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Can you cite this growing consensus? I’m agnostic whether you are right or wrong but one side brings data and you just have an anecdote.
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don't remind me.
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Because there is a group of business that have identified 'basic societally necessary services' as things where they can effectively do as they please and charge what they please. Eldercare isn't the only one - c.f. child car
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3y ago
>Because it would not necessarily be cheaper. The government can be incredibly wasteful and inefficient, especially when corruption is involved - and the money still comes from you! Personally, I've come to the following conclusion
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>Just require police to carry liability insurance so their misconduct is paid for by the insurance I consistently and strongly disagree with this. The police are a manifestation of our society. When they do bad things they do so in our n
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3y ago
I think it depends on who’s nearby.
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> I don't think that the adoption of this narrative is due to the Internet though; Clarifying…I meant the narratives in general, not this particular one. When your information sphere becomes narrowed, whatever narratives are within
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> If you agree with the narrative of shareholder primacy I've really begun to notice that there is a large group of people who see this not as a narrative but as objective and external reality. I see it often on this topic, that cap
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3y ago
Given that I am not understanding this comment,I suspect you are correct.
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honestly - of all the AI hype demos and presentations recently - this is the first one that has really blown my mind. Something about the multimodal component of visual to audio just makes it feel realer. I would be VERY curious to see this
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https://nearzero.co/products/shovel They exist! Meant for backpacking/back country work. I spent a summer as a wilderness search and rescue intern/volunteer/grunt/mule during college and was shocked
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3y ago
not business but I'll give one from my own work in academia. Do you change a requirement for a BS degree to only require 6 instead of 9 credits of research? Upside - students might graduate faster (this is one of many constraints on gr
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a mentor once referred to it as 'ship fast and shout down externalities' which always stuck with me That all being said I think for many people the ability to have a bright line is because the abstractions involved in deeply under
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I'm confused - the article title says 'explanations' but the articles seems to only talk about two 'examples'. Those are fundamentally different.
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It doesn’t… The problem is that unless the data are credible and reliable, any interpretation of that data is meaningless. For or against one’s hypotheses doesn’t matter if the data is junk. If the data is junk you can’t move past that, it’
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If it’s making a claim about humans vs llms but shittified capitalism means that the humans are just using llms to make money churning on mechanical turn then you can’t make the underlying claim. That ignores random sample problems and the
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Located and targeted are different. Until Ukraine recently got patriot batteries and humans I highly doubt anything they have could be cued by the NATO radars. More importantly I doubt the us would, and I’m not even sure most strategic isr
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Did they properly remove it or does no one there even know it was/is happening. They didn’t shut it down, the seem to have left the lights on with nobody home. Bigger picture - given the role news making and sharing in real time has al
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>Testing the waters outside your specialty when you're in your second postdoc is not a bad idea. Presumably that means you've not been able to get a permanent job at least a couple times. So while this might seem logical from a
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I can agree with this. I do think automated decision making amplifies the effect, but you are right on the fundamental issue
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I know what you are saying but I want to counter the interpretation a bit. What the spokespeople say is a claim…it’s not truth, we don’t have independent evidence of it, of course they would claim that. Even if they did have human in the lo
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It’s good. I provide it to students as a resource and bring it up on a couple of topics when I teach undergraduate engineers statistics
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It’s also pushing in the hub in a way it is t designed to be pushed on…
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The chainsaw might be lighter…but the equipment powering it isn’t.
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Completely agree. We tried a number of others and settled on that. We also use it as a quick todo list for things that don’t go into the family asana Other note- asana, mostly for repeating and long term scheduled tasks has been a huge fami
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Other funny note…for all the Silicon Valley folk on HN…the trident missles the US uses on submarines are built in Sunnyvale. I’m imaging most on here have read some/all of the secret history of Silicon Valley posts, but if you haven’t
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Yup. But that’s based on knowing where the silo is, they are less mobile than subs (or trucks or trains). The alignment is all based on dead reckoning from where it started to where it’s going to know where it is, where it wants to be, and
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They have a range in the Atlantic, it’s used for launches from the Atlantic…the French do similar things https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34043/france-just-test... Generally the logic is don’t launch on traje
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As I understood it yes. The ability to disarm the other side at will, and prevent any retaliation against cities, was seen as an more offensive capacity
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This is the citation I should have provided and completely forgot to. The most interesting boring book I’ve ever read.
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