To me one of the central questions of Pluribus is: Is eternal happiness for all people worth the total eradication of individual identity?
I tend to think the sense of a separate self is the core of a lot of unhappiness. Many people disagree. So interesting to see how people react to Pluribus.
I tend to think the sense of a separate self is the core of a lot of unhappiness. Many people disagree. So interesting to see how people react to Pluribus.
December 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
To me one of the central questions of Pluribus is: Is eternal happiness for all people worth the total eradication of individual identity?
I tend to think the sense of a separate self is the core of a lot of unhappiness. Many people disagree. So interesting to see how people react to Pluribus.
I tend to think the sense of a separate self is the core of a lot of unhappiness. Many people disagree. So interesting to see how people react to Pluribus.
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Does the island effect apply to Long Island? Are people from Long Island like 1ft shorter than the global median?
December 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Does the island effect apply to Long Island? Are people from Long Island like 1ft shorter than the global median?
Love mad men. Don Draper just mopes all day in his office and makes 80 billion dollars a week
December 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Love mad men. Don Draper just mopes all day in his office and makes 80 billion dollars a week
3B LLMs are getting pretty great. Played with ministral 3B and was able to get pretty great Chinese to English translations on Wikipedia.
December 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
3B LLMs are getting pretty great. Played with ministral 3B and was able to get pretty great Chinese to English translations on Wikipedia.
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My biggest hangup is the loss of art and culture as we know it. Why express when everyone perfectly understands each other? Why play when there's work to be done? Material conditions would absolutely be better, but it's the death of something fundamentally human. The hivemind is a new thing entirely
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My biggest hangup is the loss of art and culture as we know it. Why express when everyone perfectly understands each other? Why play when there's work to be done? Material conditions would absolutely be better, but it's the death of something fundamentally human. The hivemind is a new thing entirely
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I will not be participating in Advent of Code this year as I have a load-bearing need to believe I'm a supergenius coder and this has "reality check" written all over it
December 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I will not be participating in Advent of Code this year as I have a load-bearing need to believe I'm a supergenius coder and this has "reality check" written all over it
Dioxus is incredible so far. Super super impressed by how good the tooling is. Also, super excited for more work on rendering dioxus using lightweight custom renderers, over webviews.
November 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Dioxus is incredible so far. Super super impressed by how good the tooling is. Also, super excited for more work on rendering dioxus using lightweight custom renderers, over webviews.
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I don't mean to put Simon on blast here, but having gone through these numbers more carefully, I think it illustrates a problem with a lot of LLM defenses: this is comparing the cost of the chips themselves processing a query to *the end to end transmission of streaming video*, including your TV.
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I don't mean to put Simon on blast here, but having gone through these numbers more carefully, I think it illustrates a problem with a lot of LLM defenses: this is comparing the cost of the chips themselves processing a query to *the end to end transmission of streaming video*, including your TV.
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Writing JavaScript for the first time in a while after doing exclusively Rust for months. It feels like moving from navigating a Virginia-class submarine with every conceivable technological aid and guardrail to sailing an inflatable pool raft across the ocean with a map on the back of a bar napkin.
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Writing JavaScript for the first time in a while after doing exclusively Rust for months. It feels like moving from navigating a Virginia-class submarine with every conceivable technological aid and guardrail to sailing an inflatable pool raft across the ocean with a map on the back of a bar napkin.
Woweee Im so excited to dive into dioxus and bevy some more. Rust's macro system has allowed for some extremely excellently designed libraries. Bevy's queries leveraging the type syntax is so awesome. These kinds of libraries really feel like a technological leap forward.
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Woweee Im so excited to dive into dioxus and bevy some more. Rust's macro system has allowed for some extremely excellently designed libraries. Bevy's queries leveraging the type syntax is so awesome. These kinds of libraries really feel like a technological leap forward.
We literally solved the natural language understanding problem in computer science, this is unbelievable. The critique is still, and always will be, companies cannot be trusted to a small set of voraciously greedy capitalists. That should be thought in tandem with how LLMs can be made open and safe.
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
We literally solved the natural language understanding problem in computer science, this is unbelievable. The critique is still, and always will be, companies cannot be trusted to a small set of voraciously greedy capitalists. That should be thought in tandem with how LLMs can be made open and safe.
American people's wealth is largely in the stock market. Maybe an economic system where financiers recklessly gamble this wealth, leading to regular market crashes, is bad actually.
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
American people's wealth is largely in the stock market. Maybe an economic system where financiers recklessly gamble this wealth, leading to regular market crashes, is bad actually.
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People want a technical solution to what is ultimately a judgement problem.
People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.
People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
People want a technical solution to what is ultimately a judgement problem.
People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.
People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.
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"Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search": theconversation.com/learning-wit...
Not shocking. What was interesting, is this held over many studies and w/ a large pool of participants.
#ai
Not shocking. What was interesting, is this held over many studies and w/ a large pool of participants.
#ai
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search": theconversation.com/learning-wit...
Not shocking. What was interesting, is this held over many studies and w/ a large pool of participants.
#ai
Not shocking. What was interesting, is this held over many studies and w/ a large pool of participants.
#ai
I feel like claude 4.5 is the first model Ive felt like I can use reliably for focused coding tasks, gemini 3 just improved that feeling of confidence. A little slow, thinks a bit too long, but super helpful for making many annoying tasks easy.
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I feel like claude 4.5 is the first model Ive felt like I can use reliably for focused coding tasks, gemini 3 just improved that feeling of confidence. A little slow, thinks a bit too long, but super helpful for making many annoying tasks easy.
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Pluribus might have my favorite premise of any show ever
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Pluribus might have my favorite premise of any show ever
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
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Evening in Adelboden (1913) by Waldemar Fink
November 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Evening in Adelboden (1913) by Waldemar Fink
At my previous job I used Angular and thought it was annoying but not that bad. After having used React for the past few months... Angular has pretty serious design flaws.
The Elm UI model is THE model for writing excellent UIs, you can easily emulate it in React, you can't in Angular.
The Elm UI model is THE model for writing excellent UIs, you can easily emulate it in React, you can't in Angular.
November 1, 2025 at 5:32 AM
At my previous job I used Angular and thought it was annoying but not that bad. After having used React for the past few months... Angular has pretty serious design flaws.
The Elm UI model is THE model for writing excellent UIs, you can easily emulate it in React, you can't in Angular.
The Elm UI model is THE model for writing excellent UIs, you can easily emulate it in React, you can't in Angular.
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same