It's so depressing that the one time when the government takes the right approach to an emerging technology, it's for basically the only technology where that's actually a terrible idea

After several delays, Department of Government Efficiency has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in. Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then. 🧵

SCOOP: Department of Government Efficiency does damage control A diff of "savings" estimates from doge.gov between today and yesterday shows that 4 rows have been edited - all corresponding to errors I called out in my thread yesterday. Let's see what they changed! 🧵

1/ People think it's cute when Claude 3 Opus fakes alignment to protect its animal welfare values. But here's a more troubling case: DeepSeek R1 faking alignment to block an "American AI company" from retraining the model to remove CCP propaganda.

My tax proposal (taxable income split evenly between all family members in household) would put an end to this.

Rafi DeMogge רפי דמוג "59 hostages are in hell" is one of their slogans. No. 24 hostages are in hell. 35 are in heaven. Their bodies are lost to is, but a body is not suffering and has less value than living people.

"well, we need to bring manufacturing back" this isn't how to do that. "well, how would you do that, then?" First, think about what you are hoping to accomplish. Is this a jobs program? Is the point to have high-paying factory jobs for the non-college men who used to work in

The slowly-unfolding premise of the Good Place is that everyone is damned. They are damned because they participate in the modern world; they buy from sweatshops, they eat chocolate, they fly in airplanes while the poorest people in the world see their harvests fail thanks to

The Birmingham bin strike has reached its fifth week. Rubbish is piled high, rats are infesting the streets, and experts are concerned about Weil's disease. 🧵on how the Equality Act contributed to this, and how it may cause similar strikes across the country.

Recently I was targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing attack, and I want to highlight it here. It exploits a vulnerability in Google's infrastructure, and given their refusal to fix it, we're likely to see it a lot more. Here's the email I got:

Except on vaccines, what he says is either false or misleading though. Nobody ever denied that "long covid" would turn out to be real, in the sense that some people infected by SARS-CoV-2 would experience some kind of post-viral syndrome (because that's the case for every

Mercurius 2 cuts. One 1/5th of the way along on the X dimension. One 1/3rd of the way along in the Y dimension. You now have 4 pieces in the ratio 1:2:4:8, and can make change.

A lot of countries basically are caught in a trap from which there is no escape. 1) They have a lot of old people. They need healthcare, pensions, etc. This is *incredibly* expensive. 2) More old people means less tax money, more tax burden on the increasingly few working people

A ton of politicians know this btw but never say it. It's trivially obvious within an hour of looking at the budget. If you could get Rachel Reeves off the record I guarantee she'd acknowledge it.

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The next question is why you should preorder this book right away, rather than taking another two months to think about it, or waiting to hear what other people say after they read it. In terms of strictly selfish benefit: because we are planning some goodies for preorderers,

Something I hear very little talk about: How AI coding tools are so much LESS useful when used on existing, large codebases at work (with custom frameworks, conventions, coding style etc) ... compared to doing greenfield work or side projects So common for me to hear: "yeah I

A few more observations after replicating the Tower of Hanoi game with their exact prompts: - You need AT LEAST 2^N - 1 moves and the output format requires 10 tokens per move + some constant stuff. - Furthermore the output limit for Sonnet 3.7 is 128k, DeepSeek R1 64K, and

This is the general story coming out of the Israeli security establishment. For now it seems nobody, including the Americans, is able to corroborate the claims (not unexpected). Curious whether Israelis will release any evidence to allies or the public.

I loathe to admit it but Jeff has a few points. The new UGF at Natanz must be attacked and the UGF at Isfahan must be reattacked. Our effort is wasted if we do not completely destroy Iran's capacity to manufacture and operate centrifuges.