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by bigfudge 3y ago
FWIW I read it as a straw man too, and the original as a slippery slope argument rather than an equivalence. Communicating in short bits of text is hard.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
What I don’t understand is what the motivation for manufacturers to not just install the open software is… are they trying to harvest charge time data or something? It seems like it would be easier to change any logos in software but leave
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by bigfudge 3y ago
There is not much evidence cutting taxes increases entrepreneurship. It’s much more plausible to me that UBI would have a much more proximal impact on the desire to start a business.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
The problem Israel has is that negotiating with some people they select to make a deal won’t make other people think it’s right and accept it. You need far fewer than 10% if a population to cause havoc for decades to come. I’m not condonin
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Vietnam in the 60’s, South America in the 1970s and 80s, Iraq in the 90s, Afghanistan and Iraq in the 2000s .. would all like a word. Liberal democracies have looked much less liberal away from home. I’m not saying the “other guys” are bett
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This exactly. An in reply to GP -- I enjoy showing tech demos like this to my teenage boys and did also feel slightly embarrassed sending them this one. At least it's the opportunity this evening for a conversation about it.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Oversexualised used this way refers as much to an industry/society as individual people. For example, while individual sex workers might have autonomy and we can respect their choices, we can still notice that our culture creates a si
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by bigfudge 3y ago
To call this comment deranged is to misrepresent the context entirely, and also be extremely naive about the selection of videos for the paper. Yes it's possibly a bit snarky, but quite funny too. It's certainly what I was thinki
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I agree in part. But my question was basically this: when Hamas is eliminated and less extreme groups come to power, but are still committed to armed struggle … how should they proceed? Would it be legitimate to use guerilla tactics like th
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This is exactly the point I make above. That they are in effective control.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
To open: I am not apologising for what Hamas has done at all. I think their actions are revolting. Whatever your view of the history of the region, the aim to eliminate Israel as a Jewish state is unrealistic, extreme and counterproductive.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Stuff changes too. There are things that are worth learning and being fluent in. Regex, sql. But even then there are always edge cases or weirdness that someone has solved before. LLMs are just much better for this than wading through forum
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Exactly this. I -could- become an expert in the intricacies of every tool I touch, or I could use chat gpt and move on to solving the next problem.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
1. The primary source of bias will still be the person writing the prompt. The 'most probable completion' for the podcast will depend a lot on the setup. 2. I'm not sure it's going to vary more than a human day to day is
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by bigfudge 3y ago
For the EU, its lobbying and the internia caused by the fact that all businesses are bought into commercial software ecosystem. Don’t know why China and Iran though - agree it would make sense. Russia too.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I think the "how to make bioweapons with crispr" part might not be as easy to do with google. It's a matter of degree, but you might be able to go from zero to virus with an expert holding your hand.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
But alignment is always going to rely on cooperation of users though? What benefit does the delay offer other than the direct one of a delay?
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This is absolutely not just "bad parenting". When sending children to school they are now immersed in an online culture that is wholly unaligned with their best interests. There is no "good parenting" strategy that can m
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by bigfudge 3y ago
From a long perspective I think the bell monopoly probably served an important purpose and may have been worth it. Not having universal service would have been socially divisive and culturally a problem. I think we need to stop judging thin
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by bigfudge 3y ago
We are tiny though, mostly high density and had a great rail inhertence. Given where we could be, I think we are car obsessed. Note also that car use and the right to use residential streets as commuter rat runs is becoming bound up with
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This is such an aggressive way of saying something unhelpful. Visual/information/interaction. design -can- be an important part of an app team. I also think calibre is clunky and many of their interactions inelegant. That it’s als
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by bigfudge 3y ago
For Bell, presumably the goal was to provide a monopoly to achieve an otherwise difficult goal: universal service. That's certainly the case with the post office in the UK (although now being eroded). For Microsoft: I think that's
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I think it's actually just anglo countries. The UK is batshit about cars as well, and I don't think the Aussies are much better.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Does that mean your prior for whether it’s happening is strongly against? That seems irrational given the history of both meta and the tech industry and govt generally.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
The sad thing for me is that even though almost all my contacts have iPhones, the lowest common denominator effect means everyone ends up using WhatsApp to allow everyone to join. That’s definitely a worse outcome
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by bigfudge 3y ago
And there’s no true Scotsman. This sort of thing is - in practice - what capitalism looks like in the 21st century.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
>die, isn't the insurance provider just cutting off its own source of income? No because that person will have paid right up the the point they become expensive. Most people incur the vast majority of their health costs in the final
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by bigfudge 3y ago
It’s not hypothetical. Lots of developers do do morally dubious things in the west for large amounts of money!
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by bigfudge 3y ago
The opposite of a wrong prediction is not necessarily true. It depends on the form of the statement.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Sad the same isn't true in the UK where amazon is happily abusing the spirit (and perhaps also the letter - IANAL, don't sue me) of our already weakened labour laws.

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