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901.
by bko 2y ago
Do you think AI is hooked up to the their entire infra where they can act as an agent, file disciplinary complaints, put people on performance plans, etc? Come on
902.
by bko 2y ago
I don't know, anytime I read anything like this it's a whack a mole. > Trump / Doge / Musk is snooping It's pretty normal to monitor communication channels > for anti Trump / Elon communication It's
903.
by bko 2y ago
> Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to Presiden
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by bko 2y ago
There are a lot of programmers on this platform (myself included), and I love that my work has an impact on others. I have a number of public repos and I have benefitted greatly from other public repos. I hope LLMs made some use of my code.
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Don't try to take care of the world(mleverything.substack.com)
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906.
by bko 2y ago
If you say LLMs are a dead end, and you give a few examples of things they will never be able to do, and a few months later they do it, and you just respond by stating that sure they can do that but they're still a dead end and won&#x2
907.
by bko 2y ago
Because he has a core belief and based on that core belief he made some statements that turned out to be incorrect. But he kept the core belief and adjusted the statements. So it's not so much about his incorrect predictions, but that
908.
by bko 2y ago
I don't remember the pro single state pro Israel protest. Don't know what it has to do with the question
909.
by bko 2y ago
Not sure if you're up on the literature but the chemical imbalance theory of depression has been disproven (or at least no evidence for it). No one is stigmatizing anything. Just that if you consume doom porn it's likely to affect
910.
by bko 2y ago
You're welcome. I know too many upper middle class educated people that don't want to have kids because they believe the earth will cease to be inhabitable in the next 10 years. It's really bizarre to see and they'll alm
911.
by bko 2y ago
Carbon emissions are monitored by dozens of independent agencies in many different ways over decades. It would be a giant scale coordination of suppression. Do you have a source that suggests carbon emissions from Western nations is rising?
912.
by bko 2y ago
As addressed in my original comment, it's down even adjusting for trade https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
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by bko 2y ago
> The problems it raises - alignment, geopolitics, lack of societal safeguards - are all real, and happening now (just replace “AGI” with “corporations”, and voila, you have a story about the climate crisis and regulatory capture). Can y
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by bko 2y ago
I don't know if it's "embracing" it, it's just a fact of life. I remember in an interview with Marc Andreessen he spoke about introducing his 8 year old to chat gpt. He described the moment as monumental, likening i
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by bko 2y ago
I agree that if it was part of a grand bargain it wouldn't be so large, which makes me think its either just an insane opening play or it's being used to change how the US funds itself (the second part of my response)
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by bko 2y ago
I agree tariffs are harmful and counterproductive, even if they're applied by the other side. My only hope is that this is part of some grand bargain where other countries reduce theirs on US goods and things reach a more balanced equi
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by bko 2y ago
There's a market. Almost everyone is a market taker. For instance, a company has to figure out how much to pay people. If McKinsey comes in and says "pay them less and we'll tell everyone else to pay them less" that just
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by bko 2y ago
Some of the most horrific atrocities have been done by people trying to " take care of the world" > We have been given many, many resources at our disposal, and we bear the responsibility to use them well. You should use "
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by bko 2y ago
This is pretty obvious and how most people raise their kids. Parents often use the phrase "we don't do that". 12 year old asking her friend can have a social media account but she can't. TV, food habits, bedtime, etc. No
920.
by bko 2y ago
I'm one of those people that doesn't think we should try to "take care of the world". I prefer the older, time tested answer of what to do: > You should be wise, brave, honest, temperate, and just, uphold tradition,
921.
by bko 2y ago
If a state wants to ban cars it should be free to do so. I think the benefits outweigh the costs and no one would choose to live there. Also important to note no one is banning flouride. They're preventing it from being put in the drin
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by bko 2y ago
I don't think it's about hard data and optimization of health, but rather bodily autonomy. I'm sure there are plenty of chemicals that could be forcibly put in the drinking supply that, based on current scient, would be benef
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by bko 2y ago
What's in the pledge? Why is it necessary? What are the unintented consequences? You shouldn't go by name alone. If my wife of 20 years asked me to sign some legally binding "fidelity pledge", it would def raise an eyebr
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by bko 2y ago
Worth pointing out the history of this policy. The Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was developed in response to the 2021 Presidential Memorandum on Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientifi
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by bko 2y ago
I'm concerned about this as well. If this keeps progressing, we could see a monoculture develop among elite institutions and media where the shots are being called by three letter agencies. We could get to a place where federal agencie
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by bko 2y ago
I thought this was the actual book, not just a marketing page for a book. Seems kind of off brand for a hacker news post
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by bko 2y ago
It's getting rolled up into another agency, kind of like when the when SAMHSA replaced the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA), consolidating treatment functions previously managed by the National Institute o
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by bko 2y ago
I think too many people equate spending money to doing good, and everything is measured against today's prior projected spending levels. To put this in context: FY 2012: The SAMHSA budget authority was $3,386,903,000 FY 2024: The Presi
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by bko 2y ago
Apparently providing this messy rough categorization appeared to help in some cases. From the article: > To force CheXzero to avoid shortcuts and therefore try to mitigate this bias, the team repeated the experiment but deliberately gave
930.
by bko 2y ago
From the article: > “What is clear is that it’s going to be really difficult to mitigate these biases,” says Judy Gichoya, an interventional radiologist and informatician at Emory University who was not involved in the study. Instead, sh

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