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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
> "We aim to inform debate with clear, sourced numbers while avoiding sensationalism." This is a great aspiration, but it seems to be contradicted by the rest of the page, which provides unclear numbers from unsourced categorie
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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
As usual, the facts are in the linked report not in the journalist's summary. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nrMSJOxI6Iqw6HRKtnvWjOkj3tp... It's more precise, avoiding that strange construction, "
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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
If a parrot squawks, "1,345 multiplied by 785 equals 1,055,825", you would be logically and factually incorrect to say 'Well, that's wrong because how would a bird know". The historical meaning of the word 'hom
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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
Some discussions are dialectic, where a group is cooperatively reasoning toward a shared truth. In dialectical discussions, good faith is crucial. AI can't participate in dialectical work. Most public discourse is not dialectical, it i
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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
1. A bot-generated argument is still an argument. I can't make claims about the truth or falsity based on the enunciator, that's simply ad hominem. 2. A bot-generated image is not a record of photon-emissions in the physical world
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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
Structural Engineer is a type of Civil Engineer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_engineering
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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
Similarly, Yudkowsky and Soares of the Singularity Institute have a new book out: "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43999734
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies(lesswrong.com)
9 points by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago|7 comments
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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
That is a factually inaccurate description of the role of federal agencies under Chevron deference. Chevron deference was a legal doctrine that required courts to defer to reasonable agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, not a mecha
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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
Anecdotally, I know of 2 examples of friends who work in traditional manufacturing who have changed packaging graphics and colors because their previous designs were difficult for optics. Specifically, both of them had to stop using black-c
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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
I think it's significant that the comment you're replying to didn't use 'woke'. > Today, virtually everyone is anti-woke. I'd extend your claim. Tautologically, everyone is anti-woke.
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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
> Crazy that a university would call the police when one of their students makes explicit death threats against the president What was the source that misinformed you into believing that this contained an explicit death threat against th
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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
No, they're not boring, but they're qualitatively different types of problems. Going to Mars and living forever are primarily technical problems. Starvation, authoritarianism, inequality, and genocide are primarily political probl
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by AftHurrahWinch 1y ago
It seems perfectly in character that your response would be so sparse while your interlocutor was so evocative.
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
Original title: Niemann withdraws from Freestyle Chess in Paris hours after being informed about new security equipment Apologies for mangling it, it was much too long My summary: "Niemann had recently shared a post on social media inf
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Niemann withdraws hours after being informed of new security equipment(firstpost.com)
2 points by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago|3 comments
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
I think that's a more defensible position than "fake 'animal welfare'" and "propaganda for nefarious purposes". I suppose one could see giving hens room to move as "a convenient excuse to raise profit
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
Did you read the linked evidence that the "animal welfare" program was fake? What part of it did you interpret as fake? What evidence supports your conclusion that this is an example of "propaganda for nefarious purposes&quot
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
I've lived through two major crises as a technical professional: Y2K, where I spent thousands of hours updating date systems, and COVID-19, where I developed pandemic surveillance systems. Something striking connects these experiences:
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
Can you offer a little syllabus for this comment? It reminds me of Aldous Huxley's "The Perennial Philosophy" in your interpretation of the Beatitudes through a universalist lens... but where do you get the concept of 19 pair
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
Good question. These ads don't look political to me: The New York Times: https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR047539896236... The Economist: https://adstransparency.google.com/advertise
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
> and to your question there, one example is to look at Japan. They give candidates an allotted minimum amount of time on TV for free. A candidate gets platformed purely by running. I would be willing to try it in one of our laboratories
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
You might find this interesting! "The Impact of Negative Political Advertisement on Voter Behaviour in Germany – an Experiment" https://www.kas.de/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=f8324712... "Negat
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
I never thought I'd be so amazed by photos of moss, but 12 square kilometers of a mossy plain in the Antarctic is something I never thought I'd see. Fig. 2: Change in the areal extent of likely vegetation cover is the bar-graph I&
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Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites(nature.com)
4 points by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago|1 comments
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
It's not a stupid question, but ice is remarkably durable and has 'self healing properties', to describe ice-cubes sticking together in the most pretentious way possible. There have been projects to make battleships out of ic
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
Scott Alexander's recent article, "Details That You Should Include In Your Article On How We Should Do Something About Mentally Ill Homeless People", strongly informs my reading of this new Freddie piece. Here's the Scot
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
It was interesting to me too. I had a cliche Mission Impossible understanding of intelligence work... "your mission, should you accept it ... as always, should you be caught, the Secretary will disavow..."
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by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago
MOSCOW, Aug 2 (Reuters) - A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children found out they were Russians only after the flight took off,
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Children of freed sleeper agents learned they were Russians on the flight(reuters.com)
33 points by AftHurrahWinch 2y ago|22 comments

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