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gandalfgeek commented on The Undermining of the CDC   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
jfengel · 21 days ago
It really did work like that. Government agencies in general are largely insulated from politics. You do your day to day work and wouldn't even notice a change of administration.

The political appointees set the overall direction, and so projects come and go -- more or less at the same rate as they do even under the same administration.

Having the President interfere so directly with ongoing operations is unprecedented. Maybe that's a good thing; people wanted a change and they got it. But it's not usual.

gandalfgeek · 21 days ago
> Government agencies in general are largely insulated from politics.

This was obviously false during the pandemic when these “health” agencies did what the White House wanted, from the actual “science” to the messaging.

gandalfgeek commented on Warp Code: the fastest way from prompt to production   warp.dev/blog/introducing... · Posted by u/brainless
gandalfgeek · 4 months ago
> Initialize projects with their own WARP.md files (compatible with Agents.MD, Claude.MD and cursor rules).

Can we please standardize this and just have one markdown file that all the agents can use?

gandalfgeek commented on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline   publichealthpolicyjournal... · Posted by u/cainxinth
gandalfgeek · 4 months ago
The coverage of this has been so bad that the authors have had to put up an FAQ[1] on their website, where the first question is the following:

Is it safe to say that LLMs are, in essence, making us "dumber"? No! Please do not use the words like “stupid”, “dumb”, “brain rot”, "harm", "damage", "brain damage", "passivity", "trimming" , "collapse" and so on. It does a huge disservice to this work, as we did not use this vocabulary in the paper, especially if you are a journalist reporting on it.

[1]: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/your-brain-on-chatgpt/ove...

gandalfgeek commented on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline   publichealthpolicyjournal... · Posted by u/cainxinth
gandalfgeek · 4 months ago
The title of the study is provocatively framed and the actual findings don't live up to it. I made a short video explaining it-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLDCi0VwyiQ

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