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by Sebb767 3y ago
> E.g. could a controversial thread (plenty of upvotes, plenty of downvotes) get pushed off the front page because it has a low upvote:comment ratio? You can't downvote submissions, just flag them. As for comments, I'm not sure
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> The inscrutability of how page ranking works in HN is increasingly a problem in my eyes. I understand it's an attempt at preventing gaming the system, but I'm not convinced it works. HN downweights threads that receive more c
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> If you want people to drive better, don't put airbags in their steering wheel, put a 6" metal spike pointed at their chest. Cars without breakable steering column were pretty much this, so everyone had this before ~1990. Yet,
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Corporations producing things for consumers and having devices in stand-by. It's not like those things are unrelated or that you can completely ignore one side.
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Well, with kids and passed love ones it is a hard situation. Of course, healing people of their grieve is the strictly superior option, but the reality is more like spending years in therapy to get to a passable state versus having people s
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> To me, this is the symptom and not the disease. Probably true, but it feels like the alcohol to heal methanol poisoning. > I would rather focus on fixing the issues in our world that cause this loneliness than spend time trying to s
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> I know the rugged individualists are busy launching themselves to space via their own bootstraps, but average person can become trapped in the life they live pretty easily. True. > Meanwhile societies that actually want to move into
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by Sebb767 3y ago
That's not the point I was trying to make and it probably was a bad idea to engage with it at all. An AI girlfriend might be a slight step up, it doesn't really matter. The situation is still far from great either way. In the end,
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> I think a better counterexample, rather than "hard drugs," is pornography. It's not that it's necessarily bad, or even that it is in a majority of cases, but people can definitely have negative relationships with it
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> So I posit this to you; Would it have been easier for him to have a fake relationship with a real person, or a real relationship with a fake person? Well, the real relationship eventually broke, forcing him to accept the reality. Also,
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> Humans are insanely social creatures and if someone is very lonely would an AI be enough to objectively make their life better? Probably, but the ease of using this would probably lure people in that are otherwise able to form social c
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> Yea, this is how you end up being an incel because telling people "It's not your fault, it's everyone else's fault" is a very effective trap huge parts of populations fall in Fully agreed, but, to be honest, th
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by Sebb767 3y ago
> Go out, get a hobby, and meet real people. Jesus christ. It's a bit more aggressive than it needs to be, but in spirit it's less "get healthy" and more "start doing something about the sht situation". Whic
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> But if people are self-reporting that they are happier, well, life is tough enough already and there's no reason that people should just be miserable That's a fair point and in some ways this might be a good option. But espec
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by Sebb767 3y ago
> that's very bad news for us It would actually be great news. Your argumentation is sound, but in reality there either is a big filter ahead of us or there is not, this will not change at all when we find alien life. Instead, this
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by Sebb767 3y ago
Don't be so sure of that. A lot of really smart people can fall for scams because they are caught off-guard or are focused on getting something done, discarding some necessary caution along the way.
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> Phone number is unfortunately not reliable, since it can be spoofed (and phone companies are broadly uninterested in doing more than the bare minimum to address this). I think this can be solved far more simply by only showing the noti
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> Some sort of visual indicator that appears everywhere in the app that you should not be on a call may also reduce an attackers chance of succeeding. Everywhere would probably be to distracting, but placing it on important screens (such
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by Sebb767 3y ago
With those security practices in place, locked is probably the status the card should have.
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On the other hand, if that cash suddenly fails to appear, your physical dollars most likely won't work anymore, either (it might fail to appear for you for various reasons, but in that case, whether there was physical backing at any
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by Sebb767 3y ago
> I do not have a moral obligation to waste my time on content B, merely because it has been delivered alongside content A. Of course you don't. But neither does Google have the obligation to serve you if you don't pay and don&
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by Sebb767 3y ago
You are free to use an adblocker. But it's completely fair for Google to refuse their services if you do.
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> It's more complicated than that because of the network effect. Few people host their videos elsewhere. Yes, but these things are far from essential. Most of YouTube is entertainment, which is as fungible as it gets, and what isn&#
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Which would be quite unusual for normal trains. That being said, the question implies that they will crash into each other, so you could argue that this is a valid assumption anyway.
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> One of the board members even openly admitting that she considered destroying OpenAI a successful outcome of her duty as board member. I don't see how this particular statement underscores your point. OpenAI is a non-profit with t
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I hope we do. If these words would be on your recommendation letter or said by one of your job references, basically any HR person would understand it as "this employee was caught severely lying" and see it as a big warning not to
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On the other hand, these words are widely understood to mean "he lied" and judges (or juries) aren't stupid. Going for this kind of strong wording and then trying to weasel out by a minor technicality seems like a risky strat
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That's true, but we cannot fully exclude this just being a stupid, rushed move by the board, either, at least not yet. I would not bet on it, but it's a possibility.
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> Not issuing the statement would be putting a lot of potential liability on them. They need to proove that Sam wasn't candid once Sam dragged them into an actual court room. Shutting up might not be the winning move in the court of
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Assuming he sees OpenAI spinning out of control either way, it's probably better to have tried to change it and, if it fails, to at least not be part of the problem.

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