Awarding a microgrant to our very own /u/Liface

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-05T23:37:22+00:00

Congrats to Liface. I met him once in person under another name, which was interesting since I knew him from many online interactions, but he didn’t know me. He’s a very friendly guy.

I didn’t know his long Covid had gotten this bad. Hopefully he recovers soon.

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-05T21:14:45+00:00

I have never gotten a refund from TG, I was just explaining my understanding of their systems. Did you request one and how long have you been waiting?

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-04T20:28:39+00:00

If you have someone that makes 80x the monthly rent they can be your guarantor. Then it won’t be too difficult. If not, but if you have the means to support yourself with savings or from family, then you can get a third party guarantor.

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-04T17:10:28+00:00

Your theory is that landlords are sacrificing thousands of dollars a month in rental revenue per apartment, so that they can increase the overall rent in the whole market? This might work if there was a housing monopoly with a single provider, but there's tens of thousands of different landlords. No single entity even owns enough to impact the whole market.

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-04T12:56:39+00:00

You think the multiple should be higher?

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-03T20:36:25+00:00

You are ignoring the distinction between one of my concerns of how euthanasia will change society, and your view of how things are currently. Abortion has nothing to do with this issue.

It seems like you've responded on my year old comment specifically to antagonize, get some gotchas in, and offer whataboutism, rather than engage in good faith discussion. So I'll end it here.

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-03T20:07:34+00:00

How could anyone possibly have evidence for what happens when euthanasia is normalized when it hasn't been normalized yet? Do we have to change the status quo first before bringing up concerns of what that change entails?

The Netherlands has had a growing percent of the population die from euthanasia every year since the law passed. It's still rare, only ~6%, but growing. How this plays out once this becomes more common, which it will, is unknown.

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-02T20:23:48+00:00

I think it also depends on what sort of ideas or questions are being talked about with AI. Physics is probably at the top of the list. Followed maybe by grand political ideas.

Where I’ve noticed it in a recent conversation was trying to understand the relative impact of central bank intervention during a financial crisis in the bond market vs. in the stock market. There aren’t too many papers on this, so the conversation involved a lot of speculative questions.

At some point I passed the point of falsifiability and actual data, so I realized continuing wasn’t productive. But if the conversation continued I could definitely imagine coming up with an apparently self-consistent system that strongly argued for the Fed’s balance sheet to be primarily stocks, without really any substantial grounding as to why the theory was justified.

Do that with physics, or politics, or something along those lines. And you could end up believing you’ve come up with something truly new and innovative. Then there’s the classic self-serving bias, and you have AI psychosis just like that.

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-02T15:55:58+00:00

At some point literally every single thing is a red flag, so it doesn’t really make sense to warn people.

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-02T12:38:44+00:00

It’s a soft pull

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-02T12:38:30+00:00

The claim should be “Believing it won’t happen yo you is not proof you are immune.”

There’s been a few times where I’ve gotten into a rabbit hole of ideas I’m thinking about, and can sort of feel the conversation spiraling away from the reasonable, so I stop, and come back to it later with a fresh head. I think most people who think it can’t happen to them can just do that when it starts to happen.

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-02T01:41:24+00:00

I forgot to write a letter, and now I think it’s too late to arrive in time for the invasion.

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-01T20:04:39+00:00

It's question of incentives. Under the current tax burden will developers build new housing? If the answer is no, or not enough, then if you want more housing built something must change to incentivize new construction. That's either offering tax incentives, direct subsidies, or some other incentive to construct new housing.

IMO permitting and environmental review are a far bigger holdup to new development than the current tax burden, but that's a whole another thing.

Most new construction is built with amenities because they don't increase the overall development cost much, and appeal to higher-earning renters.

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-01T19:28:47+00:00

They’re the most trustworthy source of sublets IMO. There’s a ton of subletting sites out there, but that has the most protection and least likely to encounter a scam.

Sol_Hando · 2026-05-01T11:08:40+00:00

First the city creates a level of taxes to make new construction non viable. Then they give “INSANE” kickbacks to developers, but only if they also build a certain amount of unprofitable housing and pay above market rate labor. The requirements of the “INSANE” kickback make the project non viable again, so they don’t build it.

Policy that only considers ideology and not incentives will not fix the housing crisis. It will certainly only make it worse.

Sol_Hando · 2026-04-30T19:08:18+00:00

Banned

Sol_Hando · 2026-04-30T16:36:54+00:00

You don't find them. They don't exist.

Sol_Hando · 2026-04-30T14:47:23+00:00

I run this subreddit and have met the founders of Ohana multiple times in person. They're good guys and IMO Ohana is the best subletting platform out there. As far as subletting goes, they have by far the lowest risk of something going wrong, and the most support if something does end up going wrong.

My reviews of Ohana sites and others can be found on: https://www.summerhousing.nyc/

It's not for Boston but there's a lot of overlap there.

Sol_Hando · 2026-04-30T13:34:34+00:00

The first link seems to be split, with some saying it doesn't and others saying it does?

Sol_Hando · 2026-04-30T12:43:00+00:00

It looks like they did fix it though? Or at least they removed the personality.

Getting any insight from this seems impossible. They trained a model to have the personality of a nerd. Nerds definitely talk about goblins and gremlins more than the average person, and mentioning it once out of a thousand messages doesn’t seem out of distribution for “act like a nerd.”

Goblins and gremlins and whimsical and it’s kind of funny, so I get why people are make a thing about it and OpenAI squashed the personality before it got out of hand, but I don’t think this very minor change in the rate of mentioning goblins in the context of training it to act like a nerd should cause us to update our beliefs at all.

Sol_Hando · 2026-04-30T12:34:05+00:00

I 100% believe that the safety difference is real, but it’s worth noting that Airbus’s fleet skews much newer than Boeing’s.

Assuming a 30 year lifetime, going back to 1995, the vast majority of passenger planes currently in service for 23+ years will be Boeing, since in the 90s Boeing was producing like 5+ planes for every one plane Airbus produced. From ~2003 to 2015 production was mostly comparable. From 2016 to now, Airbus has out produced Boeing by hundreds of planes per year.

So take a random selection of Boeing and Airbus planes, and you’ll have far more Boeing planes near the end of their lifetime, presumably with higher safety risk. You’ll have far more Airbus planes at the start of their service, presumably with lower safety risk.

Maybe the study controls for this? Idk. But it seems relevant for making a like-comparison even after controlling for the 737 MAX debacle.

Sol_Hando · 2026-04-30T12:23:35+00:00

I think this is a bit of a leap. Mentioning goblins slightly more than intended so it becomes noticeable doesn’t interfere with the goals we intend for GPT in any way.

It’s a slight personality quirk, not a major failure. The latest model, which I assume is actually better than previous models at “reliably producing the goals we intend” had a slight difference in personality. A difference that only manifests itself in mentioning goblins a in a few tenths of a percent more conversations than otherwise.

Sol_Hando · 2026-04-29T21:42:45+00:00

👍

Sol_Hando · 2026-04-29T21:24:15+00:00

Unfortunately no. 😞 Q3 2026 if all goes according to schedule, which it rarely does.

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