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by Mechanical9 3y ago
I am being serious. I have a very low tolerance for conspiracy theories touted as facts.
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by Mechanical9 3y ago
There does not seem to be any evidence that corroborates this. The most I can find are claims that some records were destroyed, so we won't know. That doesn't automatically mean there is a connection, though.
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by Mechanical9 3y ago
"Some sources have suggested that Murray's experiments were part of Project MKUltra" doesn't really seem like strong evidence.
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by Mechanical9 3y ago
Lots of changes will be made every day at Twitter that will have to keep the Musk metric healthy. Even if the changes aren't explicitly designed to promote Musk's own tweets, having the metric visible to all employees will at mini
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by Mechanical9 3y ago
The ultra rich have orders of magnitude more influence over politics, regulation, and private business than the average western citizen, so I would think that focusing on the ultra rich in one way or another should yield pretty substantial
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
The actual title is "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights", so of course it isn't codified yet. If these principles go against current data practices, IMO that seems like all the more reason to push for this to happen.
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
It sounds like you are trying to justify an anti-majoritarian stance with majoritarian consensus. If you are against majoritarianism, you should probably find another way to make your case. Here, let me help you out: It's better for a
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
Google doesn't disincentivize any of that, they just don't encourage it. Google has mechanisms for rewarding people for doing extraordinary work: peer bonuses, spot bonuses. People who make outsized contributions are compensated,
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
> I want to make it very clear that this decision was not my fault - I blame the people who made the bad decisions that led us to this point. Sounds about right.
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
This is assuming that layoffs affect the correct group of people, in which case the obvious question is why couldn't those people be informed earlier and been given a choice to find a different position or to improve their performance?
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
> What. Employees can quit, which is synonymous to firing the boss. I disagree, quitting is not synonymous with firing the boss. When you leave, the company and your boss retain everything you built. You forfeit your stock options. Findi
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
It's hard to consider other means, such as busses, when low-occupancy vehicles are causing traffic on every road the bus would use. This problem does not solve itself.
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
With respect to incompetent government, I like to share this opinion whenever possible: The US government and US state governments are incompetent due to constant gridlock. Incentives of politicians within our governments are similarly to d
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
The threat isn't just from AI, unfortunately, it's from an entire class of powerful people willing to throw their money behind AI instead of behind customer needs, business priorities, and human values.
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
Huh, that hasn't been my experience, at least not yet. Are you talking about newer movies and shows?
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
More often I'd say they're on the side of all local landlords, not necessarily megalandlords specifically. But your point is correct and I have yet to see a city council that wasn't stacked with property investors.
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
The results do not seem equal if you take account for the actual costs and privileges. Owning property has more rights and renting has more costs. Rights: If you do not pay your property taxes, you will probably have 6 months to several yea
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
I may just be cynical, but I don't see any reason why AI judgement won't be the next cruentation. AI decisions are based purely on learned biases, which may be effectively equivalent to gut feelings. There will be many opportuniti
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
The majority of US law / government process is pretty much off-limits to change due to political gridlock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(politics)#United_Sta...
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
I'm curious what these trip-ups look like, if anyone has the relevant info to share here. It seems easy to make the argument that the FBI is just tricking people, but I suspect that the lies people are caught in are much more sinister.
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
The context makes it clear that the increase wasn't due to good leadership, but instead was due to high inflation. I find that helpful even though I support the current administration. With context, it sounds like they were trying to t
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
Alternatively, don't define who you are by your mental illnesses. People are not built equally, and some things can be considered objectively broken. Shit at some aspects of life that are easily treatable? Treat them. ADHD remains one
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
FYI I updated my original post to clarify a couple of points, sorry for the confusion. Primaries promote extremism because they segregate the first rounds of voting to specific parties. Each primary will remove candidates that might otherwi
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
IMO, we're already doing a worse form of ranked choice everywhere. Primaries, pre-election polling, and candidates dropping out early to prevent a vote-split, are all substitutes for what ranked choice provides. Each substitute exists
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
Livestock emissions are not a closed cycle in terms of heat. The methane produced by livestock is much more potent of a greenhouse gas than the CO2 captured by the plants grown for livestock. This might not be a big deal normally, but seein
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
Not sure if this is the place you're talking about, but this sounds a lot like Portland, Maine. Portland has one of the highest restaurant densities due to being a tourist destination. It has a semi-dense downtown with a lot of very ni
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
Man it just seems insane to me that you are acting like being billed $2 million, $200,000, and having unknown other bills, is somehow a good system. Let's be honest, overbilling and non-accountability is a huge disaster here. While peo
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by Mechanical9 4y ago
> Most viral vaccines actually infect you with the virus. It is definitely not true that most vaccines infect you with the virus. Most vaccines do not use live viruses at all, and the ones that do are specifically modified to be extremel