BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Well, sort of. One scenario is to say "it is illegal to let your property be vacant (for more than X months etc. etc.)". Then suddenly all these owners are violating laws. Another is to say "it is illegal to hold more than
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Smooth it out for who? If the answer is "the person who owns a $20 million building" then my answer is "I don't care".
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
When people are fulfilling their obligations and most other people are not happy with the outcome, that usually means the definition of "obligations" is wrong.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Have you heard of this thing called people being happy. . .
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
My preferred solution is "whoever has the most money gets the risk".
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
> That can crash the rental market. At this point I think that's exactly what we need in a lot of places.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
To me it's somehow emblematic of the situation that we can have an article that starts off talking seemingly reasonably about indoor corridors and building heights, and then halfway through pivots to arguments based on self-driving car
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
The comment they were replying to specifically asked if it was a re-skin.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Here is the problem: > Half empty, the building is only generating $500k per year in net income instead of $1M. > Let’s imagine the owner lowers the rent by 30% to fill the building. > Now, reality has proven the operator can only
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
The problem there isn't immigration, it's exploitation of workers. If the person paying that Sri Lankan were to go to jail for his violation of labor law, the situation would be different.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
More sanctimonious billionaire apologism. Nope, all wrong. You can't earn a billion dollars, and nothing in this essay shows you can. You can get a billion dollars, and maybe you can even wind up with a billion dollars without bei
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
This is oddly satisfying. Only weird part is it seems to split whichever piece I click, even if it's behind another piece or in between two other pieces, where it would be difficult or impossible to hit just that one piece and not the
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
> We just attached a penalty to honesty in the one industry where we most need the labs to tell us what their systems can actually do. Give me a break. Does anyone really believe these AI companies are being honest? There's no way
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Even better, don't trust LLMs at all.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
A large portion of that half will continue to want the wrong thing anyway.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
> I'm sorry, but when you cry out for government involvement, it's not always going to be coming from the government you personally wanted. This is the whole problem with government involvement! That is not the problem with gov
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
> These are heading in the direction of being powerful cybersecurity weapons and it will be in the interest of nation states to restrict and control them. In 2 years time, I would be surprised if the strongest LLMs are available for gene
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
That can be true, but I think even in such areas there can often be something interesting if you have an openness to a certain kind of modern "anti-beauty". I mean stuff like liminal spaces, places that are interesting because th
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
> Kind of sounds like the community is full of people willing to cause me harm for ideological reasons. You just described everyone using AI to churn out slop and overload websites.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
The US is not nearly as bad as Russia (yet), but it's worth considering.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
This just means next time they'll make sure to keep it really secret.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
"Single file" is a bit misleading when it requires Github to do anything.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Then he should probably move out of Russia. As near as I can tell, pretty much everyone in Russia should be trying to leave at the earliest opportunity.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
This was slightly more thoughtful than I feared it would be. However, what I still do not see in any posts from any of these AI pushers is any genuine consideration of the possibility that the best thing might be for them to do less of w
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
It is certainly true that providers charge more in the US. However, it's hard to disentangle this from the insurance issue because of the way that providers and insurers are intertwined in a gordian knot of insanity. The article menti
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Most corporate jobs are performative, period.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder how many people using these AI tools are thinking about the long game. First it's "the model will say it can't do that". Now it's "the model will just misdirect y
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
> This slows down deploying the system globally. Good. Pretty much everything should roll out way slower.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
> these types of compliance efforts can mean completely redoing multiple core systems to handle privacy, wipeout, audit, reporting, per-location policies, etc etc. These efforts can involve hundreds to thousands of people for multiple ye
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Well, at least the faculty are actually giving out the Fs and not just lowering the bar, so kudos to them for that.

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