Zetice

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by Zetice 3y ago
An understaffed company will last infinitely longer than an individual without a job.
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by Zetice 3y ago
If all of this results in an office layout revolution that includes many individual offices opening into shared team spaces, I am 100% here for it.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Won’t work? How will these non-workers pay for things? They’ll have no choice but to work.
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by Zetice 3y ago
The fear of being wrong is a crippling one that haunts ineffective people. Effective people don’t care, because they know they can update their beliefs when new information is introduced. You’re talking about pride. Prideful people are no
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by Zetice 3y ago
Nope, no expertise necessary. What I do have an expertise in is risk management however, and the cost of being wrong here is effectively zero, so in cases like that there is no reason to act so cautiously, and in fact it's costly to h
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by Zetice 3y ago
Not totally sure, but based on other folks' comments a number of external sources of noise are possible, e.g. from other conversations or from hitting a weird spot in the training data.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Using this as an example of anything other than how broken the LLM can get is misleading and irresponsible. Don’t present this as some kind of anomaly unique to AI, the concept of “garbage in garbage out” is all that applies here.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Are you kidding me? The alternative to these people being in “customer service” is to be homeless. You think these people should choose homelessness because they don’t want to cheerfully work for slave wages? That’s callous and hateful.
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by Zetice 3y ago
What’s funny is that you’re not actually executing as you describe, just that you think you are. If you indeed waited for all relevant information, you’d never be able to make a choice. You, like every single other healthy human (some huma
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by Zetice 3y ago
My friend you have not visited the northeastern part of the US if you think not actively smiling while serving fast food is abnormal. Further it is rude in no part of the world to not be cheerful, and the fact that you require this of peopl
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by Zetice 3y ago
> Reminds me of fast food employee who simply hands your meal out the window, no greeting, no thank you, no smile... For some reason this disturbs me, like something an NPC in a cyberpunk dystopia masquerade ball level would say, to unde
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by Zetice 3y ago
No there isn't; you pay for a service you get that service. Let these people live their lives, society is already massively underpaying them. We should have to apologize to them when they hand us our meal, that should be the "b
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by Zetice 3y ago
And now we know it in a new way. Nothing wrong at all with checking what we "know" with experiments, even if we have high confidence we know the outcome of those experiments.
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by Zetice 3y ago
You're all forgetting that you can change your mind when new information becomes available, and you can express your belief in terms of certainty.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Or you take what information you have at the time and you evaluate a situation based on just that, which is exactly how real life decisions work. Rarely, exceedingly rarely even, do you have the luxury of waiting for all of the facts before
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by Zetice 3y ago
This begs the question; why "overly", why not just "excited"?
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by Zetice 3y ago
This presumes all of your opinions are wrong, and further presumes you'd hold these beliefs strongly when information changes, which is the very definition of irrational. So yeah, if you act irrationally, you will make bad decisions.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Seems like a great way to paralyze oneself.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Conversely, why wouldn't someone believe something if there are no consequences to being wrong? As you say, unless you regularly dance at the bleeding edge of material science, nothing you believe really matters, so why not jump in wit
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by Zetice 3y ago
Eh, too cynical for my tastes. If you need a list like this, I think a more productive thing you can do is work on is building up resilience to online discourse, usually by reducing ego. It’ll enable you to take more things at face value, w
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by Zetice 3y ago
Around the margins yes, but directionally no, a theory isn’t this kind of wrong. There is likely an LK-99 sized gap in scientific knowledge, there is not likely an “aliens land on earth and want to hang out” sized gap.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Because if reality works in a way that lets little green men fly ships across galaxies and secretly hang out with world leaders, then we’re incredibly wrong about how the universe works. And the problem with just being okay with our wrongne
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by Zetice 3y ago
That’s exactly how revision in science works; incomplete is wildly different from “wrong”, and most of our understanding of science would need to be fully wrong for aliens to do what is claimed they can do, to the point where we would have
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by Zetice 3y ago
As revolutionary as this stuff is, it fits within our current understanding of the universe, or maybe a tiny bit outside (for now). Intelligent interstellar aliens using unfathomable technology, secretly interacting with humans doesn’t. Wha
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by Zetice 3y ago
Literally not given in the premise, and these people haven’t been convicted of anything, so your analogy is flawed (they didn’t steal or get caught doing anything).
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by Zetice 3y ago
Go for it. I'd vote for such a law (or more accurately, consider voting for a representative who supported such a law), depending on the specifics.
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by Zetice 3y ago
You take it as a given that what they did broke the law just because the government claims it was illegal. However, that is not what the settlement proposal actually says. There was no trial, there was no conviction, and the telemarketers
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by Zetice 3y ago
Just to confirm, my limited understanding is that 10mg is an incredibly high dosage.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Because nobody passed a law that says the government can do that, and if the government did it anyway it'd be tyrannical as hell?
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by Zetice 3y ago
I suspect most/all of those offerings are as a result of specific grants or agreements between libraries or even Overdrive itself, that would not have existed absent a digital method of distribution.

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