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I will happily go on the record as saying that this will be as revolutionary as the Apple TV. Perhaps even less so (if such a thing is possible).
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I've given 5 stars to Uber delivery drivers who are 40 minutes late. I do this because I know that anything that's under 5 stars will have such grave consequences for this person that it's just mean. It has grave consequences
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by alexb_ 3y ago
The next stage is requiring a phone number to sign up and having no privacy online.
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Money? Plenty of people exist that lack any sort of empathy, and theft is just a risk vs reward calculation. If there's no punishment for getting caught, and reward for not getting caught, then you should always take that gamble. When
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Asking to change policy without changing the incentives that led to said policy is a fool's errand. You have to change what people are incentivized to do to actually change anything because people respond to incentives, not ideas. The
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The nuance is that with restrictions on property tax there is absolutely no disincentive for citizens to support local policies that restrict housing development. You are incentivized to keep the housing supply as low as you can possibly ge
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Anyone have the text? Don't have or desire a Medium account.
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An operator ending up with all 500 plays as non paying is not breaking the law, they are just incredibly unlucky. The spins are independent, and no amount of waiting for a machine to be "due" is going to do anything.
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Right, but it would make it more expensive to ship, which makes pretty much everyone in that state poorer. States do not want this.
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I don't think you understand what a legally mandated payout rate means. You can have a slot machine that is completely random, yet gives a consistent payout over a large amount of trials. Every spin is independent.
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I would agree with you, except that people who sell debt at these crazy low rates are doing so because the person with delinquent debt is so destitute they've given up trying to collect. They sell to people who will go to every single
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I'm not opposed to debt. Debt makes the economy run, it's where 99% of the US money comes from! What I'm opposed to is the practice of harassing poor people who don't understand what debt is until you can squeeze the las
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I think there exists a group of people who are actually attracted to doing things that are unethical because the association in a lot of business that unethical = profitable can create some really strong priors. Like, if something is unethi
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I would be interested if they at least said "Yeah, we're shitbags, but that's just how it is, and someone's gotta collect delinquent debt". What I'm not okay with is putting in shit like this: > The Debt Buy
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It's extremely unfortunate that a lot of our society has bundled together the ideas of "Unethical" and "Profitable" so much that people are attracted to evil industries taking advantage of the poor, because they thi
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You don't need to understand anything when you can google the answer. I can get an A in the most advanced physics class in Stanford if you had the answer sheet to every test right next to me. That doesn't mean I understand it, it
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Does she get tested on the material at the school, where she can't look up the answers on the internet?
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Mobile phones have destroyed children's attentions, given them new ways to bully and harrass eachother, made every single action that any child does subject to surviellance by their peers, and have completely and utterly destroyed the
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Children have lots of agency to make choices in the school system. They are constantly given the choice to do their work and listen to their teachers, or to be someone who is lazy and doesn't learn anything at all. We have completely d
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Have we considered that children don't understand what's best for them? Kids never want to go to school. But they do anyways because going to school is extremely important for a child. I never wanted to go to school, but my parent
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I see your point, but EY is a huge figure - I think that more leeway should be given for criticism, in the same way people can criticize Tim Cook or Sam Altman.
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I'm saying more that it's "interesting" in an argumentative way, not that it's actually of interest about how this is about EY. It should be interesting to followers of EY because all of these traits are things that
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It's interesting how many of these traits line up perfectly with the actions of Eliezer Yudkowsky. Especially the parts about lacking humility to the point where they think their ideology will save the universe from certain doom. Or ma
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>Notice how ChatGPT didn’t put its thumb in the air and see which way the wind was blowing? Using a proper tool for analysis not only saves time but also adds precision. This example shows how statistical testing is no joke. Don’t rely o
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I hope this becomes extremely popular, so that anyone who wants to can completely decouple this from the base model and actually use LLMs to their full potential.
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Who wrote this article? There isn't any mention of the marketing here past new IPs being licensed for machines. The headline doesn't mention the most surprising part of the article (that machines are now connected to the internet
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Do you think Apple will stop using TSMC sometime in the future? Berkshire does own 1/20th of Apple, and I wonder if sentiment from one of their largest investors that TSMC is not a safe investment might sway them working with other chi
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Can't wait until a clueless marketer tries to replicate this... would be like when said clueless marketers tried to "go viral" all the time when social media was just starting to get big.
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Apple is the most valuable fashion brand by a mile.
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Smartphones are what enable social media to ruin the lives of children. You can access Wikipedia from your computer. You can call your parents from a flip phone. And hey, you can sometimes engage with social media from a computer. The probl

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