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by afthonos 1y ago
The importance of having a human be responsible is about alignment. We have a fundamental belief that human beings are comprehensible and have goals that are not completely opaque. That is not true of any piece of software. In the case of d
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by afthonos 1y ago
We are constantly bombarded by links to information. It is reasonable to make snap judgments about the quality of the information based on who is providing it. If I’m looking for accurate, factual information on a topic that is clearly pro
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by afthonos 1y ago
The problem is that the policy incentivizes pilots who develop problems to hide them. So pilots who should take time off to work through problems are instead flying planes, because the alternative is losing their career.
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by afthonos 1y ago
> A married parent who wants to stay home but can't quite afford it is forced to work. I’m confused; how does your preferred policy solve this problem?
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by afthonos 1y ago
I find the analogy quite apt. I have known drug addicts who I thought were recovered, but who could not fathom simply going to work and then going home to their families every night. They thought that was an incredibly boring life. Predicta
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by afthonos 1y ago
That’s fair, but there’s a way to say that without bringing “deserving” into it. As you did. For my part, there’s a big part of me that still is moved by Tennyson: “As tho’ to breathe were life!”
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by afthonos 1y ago
I think making a point broadcasting that one doesn’t care if other people who weren’t harming anyone die is callous, yes. Doubly so when one does it on a news story about people dying.
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by afthonos 1y ago
What an interesting way of thinking. More seriously, the correct reaction to a fake is to adjust towards whatever the fake is moving your away from. If the fake wants you to believe Tesla is a company that will brick your car while driving
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by afthonos 1y ago
Don’t worry, the world will never lack for Great Bureaucrats to tut-tut 6500 babies irregularly saved, and to regulate away the likelihood of such atrocities happening on the regular.
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by afthonos 1y ago
I can’t be sure, but my impression is that army drills (1) push uniformly (rather than let you improve at your own pace) and (2) often involve carrying your kit, which is 20-40lbs. Neither of these is similar to the kind of running GP descr
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by afthonos 1y ago
I feel like you’re making their point. If the “punishment“ for paying sticker price is you getting actually hurt, then it’s not a tip, it’s extortion. A social custom that the customary price of something is 30% more expensive than what the
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by afthonos 1y ago
I 100% agree with your value judgement. Nevertheless, the social pressure exists.
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by afthonos 1y ago
In the US, the tip is an expected part of the expense of eating out (and increasingly having any human in the loop). I hate it, and I really wish it wasn’t the case, but it pretty much is. If you say “I didn’t tip because the service was wh
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by afthonos 1y ago
So what would be impossible to explain in a world where “corporate greed” is indeed what causes all these things? The answer can’t be “nothing”—or “corporate greed” doesn’t mean anything. I can say, for example, that under gravity, an objec
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by afthonos 1y ago
Columbia is in the United States. Colombia is not.
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by afthonos 1y ago
Greek states were neither particularly stable nor particularly long-lived. Irrespective of its moral merits, the Greek system was outcompeted by monarchies and eventually the Roman Republic. It’s hard to pinpoint the blame, exactly, but I’d
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by afthonos 1y ago
And you, also, can claim no one can find 69 year-old they like to work with to make a silly argument. It’s not that your (implied, guessed-at-by-me) idea is wrong on its face. It’s that you choose to (1) imply it, (2) in a snarky way that i
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by afthonos 1y ago
You asked someone to give you something, and they did, and then you claimed that they lied. I call BS on your original request being made in good faith.
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by afthonos 1y ago
I understand a large amount of car pollution these days is due to the tires.
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by afthonos 2y ago
There isn’t any! GP doesn’t have that authority! Well done! On the other hand, the society you live in probably has some sort of document establishing who does have the authority, and how it devolves to the actual policy-makers. Google “$YO
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by afthonos 2y ago
The post you responded to was about how medical schools are “schools” in name only. You may be correct that administrators are useless, but your kid’s experience, assuming they are in medical school is not really evidence because they don
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by afthonos 2y ago
The parenthetical is doing most of the lifting in that sentence.
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by afthonos 2y ago
Medieval peasants were required to work 150 days a year on their lord’s estate. That was how they paid for the land they had to farm the rest of the time to survive. They also had to spin, weave, and make clothes. Reference: https:/&#
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by afthonos 2y ago
Sadly this is an explicit allowance of the justice system. :-/ There was a case about it, though I don’t have the reference handy.
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by afthonos 2y ago
Sibling’s explanation is a great starting point! If you understand annual, weekly, and daily compounding, continuous compounding is the limit of what happens when the time you compound over becomes ever shorter. It’s not obvious without ca
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by afthonos 2y ago
Consumers being unable to pressure government, even if true, does not imply this is a bad decision.
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by afthonos 2y ago
In theory, the difference between theory and practice is zero.
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by afthonos 2y ago
I think this is really cool tech, but that’s not at all the takeaway from this. $100,000 and 30 hospital visits are what created the data for the tool to figure out the diagnosis. The question to ask to make your point relevant is what frag
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by afthonos 2y ago
I find this take strange. My observation has been the opposite. We used to say it would take human intelligence to play chess. Then Deep Blue came up and we said, no, not like that. Then it was go. Then AlphaGo came up and we said no, not l
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by afthonos 2y ago
Everyone hates “the system”, including the people in it. But every party of the system is perfectly fair and reasonable for the people benefitting from it, even if they hate every other part. So every part of the system will have people fig

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