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by bparsons 2y ago
Canadian laws are written in fairly plain language. This is partly for accessibility purposes, and partly because they must be duplicated in both French and English and mean exactly the same thing. Where laws and regulations get complicated
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by bparsons 2y ago
I dont think you are overthinking it. Facebook seems full of older people interacting with AI generated visual content who don't seem to understand that it is fake. Our society already had a problem with people (not) participating in c
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The argument against these programs is that they directed scarce resources toward the students who least need it. The mandate of public schools is to get as many people to a baseline of education. There are many jurisdictions that can affor
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by bparsons 2y ago
Unless you are measuring the output of people on simple assembly lines, it is very difficult to define "performance". In a properly functioning team, people perform different, discrete roles which are probably not entirely underst
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by bparsons 2y ago
If the lens curved light back toward us, could we see earth several million years ago?
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by bparsons 2y ago
Most sane people left the platform several years ago.
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This is a cool idea. A couple suggestions: - A lot of companies shut down for the period between Christmas and New Years. That should be a check box. - There should be user preference for vacation during warm or cold weather seasons.
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by bparsons 2y ago
The problem for them is that you have some of the largest companies on earth creating a very similar product and giving it away for free -- possibly just to prevent OpenAI from developing a profitable business model.
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by bparsons 2y ago
I am reminded of the decline of MySpace. It was just thousands of bots posing as users, posting ads on people's pages for e-books, pharmaceuticals etc. The bots remained talking to each other long after the last humans left.
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by bparsons 2y ago
How is this different than a social insurance number/drivers license number? It is very hard to do business with, or deliver services to someone when you cannot verify their identity.
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by bparsons 2y ago
Could just be rebranded WorldCoin.
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by bparsons 2y ago
It creates additional conditions for blackmail of the target. Some would pay, and then could be induced into future payments because they can now be leveraged for having committed a criminal offense. A better law would be one that requires
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by bparsons 2y ago
Temperate rainforests are different. They have very small spot fires from lightning, but the underlying foliage generally never burns. Fungi does the work of clearing out the dead material.
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by bparsons 2y ago
In most places you would be arrested for installing 18 gas turbines without permission. This is the type of behavior you would see in a third world country with no laws.
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by bparsons 2y ago
When has this happened? Taxes on the rich have been on a downward trend for 70 years.
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by bparsons 2y ago
A linguist friend once told me that language patterns in North America run north/south. For whatever reason, culture and migration seem to work the same way. If you are from BC, you are more likely to travel to or move to California th
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by bparsons 2y ago
It blows my mind the number of articles written about a specific photo or video, without embedding or linking to said media.
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by bparsons 2y ago
Two space shuttles burned up...
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by bparsons 2y ago
Global population is not declining. It is projected to continue growing for at least another few decades.
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by bparsons 2y ago
Looking at a single blip on a population graph and assuming it will continue ad infinitum is flawed thinking.
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by bparsons 2y ago
What population would be too much for earth? 15 billion? 100 billion? Never understood the unlimited growth argument. We aren't going to colonize Mars.
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Americans generate about 45% more GHG emissions per capita than Chinese citizens.
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I get the sense that Boeing is in true panic mode. They are spinning the media very hard to try and give off a "everything is fine" vibe.
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This is true, but a lot of agencies are rethinking this. Search engines and social media platforms very explicitly de-rank content that is believed to be AI generated. Also, most companies have found that editing/screening AI generated
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by bparsons 2y ago
In 1996, the technology was good enough that you could see the future very clearly, but it still was very clunky from a consumer and enterprise point of view. Credit card transactions were extremely difficult to execute and wildly insecure.
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by bparsons 2y ago
Used individually, it is an amazing tool. Used collectively, it is an insane amount of power for a private company to possess. They can manipulate traffic flows almost anywhere on earth, at any time, instantaneously.
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by bparsons 2y ago
I think the short term business case for LLMs is failing to materialize. It is close, but not quite ready for prime time. I think of the promise of internet commerce in 1996. Everyone understood the potential, but we were still a few years
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by bparsons 2y ago
- A lot of retail businesses listed in my neighborhood that don't exist. I am guessing they are pulling from corporate registries to find these? - The directions feature is about 14 years behind Google/OSM. No transit, no cycling,
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by bparsons 2y ago
Here I am still waiting for all those amazing innovations that the blockchain will bring us.
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Commercial airliners are built for extraordinary stress on the airframe. You can get a taste of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--LTYRTKV_A Other people will correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the last time a

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