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by Udik 6y ago
I read the article and I don't get what's the focus of it. It seems a disconnected rambling about vague deep learning issues with Gebru's name interspersed several time in the text as to suggest her relevance.
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I don't get this stuff about Henrietta Lacks' consent. It's a cellular line. A biopsy of a cancer. I understand consent should be given, but there's nothing personal or sentient in a strain of cancerous cells. This to me
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by Udik 6y ago
Yes but where are the books? There's hardly any real books in the pics.
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by Udik 6y ago
I don't think the comparison holds. Juul's business is that of selling nicotine pods, as many as possible- there doesn't seem to be much wiggle space there. Google's business is not that of selling AIs, much less that of
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by Udik 6y ago
> The whole idea of this "Ethics Board" was only ever done for PR Probably, but this also means that they didn't hire the best people for the job, just the people who would have looked better in the position.
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I think it's perfectly possible. The issue here is that we've been confusing activists for ethicists for some time.
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No power controlling Bitcoin is a good thing (at least for Bitcoin). That's true for China, who could force its miners to do what it wants, as it is for the US, which could make it arbitrarily hard to transact or hold BTC (and which al
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by Udik 6y ago
I was expecting the bars to form the shape of a giant middle finger.
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> they did it because enough people complained that they saw a potential loss in future revenue See, this is something I highly doubt. Do you think that there is such a large part of Disney public that does give a damn about what Gina Ca
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Exactly. Insisting on how shameful and/ or traumatic some experiences must feel is, deep down, incredibly puritanic.
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He is indeed. Every time I read something by Eco I'm both surprised by how pleasant he is as a writer, and by how handwavy and poorly supported are his arguments and conclusions.
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The typical bad SO answer would be "but why do you have a cat in the first place? Dogs are much better."
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> It's hard to come up with a dog whistle that antisemitic Try with any representation of the Mafia in Italy (also called "the octopus"). Let's stop with this frankly stupid cousin of the "reductio ad hitlerum&qu
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by Udik 6y ago
Frankly, if the Vice article is true (and it seems plausible given the rambling style of this one) he sounds pretty unhinged. Is this the effect of feeding only on Soylent?
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> One of the most recent examples that really struck me was NYT's article about why they decided to capitalize Black, but not White, in their paper Interesting also that the overwhelming majority of the readers who commented on the
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by Udik 6y ago
This is gold. Honestly it's even hard to tell if it's satire. > we see white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom can show up when: • The focus is on getting the “right” answer. • Independent practice is valued over
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by Udik 6y ago
> The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to say what you want. [...] Draw a sharp line between your thoughts and your speech While this is wise life advice, it's also an invitation to hypocrisy. A collect
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by Udik 6y ago
Oh yes? Shall we trust the US government in a good investigation on their motives to finance the bloody disaster that is the civil war in Syria? How about we send a Chinese delegation to check the documents inside the Pentagon or the CIA?
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It's the contemporary, mostly inoffensive brand of leftism: the one that obsesses over vague and all-explaining systemic issues like gender, race and climate change, while never questioning the government-fed narrative on geopolitical
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> It’s not necessarily lab created but it could have been leaked from a lab (which studies coronaviruses and bats) even if it wasn’t artificial. I've heard this multiple times as a reasonable possibility, and yet it seems absurd if
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by Udik 6y ago
> Don't ever trust the Chinese government on issues that could potentially involve the reputation of the party Seems this holds true for every government and party.
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Whatever it is, they have been doing it for a long time: ladies in their 70s, in the street or at the supermarket, switch seamlessly to English when they realise I don't speak Dutch.
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Because it implies that their wealth is not due to hard work or excellent education, but mostly because they undercut the rest of the EU on companies taxation.
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It's not the equivalent of the superbowl for the Dutch. It was never a yearly competition to begin with. It was always a very rare and unpredictable event- the 4th edition took place 12 years after the third, and the gap had nothing to
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by Udik 6y ago
The uploaders- or tech-savvy early downloaders- might be able to do the same. So as a way to prevent videos from being uploaded to social media seems completely lame. As this video proves, it's just a ticket for becoming quickly a ver
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Given that copyrighted audio is- more or less by definition- available as a separate track without interference, it shouldn't be too difficult to subtract it from the video's track.
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I find all this genuinely r-worded.
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The text I quoted says " sexual and gender minorities (the LGBTQ community)". The G in LGBTQ stands for "gay". It also says "people whose biological sex and self-identified gender did not match" which seems to
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> If, hypothetically, being trans inverted the expression of the gene for being gay That, although always possible, seems pretty far-fetched. > If you can't find the gene in the smaller pool of subjects, you weren't going to
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> The study authors also point out that they followed convention for genetic analyses by dropping from their study people whose biological sex and self-identified gender did not match. As a result, the work doesn’t include sexual and gen

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