Social security office knows that there are records in that database without confirmed deaths.

They use multiple techniques and data sources to determine who to send benefits to.

This is not news to the SSA.

https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf

"AGENCY COMMENTS SSA disagreed with our recommendations. Agency officials stated that most of the records discussed in the report involve numberholders who do not currently receive SSA payment"

So, they can do better, but sure, they are sending some relatively small number of checks out to dead people. That doesn't mean Musk needs to lie about the the program as an excuse to cut the whole thing, which is actually what we see playing out.

> Testers preferred o3-mini's responses to o1-mini 56% of the time

I hope by this they don't mean me, when I'm asked 'which of these two responses do you prefer'.

They're both 2,000 words, and I asked a question because I have something to do. I'm not reading them both; I'm usually just selecting the one that answered first.

That prompt is pointless. Perhaps as evidenced by the essentially 50% response rate: it's a coin-flip.

Sounds like you just grew up. I hear lots of people romanticizing the good old days not thinking about all the people who thought those good days were actually their current bad days, they were simply older than you; and similarly, I see lots of young people saying that these recent times are the good days while older people lament their downturn.

I wish someone more knowledgeable could explain how this is currently valued at $25 billion.

Is that legitimately $25 billion “on paper”, or is that like an initial “stated value”? I don’t even have the precise language for the question.

Regardless, I’m sure it’s a big grift almost certainly, but I don’t understand the valuation.

In general I feel like social medias tends to downrank links, and I think that's a very bad thing to internet

> The next big thing was Cursor. I must admit that I never personally fell in love with it, but given how many people I respect love it, I think that’s a me-problem

I've met so many engineers who have said exactly this. There are clearly some group of people obsessed with Cursor, but it's interesting to me how alien they seem to the majority of people using ai codegen right now.