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by 0x3f 7mo ago
I think it's naive to think that things aren't overplayed or dramatized whenever I read such an article, from whatever PoV. So it can only ever be _at most_ as bad as the article claims. Then it's only natural to downplay.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Well, it's also compartmentalized isn't it. It's happening remotely, even if you're buliding the targetting systems or something like that. It's still all abstracted. And as sympathetic as I might be otherwise, ev
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Merely that someone died seems to be a tiny fraction of the claims here.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Well, it's not inherently any more evil than Fanta, is it?
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
I honestly haven't heard him talk much, so would appreciate specific quotes for my analysis/interpretation.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
If I worked at [supposedly evil company], I doubt this largely unverifiable story would cause much turmoil. I'm sure at work I'd be hearing about much worse and more concrete stuff already.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Well I'm not sure I entirely believe this myself, but it seems easy enough to argue that this is progress of a sort. The West assumes pure democracy as the final form of government that we are all convergently evolving towards. But if
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Is ad tech and the like really causing so much suffering? The government work, mass surveilance, killing people etc. doesn't actually pay that much, typically.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Different kinds of claims, it's not self-referential
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
> And smart people usually have moral convictions. Are you sure you don't just like the moral convictions and so engage in trait bundling? Moral knowledge doesn't really exist. I mean you can have personal views on it, but the
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Their last para seems to acknowledge the correlation, but flips your assumed causal direction. I.e. they seem to be implying that the that excess money causes the complexity.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
I thought advertising revenues plummeted mostly for content/optics/PR reasons, not ad-buyer-facing feature reasons.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
I think the person you're replying to is perfectly aware of the correlation, considering it was a primary feature of their comment.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
This seems like a just-so story.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Note we're in a sub-thread about whether 'only data matters, not architecture', so I don't disagree that functionality or revenue are growing _in general_, but that's not we're talking about here. The point is
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
Kids in current year like it
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
For example?
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
> Only with hindsight can we say it was wrong It really depends what you mean by 'we'. Laymen? Maybe. But people said it was wrong at the time with perfectly good reasoning. It might not have been accessible to the average p
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
That's not how I read the transformer stuff around the time it was coming out: they had concrete hypotheses that made sense, not just random attempts at striking it lucky. In other words, they called their shots in advance. I'm n
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
If model arch doesn't matter much how come transformers changed everything?
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
Novel things can be incremental. I don't think LLMs can do that either, at least I've never seen one do it.
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
Roundabouts were introduced in the UK back when car penetration was low and every learner for decades has been indoctrinated into how to use them. It's the education piece that's the problem. People don't intuitively unders
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
It's not exactly the same though You yield to traffic from the left, which mean someone from a leftward entrance has priority, but they can actually be blocked by other traffic. So you have to not only consider yielding to them, but a
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
Seems more like jury nullification than new legislation, in this particular case
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
Perhaps but seems irrelevant to a discussion that's around the question of policy as it relates to people who are already driving.
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
I presented the US' position in the list with the surrounding European countries, both higher and lower, to show that it sits in the cluster. It can be at the edge of the cluster, that's fine. The other person was claiming a 2-1
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
Pre-lawyer it's never a good idea to talk. Post-lawyer often not either. But there are some rare cases you might negotiate a disclosure through your lawyer. For example, if they're about to ransack your home or get you fired fr
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
I haven't conveniently left out anything. I wrote my previous comments intentionally, and specified which statistic I was talking about. If you misread it, that's on you. I used this statistic because yours is like saying the US
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
> No, it doesn't! It's 2 to 10 times more! It's literally not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... > Belgium 7.3 > Slovenia 7.0 > US 6.9 > France 5.8 Never mind
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
I don't see how that could possibly be true. The same flow has to be achieved either way, and lights will always have some margin of inefficiency in switching. Seems lights will always be strictly worse than roundabouts in this sense

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