Starbucks is a miserable place to work because of strict rules around dress and conduct, but they pay better than basically any other retail job.

Baristas get $20+/hour and eventually work their way up to $30, along with health insurance and free four-year college tuition.

No serious person thinks LLMs will be the method to create AGI. Even Sam Altman gave that up.

Anyone still saying they'll reach AGI is pumping a stock price.

Separately and unrelated, companies and researchers are still attempting to reach AGI by replacing or augmenting LLMs with other modes of machine learning.

AGI is just a meme at this point sold to midwits in Reddit and X.

Especially to those on HN.

It's vastly different.

It's more (exactly?) like pulling a .sh file hosted on someone else's website and running it as root, except the contents of the file are generated by a LLM, no one reads them, and the owner of the website can change them without your knowledge.

40mg Rosuvastatin + 10mg ezetimibe + leqvio did this precisely for my n=1.

One source: https://www.escardio.org/communities/councils/cardiology-pra...

Specifically: “ Although our pharmaceutical armamentarium is very good at the moment (the combination of statin-ezetimibe-proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 [PCSK9] can reduce LDL cholesterol [LDL-C] levels by 85%), new drugs are emerging through the different pitfalls of current drugs.”

VS Code is a fantastic Electron app

This is certainly true in the US, but I don't think it's universal at all

I'm in the US and have never experienced anyone keeping results to themselves.

In fact, I can now easily access even my doctor's appointment notes. I have my entire chart unless my doctor specifically writes private notes.

Why would we want to do this when we can just watch each video in a sequence and pull out relevant clips or frames?

There's no issue with the angle. All angles tell the same story with varying levels of detail: he was trying to protect a woman, he was beaten, he was pepper sprayed, his gun was taken from his belt, and then he was murdered.

There is no alternative narrative supported by the videos.

I think they're actually just saying bad actors are inevitable, inconsistent, and hard to identify ahead of time, so it's useless to be a scold when instead you can think of how to build systems that are more resilient to bad acts

You have to do both. Offense and defense are closely related. You can make it hard to engage in bad acts, but if there are no penalties for doing so or trying to do so, then that means there are no penalties for someone just trying over and over until they find a way around the systems.

Academics that refuse to reply to people trying to replicate their work need to be instantly and publicly fired, tenure or no. This isn't going to happen, so the right thing to do is for the vast majority of practitioners to just ignore academia whilst politically campaigning for the zeroing of government research grants. The system is unsaveable.

Perhaps start by defunding any projects by institutions that insist on protecting fraudsters especially in the soft sciences. There is a lot of valuable hard science that IS real and has better standards.

But that would defund all of them. Plenty of fraud at 'top' institutions like Harvard, Stanford, Oxford etc...

If funding depended on firing former fraudsters and incompetents they would find the will to fire them

I don't think they would. They'd rather stage riots and try to unseat the government than change.

To which my reply would be, we can engage in the analysis after we have taken down the paper.

It's still up! Maybe the answer to building a resilient system lies in why it is still up.

> US censorship, US surveillance, US narratives (patriot approved)

This is the status quo for a lot of US media, but TikTok is actually much worse. The "US narratives" in this case are in service of Trump, possibly behind closed doors as table stakes for the purchase agreement.