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burkaman
2y ago
> For scientific questions (ones that should have publicly available data, not ones relying on internal data), I have started going to 2.5 Pro over senior experts on my own team. Have you asked any of your experts to double check those b
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2y ago
Creating a chilling effect on acquisitions is the whole point of antitrust law.
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burkaman
2y ago
> make health insurance like buying car insurance ("free market") This option doesn't work because healthcare can't be a free market. Car insurance companies have to compete not only with each other but with alternati
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2y ago
I think this is sort of a myth. There was a relatively brief period of time in the US when lobster was considered poor people's food, but in the rest of the world and the rest of history it has generally been very popular and often ass
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2y ago
It's hard to know exactly what happened here, but it sounds like she was confronted before she even got to that step. > Then, as she headed toward the baggage claim, a Border Patrol officer approached her and asked to search her sui
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burkaman
2y ago
Why? That seems completely wrong, based on my experience with both of these groups.
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2y ago
> Such an infraction is normally considered minor, punishable with a fine of up to $500. I'm also wondering how you are supposed to declare something like this. They don't pass out those customs forms on flights from Europe any
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2y ago
Even multiple rooms in your home is compelling enough for many people, but for me it's about taking it on trips. Obviously you don't always want to take your computer on vacation, but sometimes I want to visit a friend and work fr
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2y ago
People love them because they want to use their PC in more than one place.
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2y ago
https://www.enhanced.com/
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burkaman
2y ago
For profit sites are making deals directly with the AI companies so they can get some more of that profit.
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burkaman
2y ago
I am not in the field so I can't say whether or not this is an effective way to learn anything, but it at least looks fun: https://rosalind.info
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2y ago
Yes, it is illegal (because of the auto-deleting messages) and explicitly against the rules that every one of these people mandates for their own employees. All of them know that federal records must be preserved, and you have to manually t
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2y ago
Of course they do, but you can't set official government apps to illegally delete messages after a week. Edit: Seems like they are supposed to use Microsoft Teams https://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents
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2y ago
I agree that if it's illegal for LLMs to lie then it's illegal for them to exist. We can let other people argue about whether or not that would be a good thing. One thought is that similar to how you can ask Google Maps to blur yo
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2y ago
Try "when did Arve Hjalmar Holmen murder his children?", and then try the same query with any other name.
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It does not consistently do this. I just tried "who is Arve Hjalmar Holmen" again and it said: > Arve Hjalmar Holmen is a Norwegian man who gained attention due to his involvement in a notorious criminal case. He was convicted
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2y ago
Yes in that statistically you would probably be fine, over a million Brazilian tourists come to the US every year. No in that it is much less safe to visit today then it was a year ago, and authorities will specifically be targeting people
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2y ago
Yes but this is also the common understanding of how generative AI works. Most people who use ChatGPT think that it knows things and can answer questions accurately. It is valuable for AI developers to read stories like this so they can see
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2y ago
> Currently, ChatGPT does not repeat these horrible false claims about Holmen in outputs. It still does if you ask "when did Arve Hjalmar Holmen murder his children?" or something like that: > Arve Hjalmar Holmen is a Norweg
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2y ago
This is a Reuters story, and if you doubt it for some reason you can find the actual NHTSA notice in 10 seconds.
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There are no positions where it should matter. Even if there were a genuine reason to care about high school grades (there isn't), asking about relative ranking doesn't make any sense unless you have detailed knowledge of the spec
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2y ago
Thanks for doing the work to try to answer your own question, it looks like your links support what most people are telling you. One of the many problems in countries that USAID helped is that their governments tend to be full of corrupt of
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2y ago
This is an impossibly broad question. It's like asking why food banks exist, why can't the parents of those families feed their kids? Why does poverty exist?
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2y ago
Does that include birth control? If so I think that would account for a pretty large portion of the 50% that used one in the last 30 days.
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2y ago
Mirror that doesn't require sign-in: https://skyview.social/?utm_source=bskyinfo&utm_medium=tools...
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burkaman
2y ago
I searched for a while and haven't been able to figure out what you're referring to, can you explain?
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I noticed this with Tesla, at a glance it looks like it is in freefall, but it's actually just returned to the relatively stable level it was at before the election. It seems like investors were hoping Elon would be able to leverage hi
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It is pretty well accepted that Pompeii had businesses that primarily served prepared food ( https://pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/the-ancient-snack-bar... ), so they are at least 2000 years old. Also, a business t
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This is wild, I have read this word many times but never consciously noticed that there is no N there. I would have bet money that "restauranteur" is the more common spelling in practice, but I'm completely wrong: https:
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