BobbyJo

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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Neither of these two arguments hold any water. I see them all the time, but they really just feel like justification after the fact, as both can be applied to such a large swath of information as to be useless. The first would require we ou
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
CSAM is unique in that society, almost uniformly, classifies it as wrong, even when there is no relationship to any material harm. I think parent's argumentative basis is simply that the information itself is evil at face value, an the
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Yes, but they generally shoot for 5-10x. So they are betting on OpenAI growing gross revenue like 20x assuming their costs stay the same.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> Google's current market capitalization is in the trillions. 2 trillion. Approximately 13x OpenAI's current valuation. Google nets almost 100 billion a year. OpenAI grosses 4 billion a year. Wild numbers.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Social media accounts with high engagement, and a long life, have monetary value. This is true of most social media platforms. HN generally does a good job of minimizing the value of accounts, thus discouraging these kinds of games, but I i
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> In which case I think you can prevent contagion from being too terrible by enforcing smaller modules and single responsibility in a compositional way. I would classify that as thoughtful interface design.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> Is it fair to say that's part of American culture then? I think so. > How much profit would have been lost if a company was public about supporting blacks and upsetting the white supremacist culture of the time? In the 1970s? N
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> How well do you know about what happens in other countries? Pretty well. > To me it sounds like everywhere, once limitations to the flow of global capital are dropped. Its a matter of degree, hence "maximalism". Just look
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
I am pointing out that, the moment betting and marijuana got the "you can profit from this" nod, money poured in and profit seeking explodes. Build! Advertise! Build! Advertise! This is the American way. Capital circles potential
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> There is a broad spectrum of other options in between those points that tend to be under-discussed. Where we fall on that spectrum is generally a matter of culture, rather than regulation. American culture is one of maximalism, especia
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
I can't imagine Visa would continue to operate in Europe if it wasn't profitable, and I'm not surprised that there are no European competitors considering Visa has the highly profitable U.S. market to buoy their position in E
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> There is no "clear way" to fix this. If there was, it would be used already. What do you mean by "this"? When I said "this", I meant this specific form of tax avoidance. There is a clear way to fix it, as
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> the imbalance of application effort vs employer response. A recent issue in the job application realm is AI application bots that will apply to 100's of jobs on your behalf, which is the opposite problem. Seems like both sides are
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
I mean, the clear way to deal with this is to make them choose, and allow import tariffs. Get taxed where the nexus is, and pay to bring the value to other jurisdictions. I understand that the web of various tax laws and trade agreements ma
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
The communities where Boeing employees live did indeed make money.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
These are answered questions. If you are talking about the raw data, you have to get the respondents to agree that their answers become your property (either implicitly or explicitly, there are rules around both), or no, you do not own the
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Its almost funny how important environmentalism is to Musk when Tesla is the context, and how unimportant it is when SpaceX is the context. It's wild how his image has gone from forward thinking genius businessman to bipolar self-servi
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Your immune system traps and isolates tattoo ink and prevents it from free contact with other tissues, so I don't see that working in practice.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> If AGI is actually reached, capital as we know it basically becomes worthless I see it as capital becoming infinitely more valuable and labor becoming worthless, since capital can be transmuted directly into labor at that point.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
I find it funny when people write this off a psychosomatic. I find it similarly funny when people claim a conspiracy I find the skeptical view that it would have to be some crazy science fiction "sick ray" kind of childish. The CI
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
I don't see where they claimed what you're saying. I see they claimed to "do it for a living". I see where they say it only makes sense for clients with 300M+ net worth. There are plenty of other ways to interpret those
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
You want me to enumerate the potential experiences a tax lawyer may have, outside of having hundreds of clients with a net worth of 300M dollars, over a 20+ year career, that would allow them to do the math outlined in the post? I don'
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> So this one random lawyer on reddit has hundreds of clients with a net worth of $300M+? Or, they're LARPing. Those are not the only options. That's a pretty bad strawman.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Yeah, but there is no clear link between user intent. To make the two equivalent in this case, TikTok would have to prove people were served this content because they intended to see it, which I'd bet every dollar I have that they can&
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Was it presented that way though? Judging by the timeline, it seemed like initial low rates had more to do with it being a new system, and less to do with some kind if "we will only do this to the rich" promise. Also, they tried i
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Search engines are surfacing content based on explicit user input, and can connect that content directly to an interpretation of user intent. TikTok surfaces content algorithmically, unprompted by any explicit user intent (other than openin
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Yes, but parent's example presented none of those arguments.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> I'm not sure what you're arguing - that it changed dramatically or that it has not changed dramatically. Im arguing that the original comment, that income taxes weren't originally intended to be what they are today, or i
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
1) Effective taxes aren't much different today. A married couple with no kids will pay < 5% on 50k. FICA is what makes it higher, so not exactly apples to apples. 2) You're choosing 1917, pre changes, to paint an inaccurate pic
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> Once the door to a new government power is unlocked, it never closes it only gets more open. I don't think "slippery slope" is a reasonable defense here, especially with the situation you're using as an example. The

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