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by bko 5d ago
My problem with this book is that it relies heavily on priming studies. The idea is that you "primed" them for some set of behaviors. Here's an example of a study that supposedly supports this. Participants held a pen in thei
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by bko 5d ago
I've heard people that work/worked with Musk that say he works a lot and is very knowledgeable about technical matters. I have never found someone that worked with him or knows him personally that contradicts this. So this idea th
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by bko 5d ago
> OBSERVATION: There are zero examples of any intelligent species which is vastly more capable than another species, yet surrenders decision-making control over its own future to the less-capable species. This is just silly. AI isn'
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by bko 5d ago
I think you're asking too much of a publication to do this kind of investigative reporting. Their job is to scan the app store for any app that is anti-tech and has at least 1k downloads and write an article about how there's huge
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by bko 5d ago
It kind of does. It's like "I want an all powerful regulatory agency that can impose rules by dictat, but I only want them to do this things I agree with"
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by bko 5d ago
175k ppl die each year in Europe due to heat death. But I guess if you ignore that being slightly warm is not a big deal
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by bko 6d ago
No but overly burdensome regulatory bodies that are concerned about such things like how the top of my bottle cap functions and how low i set my ac temp leads to an incredibly hostile business environment and stagnant culture. But like I sa
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by bko 7d ago
PROMPT: make this more concise while conveying the same message I think “cutting down on words” depends on personal writing style. AI tends to write more than I would, so I usually have the opposite problem.
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by bko 7d ago
Yes, you hit on the main problem with LLMs for writing. It doesn't cost you anything. It can do the reasoning for you and creating long messaging with dodgy reasoning. I think you should write down your thoughts, tell it to make the po
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by bko 7d ago
> I think so because (1) the writing process is an essential part of the thinking process, (2) AI writing is vague and wrong in hard-to-notice ways, and (3) writing with AI (and not labeling it as such) is rude and misleading. I’ll expla
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by bko 8d ago
I think it's a very common human trope to believe that we are in end-times. I imagine the overlap between the people that believe that AI will end humanity and those that believed climate change will end humanity 10 years ago is pretty
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by bko 10d ago
What I don't understand about politicians is that few support a positive view of whats possible. Consider California. It's a one-party state. One party has the governor, lieutenant governor, 30 out of 40 state senators, 60 out of
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by bko 10d ago
I was surprised to learn that Canada doesn't even have free trade across their own provenances. A big benefit of the United States is that it's essentially a very large free trade zone across 50 states. If Canada wanted to facilit
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by bko 14d ago
I honestly don't know what the essay's point is. It starts off promising, gives good general advice about looking at friend of friends to finding these cars and looking past cosmetic issues. But it stops there. Okay, I can ignore
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by bko 15d ago
When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's literally trillions at stake for under-reporting these numbers. A lot of government benefits are tied to this not to mention political ramifications of
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by bko 15d ago
It's in the parents profile Android app called "AudioRun" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.audiorun.a... https://apkpure.com/audiorun/com.audiorun.app
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by bko 16d ago
I think the point is that inflation numbers are bs. The official number from 2021 to today is 23%. But we didn't see prices only 23%. A restaurant mean didn't go from $20 to $25. It easily went up 50% or more. Inflation isn't
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by bko 17d ago
Saying an article is just PR, without addressing the specific article is not helpful. Argue how the author was funded by such and such a group with ties to this other group. Say something about the methodology used. Say literally anything a
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by bko 17d ago
Last I checked usernames aren't a public good. You're part of a social network and they get to set the policy. Sure, you can claim it was a dick move, and maybe it is (although why is a handle so valuable? "muse instagram&quo
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by bko 17d ago
Growing proof that comment sections from tech forums have been overrun with unhelpful negativity unrelated to the actual posts they're commenting on.
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by bko 17d ago
It makes me feel so much better than someone can be one-shotted into a political belief with a poem. I was worried they would rely too much on reasoning and evidence.
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by bko 17d ago
I doubt the president of the United States would be so quick to grant a full pardon to the Flock CEO for any past (or future) crimes committed. Thanks for proving my point.
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by bko 17d ago
That's funny because ANPR systems are much looser in other countries including much longer retention. It helps that you don't have national newspapers printing negative articles around the technology every day!
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by bko 17d ago
The Flock stat is interesting because 46% of Americans believe widespread use of facial recognition would be a good thing (27% unsure). Maybe people oppose Flock because it's not going far enough! Or maybe there is a coordinated campai
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by bko 17d ago
Billions in fines is at least an incentive to invest in measures to prevent data leaks or misuse. For instance, in July 2026 the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance discovered that two reports published on its own website contained hidde
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by bko 17d ago
Corporations are more accountable than government agencies. A government agency can switch vendors or you can drag their CEOs in front of Congress. Try that with some internal bureaucrat in an agency you've never heard of.
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by bko 17d ago
Which is... I like how you're so nuanced when I'm pretty sure you never heard the acronym ANPR before
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by bko 17d ago
So you want the government to recreate the tech and control that flock provides. I don't think this is going to work out like you think it will...
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by bko 17d ago
I too base my political beliefs on poetry
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by bko 17d ago
Don't forget Belgium, Netherlands, sweden, Germany, France and many others! Google national ANPR [country]

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