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by chillacy 6y ago
Note that humans have multiple modes of cognition, one of them is very much a stupid, statistical approach that works most of the time. Kahneman and Tversky came up with questions meant to probe that in humans: > If a baseball bat and a
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by chillacy 6y ago
There's a wonderful interview where Richard Feynman interrupts an interviewer to explain how "why questions" have layers of understanding https://fs.blog/2012/01/richard-feynman-on-why-questions&#x2F
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by chillacy 6y ago
It’s definitely true that a lot of the hype I’ve seen here is the result of careful tuning in the input prompt to get the desired output. But it’s also true that criticism tends to also be curated examples which demonstrate failure. It’s ea
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by chillacy 6y ago
The original article from Pew Research: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/08/19/most-america...
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by chillacy 6y ago
I'm sure people have had bad experiences on AirBnB and Amazon. I don't think Apple should try to curate Amazon's reviews or vet AirBnB hosts. Or a real life analogy: every year someone drinks bleach and dies. I'd rather
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by chillacy 6y ago
But based on the articles I've read, it sounds like it's 15% for all new subscriptions too, not just recurring subscriptions over a year. https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/30/21348108/apple-amazon
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by chillacy 6y ago
Reminds me of some of the stories in Never Split The Difference, where the author was a hostage negotiator for the FBI who would reduce ransoms (on human hostages) from millions to in one case, a few thousand. He relayed a similar reasoning
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by chillacy 6y ago
Tough to call anything done as voluntary with a gun held up to the head. Their entire business model (which has not been super profitable to say the least) was just made illegal in California. Life goes on though, probably the Taxi industry
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by chillacy 6y ago
Presumably other companies would run app stores and do things like refunds. After all there are already apps where you can buy stuff on your phone not through the app store (Audible, AirBnb, Amazon, etc). Why are apps any different?
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by chillacy 6y ago
Mass-market luxury is sort of an oxymoron. The exclusive nature is part of what supports the luxury brand. One case study: how ray ban managed to recover their "luxury" status by removing low cost, high volume items from their cat
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by chillacy 6y ago
The concept of money isn't a hard measurable fact of the universe, but when enough people believe in it, it starts to acquire some pretty consistent attributes across different cultures and times. It's definitely not a physical sc
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by chillacy 6y ago
I've only read a little about the idea but I heard that time banking has been used in some communities without work to keep an informal economy going. It turns out there are a lot of odd jobs which aren't high-value enough to be p
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by chillacy 6y ago
What are some examples of competitive industries with top-of-band comp? Based on what I've seen, when the going gets tough, companies would rather squeeze their workers than their investors (airline companies and pilots), since compens
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by chillacy 6y ago
To get a bit too reductionist, what are any beliefs but mass delusions? The reality is that Apple is under a lot of antitrust scrutiny right now. Like a few weeks ago, Tim Cook was testifying to congress. And now Apple pulls this? Regardles
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by chillacy 6y ago
I asked an American friend over Signal about it, he confirmed that the lockdown was less severe in Beijing months ago while US cities were in peak shelter in place. But he also said that every single day somebody would call to check in. Tha
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by chillacy 6y ago
I've been treating the covid death count like GDP out of China. It's probably padded (e.g. you can count a death as "pneumonia" instead of covid), but it's probably not an order of magnitude off. The reality is that
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by chillacy 6y ago
China has been releasing padded GDP numbers for the past 15 years. Many have doubted the true economic growth. Yet now magically they're the top economic competitor to the United States and being taken seriously as a threat to global l
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by chillacy 6y ago
I believe Peter Thiel made a similar point when he said that monopolies (or at least, profit margins beyond sustenance) give companies breathing space to fund these types of things.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Okay and do you think that there's an analogy with Rosa Parks who also intentionally broke the law to highlight how it was unfair? There are a number of facets in common here: 1. What is legal is not necessarily what is right. 2. You c
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by chillacy 6y ago
> cannot separate causality from correlation Neither can most humans without rigorous experimentation. Deep learning today seems to emulate only system 1. It just turns out that much of what expert humans do can be attributed to finely t
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by chillacy 6y ago
I had heard that theory before as well. I think possibly from a Yuval Noah Harari book. His overall thesis is that the structure of society follows technology. E.g. hunter gatherer societies tend to have very common religious beliefs which
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by chillacy 6y ago
That sounds plausible but I've never seen it happen. Maybe you could provide some examples to back up your claim?
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by chillacy 6y ago
Some sites have big scary warnings if you try to open the dev console in the page for this reason. I don't know how well that works though. We can put all the warnings on bleach we want, someone out there is still going to drink it.
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by chillacy 6y ago
The part which OP disagreed with was the intentionality, and I likened it to another example where the disobedience was deliberate. Of course with any analogy other factors will be dissimilar. It's interesting you point out the bad pra
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by chillacy 6y ago
Maybe elaborate your comment further to prevent confusion? When you commented >"I hear ya, but something smells real bad about how Epic decided to wage this war" I read it as "I agree that the situation is unfair but I dis
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by chillacy 6y ago
I mean... yes? I think we should have the right to modify / tinker with things we buy, with the understanding that doing so voids any warranties or manufacturer liability.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Platform country? How does another viable store in Canada help me if I live in the US? Or even, how does another viable store in Nevada help me if I live in Illinois? I know I can "just move" anytime, nothing's stopping me, b
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by chillacy 6y ago
It's not dissimilar to how civil disobedience in the 60s thoroughly planned and tuned for maximum PR impact. Rosa Parks went on that bus knowing she'd make a scene. Does that change the reality being uncovered?
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by chillacy 6y ago
A few comments on the original submission guessed it correctly: > This is either something written by GPT-3, or the human equivalent. Zero substantive content, pure regurgitation. > I think this was written by GPT-3. https:/&#x2
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by chillacy 6y ago
This is the full headline: > Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial > Similar content is also readily accessible across Twitter, YouTube and Reddit, says UK-based counter-extremist group Reminds me o

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