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And conversely if it is, then there is no point to getting in early since the whole point is to externalize knowledge and experience

In your analogy that calculator would only produce a correct answer 80% of the time, and plausible looking but incorrect ones the other 20%.

If that were the case I’d hire pen guy.


What's the error rate of the pen guy?

Also, if your AI has a 20% error rate, you're not holding it right. You need to spend more time keeping it on rails - unit tests, integration tests, e2e tests, local dev + browser use, preview deployments, staging environments, phased rollouts, AI PR reviews, rolling releases. The error rate will be much closer to 0%.


How does a phased rollout improve LLM error rates exactly?

Error rate here is the rate of shipping bugs to customers.

That wasn't what the comment you responded to was referring to. I guess it makes sense since you are kind of like an LLM with how you respond to input.

More like “Producing 80% of the correct answer” and the remaining 20% with some nudging and tweaking. Still extremely valuable.

A 180 would imply a different direction than the original. I’d say they did a fakie 360 faceplant.

Yah, a 180 would actually be a good thing, but I guess it depends on your reference point. Like people, the analogy breaks when tortured. I like yours better overall :)

Might makes right I guess.

US is losing a war on washing, hardly fear inducing

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2026/03/18/bloc...


Toilets are nice to have, but not REQUIRED when you are on a ship. Tongue in cheek

Ireland doesn't have a military.

They have ~8k troops.

Exactly. 0.23% of GDP. It exists only to be able to say that it exists. But it's not in NATO. The Irish will protect themselves if things go bad.

Ideologically maybe not, but practically speaking, of course. Your government can only enforce its laws against you because if you resist you get put in a cage forever or they kill you. At the end of the day, that's the reason.

Now apply your critique to Ofcom.

Gladly. In practice it’s true, but that doesn’t make it morally justified.

Always has.

As much as I dislike the results of that, the opposite would be worse.

The opposite? Literally any justification would be "opposite". Any justification is better than no justification!

The rule of law is worse than might makes right? Or what do you perceive as the opposite of "might makes right?"

Rule of law is always implicitly backed by might makes right. The law is in control of the military and police after all.

What is stopping you from breaking a given law if there is zero chance you'll be jailed or killed for doing so?

Social ostracism, loss of voting rights, loss of licensing, loss of ability to volunteer for some of your children's activities, loss of job opportunities because your name is on a docket or list of sexual offenders, higher insurance rates, loss of rental options, possible difficulty obtaining a passport or getting a visa, potentially being dropped from certain bank activities during due diligence, etc

Being jailed with some books and lots of time to work out sounds nice sometime, especially during times when home life is toddlers or baby screaming at you and waking you 24/7 and all your time is spent tending to others' needs so you have no personal agency anyway, the rest does not.


All of those other things (except maybe social ostracism), are also backed up by the force of the state and it's honestly kind of concerning you don't see that.

Even debanking only happens because the banks themselves face fines from the state, which if unpaid leads to loss of licensure, after which continued operation leads to... jail. You only need a passport because if you try to push through security without one, you're going to jail. I'm sure if I wanted to waste my time I could follow the thread on all the other ones too.

Social ostracism is a good point. Perhaps the exception that proves the rule?


I absolutely agree with you in substance. My main point is I think jailing is way overused and of usually of dubious value. It's extremely expensive, harms the victims (they literally have to pay taxes to pay for the aggressors), of dubious value in most cases, functions as criminal university, does little rehabilitation.

Of course it needn't be a centralized state per se. Somalis for example use 'xeer' law which is a scalable legal system that starts peer to peer and appealable upwards, mostly based on restitution/fines and ostracizing those who do not pay (eventually to the point, they could become 'outlaws' that have no protection from crime themselves).

I think restitution based legal system is ideal, but of course that would flip on its head the current system where the state ousts the victim and becomes the victim themselves and deprives the victim of restitution instead turning it into a big cronyism money making machine for themselves at the expense of everyone else. It would also mean the end of most 'victimless' crime, and god knows the wailing and nashing of teeth that would come when you couldn't prosecute someone for smoking a left handed cigarette because there is no victim to prosecute the case [or on behalf of].


Your moral compass?

Picture an astronaut holding a gun: always has been.

That has been true throughout history.

Why would you expect Homo Economicus to ask for more work? The companies they work for chase infinite profit at zero cost as a matter of principle, why shouldn’t employees?

This holds whether their butt is in a seat in some office or at home.


I ain't mad at all. If someone can be a CEO to multiple companies, so can employees have multiple jobs.

> Homo Economicus

GOOD ONE


I’m not a biologist or particularly knowledgeable about the subject but I thought the jury is still out on that depending on who you ask. I am a noob but I thought it works on the gene level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene-centered_view_of_evolutio...


I see this comment often and I usually pipe up to say that if you don’t have a US ANSI keyboard it can feel unintuitive. You can remap the hotkey to Option + Tab in those cases, easier to get used to.


Funny how the unintentional close calls become more sparse with time. I wonder if that’s because humanity got better at dealing with the responsibility or because the oopsies haven’t been declassified yet.


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