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The Invisible War in Ukraine Being Fought over Radio Waves(nytimes.com)
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by brindlejim 3y ago
This appears to be largely a COVID phenomenon. Lacking that forcing function, I doubt whether subsequent cohorts of parents will opt for that burden. The only thing that might push them to maintain the discipline of home schooling is the id
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In a feminized society that systematically elevates victims, status seekers must either LARP as victims (Singapore scions doing undergrad at Yale who march as "people of color") or make an ostentatious show of allyship, publicly s
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Agree with this comment and disagree with the article. The US owes nothing to the people who want to immigrate here, certainly not due process. If they don't like the US, its policies or citizens, the US should find that out. It is the
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Now imagine that instead of a mugger you have an AI researcher who both believes that AGI will destroy the world and is intent on being in the room when it is created. The self-mugging of an AI safety-ist.
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by brindlejim 3y ago
jailbreaks.
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by brindlejim 3y ago
DJI is fully compliant with China's policy of civil-military fusion. Anyone flying anywhere sensitive should not use them. They're beaming back home whatever they want, and China is using both tech and data to give an asymmetric a
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Fwiw, Skydio is failing in Ukraine, where Russia's electronic warfare downs its drones. Their "vision-based autonomy" has severe limits, because GPS jamming can fell them.
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He worked for years as a licensed therapist counseling individuals and couples. If you are looking for a source of authority, he's better than nothing, if not as good as a randomized control trial.
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by brindlejim 3y ago
These are all great points. Would add that wealth separates people. Both in the form of larger houses and lawns, and hiring contractors instead of entering into reciprocal interdependence. There's a weird gravity to media and entertain
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Men need a different kind of therapy. Adam Lane Smith explains here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yyWlp6sTv0
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Personal beliefs, and these doesn't apply to all males (live in choice!): - guys bond when they do things together: build, play, mock fight - remote work makes it hard to find that building community at the office - having kids wipes o
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by brindlejim 3y ago
This conversation would be mildly more interesting if you could get beyond name-calling. I see no response to the substance. This mirrors the quality of argument I've seen supporting gender ideology. Insults and claims of harm. I don&#
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by brindlejim 3y ago
This thread seems to have been shadow-banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=brindlejim#37413851
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Yes. Marc Andreessen does not subscribe to Nick Land's ideology but calls himself e/acc. It is a label adopted by people who do not take Eliezer's death cult seriously in the substance of its claims, but only in its ability t
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Few would disagree that "mean asshole" = ad hominem "ban" = cancellation Edit to respond to the comment below, since we've reached the limits on the depth of nested comments: "Ad hominem" = "directed
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by brindlejim 3y ago
The title slightly obscures what's going on here. It's not *just* about stories. It's about the propagation of a dogma in academia. The paper in question is 1619, but for Industrial Age metallurgy. And one of the reasons that
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by brindlejim 3y ago
While I respect Doug's intelligence, he showed a kind of perverse persistence in a failed idea, and I think it's telling that aspiring AI czar Gary Marcus admires the ruins of Cyc while neglecting to acknowledge that it represents
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by brindlejim 3y ago
The author of this piece is a great example of the sort of professional victim that liberal America applauds, seeking yet another revolution of society and bureaucracy. She may labor against a *system*, but the hellscape of re-education and
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by brindlejim 4y ago
It's almost as though our "identities" are socially malleable and dependent on those we come into contact with.
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by brindlejim 4y ago
I am claiming two things: 1) EA as a movement and as a principle has been at best equivocal on whether or not it's OK to deliberately harm a few people in order to benefit many people. There's a very strong argument that SBF was p
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by brindlejim 4y ago
Kind of. Sam was not doing what EAism says you should do. But he was embedded in the EA movement, close to many of its other members, and abetted by people like Will. So if you look at EA descriptively, Sam was very much doing EA. He was ly
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by brindlejim 4y ago
And to be clear, Piper and Ellison go way way back. I think there is a very good chance that SBF did not know that that chat was on the record. So Piper may have failed to disclose in two directions, to both her source and her audience.
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by brindlejim 4y ago
OK. There have been about a dozen pieces written about FTX on the NYT in just the last few days. Most have not been soft balls like the interview-based piece. I apologize for accusing you of being driven by ideology. I didn't understan
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They arranged those speakers long before the collapse. I doubt he'll voluntarily set foot in the US until he figures out whether or not he'll be immediately sent to jail.
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This seems like an ideologically driven comment, since the NYT is reporting on the FTX bankruptcy in a v clear way: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/business/ftx-bankruptcy.h...
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by brindlejim 4y ago
Tell that to the vast majority of crypto holders who cannot master the underlying technology of crypto and therefore rely on the exchanges. Crypto is not contiguous with your highly selective, normative definition. Crypto is everything done
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by brindlejim 4y ago
The NYT interview confirmed nothing. People who argue that the NYT piece confirmed anything simply do not understand journalism. That was an interview-based piece that gave SBF a lot of room to talk. The *same* reporter published this piece
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by brindlejim 4y ago
Piper's journalistic duty was to disclose her ties to EA much more fully in that piece, or recuse herself from writing it. I'm curious about the ties that she and other prominent Bay Area EAs have to SBF as well. Everyone is in a
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by brindlejim 4y ago
I love how the crypto community has decided that SBF is "not a crypto guy" now that he's done crimes. And he's somehow "establishment" because he gave to political parties, and Democrat because we're ignor

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