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by awb 4y ago
In the early days Facebook was invite only as select colleges were onboarded so it had an allure to it. Kind of like Clubhouse did. I remember kids had two profiles, MySpace and Facebook and you’d qualify wether you saw a post or messaged s
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by awb 4y ago
> We need legislation that balances individual rights and collective rights. What about a private sector solution? We consider Michelin stars to be indicative of exceptional food. You can still get amazing food outside of their reviewed
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by awb 4y ago
> Perhaps by communicating only fair and factual information No one is unbiased. The order and depth to which you present facts can itself be biased. Also, the extent to which you leave out or don’t throughly investigate “unimportant” fa
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by awb 4y ago
> Every agency must have a corresponding shadow agency with equal funding and incentives aligned with policing their counterparts. Instead of just the FBI, we would have the blue FBI and the red FBI. At that point you’ve bifurcated power
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by awb 4y ago
Right, it can be tricky and no method would be perfect. Sometimes courts when faced with an inherently ambiguous problem use a “reasonableness test”, which is basically taking it on a case by case basis and deferring to the current cultural
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> What ever happened to access based on merit? It’s a complex problem. If the process of evaluating someone’s merits is biased or restricted in some way, then the merits are an inaccurate way of evaluating them. We’ve seen this exaggerat
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by awb 4y ago
Interesting all of the nature-first feedback, because I have 3 kids and their personalities, interests and behaviors have changed significantly over the years. Maybe these life arcs are instilled at birth, but for me as I look back I notice
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by awb 4y ago
Threatening to fire 75% of the staff might have been a last ditch attempt to turn public, shareholder, board and/or Parag’s opinion against the deal. It didn’t work, and I doubt he’ll follow through on it. Otherwise, it’s sure to freez
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by awb 4y ago
Fair enough, but that’s also why it’s so hard to define your content moderation policy, because the definition of “distasteful”, etc. varies between people and over time.
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> I think there could be a balance here, allow that which is legal but distasteful but don't promote it or advertise beside it OK, but then it's more like blacklisting rather than banning. You're still free to show up and
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Not really. Look at pretty much any reality TV show, or the magazines at any checkout line. Nonsense and drama is big business from an attention and advertising standpoint. Plus, you can look at most biased news sources and see the drama th
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by awb 4y ago
> Never bet against Elon Success does breed success, but it’s not inevitable. There’s still hard work to be done and his big successes have come from hardware (batteries & rockets). Twitter is software in the social / content re
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by awb 4y ago
Well, look at what he's been advocating for: 1) Edit Button - already in production 2) "Absolute" free speech - not legally possible, and his tweet ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15856193222395
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by awb 4y ago
> "I wrote heavy duty software" > "I interface way better with engineer who are able to do hardcore programming" In 20+ years of developing, I've only heard non-technical (or well past their prime technical) f
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by awb 4y ago
No, this is the rapid realization that “absolute” free speech is not protected in the US, or in any legal jurisdiction. When you buy a company and now have skin in the game, idealism turns into realism. It’s a good lesson for anyone that fo
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by awb 4y ago
There’s probably also a distance / lifespan filter: (4) That interplanetary colonization is possible (using relatively low-tech means) given the lifespan of the species and the distance to nearby habitable planets. For example, life co
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> even get distracted and think about other things (like I sometimes do if I'm reading silently) all the while continuing to read out loud I used to read the Harry Potter series to my kids at night and definitely experienced this. T
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by awb 4y ago
I've played both billiards and soccer regularly and have experienced both sensations. With billiards, when I'm "in the zone", it feels like the early stages of an out of body experience where my mind starts to feel sligh
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by awb 4y ago
Interesting point. I guess the main difference for me is the extent of human involvement. For example, with Adobe there is a huge amount of human interaction required to get from idea to end result. With DALL-E, you basically go from idea t
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by awb 4y ago
The human mind has been doing this forever. Taking inspiration from others and creating new art. As far as I know it’s even legal to study the style of one specific artist and create imitation art as long as it’s clear that this is a new ar
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by awb 4y ago
> His play is objectively insane But he doesn't do himself any favors with comments like "the chess speaks for itself", or offering what according to other GMs is a lackluster analysis of those astounding moves. Whether it
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by awb 4y ago
This Tweet says $400M? https://mobile.twitter.com/GothamChess/status/15831754940902...
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Niemann Files $100M Lawsuit Against Carlsen, Chess.com over Cheating Allegations(wsj.com)
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by awb 4y ago
> I've never seen free speech advocates use an example of any of these as examples of problematic censorship Just look at some of the exceptions to free speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_s
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by awb 4y ago
> it violates the basic principle of: "you only kill when your life is in danger" For police, it's "you only kill when a life is in danger". It doesn't have to be your life.
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What's the CA legal definition of a robot? According to Merriam-Webster, a "robot" is: > 1. a machine that resembles a living creature in being capable of moving independently (as by walking or rolling on wheels) and perfo
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by awb 4y ago
> Yet again, I like that Musk and Kanye kind of people claim that they want free speech because at least we can hold them responsible when they don't deliver it. Really? They've never defined free speech, so how can we hold the
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by awb 4y ago
They have no power outside that which is given to them is the point. If random people want to cancel waffles, they are powerless to do so. It’s only when someone who actually has the power to cancel waffles decides to cancel them does it ha
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I don't think so. They're saying, just mandate diversity, rather than trying to develop complex processes that are judged on how diverse their outcomes are. Which is a fair point. But, the piece I think OC is missing is that anoth
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by awb 4y ago
Any technology can be weaponized. Nukes seem to be a very strong deterrent against excessive overt aggression.

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