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by advael 2y ago
Not to stereotype but I'm not sure I've ever read a British writer who didn't at least a little bit sound like that. I wonder what it is
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That would be true if this was a market where funding mostly came from making products and generating revenue It isn't. The majority of tech companies are speculative and funded by venture capital, and what's worse, many of the la
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The anthropomorphizing pattern I picked up on was the whole phrase "chat with someone", because while I think LLMs are interesting and useful tools in a lot of ways, it's a pretty drastically different experience from talking
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Yea, we seem to agree that people can't actually push the needle on these kinds of issues in a meaningful way through their individual choices as consumers. That's a dead end, and it's one industries that fear getting regulat
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Also notable is that in the cases you've presented, the harm was not to the lives of poor addicts, but to the fortunes of rich investors, which seems a lot more like the kind of thing the courts will hear out
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This is a common reaction to a pervasive phenomenon Reading is one way people encounter ideas and learn, and so some people who read have a broad worldview and have absorbed the insights from books People start to notice this, or perhaps th
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Yes, nearly impossible as I said before. The "nearly" qualifier acknowledges that this does sometimes nonetheless happen
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by advael 2y ago
It's quite strange to me that business leaders love talking about how they are being rewarded for taking risks when it's used to justify disproportionate executive pay and stock buybacks for investors, but in all discussions of ec
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by advael 2y ago
I honestly think that if half of the FTC's lawsuits under Lina Khan succeed, she'll have more meaningful positive change in the life of the average American to point to than the last six or so presidents
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I think half of this is well-reasoned and insightful but it commits a couple of enormous confounds when trying to explain the general sense of stagnation One is the economic side of things. Like me, this author has a very US-centric view of
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by advael 2y ago
On one hand, I strongly agree that some mitigations are personally achievable and that this is smart to do. Personally, I preferentially buy natural fibers (cheaper than you might think if you thrift 'em), and I cold wash and hang dry
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by advael 2y ago
I mean I've worked for multiple companies wherein I've been explicitly hired as R&D staff and then let go because they don't want that anymore and would rather downsize than pay another dev to do the short-term work they
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The most ridiculous aspects for me were the anthropomorphizing (Reminds me of that one Sam Altman interview a bit) and the use of "infinite", which both doesn't really work on vibes (as many have noted, while I'm sure ch
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by advael 2y ago
I've been messing with contrastive learning in the CLIP-like "minibatch" style for applications where correspondences between modalities within an example are a relevant source of information, and have been pleasantly surpris
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On a meta level I agree that having this kind of dataset with "before and after" would be pretty interesting. On an object level I do not predict that this would increase the overall diversity of language usage - and in fact it wo
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Massively subsidizing anything to do with oil has certainly caused all these byproducts to be super artificially cheap, so with the governments with globe-spanning military empires absorbing most of the cost and ensuring not even the mildes
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by advael 2y ago
I think there's an issue of burden of proof at play. If these microplastics were a drug, they would need to go through an expensive and onerous vetting process that consists of both safety testing and efficacy testing for a particular
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by advael 2y ago
In the last century the landscape of human health problems has pretty drastically shifted (more cancers, more obesity, more asthma, perhaps more mental illness, lower rates of maiming, less malaria and consumption deaths, and frankly this i
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by advael 2y ago
I am fairly convinced that this comment section is among the best demonstrations for "isolated demands for rigor" I have personally ever seen, especially paired with any comment section about an AI-related article When we are tryi
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In fact I used the key phrase "sunk cost" directly to imply that, since that's entered the lexicon as a common reasoning error While business leaders want to think of and portray themselves as these hyper-rational actors whos
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by advael 2y ago
I think the most compelling explanation is that control over workers is more important than productivity to the leadership of many of these companies Perhaps especially in the case of larger companies, sunk costs on office space may be a fa
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by advael 2y ago
A lot of tech industry mythology is written from the perspective of a technical lead as imagined by an executive, or from the perspective of an executive who views themself as primarily a technical lead. In practice, this mythology is usual
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Or you know, sometimes your boss just lies to you, you do the crunch time, then when you save their asses you get laid off because that's cheaper than the raises or bonuses and you're prolly burnt out anyway so you won't be t
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by advael 2y ago
Much appreciated. Super interesting stuff
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It's almost too on the nose to do this level of silly mythologizing through a half-baked analogy (a favorite rhetorical handwave of the so-called "founder cult") of Mark Zuckerberg of all people in this particular thread. Exc
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Business culture's tribal knowledge about technology seems to have by and large devolved into wanting only bossware, that all gizmos should function as a means of controlling their suppliers, their labor force, or their customers. I th
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It's crazy to me that we managed to get such an exciting technology both theoretically and as a practical tool and still managed to make it into a bubbly hype wave because business people want it to be an automation technology, which i
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by advael 2y ago
Yes, like I said before, this hasn't de-stratified the job market. Jobs that want to select applicants by class can find plenty of ways to do so easily E.G.: More expensive vocational programs that haven't been subsidized, selecti
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Socialism is a term too broad to mean anything. When we say socialism, do we include states that provide healthcare systems as infrastructure, as is common across the world? Do we include the vast amounts of market interference represented
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It isn't set up to now, but it has been before and it can be again

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