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by ETH_start 4mo ago
Berkeley's rubric was docking people for saying they want to "treat everyone the same". Arizona universities were requiring DEI statements in up to 80% of job postings. That's not just "some bias".
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
Given the ideological capture of American science, I don't see how it gets saved without a drastic overhaul of the kind this administration is pushing. We now have conferences about decolonizing scientific disciplines, which is absurd.
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
It's entirely possible that the vast majority of those involved do use Chinese LLMs. Some small portion may have used ChatGPT for higher quality posts.
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
It's a contract violation by the worker. Even if no one's watching them, they promise to do labor for the money that they receive. And then when they don't do the work during the time that they're supposed to be working,
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
And employees will take and take when not tightly supervised. How could you even begin to deny this?
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
You can ask AI, it will tell you it doesn't feel anything. Consciousness seems to be a tight recursive coupling which AI inference doesn't exhibit at the system level.
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
Employees are idle during a lot of company time too. There's give and take on both sides.
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
A labor union restricting who can be part of the Arbitration Enforcement admin team flies directly in the face of the principle that Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that "anyone can edit". It is turning Wikipedia into a protected gu
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
The U.S. has much stronger free speech protections than any peer. Have you seen the speech (chat) control laws being instituted in Europe in the last few years?
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
AI compute is a major emerging export industry that the U.S. could become the global leader in. Strong First Amendment protections, due process, and limits on arbitrary government control also make the U.S. uniquely well-suited for AI, unli
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
When owners try to lock down industries with government restrictions, we also oppose that. In this case, society as a whole is harmed by what the unions are demanding. It means everybody, including other workers, get less affordable goods a
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
A political community can make a claim over a territory because it builds institutions that build and defend it. It's not identical to homesteading, but it's similar. Think of private property and national sovereignty as different
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
Abolishing 230 means no free speech, anywhere. Speech would need to be restrained, vetted, and approved by a platform, before it could be shared. While much abusive speech can be blocked from being published with this sort of Prior Restrain
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
Most of these critisms would apply to ANY major industrial build out. You can't bemoan America becoming an import nation that doesn't produce valuable goods/services that the world wants, and then sabotage every industrial bu
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
Preventing people from encroaching on your nation is fundamentally no different than preventing people from trespassing on your property. It's not anti-liberty, since we don't have an inherent right to any land on earth. That righ
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
I don't know how you would possibly quantify the U.S. impact on the stability of other countries. The historical default has been extreme instability. It's only in the last 200 years or so that nation-states as we know them have e
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
I'm not sure that immigration policy is relevant to libertarianism because a nation in some sense is like private property. So one could argue that the people of a country have a collective right to restrict who enters their borders. T
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
I didn't say it's a good policy. I just said it's not some moral failing to not allow immigration. The implication of all these criticisms of the Republican administration's policy on immigration is that if they oppose i
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
Most of the concerns are massively overblown. For instance, new regulations require data centers to bring their own power, so they're not drawing on the grid. They are deployed off-grid. With respect to water, the new trend is closed-l
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
I suspect that the movement is more than just a predatory response factor. It is also used as an indication that there is something to give attention to. The eagle may be able to see the motionless mouse if it focuses on it, but it doesn&#x
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
Immigration is not a human right. Countries have a right to restrict legal immigration too.
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
It is plausible that the original non-avian theropod dinosaurs which gave rise to avian theropod dinosaurs like modern birds were more vision-oriented predators than mammalian predators. That would have favored eyes built for sharper vision
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
Laws like this superficially seem good because it's not nice when online games shut down without a patch but they have the harmful effect of eliminating the long tail of — you could say — low quality offerings, that don't offer th
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
Not every allegation that appears in print is true. One should be very skeptical about these kinds of allegations, especially when there are deep-pocketed corporations involved who can be sued or pressured to settle in the face of sufficien
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
Not quite, because there have been disasters and radiation leaks. And if the number of deaths per megawatt produced is 10,000 times less than coal, despite those radiation leaks, radiation leaks cannot be anywhere as dangerous as commonly p
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by ETH_start 5mo ago
The impression I've gotten is that almost all of the massive bills associated with nuclear power are because of an irrational fear of the radiation. Factoring in all the nuclear disasters and the radiations released from them, nuclear
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by ETH_start 6mo ago
It's extremely unlikely Musk was personally involved in any way in the decision on the username.
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by ETH_start 6mo ago
>The story goes that Milton Friedman was once taken to see a massive government project somewhere in Asia. Thousands of workers using shovels were building a canal. Friedman was puzzled. Why weren't there any excavators or any mecha
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by ETH_start 6mo ago
LeCun is saying that AI will create jobs — a sentiment I agree with.
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by ETH_start 6mo ago
Taking fewer visible risks can increase your total risk. We are already under constant threat from deterioration: aging, depreciation and decay. Entropy is the default. Action is what pushes back against it.

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