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by Herring 2y ago
I’m pretty sure you couldn’t trust me to multiply 20-digit numbers either.
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by Herring 2y ago
I'd be really hesitant to say anything involving humans and human judgement under uncertainty is trivial. What if the customer wants the car to drive aggressively, maybe speed a little where it "seems" safe? Should the car st
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by Herring 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, those orgs last for decades and countries last for hundreds of years. But I'm sure you can tweak the percentages depending on the situation and your own judgement. It's a rule of thumb too and can
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by Herring 2y ago
It's a known problem. Eg check out optimal strategies to the prisoner's dilemma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma > The winning deterministic strategy was tit for tat, developed and ente
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by Herring 2y ago
You started the business discussion, not me. You need to decide if you want to continue it or not. When your tech is unreliable, it costs you money. The need for remote human assistance during edge cases means you have to staff that. You ne
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by Herring 2y ago
Billions of dollars from Google, basically. https://www.businessinsider.com/robotaxis-may-mobility-tesla... High operational costs, low revenue potential, technical difficulties, competitors exiting the space.
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by Herring 2y ago
AI is not good enough yet for anything requiring deep reasoning, mission-critical work, error detection at a human-expert level, or handling unpredictable edge cases. It just talks like it's very smart, and humans apparently have a bia
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by Herring 2y ago
To be a conservative is to have great difficulty with change and “weird” things you have never seen before. It’s a core personality trait, and takes years of education/travel/meditation to loosen.
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by Herring 2y ago
Ethics is like wearing a condom. If someone tries to tell you that you don't need to worry about it (after defaulting to force!), then you *really* need to worry about it. Edit: Sure enough, look at your comments. Elon, Tesla, Musk, Tr
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by Herring 2y ago
Yeah and maybe the employee has been asked to implement dark patterns before. Such is modern capitalism.
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by Herring 2y ago
It’s super easy to coach an employee about this. I’ve done it many times, even once publicly to a director while I was a senior. Just acknowledge their train of thought extra generously, then explain why this case is different. ChatGPT has
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by Herring 2y ago
His conscience is bothering him, that’s why he’s publicly reliving every detail lol.
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by Herring 2y ago
Yeah, even just acknowledging the other guy's valid point, like "I agree with you, Bermuda is not part of the Caribbean, so yes it's deceptive to return it in the search results." Sales is often deceptive. I think that&#
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by Herring 2y ago
> So how do completion bond companies do estimates? History. That's not always possible. The real world is changing all the time. The article has a nice section at the end about "unknown unknowns".
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by Herring 2y ago
Look at the rest of his comments. Can't reason with him, so just move on.
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by Herring 2y ago
Yeah sometimes you can't reason with people because they're dug in. In this case with Trump and Republicans, it's like Catholics being unable/unwilling to deal with pedophile priests, because group loyalty is so importan
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by Herring 2y ago
Sometimes the bad jobs are crowding out the good. Like gig work crowding out traditional full-time positions with benefits, as companies prefer cheaper, on-demand labor. Slave labor needs to be outlawed at the society level, not at the indi
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by Herring 2y ago
Don't get attached to your weaknesses, like "this is just who I am". That's just another story. For example - it's relatively easy to gain quite a bit of compassion/empathy.
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by Herring 2y ago
There's no need to read it uncharitably. I'm the last person you can call a FB fan, I think overall they're a strong net negative to society, but their open source DL work is quite nice.
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by Herring 2y ago
He's setting up a case for shorting the stock, ie if the growth or margins drop a little from any of these (often well-funded) threats. The accuracy of the article is a function of the current valuation.
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by Herring 2y ago
I really really freaking wish Americans would stop worrying about who has the best $STUFF, and start worrying about whether their own kids are fed/clothed/educated. China is too big. This was going to happen eventually. Empires co
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by Herring 2y ago
It's mainly hardware upgrades (new TSMC nodes), training data quantity/quality improvements, and model architecture (and broader software) changes. Here's a fun project I've had my eye on recently: https://git
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by Herring 2y ago
The costs won't always be that high, due to Moore's law and other advances. Anybody can train a GPT-2 right now for a couple hundred bucks. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell... Also
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by Herring 2y ago
It's not about pretending. Truth is the first casualty of war. If someone is trying to deceive you, they are actively exposing you to some kind of risk, usually for their own benefit, which is a hostile act.
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by Herring 2y ago
Unfortunately, there is evidence that the provided context greatly matters. Here's a quote from the book “The Sum of Us”, by Heather McGhee. > He was building on global comparative research by Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff,
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by Herring 2y ago
Quality over quantity, right? The article thinks the problem is declining quantity, but I'm unconvinced. Americans have always been low on quality, since as far back as slavery and native american genocide. If anything I think the &quo
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by Herring 2y ago
Inertia. They were cheating a lot when I was a TA, but using whatsapp groups and other online resources. Nothing changed then, and it probably won't change much now.
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by Herring 2y ago
Well you saw how those millions recently voted in the US. I've largely stopped worrying about this. Slavery took hundreds of years to get phased out, and Europe took hundreds of years to mostly-stop going to war. I only have a couple d
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by Herring 2y ago
The problem with exercise is everything in modern life is set up to discourage it. The economy is all about paying money to make your life easier. We design our cities to require cars. Work schedules and commutes eat into free time. Screen
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by Herring 2y ago
Narcissism and hubris works great... until it doesn't.

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