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contagiousflow
2y ago
Just wait until we have AI agents finding optimizing for click through rates.
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2y ago
What does a linear scale not tell you about the object of the graph? I'm not sure what further insights you could glean from a logarithmic scale.
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2y ago
> criticisms of a pure math theorem being applied to physics Next you're going to tell me the Moving sofa problem isn't really about moving sofas!
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2y ago
Are you removing paid working time in doing the extra work? If not it is just an opportunity cost
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2y ago
If the test is an insincere answer to a question that may tell me a lot about your worldview, then I'm fine failing it. I would rather know genuine people.
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2y ago
MIT doesn't have legacy admissions. Do they have a prestige problem?
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2y ago
The difference is higher education is supposed to be a ladder. That may sound like idealism but removing (or limiting) that ladder based on class is against any ideals of economic mobility or meritocracies.
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2y ago
Well then they shouldn't be affected by this changed.
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2y ago
It's a 26% decrease in relative terms, but looking at the study shows that it is a 0.5% decrease in absolute terms (1.6% vs 2.1%). A 0.5% decrease is great and should be applauded, but I think the article framing of this being a breakt
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2y ago
I think the real question is why is this being reported on. There are always medical advancements, but because this one gets chosen as a news story because "AI" in the headline gets clicks.
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2y ago
But the code as give is said to respect privacy.
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2y ago
Yeah, if you want to talk about long term results that kind of necessitates talking about actions that happened a long time ago... Or would you like to talk about the long term results from actions of unions last year?
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2y ago
> eventually these fake humans will have lower error rates than real ones Source?
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2y ago
Are you Canadian or aware of the history of Canadian grocery chains?
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2y ago
What tasks being automated will make research more epistemologically sound?
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2y ago
3 actually. https://budget.house.gov/resources/staff-working-papers/us-d...
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2y ago
I mean, that has already happened. But I think the point of that statement is there is no known number where once debt reaches, the US will be downgraded further.
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2y ago
https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spc3.124... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/014829... It has been long regarded as pseudoscience
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2y ago
I'm not sure if you are reading what I am saying by bias. Human language, events, decisions, only exists in the cultural and historical contexts around it. > unbiased courts You say this as something could ever exist. A court will a
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There is literally no such thing as an unbiased text generator. No matter how you cut it there are an infinite pool of prompts that will need some sort of implicit value system at the heart of the answer. Any implicit bias just from selecti
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2y ago
How would you define unbiased?