CGMthrowaway

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by CGMthrowaway 8d ago
Hopefully enough smart people out there can distinguish between many "AI safety" people and actual AI engineers/scientists at these labs working at the coalface. AI ethics reminds me of "design thinking" grifters or
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Zuckerberg on Slowing Down AI(twitter.com)
2 points by CGMthrowaway 9d ago|0 comments
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US gov't orders Kalshi halt AI compute price tracker over natl security concerns(semafor.com)
4 points by CGMthrowaway 10d ago|0 comments
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Poland lost $230M trying to buy Venezuelan oil with crypto(ft.com)
2 points by CGMthrowaway 11d ago|0 comments
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AI safety / ethics are fake fields and merely exist to create more power brokers(twitter.com)
2 points by CGMthrowaway 11d ago|0 comments
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Police: No Evidence of Foul Play in Death of Nikolai Mushegian (2022)(decrypt.co)
1 points by CGMthrowaway 12d ago|0 comments
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METR: The New AI Gatekeepers and the Quiet Path to State Control of AI(readmultiplex.com)
5 points by CGMthrowaway 12d ago|0 comments
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by CGMthrowaway 14d ago
Lots of fruit skins are very edible (kiwis etc.), but they are covered with pesticides. All conventional fruits are. If you look at the "Dirty Dozen" vs. "Clean Fifteen" lists of fruits/veggies that come out every y
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by CGMthrowaway 14d ago
Cf. red wine
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by CGMthrowaway 14d ago
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-...
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US lawmakers urge secretive British court to open up about Apple case(theguardian.com)
3 points by CGMthrowaway 14d ago|0 comments
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by CGMthrowaway 15d ago
The TLDR is not that interesting, but here you go... 1) BS jobs, in the sense outlined by Graeber (the BS jobs essay guy), proliferated due to easy money/low interest rates 2) money is not so easy anymore 3) AI is taking our jobs 4) BS
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1986–1988 radioactive milk distribution in Mexico(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by CGMthrowaway 16d ago|0 comments
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by CGMthrowaway 17d ago
>It boggles my mind that the government has privatized currency to these people. That's the banks (lenders), not the payment networks. >Crazy-person-but-actually-really practical-idea: Nationalize one if these networks. Maybe Dis
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The rise and fall of peer review(experimental-history.com)
3 points by CGMthrowaway 17d ago|0 comments
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by CGMthrowaway 17d ago
And the plasticizers (DEHP primarily) are really nasty, easily slough off onto your skin where they are absorbed. Don't ever put plastic cable in your mouth, or that of a child
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Women more likely to marry, land jobs after taking GLP-1s(current.fas.harvard.edu)
5 points by CGMthrowaway 17d ago|3 comments
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We've all been framed (1999)(theguardian.com)
2 points by CGMthrowaway 17d ago|0 comments
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CCTV footage of suicide attempt violates human rights (2003)(pinsentmasons.com)
1 points by CGMthrowaway 17d ago|0 comments
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UK Surveillance Camera Code of Practice(gov.uk)
4 points by CGMthrowaway 17d ago|0 comments
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by CGMthrowaway 18d ago
Did you have any personal interaction with NSA or their proxies?
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by CGMthrowaway 18d ago
We have this already: "touch grass" for the normies and "grounding" (standing barefoot on the earth) for the more hacker inclined
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by CGMthrowaway 19d ago
Why wait until after the return policy? Also what firmware did you update to? Also if you could point to a video where it shows how to do all these things that would be amazing
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by CGMthrowaway 21d ago
EVs are some of the cheapest cars you can get. All of the American manufacturers sell them at a huge loss, due to government regulations around average mpg for their lineups, etc
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by CGMthrowaway 21d ago
The average age of an EV on the road is less than four years, compared to over 12 years for hybrids and ICE vehicles. I'm not suggesting an EV can't also last that long, but it feels premature to say anything is "obvious&quot
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by CGMthrowaway 21d ago
That's a lot of words to issue a reproach of people using manipulating "truisms" and propagandic non-specifics, without using any specifics of your own. You might have a strong argument but you seem to be afraid to name anyon
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by CGMthrowaway 21d ago
>Corruption in the US isn't new, but it's never been done as openly as it has been recently. It's been open a long time. Patriot Act/Snowden/Assange, JFK coverup, shutting churches to keep Walmart open, social me
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Warren Harding and the Forgotten Depression of 1920(isi.org)
1 points by CGMthrowaway 21d ago|0 comments
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by CGMthrowaway 22d ago
Tell me "it's different" with this one please https://sustainability.stanford.edu/news/study-links-past-em...
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Straw Hat Riot(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by CGMthrowaway 23d ago|0 comments

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