whimsicalism

I think that is the exact reasoning used wrt to nuclear bombs and it was probably correct

Dario has assented to a maybe pause if we can somehow get China to stop developing. I do not think he believes there is an actual way to do so though

i think you need to engage seriously with the arguments they (or at least Anthropic) make for why they are building it — they feel that since it now possible, it will be built and they want to guide it in a positive direction rather than leave a vacuum for bad actors

if you are relying on a model for a business process, it should be simple enough to benchmark on that process

extremely difficult for modern government to overcome the incentive problems when building in house

no, it’s actually the same delusion as that one

the person i'm replying to said they didn't have that experience as a non-EU citizen, whereas i did

You can be falsely linked to a crime without biometric evidence and excluded on the basis of biometric evidence

Maybe not at land crossings. I just exited from Portugal and got fingerprinted on exit and entry. Granted I was using my US passport, not my EU

never any hint or talk that anything is amiss

there never is

I suspect that false imprisonment/recognition cases are lessened with biometrics, not increased. I absolutely believe you can point me to individual cases though.

wrong

i just traveled to the EU last week and you're wrong, got fingerprinted on entrance and exit

not for US citizens at least, whereas I get fingerprinted entering and exiting as an EU citizen in the EU.

A national ID system (standard in effectively all European countries) is table stakes for state capacity. I find the RealID opposition baffling.

some of you all need to take a break from politics, it is clearly not doing you good and easy to get swept up into group mania imo.

you dropped your /s

thanks for the productive reply, really contributing to HN here

Yes, Kaiser is a great model. We need to figure out a way to balance cost sharing with preventing over utilization, both on the supply side and managing demand and restricting interventions to those that are measurably changing outcomes (generally drugs, less so human-capital intensive care).

The patient load hadn't grown. The number of nurses has gone up, not down.

Healthcare utilization, number of unique patients, amount of care per patient has all gone up.

American has a massive overutilization problem driving cost but is unwilling to be honest with itself about it.

skimming your comment history, to me you seem very comfortable occupying the sociocultural critic position which is to some degree inherently cynical imo. i say that because i also recognize it in myself

cynicism and critique are comfortable positions imo. i appreciate the relatively newfound cultural shift back towards earnestness (although i can already feel the pendulum starting to swing back)

there is clear reason why this would be desirable for many, the others - sure.

i find LLMs generally play better with compiled languages actually, they do great with rust. you can think of it almost as analogous to a harness.

nice. i had thought the consensus had moved pretty firmly towards pi, so i was surprised to see Thinking Machines demoing their new model Inkling in OpenCode. wondering if they are previewing an acquisition

yeah how will we ever find a usecase for the machines that can run thinking software

why should i disprefer rails with lower fees and fewer employees?

nemotron

why pi over opencode? earnestly curious, trying to figure out what open solution people are consolidating on. (codex is also pseudo-open but contributions closed and nice)

In some ways, I would rather Stripe have the market power here to negotiate against Visa & Mastercard than Visa/Mastercard holding the reigns over a fragmented digital ecosystem.