Frost1x

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by Frost1x 2y ago
Japanese work culture is another beast. I don’t think US unions are so much about covering ‘slackers’ but I would say enforcing healthy work—life balance is a component.
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by Frost1x 2y ago
I’m pretty sure, if memory serves me, some of the older versions of IE (Internet Explorer, I imagine some people here may be young enough to not be aware of that) used to let you pass any sort of file hosted over HTTP with arbitrary extensi
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by Frost1x 2y ago
As much as I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, I find it abused by corporate America and no longer do so. Any variation of Hanlon’s razor is assumed and abused strategically anymore. Perhaps there could be fundamental issues tha
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Labor can be forced through many different mechanisms. What matters ultimately is just how much flexibility one has to not work or how many necessary things needed for surviving depends on actively working. Everything else are just levels
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by Frost1x 3y ago
A lot of AI safety is about the reliability and validity of information and undesired consequences of actions made on that information. Morals and ethics about the type of information and desired action are sort of inconsequential in this v
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by Frost1x 3y ago
> People have been saying the same thing about off/near-shoring for decades. "X will be replaced by cheaper Y" but that has not materialized in any way. Eh? It absolutely has in many industries. It also has been tried ma
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Why do you think a class of folks with asymmetric access to a given resource, because of costs to access and use such resources creating barrier to entry, would not use those very asymmetric resources to their advantage when possible? So lo
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>Capital and land ownership is all that will matter assuming we don't completely redesign our economic and political system. Pretty scary. Agreed. My concern isn’t really remotely about any of the accomplishments of generative AI. F
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Isn’t that where most interest starts? A computer really is a tool. I know for me, it was an unfortunate discovery at the very start of my interest in computing that to do the things I wanted I had to deal with all these tedious bits of pro
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Almost counterintuitively I deal with more spam SMS than I do email but that’s probably less a factor of actual volume and more a factor of the need and sophistication of filters for both services.
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by Frost1x 3y ago
That’s not what OP said. They said it was a case of exploitation and they are correct. People just don’t like to hear it phrased that way because it brings up negative connotations. Now, while the agreement may be exploitive that doesn’t
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Thankfully in the US we’re not stuck reverting to socialism, there are other options to improve what we have to serve the people. It’s not “capitalism as practiced in the US” or “socialism as practiced in the USSR.” More options exist, the
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>This is a huge problem. When fraud is rewarded over legitimate research we lose so many times. I’d generalize this further and say we have an underlying economy and society that rewards fraud over what should be happening widespread. It
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by Frost1x 3y ago
To some degree, socioeconomic status likely dictates agency (the higher you are, the more agency you have in general). So, I imagine if the perceived agency is aligned with actual agency, you’d see the same. Now, in some respect everyone ha
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by Frost1x 3y ago
A lot of current AI techniques are making people reevaluate their perspectives on free speech. We seem to value freedom of speech (and expression) only to a tipping point that it begins to invade other aspects of life. So far the noise and
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Especially after recent 737 Max incidents, people’s levels of concern are higher. I don’t know how much a typical canceled flight is in lost revenue but I suspect it’s much lower than what Alaska Airlines and others are dealing with now.
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by Frost1x 3y ago
There’s an underlying issue here that there’s little incentive in most domains to convey truth or the best attempt at truth, culturally and societally, at least in my opinion. On the consumer side, people want entertainment and interesting.
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Do your builder developers build the same thing over and over again like builders who build identical houses over? I get the point but software really is different. Rarely ever are you building the same thing over, both from a “structural”
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by Frost1x 3y ago
It’s actually one of the biggest lies we teach children through education. We put this little carrot of reductionist science in front of them that says we can explain reality and go from incredibly reductionist ideas to increasingly less ab
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>Actually religions, or at least the ones I know about in some detail, don’t model that much. For example, Christianity doesn’t really model the afterlife beyond being Heaven being in the presence of the Lord. Gates, perfection, eternal
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Doesn’t it, though? Especially in the context of military, if some potential enemy has no moral qualms using new technology to kill you, doesn’t it mean you’re somewhat forced to provide a defense or die a martyr? This is sort of what happe
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>"Your job is not safe" does not mean you should do everything possible to keep your job -- allowing yourself to be unfairly exploited and abused. In my opinion it should mean that you not only consider the relationship transac
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>We shouldn't assume a basic sentence capitalised word refers to a product. We shouldn’t but many of us do. As a title word, there’s ambiguity if it’s a proper noun or not given title styling. Given the context in this case (HN, Ope
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by Frost1x 3y ago
If we ignore technology for the sake of technology and look at daily life, things we need like food, shelter, healthcare, transportation, socialization, etc. then I'd say technology has definitely improved some of these aspects. Food d
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by Frost1x 3y ago
There's certainly pockets of the AI Safety movement that is about creating strategic motes to protect their private enterprises, but there are also legitimate concerns out there about these new search techniques can lead rise to concer
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>Taxes don’t create wealth, the job is to destroy it at the correct rate. Not exactly, it's more about redistributing or reappropriating wealth because we know there exists flaws in the economic system we have (progressive tax syste
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by Frost1x 3y ago
I haven't dug into this in-depth but from what someone who had mentioned, I think it falls into a very specific approach they're using around an array of 4 sensors which is patented. I suspect other manufacturers use different app
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Yea the argument that efficiency gains are passed to consumers is a tired old and often false argument. The only time efficiencies are passed to consumers are when there is real healthy competition and consumers are supporting that diversit
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Different laws and rights have different priorities. Private property ownership trumps a lot of rights and laws, passing near authoritarian rights to owners within their property. Free speech for example has no priority over property owners
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by Frost1x 3y ago
From statistics I recall reading years ago, a significant amount of retail theft comes directly from employees. So, until you automate those roles away, there's still theft there.

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