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by acituan 5y ago
> System/software/hardware engineering is one of the most highly-compensated and least-regulated careers out there Not saying this is the case with most engineers today , at least yet, but do you think mistreatment would be OK
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by acituan 5y ago
> If the cropping algorithm changes the focus or purpose of a photo entirely, it has objectively failed to do its job. You just changed the problem formulation to an objective definition of “purpose” and a delta of deviation that is tole
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by acituan 5y ago
“Badness” is not a property of the object, it is created by the perceiving subject. What AI does is an attempt at scaling the prevention a particular notion of “badness”, that suits its masters. In other words Twitter is just pushing anothe
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by acituan 5y ago
Here’s my qualitative submission; bounty is not necessary. Image cropping is not representative of the most important AI biases within Twitter, and making only that salient is the biggest meta-bias. Differential impact and harm analyses are
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by acituan 5y ago
> Most sensible, considerate humans would avoid cropping an image of a woman to her boobs simply because it's insensitive to do so The manners of sexualization of the human form, even nudity, is not a human universal, not even a wes
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by acituan 5y ago
> Like there’s an evil genius(es) with ulterior motives behind it all. In a sense, I think there is. Instead of a cabal, it is just our collective intelligence getting lost in attractive pockets of irrationality. I think virtue signaling
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by acituan 5y ago
You missed Heidegger being an outright Nazi, and not even a rank-and-file one. Not being able to relate to an other if they are not pure is a failure in having strong enough ego boundaries. High functioning requires complexification of
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by acituan 5y ago
Feelings alone do not make a rational standpoint. This ex-pressing (pressing outwards) of our feelings was the problem of romanticism, and it has to be balanced with what the reality tells back at us. In other words, people don't seem
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by acituan 5y ago
You can play Diablo I and II offline. I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong with demonstrations of purity in protest, for the record, as long as we’re honest about what they are.
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> I for one will never again fire up those games that I loved so much That is a very confusing argument to me. Not only you’ve already given your money to them and received your end of the transaction, whether you make use of it or not,
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by acituan 5y ago
At the risk of being repetitive, “finding common ground” cannot be a one sided action, else it is seeking mere conformity. And the reader is a side to this; if the reader is stuck at a perspectival narrowing, they will feel like the argumen
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“Interesting” is not a property of the discussion in itself but created between the reader and the discussion. Maybe the reader is also culpable for the perceived dimensionality reduction? To me heavy disagreement usually makes more interes
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by acituan 5y ago
> I’ve read all the comments and can confidently say there’s nothing worth reading here I particularly dislike this type of comments, which tell people what to feel and think about a thread, however well meaning it might be. You're
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by acituan 5y ago
> To be perfectly clear, they are mandating employees be vaccinated if they want to physically go in to an office, not to do (or keep) their jobs That is not perfectly clear actually. From what I’ve heard refusal requires a “talk” with t
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by acituan 5y ago
> Is routine drug testing universally considered acceptable? If I'm going to be a pilot, maybe. For a developer job, I would never consider one that asked for a drug test Not to mention it would strike many positives thanks to presc
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by acituan 5y ago
> Unpopular ideas may be ahead of their time, but they may equally be just stupid or deliberately proposed in bad faith. It is more than an idea being ahead of time or stupid. People need to take a lot of cognitive shortcuts in their mod
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by acituan 5y ago
> I've got no problem being wrong, but when I spend a significant amount of time trying to respond to something in good faith and then someone comes along with their four accounts and downvotes every comment I got It doesn't ev
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by acituan 5y ago
> Agency is power, it's power over your own life. Life is not something one can "power over", it is something we participate in. I say this because a good chunk of the interesting problems in life are not constraints that
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by acituan 5y ago
This tries to reduce it to a scheduling problem, but reduces too much. Let's take a much simpler game than life, like chess. If the chess coach said "the most important thing is controlling your time", how sufficient would th
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by acituan 5y ago
What is trying to be expressed by "highest form of wealth" is usually about agency. The problem with agency, unlike what 'power' connotes you to believe; you can't just have and store it for later. Like others right
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by acituan 5y ago
> failed to see was the democratization of tech. "A computer on every desk" has become an internet node in every pocket. I find it harmful to equate mere proliferation with democratic participation . Sure, you have many termin
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by acituan 5y ago
Too many words is a yellow flag; those words including a lot of opining about out of scope things like how users might be unnecessarily scared by the legal language of GDPR is an orange flag; some of their points being factually incorrect i
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by acituan 5y ago
> Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of. That just sounds like a tautology but maybe I am missing something. > It is like askin
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by acituan 5y ago
> I'm guessing the person you're replying to doesn't do their full time job for free and just accepts donations from their employers, either. Eh, this is a false dichotomy of one can either be charitable or transactional i
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> Expecting a valuable service with absolutely no consideration in return absolutely is a case of entitlement Like open source software? What you’re talking about is not entitlement, it is directed transactionality; “if I am using a serv
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by acituan 5y ago
Artificial Intelligibility. We are often reduced to mere conformity to what the artificial intelligence can make sense of. Captcha: "Are you human?" Human: <Goes on to do a simple perceptual task even a cat could do if they had
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by acituan 5y ago
Only if you ignore the difference between immigration and tourism. A tourist is fundamentally there for temporary and consumptive reasons. They don't have any long term interests about the place they visit. They are accommodated as
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by acituan 5y ago
I must say, as much as I agree with the contents of your argument, and I am not saying this was intentional, I resent the fact that you've co-opted the reply-space to plug back in managerial or organizational culture issues, which was
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by acituan 5y ago
> there are plenty of existential risks which can't "follow" anything, or happen to more than one planet simultaneously. If the most salient risk was a large meteor striking Earth, you would be right, changing locale would
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> It's how we get to the moon and Mars and how we survive as a species. It's what's next. The core fallacy is to assume whatever made Earth less than ideal will not follow us to the new destination. To assume our survivabi

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