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by Ajedi32 1y ago
"Give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry, 1775 Same sentiment. For a lot of people, freedom is more valuable than even life itself.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I'd take that bet, were I a betting man. There are 0.85 vehicles per capita in the US. Making roads an average of 1/0.85 = 17.6% more expensive for car owners is very unlikely to break the bank for any significant number of people
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
The article says: > “Traditionally, the [e-paper display] controller used a single-state machine to control the entire panel, with only two states: static and updating,” says Modos cofounder Wenting Zhang. “Caster treats each pixel indiv
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
True, infrastructure is tricky because you can't have a truly free market due to the impracticality of building, for example, multiple competing road networks. It's a natural monopoly. So instead you end up having to make some dec
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Their loss. But that's simply yet another reason to move towards a market-based approach; people can choose whatever works best for them as an individual even if others think it's a terrible choice. Let trains where people are pac
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Exactly. Cars are a better experience in almost all cases, but also have higher marginal costs. They also take up a lot of space, which in a dense city where space is at a premium makes them even more expensive due to the cost of things l
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
People are going to respond to incentives whether you think they should or not. I think it's less "mindsets" that have changed so much as the incentives themselves. People no longer need to have kids in order to have sex or t
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> US income tax structure is gives massive benefits to couples with single income It gives massive structural advantages to couples with low income, in the form of a lower marginal tax rate. Does it really discriminate between single a
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I think the biggest difference isn't age, it's that childcare also happens during the summer, not just during the school year. (And of course the lack of any particular educational curriculum.)
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Correct. It all comes down to whether you believe parents leaving home to work on their careers instead of staying home to raise their kids is an unambiguous good that needs to be subsidized the same way education is.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Tax $100 each from couple A and couple B. Couple A leave their kids at a daycare and work. They get $200 in childcare costs reimbursed by the government. Couple B has one parent stay home to take care of their kids. They get nothing. Couple
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
With this option, they are now financially penalized for making that choice in order to subsidize those who don't. I'm not so sure that's a good thing.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Or create an economic incentive for it and let the market do the rest. I tend to favor that approach instead because it allows more room for innovation and makes it much easier to quantify exactly how much you're spending by distorting
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
You said the problem was caused by: > failing to reign in social media That's a prescriptive statement which implies you have an opinion on what should have been done instead (to "reign in social media") that you're a
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
"Stricter regulations" like what? It's easy to talk in the abstract about how "someone ought to do something", but if you're not asking for censorship then what exactly are you asking for? Without any specifics
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Interesting. Are you arguing in that case censorship would have been a good thing? Is there a principled stance to be made here, or is it just "people should have freedom of speech when I agree with their goals, and be censored if I do
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
LLMs are not moral agents. Any attempt to make them behave that way will necessarily be "staple[ed] on afterwards".
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I think that may indeed be a less abstract, more understandable way to frame the problem for the public. But regardless of how you frame it the root cause is the same: Why can't you participate in society without an Apple or Google acc
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I tried Dvorak for a while but gave up after I realized: 1. Not only are the key positions for typing different, but all the keyboard shortcuts I know needed to be re-learned too, and were often in much worse locations (as just one of many
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> I'd assume they'll start launching real ones within ~1-3 months I think it's still a bit early for that given that they've only had one successful flight and are still testing lots of new design changes, but I think
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
That's not how it works. If you pay people to dig a giant hole in the ground and then fill it back in, that money "goes back into the economy" but that doesn't mean it's not wasteful.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
This is textbook whataboutism. The type of device-pwning malware Google is concerned with here has very little in common with "casino-like games on the playstore".
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> if you don’t understand how and why these capabilities are used by services, I’m also suspicious you understand the harms accurately Yeah, I see this mentality a lot on HN (and kinda everywhere for that matter). "Anyone who disagr
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Especially if it's illegal (like speaking against the government, in some countries). Maybe this is a bit of a hot take, but I think any government that has the ability to absolutely prevent people from breaking the law is a governme
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
IMO this whole situation is ridiculous. #2-#4 are the government trying to impose its national laws on an entity in a completely different country, operating entirely in that completely different country, with no business relationship whats
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I fully agree tariffs should be the purview of Congress, but that's not a "similar argument". Trump was elected just as Congress was.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Trust has to be earned. High-trust societies are awesome, but you can't just expect people to trust that they're not going to be robbed in the street if people keep getting robbed in the street, or that the few criminals that do e
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
There was an obvious disclaimer though, and the chat window was clearly labeled "AI"; it's not like Meta was trying to pass this off as a real person. So is this just a question of how many warnings need to be in place before
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Why? They're exactly the same thing, just in a slightly different context. The article is about a fictional character AI, not a generic informational chat bot.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
> AI needs to more hard-coded w/r/t honesty & clarity about what it is That precludes the existence of fictional character AIs like Meta is trying to create, does it not? Knowing when to stay in character and when not to se

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