amalcon

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by amalcon 1y ago
We're already past the point where there is no meaningful notion of "normal" that actually impacts what happens in government. Normalizing things doesn't matter that much if people care so little that they elect someone
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by amalcon 1y ago
It's most likely highly correlated, but not causative. That correlation still makes it diagnostically useful, which is how it's used here.
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by amalcon 1y ago
He's said to have done that by himself and some of his supporters. It's a lie, but they're saying it.
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by amalcon 1y ago
You'd get most Democrats to support voter ID if it came with a national ID card, plus an affirmative duty to some agency to ensure that everyone has access to one. We have neither of those things. The closest we have is driver's
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by amalcon 1y ago
The military is similarly dominated by the other party. Somehow, we expect them to be professional. Professionalism here means to faithfully execute lawful orders even when a Democrat is in the white house. There were no personal loyalty
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by amalcon 1y ago
I am somewhat weird among my peers in this respect: I invert Y on joystick controls only (and leave it as default for mouse controls). Probably there are other people who do this - it certainly makes sense to me - but almost everyone else
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by amalcon 1y ago
Do you have the same musical taste as your wife? I have a bone conduction headset that I use for cycling. Podcasts and ebooks sound fine, and some music is acceptable (a lot of classical, some pop and folk). Anything with bass just sound
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by amalcon 1y ago
This is an important space to think about, it just doesn't seem to have much to do with your claim of a shift from making things to not making them, as part of the general evolution of the country . That shift has not been happening.
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by amalcon 1y ago
> The printing press, steam engine, cotton gin, combine tractor etc. all didn't kill traditional masculinity, so why should computers and robots? This is an interesting space for discussion, and it's worth noting that I don&#x2
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by amalcon 1y ago
It may not be better, but the space of responses to such a situation is totally different. Incentivizing manufacturing won't bring back manufacturing jobs, because the new jobs are at least as easy to replace with machines as the ol
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by amalcon 1y ago
> A shift from making things to not making them, as part of general enervation of the country. This is not the shift that is happening. US manufacturing is currently very close to the record levels from before COVID right now (similar t
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by amalcon 1y ago
That's worse, though. It implies that 40% of the "electorate" was (in some combination) either prevented from voting or not bothered enough by the difference between plausible electoral outcomes to actually try to influence
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by amalcon 1y ago
There are two scenarios here. In one, the AI bubble bursts (so Nvidia is overpriced now) and almost any value stock deal is good for them. In the other, it doesn't, and this gives them a limited hedge against problems with their most
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by amalcon 1y ago
If you use single stream recycling for this, then this is actively bad. Plastic bags clog the sorting machines, and then get thrown out because (even if labeled) they are usually contaminated.
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by amalcon 1y ago
That's not the trick here. The trick is that the format of his talks - and the typical lack of preparation on the part of the typical college student - prohibits nuanced answers. The correct answer there (to someone who, unlike me, do
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by amalcon 1y ago
Exactly. It resembles the Brian Thompson murder in this way: there's a small minority who think it was a good thing. However, they are very vocal online. You probably don't know anyone who believes this in real life, but it&
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by amalcon 1y ago
This is a weird criticism. Are meteorologists immoral? They are wrong a lot, with (occasionally) deadly consequences. It doesn't really hurt them - because their predictions are still pretty useful.
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by amalcon 1y ago
The problem is that, while I agree with more or less everything you say here - "writing off" approximately half the population is not going to work. You can't do that in a democracy, if only because that approximately-half a
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by amalcon 1y ago
The thing that drives me nuts is that this is extremely similar to a corporate tax. By itself this is fine - I actually favor corporate taxes in at least some situations. The problems are: - It is being imposed at least semi arbitrarily,
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by amalcon 1y ago
This one kind of smells like Trump throwing a bone to the court and feeding his base's persecution complex. I highly doubt that he actually cares about flag burning. The court can rule against him here (answering the criticism that t
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by amalcon 1y ago
The not-so-secret is that the "killer apps" for deep neural networks are not LLMs or diffusion models. Those are very useful, but the most valuable applications in this space are content recommendation and ad targeting. It'
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by amalcon 1y ago
The problem is that it's really hard to come up with a definition that includes all of the things we agree are obviously life (e.g. mold), does not include fire, and does not just appeal to the particular structure that most or all lif
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by amalcon 1y ago
Trump has already refused to admit electoral defeat. That line is much more important than the term limit, and our response was to elect him again.
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by amalcon 1y ago
Searle seems to have been right: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room (Not that I am the first to notice this either)
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by amalcon 1y ago
If anything, it would be even more so. If a person on the moon had a medical emergency, this would be a serious problem but there's another person there to help and/or fly the lander back to the capsule. If the person in the cap
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by amalcon 1y ago
I mean, the presumptive GOP primary candidates at the time were Trump, Trump-lite (DeSantis), about 10 Trump sycophants, and Haley. He had demonstrated a high level of influence over GOP primary voters in the 2022 midterm. It had been (in
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by amalcon 1y ago
This is perhaps confounded somewhat by the fact that Trump's platform included mass layoffs of federal workers. Trump, contrary to past Republicans even, represented an existential threat to the livelihood of every federal worker.
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by amalcon 1y ago
We do have ductless AC in the US. It's technically a bit different but accomplishes the same thing using the same principles. Of course, most of those systems are made by Japanese companies like Mitsubishi...
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by amalcon 1y ago
Erlang is kind of a special case, since there was that period when the community's preferred response to "too much politics" was to spam submissions about Erlang. Agreed though, it doesn't seem to have taken over more t
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by amalcon 1y ago
This is precisely the problem: users still need to screen and reason about results of LLMs. I am not sure what is generating this implied permission structure, but it does seem to exist. (I don't mean to imply that parent doesn'

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