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by aeternum 10mo ago
But property laws disproportionally benefit the rich.
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by aeternum 10mo ago
The only problem with modern infrastructure projects is that the infrastructure doesn't actually get built. They have become welfare programs in disguise. In the past the government would choose a competent industrialist to lead the c
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by aeternum 10mo ago
YouTube already slaps creators with demonetization for a wide array of topics and copyright strikes for minor sound clips. They could easily require creators to label videos that have AI-generated video and also build detection tools themse
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by aeternum 10mo ago
Sad. And perhaps a controversial take but consider the counterfactual: Should it be illegal to fire employees that recent took mental health leave? Get a bad review or put on a PIP? It's already becoming a common strategy to immedia
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by aeternum 10mo ago
Aren't farmers part of the agro-industry?
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by aeternum 10mo ago
Yes but the fact it's primarily a Chinese export makes the profit as the cause narrative much less convincing. The US FDA is ignoring evidence to protect a Chinese supplier?
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by aeternum 10mo ago
IMO the FDA should do a better job at helping the populace distinguish between these two: 1) Evidence for the null hypothesis (there are enough studies with sufficient statistical power to determine that product likely does not cause harm a
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by aeternum 10mo ago
It's a Chinese company selling this stuff so being a commie doesn't save you.
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by aeternum 10mo ago
The free spectrum granted to NPR and PBS represents a huge amount of gov funding. Spectrum is worth quite a lot, it should be auctioned and proceeds used to pay down the national debt.
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by aeternum 10mo ago
If PBS and NPR had shows of the caliber of Mr. Rogers then perhaps a strong case could be made continuing that funding. Instead they now focus on messages like this: https://x.com/NPR/status/1491520306036543496 Se
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by aeternum 10mo ago
Overeating now kills more people than hunger, it just flipped somewhat recently.
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by aeternum 10mo ago
Very similar arguments were made for slavery. Giving up freedom for a promise of safety rarely the right choice. While it is possible for the state to inflict violence, it's relatively difficult to scale. The state can freeze your US
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by aeternum 10mo ago
>BSV seemed to scale just fine, and you could also store entire files on it, including JSON, HTML or even music or videos This doesn't pass the sniff test. Everyone must store the full blockchain in order to verify it. So to run a
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by aeternum 11mo ago
They also confiscate those hard-to-copy tokens if you acquire a sufficiently large quantity and attempt to leave the country with them.
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by aeternum 11mo ago
Wait until you learn how much of life is gambling + entertainment. Is working for one of the many SV SaaS companies really that much different?
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by aeternum 11mo ago
Seems foolish, I've been a long-term shareholder in Micron but this seems aimed at short-term profit maximization. So I guess I'll be a short-term shareholder now.
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by aeternum 11mo ago
You could have the models output a confidence alongside next-token then weight the penalty by the confidence.
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by aeternum 11mo ago
So nothing to worry about now that Alex Soros in control instead of George?
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by aeternum 11mo ago
Hallucinations are also trained by the incentive structure: reward for next-token prediction, no penalty for guessing.
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by aeternum 11mo ago
1) More of an emergent behavior than a dark pattern. 2) Imma let you finish but hallucinations was first.
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by aeternum 11mo ago
IMO it's not different, I've been at multiple companies shaken down by these kinds of groups. It goes like this: 1) A) Shareholder proposal bullied through via questionable means like buying votes from index-fund vote providers (
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by aeternum 11mo ago
Strong disagree, the true villains have always been those attempting to convince you that human ingenuity and invention is bad. Without even mostly unknown inventions like the Haber process, over half of humanity would be starving right no
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by aeternum 11mo ago
It didn't have to be a mythical engine that ignores the most basic laws of physics. Just like with Rearden's steel, a more optimized version is often sufficient to change the world. Both Elon and Bezos have significantly decrease
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by aeternum 11mo ago
I believed this quote when I first read it. I now see that both the heroes and villains in Atlas Shrugged turned out to be far more real that I could have imagined (the engine was still unnecessary BS though).
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by aeternum 11mo ago
Europe in general has become the world leader in tech company extortion. If you run a tech company, be very careful about selling into that market. You should generally have an army of lawyers before making the leap.
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by aeternum 11mo ago
Different than when the railroads dominated the market, or the industrials dominance in the 20s and 30s, or the nifty fifty, or the communication dominance in the late 90s? Does the S&P 493 reveal a different economy or does it reveal t
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by aeternum 11mo ago
Seems more correct to say with different choices rather than the right choices. For example plenty of energy likely means far more nuclear reactors, and the unfortunately truth is that most can be used to breed plutonium, so while we could
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by aeternum 11mo ago
Not really because reducing car usage makes it worse. Less car congestion means higher potential and actual speed deltas. Increased likelihood of hitting a ped/bike rather than another car.
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by aeternum 11mo ago
That person will get hit by the car and all their economic value will be lost.
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by aeternum 11mo ago
TOS in their current form should be made illegal. Users don't/can't read them and service providers know it. There's no actual agreement because anything (kid, bot, dog) could click the button.

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