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by DrScientist 2mo ago
And of course the 18 billion recent Meta settlement - agreed to potentially stop a law suit that could have unravelled the whole company.
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
Remember core customers of Apple studio type products is content creation/video editing, etc. AI based tools are very useful here - thinks like object removable or cleanup etc, not just AI generation. For example Apple mentioned perfor
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
It's cheaper to be rich, and expensive to be poor.
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
The latest and largest Uber fine - 825 million. https://www.reuters.com/world/dutch-regulator-fines-uber-966... Also, in the UK, lost their 5 year battle about whether drivers are self-employed or workers for Uber. ht
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
How about an AI startup up that automatically finds companies whose stated business model is to flout existing laws, and then initiates legal proceedings. Funded by the fines it generates for governments.
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
Indeed. Perhaps we will go from: framework X -> avoid writing boiler plate to AI -> avoid writing boiler plate And AI may generate the more explicit boiler plate more reliably directly, than the higher level framrwork with leaky abstr
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
Read my post again. I accept that the US pays over the odds for drugs. I don't accept that's the driving force behind overall health care costs - as 2.78x cost for something that's only 10% of overall costs doesn't get y
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
Don't believe that - not that the US doesn't pay well over the odds - that's clear - but it's the major cause to overall higher healthcare costs. Typically health care is massively human capital intensive with like 50% o
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
At this stage I'm not sure it's about persuasion per se - pretty much everybody who is paying the slightest attention knows what's going on. I mean Ben Gvir couldn't be more explicit. Now it's more about giving a fi
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
Sure it's difficult to compare - but from your figures - the 11% is UK and the 18% is US ( total spend )? With the UK spend roughly 80:20 government:private and the US spend about 50:50. So as percentage of GDP government spend is abou
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
As I understand it - ~30% of US federal spending is on health care. In the UK it's about 20%. Yet apparently the UK is mostly nationalised under the NHS, while in the US there is huge additional spending on private insurance. Can someb
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
Never quite understood why large enterprises use github as core infrastructure. Sure use it to collab externally, use it if you can't justify running your own infrastructure, but why are large companies choosing to place code externall
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
Indeed. Though don't under estimate the creative thinking barrier - ie people don't do the possible because it never occurred to them - a lack of imagination. Hence copy cat kind of attacks - I mean why focus on all this complicat
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
Absolutely - though the flip side of this is if something is everybody responsibility - it's nobodies. There are two things to successful organisations structure and people, you are focusing only on the structure. What you need for so
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
> There's no way to make a model "safe", You could limit what it was training on in the first place - however that would damage capability - and it's difficult to curate the input, especially when the models can do 2+
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
Yep - it's awesome, the problem is that Google isn't sharing the revenue with the context creators anymore - over time, unless fixed, this will decimate the knowledge base it feeds on. > Oh, I should mention though. There was n
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
I suspect it's the massively rich, detailed, accurate, multimodal data. For example, you have satellite images, coupled with real on the ground measurements of windspeed, sunlight, air pressure and precipitation going back decades.
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
In fact given everybody is going to be using these tools - and for high tech compananies this is fundamentally where you compete - if you reduce your R&D workforce you are going to be left behind. It's not as if there is a limited
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
> Yes - my wife’s advisor literally told her that the goal should be getting as close as you could to stapling your published papers together with an introduction. Indeed - in fact some countries ( I think Scandinavian ) do exactly this
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
To your point - in terms of domestic services - ownership isn't the only model. After all human cleaning services don't work like that either these days ( even in the American south.... ). Some people might feel that a robot clean
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by DrScientist 2mo ago
Most thesis are never read because anything worth sharing with the wider world ( and some that isn't ) is highly likely to have been published as a paper - not because the work in thesis has no value. The whole point of a PhD is not t
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
It would need to be beautifully done science - indeed the level of rigour required to confidently show no effect is probably quite a bit larger than the level of rigour required to confidently show a large effect. And that's probably o
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Ultimately the existence of the Odyssey doesn't stop you writing your own story - the creative universe is infinite. This is completely different from IP around an invention - you don't want a single entity owning the rights the w
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
> it's whether society benefits as a whole. There is a big difference between not being able to republish or cut and paste from the works of JK Rowling and not being able to make and sell an electric motor. ie my point was that in t
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
It can be simultaneously be true that some of his more vocal opponents support things like hereditarianism & erroneously conflate genetics with race [1], and there is also a case to answer in terms of this individuals scholarship. [1] T
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
The letter misses out the key issue here. Should the worlds public knowledge be enclosed by a few powerful private companies or should it be available to all? The original vision for the web was a decentralized, open information sharing spa
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
For inventions if you don't make money off it in the first 20 years you are unlikely to ever make any money off it - as the invention space moves on. That's not the same for a work of fiction or a piece of music. Case in point ap
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
> but disagree the issue is the doctors themselves Who's fault was the opioid epidemic in the US? I know a lot of blame has been levelled at the pharma involved, and rightly so, however every single one of those patients that got h
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Yes and no. While there are some centralized decisions ( we are paying only for one round of IVF, or this drug isn't good value for money ), most of it is delegated to front line doctors - by the simple mechanism of faced with a fixed
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Indeed. It's been argued that people intensive activities, like healthcare, thus become relatively more expensive as other, more automation friendly, industries become highly optinised. ie the relative price of a new car versus a heart

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