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by bko 2y ago
I don't know. An AI system is pretty objective. I mean you might not be able to interpret the weights, but I can't interpret what someone thinks of me when I'm standing in front of them. At least you can tell an AI to ignore
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by bko 2y ago
> The legislation would also prohibit the use of ADS systems that use personal information of workers to “predict” what they’ll do in the future. Don't we want to use objective systems to "predict" how employees will perfo
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In Defense of Gemini(strangeloopcanon.com)
1 points by bko 2y ago|0 comments
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by bko 2y ago
I don't think people that are obese (partly due to corn subsidies) or commit gun violence are acting rationally. Do you still believe that relationships I originally mentioned are strained?
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by bko 2y ago
I've heard the opposite, that you have to hit rock bottom and want to change. If your life is sustainable and you get some pleasure from the substance, why quit?
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by bko 2y ago
> One alternative would be to prescribe heroin which I think could work We generally accept the principal that making something cheaper and easier results in more of this behavior. Few examples - subsidize corn results in more corn produ
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Do we have to optimize everything?(mleverything.substack.com)
1 points by bko 2y ago|0 comments
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by bko 2y ago
A lot of this stuff is just annoying or ugly, which is fine! What's unforgivable is how bad search is, especially considering Gmail is run by ... check notes ... the largest search company in the world? I can search something like &quo
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Gmail UX Is a Mess(mleverything.substack.com)
8 points by bko 2y ago|1 comments
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by bko 2y ago
In Dan Simmons' novel "Hyperion," one of the characters describes a government agency that both builds monuments and provides medical care to children. When faced with budget cuts, they reduce the medical care while continuin
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by bko 2y ago
No. Suppose you retire in 2008. That means you were likely investing since 1970 so your total return since then has been or 9% per year. Realistically you're weighted in the middle of that, so over the last 20 years the return was 177%
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by bko 2y ago
I think there are two fundamental problems with social security 1. People think its a lockbox where there's some account with your name on it that your money goes into that's managed and when you retire you get some annuity based
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by bko 2y ago
Re-read what the article says. > Null was first programmed 60 years ago by a British computer scientist named Tony Hoare ... Hoare probably wasn’t thinking about people with the 4,910th most common surname. It mentions null as a mistake
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by bko 2y ago
So YouTube is subsidized by Alphabets profits. Basically everyone in the world is better off apart from Alphabet shareholders and maybe a few giant corporations slightly smaller than Alphabet that want to compete if they were able to sell a
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by bko 2y ago
Exactly. It's bizarre to me that there's this idea of "fairness" that we have to purposely degrade a great product just so others can create a bad (but now relatively less bad) product, to stick it to Alphabet. Wasn&#x27
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The Unicorns Are Zombies(bloomberg.com)
3 points by bko 2y ago|1 comments
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by bko 2y ago
TSA? Security theatre? > In 2015, TSA agents failed to detect prohibited items in 67 out of 70 tests, resulting in a 95% failure rate Does this change your opinion on the bureaucracy? https://www.vox.com/2016/5/
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by bko 2y ago
The author betrays himself early with this line: > a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman built to sell into an economy run by people that have no concept of labor other than their desperation to exploit or replace it. He br
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by bko 2y ago
Have you been on X lately? Half of the tweets are insulting Musk, regardless who or what you follow
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by bko 2y ago
The world is healing. Seriously though, I certainly don’t want my companies to have political ideologies. Follow the law, be good to customers and serve everyone.
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by bko 2y ago
> OpenAI could be setting the stage for a gradual reduction in service while maintaining premium prices. This is rich. OpenAI is basically setting money on fire. They've always been very generous with the free tier and and going to
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by bko 2y ago
I don't want to read endless tech criticism. If I'm reading tech journalism chances are I'm interested in tech and new exciting stuff. Imagine a car magazine publishing nonstop about how cars are killing the environment.
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by bko 2y ago
Ah yes, the compensating behavior theory all over again. Replace "seat belts" with "driver assist" > This paper investigates the effects of mandatory seat belt laws on driver behavior and traffic fatalities. Using a u
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by bko 2y ago
This is literally every billionaire.
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Tech journalists that hate tech(mleverything.substack.com)
2 points by bko 2y ago|6 comments
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by bko 2y ago
Why can hedge funds negotiate such high fees despite lackluster performance? You answered it in the prior sentence: portfolio theory is incredibly robust. They (claim) to provide diversified return. The idea is that although they may not pr
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by bko 2y ago
> by managing government money through the social security system, union pension funds, college endowments, and sovereign wealth funds Why don't you target that anger and contempt to the organizations willfully giving money to these
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by bko 2y ago
Why do I need to get congress? Congress isn't some magical body that is somehow more responsive or well run than the executive. They have more special interests. Why would I want a delegate from some state have a say that the governmen
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by bko 2y ago
Right, unfortunately the trend has been increasing power of the state for some time. But I think the point also argues against having an extremely powerful administrative / regulatory state. For instance, suppose you want to create a d
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by bko 2y ago
> Paying for four years if college to get a CS degree, then studying Leetcode, interning, working cheap as an associate/junior used to be seen as a good path, but obviously since late 2022 this has stagnated for most. What? Go to a

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