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by Veen 4y ago
I’m not confident the “moral norms” prevalent in SV and/or US academia are common, if by that you mean norms that are prevalent in the general populace.
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by Veen 4y ago
I’m not so sure an AI couldn’t, in theory at least produce a memoir if you fed it your diaries, emails, social media chats and histories, photos and videos from throughout your life, and so on.
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by Veen 4y ago
From that it follows that everyone whose property rights were created by the British government owed tax to Britain on that property. Ergo, the American Revolutionaries were in the wrong and the U.S. owes Britain substantial reparations for
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by Veen 4y ago
The people who have been fucked over will eventually take what they think should be theirs by whatever means they think appropriate. That's how you end up with Trump and even worse.
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by Veen 4y ago
And if the people who end up on the wrong end of those decisions push back, what are you going to do? Shrug, cite the "impossibility of fairness", and tell them to suck it up? That's a short road to a very unpleasant backlash
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by Veen 4y ago
Maybe, but the people of influence who profess to be libertarians are not exactly committed adherents of a carefully thought-out libertarian philosophy (except maybe Thiel, although his libertarianism has a religious caste). In general, the
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by Veen 4y ago
Would you prefer "SV assholes"? Everyone has an asshole, so it's not gendered.
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by Veen 4y ago
Historically, artists were independently wealthy (as were early scientists) or they lived off the patronage of the wealthy. Intellectual property and copyright laws allowed art to be a viable commercial venture without direct patronage.
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by Veen 4y ago
I imagine this price will come down over time. OpenAI has repeatedly said that they haven't the infrastructure in place yet to handle too much load and expect to be "severely capacity constrained", so I assume the high pricin
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by Veen 4y ago
Your response completely ignores the concerns raised in the comment you are replying to. "It saves your doctor 40% of their time" is not a reasonable response to "I don't want my private medical details divulged to a thi
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by Veen 4y ago
It's not available yet: > ChatGPT Plus subscribers will get GPT-4 access on chat.openai.com with a usage cap. We will adjust the exact usage cap depending on demand and system performance in practice, but we expect to be severely
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by Veen 4y ago
AI-generated SEO spam is here regardless of what Google does. But they don't also want everyone to stop using Google Docs because it lacks features that are definitely coming to Microsoft Word and every other competitor.
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by Veen 4y ago
In an ideal world, it would be lovely if managers wrote copperplate welcome notes on the finest perfumed paper, but they don't. They copy and paste a template or use a tool like Text Expander. This just makes the process slightly more
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by Veen 4y ago
To anthropomorphize, how would an AI know that a slur is a slur and therefore undesirable if it doesn't understand it. Little kids often accidentally say slurs they've heard in the media or playground until someone explains what
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by Veen 4y ago
I’m not sure that’s the case. My partner works in the NHS and the vast majority of her colleagues are European or Commonwealth immigrants: Romanians, Polish, Nigerians, and Indians in the main.
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by Veen 4y ago
And the average US doctor has student loans of around £207,340, so the point stands. UK doctors do pay towards their education, but it’s heavily subsidised.
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by Veen 4y ago
It's not particularly illuminating to talk about "the right" and "the left" as if they were monolithic groups. Canadian truckers and U.S. judges don't have a great deal in common. I mean, doesn't it seem s
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by Veen 4y ago
No.
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by Veen 4y ago
Dollar Shave Club goes to show what you can do with a trivial idea and some very clever marketing.
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by Veen 4y ago
Of the nine people who have appeared on Question Time most often, two might be considered right-wing: Farage and Ken Clarke. The remainder are Labour or Lib Dem MPs: Shirley Williams, Menzies Campbell, Harriet Harman, Charles Kennedy, Clare
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by Veen 4y ago
The Guardian article is misleading to the point of dishonesty. The episode that isn't being broadcast was not intended to be broadcast because it isn't part of the Wild Isles series. It's a companion documentary commissioned
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by Veen 4y ago
Then Goldman has more faith in the future value of BTC than seems warranted.
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by Veen 4y ago
I think they are arguing that the market cap is a fantasy number anyway. It went down by a theoretical $70 billion, but that number (and the market cap) is meaningless because it's not possible to convert large amounts of BTC to fiat w
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by Veen 4y ago
Christopher Hitchens famously (and rather politically incorrectly) said: > Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook
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by Veen 4y ago
Wouldn't work. You'd have "SEO professionals" selling automated upvote, downvote, and labelling botnet services almost immediately. Nothing that can be gamed is reliable at scale.
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by Veen 4y ago
So, they do store requests for "debugging" purposes, which means they have a record of everything you're doing with the extension and probably the page you're on while you're doing it. I'm not sure why this is
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by Veen 4y ago
Because this is often tendentiously quoted without context, here's what Gove actually said: > “I think the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and get
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by Veen 4y ago
Are you arguing that anti-Western media propaganda doesn't exist in China? Did you by any chance spend your three years in China walking about with a blindfold on?
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by Veen 4y ago
What propaganda? That it would be nice if Britain wasn't being beaten in the supercomputing industry by a totalitarian dictatorship and warmongering dictatorship? As a Brit, I think it's just common sense rather than propaganda.
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by Veen 4y ago
They won't be voted down though. I made two rude comments about Musk in this thread and they got almost 60 upvotes between them.

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