House architecture full of ghosts with intricately specified overlapping personalities, each papering over a different weird problem.
January 6, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Anyway largely agreed with the original thread, to the extent that the promise is something like Gas Town.

I don't really see how that works unless there's some verification oracle available for a particular problem, and that's a rare scenario.
January 6, 2026 at 9:43 PM