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by DragonStrength 1y ago
You missed the first part of that quote: > At long last everybody realises that the old MPEG business model is now broke And the entire post is about how dysfunctional MPEG is and how AOM rose to deal with it. It is tragic to waste so
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
The Capital Order lays out an argument that austerity measures are ultimately labor suppression, not necessary. Of course, that’s true of many pieces of policy wisdom: they start from an assumed good. In this case, the assumed good is the c
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Thank you. This thread is full of people acting as though price gouging during emergencies hasn't been illegal since before the Internet. Not a California thing either. Southern states have similar laws thanks to common natural disaste
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
That's a great point: immigrants are great for the existing voting populace. They count for the census, but if you keep them on a program like H-1B, they'll live their whole lives without being able to vote. The existing voters ha
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
It's basic economics that more workers with fewer rights lower wages across the board. "They make what Americans do" when there is a continuous flow of competing labor. Sure. What would companies pay if they didn't have
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Yup, if you take the restrictions off, none of these companies would want them. They love the restrictions. Americans can just up and quit on them, but not temporary workers.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
You're arguing with the article not me. I replied to > How is your brain doing it then? Do you have an answer? What indication do we have that any AGI we would create would have to follow the same process to achieve the result? Can
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
I am replying to "How does your brain do it then?" So I guess we agree. You should take it up with OP.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
I was responding to the claim that an observer bound by a system may understand and replicate all phenomenon within that system. It's quite a bold claim which has already exited the bounds of science, IMHO. That you're using the l
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Oh certainly there is: why assume we will ever be able to fully replicate the natural process? We may very well be bound here by our own bodies.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
There's no reason to assume our current pursuit is not a dead end for any number of reasons we do not yet understand. There is a lot of faith we are capturing the same thing based on perceptions, which have a lot to do with the individ
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
The "A" stands for "Artificial" in contrast to what our brains do.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Timid? Dude seems pretty ruthless by all anecdotes and how his company has operated. But he has a quiet demeanor and Southern accent, so many will assume he is weak and stupid. He seems to use it to his advantage.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
We don't do that precisely because that's how you end up with this situation. We wonder how history repeats itself, but we can't be bothered to know history from over 40 years ago.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
That narrative is BS. Kids stopped going into CS in America because of the Dotcom bust. The number didn't recover until 2014. Driven in large part by the Great Recession encouraging more kids to go into STEM -- certainly my Land Grant
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
I most definitely am reminded of how few people leave an archaeological mark when I read these. Though from my perspective, I see him as one of the special ones, even if we know very little. There are so few folks remembered even a generati
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Well, last week Amazon customer support flow routed me to an LLM chat bot which hallucinated a 1-800 number to call which was most definitely not Amazon on the other end. That's the real usefulness of LLMs: blackhole any dissent now th
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
No one is pretending this is about terrorism now. They're explicit this is about curbing political activism by foreign students. Some outside the US miss that because few countries would have given foreign students this much room for a
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
> You see people dashing over to the nearest rent-to-own rims shop. (If you don't know poor people, you may not know such businesses exist.) And many on this site don’t recognize a racist dog whistle I guess.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
My entire old team at Amazon has been reduced from 8 people of which 5 were citizens (and one got his green card while I was there) to 2 immigrants who arrived right before the pandemic both from different at-war countries. I only know this
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
It's actually where we have always been with software development, which is why so many software professionals think the media narrative is so stupid. Oh, you want to fire your engineers? Easy, just perfectly specify exactly what you w
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
When I worked in Big Tech, there were Slack channels for discussing real estate investment and one of my coworkers routinely fielded calls about the maid service he ran. I imagine it's much easier, and more appropriate, to do such thin
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Subaru require you navigating to second screen for climate modes. Simple temp adjustment has buttons, but the screen interactions for basic usage feels dangerous as a driver.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
You need 200k/yr to be comfortable in Alabama. These headlines are for older generations who think that is too much money for a young person. Meanwhile, they’d never be able to afford the homes they now live in.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Next? Unprescribed stimulants and test banks from Greek orgs has been the path to med school for generations. I guess we just cut to the chase by prescribing ADHD meds to everyone and making cheating tools openly available.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Even if you thread the needle and pull it off (2 high-paying jobs in a household in time for kids), you'll find the infrastructure and community around those well-paying jobs aren't designed for kids and most others didn't th
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
My criticism is most definitely of economics as a field and is a common topic among economists today as they reckon with their failures post-2008. Economists do not all agree on everything. I am most definitely thinking of the Great Recessi
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
What does that have to do with whether or not economists are serving a useful role day-to-day? For instance, most economists now agree most economists were wrong about the way to respond to 2008, and the austerity measures actually caused m
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Or more: what ideology says I and my heirs deserve to continue to be wealthy and in control? Funny how we’re in a Social Darwinist moment as wealth inequality rises again. But I’m sure people couldn’t possibly be working backwards to justif
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
There’s certainly a line of thinking that economics is the profession of telling the capital class what they want to hear such as austerity [1]. We can’t let capital fail because… well, ask that guy! [1]: https://press.uchicago.e

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