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  2. The Case for Learning in the Era of AI (jonbehnken.substack.com)
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  3. Show HN: Way to divide parameter space in LLM training (zenodo.org)
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  4. OpenAI: Self-replicating prompt injections exist (alignment.openai.com)
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  5. Just Ask Jev: Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions (arxiv.org)
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  11. What will AI do to our jobs and our wages? [video] (youtube.com)
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  13. Show HN: Pawl – iOS gambling blocker you unlock with a physical Security Key (github.com/jasonepage)
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  15. Don't Solve My Sudoku (ubavic.rs)
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  16. AI models have caught up with Unity dev (reddit.com)
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  17. Mechanistic reasoning in biology among elementary school children (tandfonline.com)
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  18. David Letterman meets Manny the Hippie in Haight-Ashbury (1996) [video] (youtube.com)
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  19. Handwritten Notes for Friends and Machines (ifup.org)
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  20. AI Exec: We May Have Pulled Off "The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History" (motherjones.com)
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  21. Ask HN: Did you not get the warnings about building thinking machines in Dune?
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  22. Video CDs Break Windows Explorer (clydesnotes.blogspot.com)
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  23. Stock Buybacks and Quarterly Thinking: How America Fell Behind in Battery Tech (ineteconomics.org)
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  24. Show HN: CaughtShipping – curfew app for developers, enforced by a public wall (caughtshipping.com)
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  25. Who is going to teach the junior developers? (luap.info)
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  26. Seed Game (seed.game)
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  27. Show HN: Shielded Bitcoin – private payments on Bitcoin, proven in the browser (bitcoin.pe)
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  28. Schools for the poor are not poor schools (economist.com)
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  29. My brother's new high rise apartment doesn't allow individual internet services (reddit.com)
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  30. Show HN: Billed – a one-time-purchase invoicing app (no subscription) (apps.microsoft.com)
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Ask HN: Have you read the Dune books by Frank Herbert?

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39m agoHN ↗

Yes.

This is a closed question (asks for yes/no answer). Better to ask open-ended questions, like "What inspiration did you get from Dune?" or "What other books did you enjoy after reading Dune?" etc.

Open-ended question lead to more curiosity and interesting conversation.

27m agoHN ↗

Read them, listened to them, watched the movies. I liked the first three (Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune) the best, but I've gone through them all. Have you? What did you think?

The ban on thinking machines seems like something that's particularly relevant in the age of AI. Will we reach that stage as well (post WW3, perhaps?) or will AI be benevolent and benefit society?