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by bko 2y ago
What does this have to do with FDA or drugs? Re-read the comment I was replying to. It's complaining that a technology could serve one group of people better than another, and I would argue that this should not be our goal. A technolog
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by bko 2y ago
Suppose you have a system that saves 90% of lives on group A but only 80% of lives in group B. This is due to the fact that you have considerably more training data on group A. You cannot release this life saving technology because it has a
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by bko 2y ago
> A couple corporations make an enormous amount of money off shit food sold to schools. The problem is that it is way cheaper to buy prepared food and have a few people warm it than having cooks at each school. I don't get it, are t
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by bko 2y ago
> The thing that makes any art valuable to me is that it is a human communication. Art made by a machine is far less valuable because, by definition, it isn't a human communication. What is "human communication"? To me tha
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by bko 2y ago
> The whole point of stories written by people is that a _person_ wrote it, based on their actual human thoughts and experiences. I thought the whole point of stories was that they were entertaining or had some pertinent message. Truth d
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by bko 2y ago
I had this experience while watching the last season of Black Mirror. I asked GPT for an episode and the outline came out much more interesting than anything on this season [0]. I may be in the minority here, or at least am willing to admit
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What Happened to Food Delivery?(mleverything.substack.com)
2 points by bko 2y ago|0 comments
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by bko 2y ago
I was thinking about examples of where things got worse over time. They include some common appliances that use water, due to water use regulations. No reason my dishwasher should take over 2 hours to run. But then there's other things
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by bko 2y ago
I agree, I think he overstated the desire to add fluff. It's true that LLMs now add a bunch of fluff by default, but I imagine that will get better. I actually do the reverse of the example the author gave (bullet points - fluff). I gi
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by bko 2y ago
The "tech journalist who hates tech" is a recent phenomenon and present on most corporate tech publications. It's weird. You don't see it elsewhere. Imagine a car magazine that just rags on all cars or endlessly complain
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by bko 2y ago
I don't know, I feel kind of unsafe around drug users. People feel unsafe around people that don't abide by social norms for good reason. For instance, if someone is playing loud music on a subway, that goes against social norms.
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by bko 2y ago
By this logic, not being in a wheelchair doesn't make things easier. It pushes accessibility down. Entire cities are redesigned so that you're dependent on your legs. Yes, society should help those in wheelchairs, but shouldn&#x27
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by bko 2y ago
So make cars pollute less Figure out how to filter microplastics from our food and water Figure out what's causing asthma in children Not sure how obesity is related. Maybe improve the food supply? A lot of these are solved with electr
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by bko 2y ago
Right, because New York is not car-centric (bike lanes, very dense, few gas stations) "Bit of a walk" is a nice way of saying it but in reality it means you are very limited with things like shopping. You're kind of stuck wit
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by bko 2y ago
There are other cities other than Manhattan. This comment was about "car centric urban design". Obviously Manhattan is not car centric, so I'm not sure what your point is.
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by bko 2y ago
A car is more expensive generally because it is a lot more convenient. We shouldn't aim to have everyone take a less convenient mode of transportation just so everyone is equally inconvenienced. We should try to lift the poorest among
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by bko 2y ago
> One of the loudest criticisms of congestion pricing is that it “forces people to take the unsafe subway.” Putting aside the fact that the subway is already far safer than driving, increased transit ridership has driven down subway crim
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What Happened to James Damore, author of the ‘misogynist’ Google memo?(thefp.com)
4 points by bko 2y ago|0 comments
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by bko 2y ago
Right, you can like public transport and that's fine. But most people don't care and prefer to have cars. This is especially true if you have a family. Just two examples: - food shopping is a lot more expensive if you have to buy
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by bko 2y ago
I don't think anyone really cares about "public transit". I think people care how convenient their life is. Why should I care if I take a bus to work or drive? I prefer whatever is best for me. I would look at cost + time. Fo
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by bko 2y ago
I don't know anyone who doesn't want more space. And I couldn't imagine raising a family in 800 square feet. Do we really need a "source" for everything? Would it be meaningful if you saw some survey asking: Would y
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by bko 2y ago
I'm reminded of the infamous hn comment when Dropbox was announced > 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN
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by bko 2y ago
Great, it's 8.3 in Albania. Doesn't really help you if you're a typical person making less than 10k a year
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by bko 2y ago
Take pretty much any quality of life thing. Just as one example Mississippi: The average home size 2,065 square feet United Kingdom: The average home size is 818 square feet No, you cannot "eat GDP", but its a useful proxy as it c
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by bko 2y ago
I don't follow. If you're prosperous due to no reason of your own (eg rich parents, lottery, etc), you didn't prioritize self interest If it is self made you presumably made it by creating value for others, otherwise why woul
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by bko 2y ago
So if I'm fortunate and blessed with wealth, I should feel guilty and be vocal about my guilt. So I make my life worse off and that of the people around me. People with heavy burden of guilt are often insufferable. And this will someho
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by bko 2y ago
Why should one feel guilt about being prosperous in an unequal society? Even if you accept that it's based entirely on luck rather than merits, I don't see why you should feel guilt. A few examples of things based entirely on luck
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by bko 2y ago
I think the point is that we accept that making something cheaper or easier tends to increase its usage on the margin. The reverse effect is an extraordinary claim that should be met with skepticism. Individual success stories shouldn'
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by bko 2y ago
I imagine they'd work similar to drug free school zones :-/
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A modest proposal for destigmatizing America's favorite bad decisions(mleverything.substack.com)
5 points by bko 2y ago|6 comments

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