@CJHandmer @michael_nielsen It seems the opposite to me, that ruinous recipes are quite rare. Megaton bombs have to be made exactly right to work. Deadly viruses have to precisely target a weakness in our immune system. There are only tens of ruinous recipes currently known of, among millions of useful.

@aphysicist I guess whatever domain you think coding assistants aren't delivering in. Public challenge problems like "write this functionality from this prompt" seem very worthwhile.

@NoRiskNoParty Just say it's due to corporate greed.

@jamescham @elonmusk Ah yes, let's just define what is good. I don't know why moral philosophers never tried that before. /s I think the best we can do is identify things that almost everyone agrees are bad and penalize those responses.

@eshear I still think you need an external metric of whether it's producing good original ideas vs. endless mental masturbation.

@eshear And you wouldn't want to rate something higher if it took longer to converge to the same final loss.

@koomen @dsiroker You two have come a long way!

@perrymetzger In the US, the reserve requirement is currently zero.

@bsierakowski I wonder. I imagine grifters blowing it on big TVs and fast fashion, but the smarter grifters must have known that the end was nigh and saved.

Might've found the protocol with the most different names. (It's how your TV remote control adjusts the volume on your speakers.)

@perrymetzger The US economy hasn't worked that way in a long time. Now, banks create money by issuing loans. The only limit to the amount of money is people's willingness to pay the interest.

@patio11 Which is bad, because during the public debate you have only a-priori answers, like "all government is bad so all cuts are good" or "all spending is good because, uh, it helps our friends". Timely non-partisan analyses are a huge public good!

@hansonjw In the long term, yes. But income tax rates change slowly (once a year) and the cuts might happen much faster, so monetary policy has to bridge the gap.

Should we expect zero interest rates again soon?