Wolfenstein98k

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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
It's got nothing to do with "global internet", it's about a totalitarian surveillance dragnet capturing every bit of data imaginable about American children. Tik Tok is unique in the granularity and sheer scope of what i
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
No, it's equal and fair. Bernie owns a range of houses, and my understanding is his capital gains will be levied equally on any/all of them. Which is fair. Some people like collecting houses, some like collecting stocks, some like
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
Which should be carefully weighed up against the costs of the policy (namely collection costs, think about how you value art and stocks and who is going to do that, and how... and when it's valued... and what incentives that produces f
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
An obscene and thoroughly unconstitutional (Article I, Section 9) move. The wealthy pay an incredible amount of tax - Cuomo just said that a single percent of New Yorkers pay half of the entire tax take. That may be good and just - it may e
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
One reports to the government censor, including the dates of children in other countries, in service of current human rights atrocities. The other does not, and the atrocities (arguably incomparable) are in the past tense. Iraq was terrible
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
Only so long as that is their policy. The problem isn't the ethnicity or country per se, it's the state-partnership and monopoly system (intertwining them with a totalitarian regime persecuting a million Uighurs in realtime).
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
Non-sequitur. This is like saying "don't bother locking your door, you're much more likely to get mugged outside your house than robbed inside it." B being more likely than A does not form an argument against protecting
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
Might is right, in many short-term scenarios. We don't have to agree that "kidnapping and imprisonment is good", to conclude that some people need arresting and imprisonment. China is intentionally playing the rules duplicito
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
I'm fairly open-minded, but sometimes a product comes along and blows me away with how preposterous its central pitch is. And then I discover there is actually a market for it, and I am further dismayed... And amazed at the robustness
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
Thinking too hard about it. The point was the dangling sword over his head, being the imminent publishing of the article. They told him they wouldn't hide his name, but they didn't tell him they wouldn't publish the article.
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
I see no public interest value in denying his request to remain pseudonymous. To publish his name and associate it with his pseudonym - especially in what would obviously become the top Google result - is egregious when he had pleaded for i
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
Can it even be taught?
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
Keeping a persona wholly separate from your identity is fine, and that's clearly and explicitly his goal. Having a persona doesn't mean you "want attention" and thus it's somehow then fine to link your persona to yo
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
In the age of polarisation, you should definitely keep up with at least one right-of-centre outlet. National Review is still of high standards
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
How is this worth noting at all? Either he's correct or he's not, ad hominem is fallacious. Please engage with ideas on their merits rather than by reading through the author's tweets until you eventually find something unfas
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
Marxian analysis is the only analysis now, apparently.
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
It's not the job of the AI researcher to solve "social biases" in every field, it's their job to build the AI. LeCun is right to focus on his task and correct it, not just start talking about structural issues to which h
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
Why is there not competition? Sounds like a job for local lobbying!
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
In theory, this idea is great. In practice, it's a failure every time. Not every sin need be taxed. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/the-evidence-is-...
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
"I want the (free) benefits without any of the downsides", this reads to me. Particularly as it gets into condemning "neoliberalism" in response to being reminded that Google Maps is not compulsory.
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
Important and topical article about Google Ads and monetisation.
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
It works for "systems" thinkers rather than "goals" thinkers. Easier to apply a system than try to reform every habit of eating constantly. I suspect engineers and the like are disproportionately the former. (See Scott A
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
San Fran is a bizarre place. I'm an Aussie, an Americanophile, and I was in the States for months last year. San Fran was simply unpleasant - the people were rude (young and old) and everything cost too much. The taxes were insane too.
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
Oh for God's sake. Capitalism is aracial, it's amoral.
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by Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
Printing money causes "inflation" [1]. This effect is lessened in chronically-low inflation environments (like our current one) [2]. In situations where demand is artificially low (like lockdown), and therefore will broadly bounce
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by Wolfenstein98k 7y ago
One of the greatest articles of all time. Deeper every time you read it. Planning will always fail at scale, this helps explain why and mitigate