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We have some good ideas about how mammalian brains get "aligned". How can we train/scaffold LLMs in a way that we can apply the same approach?

Google recently published the SWE Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492082791

Note that that story is apocryphal: https://www.gwern.net/Tanks

The poster is right -- don't write on a whiteboard. Instead, bring your laptop, make the font bigger on your favorite editor, and write in that. I've gone through many interviews like this, and only one interviewer insisted I use the whiteboard. And I'm pretty sure that was largely out of wanting to be fair to other candidates who didn't think to bring and use their laptops.

Since you will presumably be writing code on a computer when working at the company, why not write code on a computer when interviewing with one?

The guy who wrote this post used to be president of Alcor (http://alcor.org), one of the two cryonics organizations in the US. Cryonics is in fact certainly a procedure where people will definitely die if they don't get it, particularly because it can only be done after 'legal death'.

Its efficacy can't be established conclusively right now, but it's certainly more likely you'll be revived if you undergo cryopreservation than if you are cremated or buried underground.

But because of various mostly psychosocial factors, practically nobody gets cryopreserved. I think this is the specific example he was trying to point out.

The official rules say that one of the requirements is that the recipients "Forgo other employment or educational enrollment during the two year Fellowship except as approved by the Thiel Foundation."

Thus, they can go back to school after two years if they really want to.

I'm fairly interested in cognitive science in general, but this was the first time I'd heard of any sort of scientific study of venting your anger.

When I get angry at my computer (which is the only thing I usually get angry at :) I often tend to hit whatever big solid object is nearby. However recently I've tried to switch to going to the gym. It might be even better to just lay down and relax for a while, but I find it a good excuse to get some exercise, and I take a nice relaxing shower after I'm done.

This is the kind of 80-20 knowledge compression that I love seeing on HN and in general. Even if it's not completely new information, it quickly informs me on at least one good view on an important and largely overlooked issue. Now I can at least be well-armed for my google searches, without having to give up a (perceived) large chunk of time in reading a 10 page article or 20 minute TED talk.

If you want to hear what English sounds like to foreigners, take a look at http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-english-sounds-like-to-foreig...

My best first hand impression of the story's professionalism was when I saw http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/3332/brilliantpe1.png "Microsoft (GOOG, Fortune 500)"

About those pesky shortcuts: My suggestion would be to make windows shortcuts available by default:

Win+D = minimize/unminimize all windows

Win+R = Terminal

I also added Win+G = Gedit and Win+F = Search (which really needs some improvement)

Finally, standardize some behavior! Gedit and your ctrl+alt+pgup to change tabs, I'm looking at you.

And if you don't like Adobe, for Windows there's Foxit Reader, and for Linux there's Evince.

I can't vouch for Foxit, but viewing PDFs through Evince is also far more efficient in terms of processor usage, especially since flash seems to like to take up all the cycles it can get.

I can't imagine why nobody even mentioned Greg Egan so far.

Reading Permutation City left me in a dazzled state for days because of the sheer number of reality-altering concepts it throws at you in such a short span.

If by inspiring, you mean something that will give even the most ardent SF addict future shock, then his books are absolutely what you're looking for. His BS in Math and background in programming give him a great perspective on some of the most challenging mysteries of the universe -- and his work still manages to be the hardest SF I've read.

Check out Diaspora if you like what you see in Permutation City.

This reminded me so much of a useful rationality anecdote, I almost thought it was going to be a link to it. Alas, it wasn't.

http://www.spaceandgames.com/?p=27

Now how certain are you that 51 is prime?

I think it would be a good idea to have a preference in the user profile to disable the iPaper integration.

Personally, I don't mind getting PDFs or other documents, and I love the way Evince displays them on Ubuntu. However, I can see how many on Windows could prefer to have the iPaper integration on in order to not bother with Adobe Reader.

Basically anything by Greg Egan, particularly Permutation City.

Also nanotechnology, the singularity, and friendly AI, in order of learning about them.