I'd imagine the government would be in talks with the highest ranking local Amazon employees long before, but I can't imagine a country trusting the hardware or wanting to manage the jank.

> Trying to think of learning about AWS and screwing up usage based billing was daunting!

One of the hard rules we learned pre-pandemic was that services attached to usage based billing should really exit on error. It's a lesson I'm keeping in mind working with agents and routing (and the main reason I'm local-first).

The number of people capable of identifying potentially consequential research is smaller than the number of people performing consequential research. And they’re all busy with their own projects.

Up to a certain point society is run by actuaries. Finding someone at your insurance company who both understands the problem with excess errors and appreciates how easily enumerable they are would be an interesting "whistleblowing" target.

But the actuaries too are constrained by the same societal constructs. Let's say you work for a large car company and invent a self driving system that is 10x safer than the average human driver, and the cost is minimal. This system would likely save 36,000 lives annually in the US. The actuary will calculate that with human drivers, the accident liability for your car company is $0, but then with the self driving system, the liability is potentially in the billions, and it doesn't make sense to include this system in your vehicles. You can argue that since the error rate is 10x safer than the average human driver, that clearly this is an acceptable safety level. But your argument will fall on deaf ears because there is no such legal concept of an acceptable level of death. You could also say, well then the company can buy insurance. The cost will be minimal since there will only be 10% the rate of accidents as a normal car. The societal calculation for liability in a death is based mainly on:

1. How much money does the responsible party have

2. How much media attention and outrage does it generate

And since now instead of a single human driver, the liability will rest on a massive corporation, and the media attention will be massive vs nonexistent for a normal human crash, the liability will be massive. The accident rate may be 10x less, but the cost per death may be 1000x of a normal human driver crash.

Me too. I'm just afraid that it's because there are shrinking pools of rationality on the internet. They're here for the same reason you are; HN doesn't suck nearly as much as the alternatives.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with the panopticon. Your society is what makes it good or evil.

The version I heard growing up was "In a gold rush, sell eggs."

Selling jeans is the one that actually worked

Are there examples of LLMs generating novel code? If so, who is it novel to?

Not trying to be a smart ass here, I’ve been keeping an eye out for years.

Maybe you can provide some examples of what you would consider to be “novel” code?

The proof of the Erdos problem the other day was called novel by Terrence Tao. That seems novel to me.

Everything is derivative of something else. “Novel” is a distinction for works which are minimally derived, but everything created is a remix of something else. Novelty is an illusion.

Are most circuits novel? I'd assume that there is enough out there to fit 80% of PCB design needs and sure it can still be bad at the remaining 20%.

I can’t help but notice the absence of a “how shitty is this country for the average person” dimension.

E.g. which of these countries has any kind of youth culture to speak of?

Ireland, but the worsening economic inequality is wearing away at the edges of it from what I could tell on my last visit.

If you're the outdoorsy type, Switzerland.

Check any article dealing with education or labor.

Im heck