Avicebron

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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Effective Altruism vs Reality 2: Electric Boogaloo
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
I think everyone is coasting while the craze is on. Either it ends up being able to one shot all work and we have bigger problems. Or it can't, definitively, and we have bigger problems.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
We've gone so far past the "man plants tree whose shade he will never sit under" _almost_ universally. It's hard to see a way back, I know I'm doing my part, helping my struggling community/state. But it's
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
It's probably better to name and shame and make those responsible aware that everyone else knows they are responsible.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
I know, I'm still curious because a lot of people I knew who also lived there were making like 45k to 80k (8 years ago?) So it's relevant to say their job and how much they were making becauase they might be a rarified class among
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Pray tell how much she was making at the time to be able to afford 2400/month in rent?
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Are you somehow blaming the parents in the commenters hypothetical?
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
I think the question is whether or not this is damaging to the case that the Kalshi and others could be regulated state by state..
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Have you heard about how Medicaid estate recovery combines with TEFRA liens to result in unsellable property that depreciates year over year and doesn't free on the death of the original owner? It's a real thing and surprisingly c
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10226
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
If this is a glass house joke well done.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Rate increases don't really work in the US because mortgages don't float.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
When you put it like that, it's actually probably worse to train it on a subset of ethics curated by the people doing the training, aligning with their world view and interests. If the model learned ethics just from raw training it wou
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Or we could, build more housing, tax second homes at like 5000% percent and divert that money into housing relief, outlaw AirBnB, prevent people from moving into an area and buying out the locals... the list goes on
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Because 1) ethics aren't universal. It's perfectly easy to frame ethics for the outcome you want depending on your a priori assumptions. 2) it's blatantly obvious that the business "needs" will supersede any ethical
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Rubber stamp for hire?
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Plenty of us survived the internet when it was an even wilder west, IRC chats with strangers trying to learn perl, not putting your name and social security number into random websites. Being aware of predators. It's a very specific ki
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
We've let the government get bloated, inefficient and corrupt by allowing private enterprise to have an outsized effect on it. Private enterprise can hire people to live next to DC and spend every waking minute pushing their agenda on
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
I think that was an example of voting with the wallet. Tim Apple's wallet just happens to have more votes in it than Joe Dirt's.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
I think part of the problem this go around is that the information landscape has changed so much in ~30 years, that we are still trying to grapple with how to navigate this new terrain. If information and technology is causing everything to
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
"Nobody intelligent opposes dovecote construction"* *French nobility circa 1789
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
> Growing is size maybe, but the middle and lower classes are both getting much richer. This is an illusion caused by poor measurement. You can argue all you want about how much a pickup truck's safety/bell and whistles have im
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Ah yes the old "structural failing is actually a moral failing of the losers". If you care to educate yourself so the rest of us aren't just snickering behind our hands next time you speak. Read Watts, Duncan, and Quan (2018)
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
"Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money!" And again we sacrifice children at the alter.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
I don't think anyone saw this coming, you mean the increased work and productivity from AI isn't going to be rewarded in any way for the regular joe worker?
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
At some point the problems compound faster than the "1% improvement" each year. The author deliberately doesn't wealth inequality/misaligned financial incentives driving misery at a global scale which makes it very hard
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Hopefully the naked, unabashed, sociopathic greed of the intent to replace people with a system that "outperforms humans at most economically valuable work" will be their downfall.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Turns out when people can't afford kids, healthcare, housing they are unhappy.
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...the point being the hypocrisy of exercising that option in the name of removing subsidized power, not the literal financial mechanism.
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by Avicebron 2mo ago
Good thing we have the scions of elites hard at work in their brownstones to tell us about this great "paradigm shift"

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