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by advael 3y ago
Yes, it absolutely can. However, these decisions are more the rule than the exception in an acquisition or change of management, whereas people who set out to make things that get the good reviews in the first place will often value the eff
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Yes, I think consumer brands for things like food are exactly the way this trend started, and the aggregation of them has been gradual but led to lower quality and more scamminess throughout
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I think this is illustrative of how the economy gets more scammy the faster and more secretly ownership of a product, company, or brand can change hands To me, this cuts at a fundamental logic we take for granted in the paradigm of Intellec
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by advael 3y ago
Well, if "the public" in any way bought into OpenAI's branding claim that they were a non-profit dedicated to making something for the public benefit, they have a right to feel betrayed As someone who was watching the brain d
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Like I said before this seems par for the course for him
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I like this article, and I think the relationship between politically-charged discourse and trauma is important not only because it gives us insight into people's behavior, but because this is being deployed strategically There are man
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Weird I got my bachelor's in a pretty famously left-leaning place and zero of my grades depended on attending any diversity trainings whatsoever That said, I also might be speaking from the privileged position of not having as many tri
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by advael 3y ago
Yes, transparency is perhaps the most important check against power. We are constantly told by governments and corporations alike that there is some dire safety reason they have to do so much secretly, and while rare exceptions where this m
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by advael 3y ago
Like most airing out of drama, this doesn't really materially change anything aside from making everyone involved look extremely bad But also, all entities involved looked bad already to observers who weren't so deeply rooting for
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Weird, because as I understand it, government intervention is the only way an appreciable amount of people ever had retirement savings
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Heavily depends on the genre and the artist. A lot of top 40 pop albums are vehicles for singles or designed to get chopped up across some playlists, sure. If they bother with the album at all. I would definitely say bands that focus on hol
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One might think this, but that you are guaranteed anything (even if you are explicitly promised it) by a for-profit corporation is a foolhardy and sometimes even dangerous thing to take for granted
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Arxiv feels like the most legitimate "journal" these days. It'd be sci-hub except they seem to have managed to kill it finally The business of IP has so hollowed out the credibility of its brokers that the business part (like
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Listen I know that having an opinion and using superlatives when describing something makes me intrinsically uncool for breaking the all-encompassing kayfabe of total glibness required to be one of the Very Smart People on the Internet, but
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It's a total tangent but I find people's willingness to both put computers in their bodies (even non-neural medical implants) and their bodies in computers (e.g. cars or home security systems) incredibly shocking given how user-ho
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Makes sense from that perspective. Thanks for taking the time to clarify
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In this case, I think the assumption that doesn't bear out is "stable amount of population". The relationship between death rate and expected lifespan is likely calculable, but only if you also have either age data or at leas
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Yea like I've heard everything from "neurospicy" to describe neurodivergences to "spicy autocomplete" to describe GPT. My best shot at a concise usage definition is that it's like an especially flippant way to
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Came looking for "spicy", was disappointed Gen Z vernacular usage of "spicy" is one of those difficult idioms to pin down/describe but not that difficult to understand, so I was curious about a wikipedia list's
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No, but I really gotta know how you drew that conclusion
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Often it suffices to blame the agencies themselves, citing the very failures caused by mismanagement, corruption, and underfunding as evidence of the foolishness of using government agencies to do things. This in turn is the kind of nonsens
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I think the only reason this should be surprising is that we've let it be the status quo for so long, despite being pretty obviously illegal. Nonetheless it's good that the FTC has explicitly made a commitment to start enforcing t
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Never hurts to be useful, right?
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Not really. The fact that "we keep our technology secret for safety reasons" is the reasoning given by many for-profit corporations does not make it a good argument, just a very profitable lie to tell, and it has never stopped sho
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I find myself in the weird position of still thinking Musk is upset about this for pettier reasons than he alleges but still being super glad he's bringing this suit. OpenAI has clearly sold out in a big way to one of the most dangerou
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Weird how people who anonymously comment on behalf of tech bosses claim "pay-per-performance" policies while most high-performing developers report it being easier to get a raise by being poached than within their extant tenure
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Yes, the demonstrated intent to hook people on drugs on the behalf of pharmaceutical cartels is among the many private-equity-driven nightmares of the healthcare "system" in the US, designed at every turn to extract as much profit
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Lawheads cope and seethe, prohibition has never been effective policy except for creating police states and organized crime cartels
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As someone also running FOSS projects on discord because it's a non-choice, hard agree. Boycotting proprietary platforms is a good end-goal, but it's about as feasible to convince people not to use dominant organizing tools like d
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So you believe that Microsoft can on average more be trusted with dangerous technology than humanity as a whole? A bold claim given their track record

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