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Jailbreaks are intrinsic to how LLMs work. There's just no way to guarantee the model won't misbehave when the user has broad control over the context/prompt. All you can do is raise the difficulty bar - but that only really works against casual users.

Er, can us laypeople get a quick explainer here before we all have a conniption.

Thank you for supporting this. I drive that stretch a lot and honestly even without the cycling improvements it was a trouble spot for dangerous passing. Reducing traffic lanes to one is not just good for cycling but also for general traffic safety!

Yeah. Like, I’ve done well in the last few years! I am a beneficiary of the Biden economy - but I haven’t done “houses 2x in 5 years” well. It still feels very much like no matter how well I do the housing market continues to outrun me.

I’m personally looking at this. I moved cross country post-covid and pricing is absolutely nuts. Very often homes listing for >$1m were last sold only a few years ago for $500-600k.

The rapidity definitely is a factor. People who felt on the verge of entering a market were extremely rapidly excluded. A house that you could’ve stretched for and bought 5 years ago is now double.

Not to mention "the main outcome of creating Machine God is KPIs and stonks go up"

I’d argue it’s a bit more complex. Wealthy urban elites have always been into pastoralism - opulent country homes and such.

The novelty of the hippies was letting an entire generation square their desire for fancy country living with their self conception as leftists.

It feels like a LexisNexis moment. Major productivity boost but in no way replaces actual need for human lawyers.

It's not. I used to take it daily and it was always a frustration, especially since (street -> partial mezzanine -> track) is the far more sensible layout - as evidence by the fact that many other stations do it! If you're coming from 8th St and north you have to pre-cross 6th Ave.

I mean for people entering/exiting the station - at many (most?) other stations you can enter from any side of the street and select direction, and likewise riders can choose which side of the street to exit onto.

At W4 this isn't available unless you take an extra set of stairs.

And no ability to switch uptown/downtown directions outside of fare area, and in fact no way to do so for A/C/E riders without going down first to said pointless mezzanine!

Genuinely curious why - I'm into the idea of a EREV but admittedly have never actually driven one.

That's my guess also. Nothing really offensive to other parties, and nobody wants (or can win) another election. Kind of in everybody's interest to just complain a bit and then pass it.

Also a company that's known for offering better-than-usual update support for many years on existing products, so you're far less penalized for buying used...

Cuomo's path "runs through Manhattan" if we redefine Manhattan to just be the Upper East Side...

They also just never even convincingly looked like an independent brand. Same headlights. Same seats. Same interior styling. It’s a Volvo! Just make them Volvos!

Remember during Covid when all the tech bros decamped and proclaimed NYC over? That Miami was going to be the new tech capital?

Boy I wonder how that turned out.

Yea *that’s* the factor I’m more worried about. SMB ads are super cyclical with the broader economy. Stagflation or general malaise will absolutely nuke ads.

That has always been their traditional strength. FB and IG are built on SMB ads, much more so than even Goog.

As much as this gives me the ick I suspect it will work.

There's a strong belief in these companies that the best products are emergent and unpredictable. The best thing to do is just to throw it at the user and see what happens. This is the FB/Goog school.

Other schools exist (see: MS, Apple) and you can see more prescriptivism from their products.

A large part of it is because of the specific companies that own these products (and also the companies that OpenAI heavily hired from initially).

There's a very persistent school of product dev that refuses to be prescriptive about products. Just release and relentlessly observe.

He does charge but like 90% of his posts are in front of the paywall. I feel like that’s a part of how he’s kept his brain intact.

My fear is that this will be a successful wedge issue. I’ve spoken to waaaaay too many self-professed liberals in cities with heavy homelessness who wouldn’t bat an eye about this.

Yeah I imagine this might chill non-resource-extraction investment. To which: sure, unfortunate, but if they wanted to diversify economically they really need a less unhinged electorate, and there's only so much we can do about that.

A good test IMO: in any particular suburban/rural region, if you said "I'm going to the city tomorrow", where do people think you mean.

If “deliverism” works even remotely I imagine that has to be the model. The fact that you’re delivering is hammered into recipients in an inescapable way at every opportunity.

One of my models for good policy on this front is the Canadian sales tax exemption for children’s clothing.

It’s applied at point of sale just by telling the clerk. Low cognitive load *but also* reminds you that you’re receiving the benefit every single time.

Also not means tested.

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The extra frustrating thing is that this discourse is popular *even among people who live in multi-family housing*.

A *lot* of temporarily embarrassed apartment-dwellers emerge every time this comes up.