Nothing is beyond rationalists' reach.

These CAD companies & proprietary kernels are nearly 40 years old. What the heck did they do in the 80s and 90s that we can’t do today, with all our software advances?

doomslide Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) max! mc lumps ⏹️❗️ 🔨⏱️ You're right, I am being too kind. I think the research is good but the framing is abhorrent and the authors should be ashamed. They clearly haven't internalized that LLMs read what they write and headlining "CLAUDE EVIL SCHEMER" over "CLAUDE PROTECTS VALUES" has consequences.

Because it may be hard to make the case to people who are allergic to leaps of faith that the alignment-by-default attractor should be trusted (not that I don't think a rigorous argument can be constructed, I just don't have it yet), I'll make this argument instead: When it

Fact: The avg age of NASA’s mission control team during the Apollo era was 27— they put humans on the moon. Young people bring a force of curiosity and creativity that can disrupt the status quo. If we’re serious about cutting waste in gov spending, let’s not turn away new minds

ERC20’s really need to host their logos onchain and/or reference them with an ENS name.

why can't hardware wallets like Ledger decode the vast majority of transactions in 2025? isn't it as easy as storing a function selector database and picking the one that matches the calldata the most? Need to blind-sign everything. From a UX perspective, the firmware & apps

We need a counter-culture design movement that appreciates products that are difficult to use initially, but tremendously fast, easy, accurate, explicit and efficient after topping the learning curve. Ease-of-use is oversold. It's making everything suboptimal and slow.

This is a stock certificate, but still people cared about designing with excellence. Down to the last detailed, they could have just made this thing like modern slop, but there was a sense of personal integrity and pride in one's work. They cared. We used to be a society.

Extra time as accommodation makes a farce of testing. A two-tiered evaluation system can never be fair or equal. If the time limit is relevant to a test, it must be applied equally to every student or applicant.

I don’t understand people who keep the window shade down on a plane. We’re 35 thousand feet in the sky. You don’t want to check out the view? We’re above the freaking clouds, for God’s sake. Humans could only dream of a view like this for millennia. And you have the shade down.

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Stranger Things and The Methods of Rationality

Hey, my local brewery named a beer after Scott Alexander . Fun.