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by 23B1 2y ago
I do care about my questions which are germane to the point of the article. I'm not being philosophical or obtuse; "who watches the watchers" is a common consideration in dealing with accountability and truth, and is indeed a
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> There is no perfection in the area of communication. Bull puckey. I can be precise in my estimate, and contextual in my language. "We believe x to be generally true because of y chance of likelihood" while not precise in conc
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by 23B1 2y ago
You're not thinking deeply enough about the problem, which is annoying because I'm addressing the main thrust of the original article. Staff/editors/leadership cannot be trusted to label correctly if they are serving the
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Labeled by whom, and following what set of rules or guidelines? Are those rules agreed upon and enforced in some way? What are the consequences for breaking those rules?
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by 23B1 2y ago
> The Reason article blurs the distinction between SciAm's opinion pieces and its factual (or putatively factual) reporting. How are readers to know the difference?
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by 23B1 2y ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191121141347.h... Magnesium deprivation stops pathogen growth - November 21, 2019
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by 23B1 2y ago
The user interface for LLMs is stuck in C:\ That's where I'd focus.
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Ask HN: You're nominated to the cabinet: what are your first policies?
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by 23B1 2y ago
Do you mind if I ask how this works 1) with people who aren't on icloud/iOS? 2) publishing-wise? Like are they getting 'feeds' in their imessage apps or...?
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by 23B1 2y ago
Best of luck with you on this endeavor. Regarding getting celebrities and influencers, you're going to have to pick from a group of people who are either highly tolerant of seeing their content next to, say, something really odious, or
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by 23B1 2y ago
Impossible to get a group of people that large to behave strategically. So you're asking the wrong questions. What about the democrats ideology is unpopular? Because that is what people are voting on, not strategy.
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No, that's the crux of the problem as framed by purported rationalists including EA. The real existential question, once you jerk off into the cosmological mirror for long enough, will still be " do you want to?"
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scarcity mindset
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For less than the price of a candy bar you can feel better about yourself for the rest of the day. Small acts acts of kindness are rational even if the guy does go buy a bottle of gin.
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yes but it was cancelled after becoming too popular
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licking_ice_cream_cone
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The academy's fear of 'harmful' words has become more dangerous than the words themselves.
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by 23B1 2y ago
Absolutely none of it. I don't think we are markedly better off as a species because of it. Yes we'd lose probably a good chunk of cultural artifacts but 99% of those are transient and will eventually be lost to the sands of time
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The main point of this article is to explain Ghost's unique approach to open-source publishing software through its non-profit foundation model and its vision for democratic governance. The author (Ghost's original co-founder) out
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< slow clap >
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come for the archive.is link, scroll for the pedantry
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> Ghost has been lucky that their own conflict of interest hasn't been an issue But the whole point of this article is that it wasn't luck, it was intentional from the beginning...
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by 23B1 2y ago
> the posturing here vs. Wordpress really strikes me as someone who has gotten lucky and has attributed that luck to skill instead. Twelve years is a long time to be 'lucky'
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by 23B1 2y ago
Because Sam Altman needs to buy another Greubel Forsey, of course.
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by 23B1 2y ago
You missed the point. Have a great day.
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I'm a fairly libertarian moderate but tyranny-by-proxy is still tyranny.
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Yes. That's the bravery part.
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There are people inside Google who can put a stop to this, if they merely stand up and say "this is wrong" including their CEO. It simply requires bravery and faith in Google's institutional ability to continue to profit doin
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by 23B1 2y ago
"Simple answer, just get everyone to stay home for three weeks and the virus will die out" "Simple answer, just stop electing corrupt politicans" "Simple answer, just stop war" k
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by 23B1 2y ago
I don't think this is gross, I think it's hilarious. My phone is supposed to be a heat sink for other people's B.S.

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