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by 2devnull 3y ago
A screwdriver is really dangerous. If you stick it into your eye you’ll go blind. It would be insane to do that. Such risks are probably not things that we as a society should let prevent us from having screwdrivers. Ditto for gpt.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Some of them aren’t merely lacking access to resources. Mental illness is part of the picture too. Trains and busses are warm comfortable places for such, as well as the criminal element. People think of bus and subway stations as dirty and
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Yes, much of it seems circumstantial. People who have communities are in a different situation than people who do not. A lot of loneliness is age related, location related, etc… This thread is filled with kind, well intended, totally worthl
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Balance sheets. It takes awhile for cash fattened organizations to bleed to death.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Not true. Sometimes you come out ahead by having no income because income disqualifies you for various social services. This is a well known problem.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
The first thing to learn is you can’t trust the internet. From that you’ll know not to trust gpt. If you are prone to trusting things blindly, without doing your own research or verification, you have far bigger problems than gpt “hallucina
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by 2devnull 3y ago
For a good general non-technical introduction I recommend the YouTube computerphile series related to language models, transformers and other general concepts. If you are interested in actually doing stuff there’s an over abundance of mater
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by 2devnull 3y ago
This is greatly reassuring.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
If wealth were useable as a metric for poverty it would be used. It’s not. We define poverty based on income. Not because nobody has ever thought about it in the same lucid terms as yourself, nor is it because the prevailing ethnic group or
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by 2devnull 3y ago
I’m saying it’s not useful in policy as measurement of poverty. Poverty is and forever will be defined by income. Wealth is used in policy like everything else, yes of course. Tax policy is a great example. Is there anything that tax policy
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Income isn’t perfect but it’s used for a reason. Think about the problems inherent in defining “wealth”. It’s too squishy a concept to use for policy reasons, or else they would. Is somebody who makes seven figures but spends it all on foo
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by 2devnull 3y ago
This is daft. Treating wealth as a measure of poverty wouldn’t work. Think about why. It pretends families don’t exist. Total non-starter.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
“are fine for a lot longer.” My point is that “a longer” implies “when” rather than “if”. Everyone is replaceable, in the long run.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
“if your day job can already be automated by chatgpt” If they can automate the work of a physician, who exactly is safe? Low skill labor, maybe, for awhile.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Has any major national election ever been proven fraudulent? The most widely publicized election fraud examples, usually but not always coming from openly despotic regimes, never are proven per se. They are just accepted as fraud by the int
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Timing is everything.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
“math does lose its usefulness around after trig” This is the most jarring thing I’ve read today. I can’t say I agree, but I haven’t spent 15 years studying math myself, so who am I to disagree.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
I had a nice dialog with GPT (davinci) that made me reconsider very similar reticence I felt about nudging. I think nudges can be done in ways that are transparent, ethical and long run net positive. But clearly it’s a very complicated subj
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Conspicuous consumption. To see and be seen as one of the group.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
I don’t think poverty can be reduced to any one cause. People are poor for a lot of different reasons, often multiple reasons. Some people have problems with financial reasoning, or other psychological money related issues (shopping addicti
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by 2devnull 3y ago
With respect to housing specifically? I’d be ok with a bunch of different tax policy changes, various policies that encourage housing development, etc... This change in fico value sends a message that will have a very negative impact on tho
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Policy that incentivizes the lower class to be more reckless with their already insurmountable debt levels seems morally dubious. A strange thing to support.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
“Powershell(tm): Not Entirely Awful (if a little quirky)!” Seems worth investing a lot time into given Microsoft’s history of not rug pulling developers.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Anomaly detection is my current favorite use case for GPTs. Other problems can potentially be recast as anomaly detection that are not currently thought of as such. Regulation for instance.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Measuring output by LOC is not a very useful metric. The sort of code that’s most suited to ai is closer to data than code.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
You’re correct it was a stupid post on my part. I would delete it if I could. My emotions got the better of me. I’m frustrated by the decline of Wikipedia and used your post as a chance to air that frustration. I do apologize and I’m sure y
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by 2devnull 4y ago
This isn’t a very useful discussion without reference to displacement, geographically and socially. When we compare our atomized society to others and note the contrast, rarely to we correctly pinpoint the cause of the atomization. It’s ver
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Wikipedia is an hate filled cesspool where literal war is being waged, day in day out, year after year. If you don’t understand that, I’m guessing you don’t view the history or talk sections, which makes you a uniformed user, and arguably
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by 2devnull 4y ago
If the default understanding is a strawman of what all self-avowed free speech absolutists believe, that will favor the side of those free speech absolutists in the long run. I’m ok with that. I’ll be right now and forever, the rest of you
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Lots of cringy posts here. It was obvious a lab leak was the most likely. It’s useful that so many people discredited their intelligence by making outlandish assertions to the contrary, often going so far as to accuse anyone who disagreed a

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