advael

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by advael 3y ago
Solipsism is truly the best fully-general counterargument
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by advael 3y ago
Yes, the typical corporate myth is that user control of devices is a security risk to those users. In actuality, it is the opposite. This is the most pervasive form of straightforward Orwellian doublespeak in the world today, and it is a cl
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by advael 3y ago
The only phone features that matter to me at this point are root access and the ability to interface with all of the systems that rely on "owning a phone" that are increasingly mandatory, such as payment processors and authenticat
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by advael 3y ago
I mean I could equally say that the opposing bias is 1. Choose a few good blunt instruments we use to gatekeep students on the premise that it tests their "intelligence" (or wait, do we mean subject matter comprehension with this
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by advael 3y ago
The post tries to use this to make an analogy about self-driving cars. I think this analogy is deeply misplaced. It's both easier and a qualitatively different problem to bootstrap a neural network with a known good automated method li
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by advael 3y ago
Analogy is a useful and perhaps essential human reasoning tool, but it has some pretty key failure modes For example, here we talk about a more broad general computational approach to chess using neural networks. This is an exciting develop
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by advael 3y ago
I mean I think Proton's focus is on games, and it's been quite a while since I ran into any that didn't work pretty trivially. I guess I don't game enough to bother trying to get malware-like anti-cheat things to play ni
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by advael 3y ago
There is some deep cognitive dissonance going on with windows users in the last 5 years especially I've noticed. Nearly every new thing that happens has the people I know who are on it complaining loudly, desperately trying to hold on
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by advael 3y ago
Yea, that does seem like a reasonable way to design less corrupt mechanisms for these processes, but I think the standard way piecemeal designs like that get rejected is by arguments to "efficiency" (Nevermind that efficiencies ga
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by advael 3y ago
No, the problem would exist even if the bidding process was completely fair, because it still creates a situation where a long-standing project creates stable returns for a company while decoupling the service it provides from both market f
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by advael 3y ago
Yea, "world" is often used in pretty drastically different senses, like we might mean an everett branch, the continuity of a fictional universe, or, as here, the experiential reality of a person or group of people. Their context.
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by advael 3y ago
I'm not personally attacking you, I'm saying your argument makes no sense, because you're trying to draw equivalences between recorded accounts of history and things that have never happened Like how long it takes to fly huma
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by advael 3y ago
I attribute a lot of the higher expenditure and lower efficiency to the continued insistence that outsourcing to contractors, effectively picking winners in a "market" to give monopoly status, is a better way to provide government
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by advael 3y ago
I also agree with this. Not permitting the owner of a device to use a different operating system on it should be illegal, by a similar principle
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by advael 3y ago
It's weird that you seem to believe these analogies you're making with zero examples of the latter. Of course when you're imagining the whole thing and willing to fudge the details in favor of the conclusion you want, it&#x27
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by advael 3y ago
This is nonsensical for numerous reasons 1. The federal government doesn't have tax revenue. It issues a currency and then taxes go toward countering inflation. The notion that a currency-issuing government needs to "balance its b
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by advael 3y ago
Many commenters here are older than me and have older parents. I forget because many are also younger than me and my parents are now grandparents. I'll be more specific: The post-WW2 economic boom (That is, roughly 75-80 years ago) was
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by advael 3y ago
Man I never seen someone do agreegument better. We basically are in accord on most matters of substance here I find nitpicking silly, but it is traditional in the agreegument format. I will only nitpick two things: 1. While I did put scareq
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by advael 3y ago
I mean if the tech industry wanted people to like it, maybe it should treat them better? We live in the smoking ruins of the world of our grandparents, and that is because, unambiguously, of industry and policy shaped by industry. Wages hav
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by advael 3y ago
My bad, it's just that literally every single example he gave was a US company, so I got mixed up That said, the US and Britain are both quite world-class at both endorsing lying to children and revisionist history are definitely among
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by advael 3y ago
I think the place where this is most apparent in the speech is the bit about selective universities. It's interesting the way people like Graham talk about how universities work, because they're actually kind of the primary place
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by advael 3y ago
I think this distills the crux of the equivocation inherent to this kind of reasoning Being "the number 1 economy in the world" (Actually kind of debatable by some metrics, but that's beside the point) is a measure of the pow
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by advael 3y ago
I mean, like most advice from my generation and prior ones, the notion that people in their 20s can't fuck up too badly because they have little to lose applies considerably less well to all but the fairly affluent people in their 20s
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by advael 3y ago
I know people mention that this advice smacks of survivorship bias, and I think that's pretty obviously going to be a part of any advice given about economic outcomes whose odds of working out are perhaps a whole order of magnitude bet
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by advael 3y ago
First option makes no sense. It requires a likely expensive dealmaking process with another company, like in your example do the endusers automatically get a free permanent netflix sub to access the content? It's just not workable, and
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by advael 3y ago
It's not drastically different from the general tension between tech companies and open-source maintainer communities in the last decade, but it's especially frustrating that OpenAI capitalized on this tension to present itself as
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by advael 3y ago
As someone who gets a lot of derision from "normies" when even the basic choice to use linux for home computers comes up, I agree with this article that the impression you make of privacy tech and advocacy by being sanctimonious i
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by advael 3y ago
It continues to be frustrating that Elon Musk, who is pretty easy to impugn as hypocritical and is transparently primarily pursuing the suit out of a personal vendetta, is the only person who seems to have the resources to bring a suit at a
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by advael 3y ago
The entire purpose of putting DRM on media is to retain control of it while allowing access. It's simply infeasible to "buy" anything that's DRM-restricted in any sense we would recognize as "buying". Yes, Amaz
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by advael 3y ago
Sales is a great example of how moralizing about tools rather than uses of them creates incoherent beliefs which lead to dysfunctional policy. Most sales people I've met generally believe they're not bullshitting people. Now, thei

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