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by binoct 2y ago
I’m going to try with a counter argument here that might seem trivial at first but encourage you to think a bit more deeply on it. Multimedia consumption does directly alter your behavior. You see an add for fries and you want fries and you
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by binoct 2y ago
Fair enough, there is a difference. But now we are not looking at a missed flight so much as attempted kidnapping or imprisonment or some other much more serious crime. Which is interesting to think about with the Waymo example, but hard to
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by binoct 2y ago
It's worth making, but there's some serious drama queen vibes that make it feel pretty overblown. If an uber is late to the airport a reasonable person doesn't threaten the driver with covering the cost of their flight.
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by binoct 2y ago
Luckily welders do not suffer from superiority bias.
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by binoct 2y ago
It’s not so much that a weld _can’t_ be sufficiently strong to be safe in a steering column, it’s the QA and validation needed to be sure the weld was done properly. Obviously it’s possible the folks involved in this have the experience and
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by binoct 2y ago
There are some great, thorny, philosophical and physical arguments to be had with your proposed conclusion, but let’s say we all agree with it. The bigger, more relevant, and testable challenge is premise #2. The gap between this proposed
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by binoct 2y ago
I don’t take issue with the point of your last sentence, but rather the framing that “animal” is somehow a negative thing. Humans are animals, there’s no separate animal nature. We are animals, full stop. The scientific method is a skill
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by binoct 2y ago
The biggest nutritional change in bread in what type of flour is used (and if any other grains/seeds are used). The bran and germ of the wheat berry contain a decent part of it's nutritional value in protein, fat and insoluble fi
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by binoct 2y ago
No shade to the juggernaut of the open source software movement and everything it has/will enabled, but why the hate for a project that required people’s time and knowledge to create something useful to a segment of users and then expe
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by binoct 2y ago
Read this post again but take it as a response to someone claiming in 2020 that Roe V Wade could be overturned.
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by binoct 2y ago
> merely thinking about things can lead to physical changes in the world Her claims are hardly akin to moving objects through telekinesis. Your brain is part of your nervous system which has massive control over your body. What happens
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by binoct 2y ago
The points of standards is that they solve one or more problems for many constituents well enough so that all adopters gain in things like supply chain, design ease, and interoperability. They are rarely going to be optimal for every speci
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by binoct 2y ago
Sounds like a great manager. Though I'm pretty shocked to see a disclaimer that avoiding belittling or yelling at coworkers at all could be considered "lovey-dovey". I've only seen that type of behavior at one company
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by binoct 2y ago
> I don't know how to fix the showcase problem. This is trivial for any team that provides a framework/platform and spends any amount of time engaged with their customers - you know who your prestige customers are and you show
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by binoct 2y ago
I'm supportive of the original idea because I think it's fun and cool. I agree with everything you've said, but we're talking a bit at cross angles. You're looking at it from what it would take for this to be a suc
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by binoct 2y ago
There are lots of products that aren’t _necessary_ at all but bring an amount of fun to the world. This feels to me like one of those. Not convinced it could even recoup development cost, but I’d be happy to be surprised. There’s certainly
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by binoct 2y ago
I love the idea and thought I'd do a rough check on the math: Assuming the goal is to match the power delivery of a high power UK kettle, looks like the batteries will need to step in and produce about 1kW of power for the duration of
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by binoct 2y ago
Thanks for the engaged discussion, I am not an economist but find this fascinating to learn about. My understanding is that paper's key point is the higher the absolute economic output the larger fraction of that output can be re-inves
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by binoct 2y ago
Comparing across countries on US-Dollar-adjusted per-capita income is easy to calculate but a pretty tricky metric to get a lot of value from. Another easy metric to look at that adds a couple more dimensions is the Human Development Index.
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by binoct 2y ago
You seem to be saying that people presenting with classic symptoms of ADHD clearly don’t have it because stimulant abuse can also cause those symptoms? Sure, people get misdiagnosed or purposely lie to get meds, but tons of people legitimat
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by binoct 2y ago
Your comment comes off uninformed and rather nasty. Do you also think that people with depression are just lazy as well? I highly recommend taking at least a little time to read up on our current (highly limited) understanding of brain scie
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by binoct 2y ago
I’m genuinely curious, on a 4-month old vehicle, why weren’t the three specific repairs and costs you list be covered under warranty?
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by binoct 2y ago
While that’s a large change, it’s worth keeping in mind more than half the difference is just inflation. $5.1b in 2011 is $7.3b in ‘24
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by binoct 2y ago
Fair call out that bluecruise and supercruise are not actually L3
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by binoct 2y ago
They claim that unsupervised autonomy in existing cars will arrive in California and Texas next year (with an easy bogieman that it will depend on regulatory approval), but no details as to what exactly this would mean. It’s possible that t
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by binoct 2y ago
I'm not comparing Waymo to FSD because FSD has not shown the ability to be "truly diverless", aka Level 4+, which was an important distinction I made (perhaps not too clearly) in my comment. FSD is probably the leading Level
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by binoct 2y ago
Why was this downvoted? Waymo has always been the clear leader in autonomous/self driving capabilities, at least for the true driverless goal. Briefly there were one or two milestones that Cruise got neck and neck on, but still think t
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by binoct 2y ago
I think we are arguing on different tracks, probably due to a difference in understanding of ‘model’. There are arguments to be made, including the Turing test, for some sort of intelligence and potential equivalence for LLMs. I am probab
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by binoct 2y ago
Sorry if it came across as non-falsifiable, that was not the intent. Neural networks do not directly encode high-level reasoning and logic, yes. But in the spectrum of “does this model the actual functioning of an animal/human brain”,
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by binoct 2y ago
Neural networks are not a model of the working of the human brain. They are based on an extremely simplified approximation of how neurons connect and function (which while conceptually similar is a terrible predictive model for biological n

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