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Imagine manufacturing like a long vine - any disturbance along the vine can cause the fruit to wither. The overall company can run low on capital or the share price may drop too far and induce leadership changes. The product has to reach ca
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Disclosure: I work for General Motors, this is solely my own opinion and experience. > Which one returns more value to the shareholders? I think the 'shareholder primacy' era of American capitalism has had some particularly dum
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> 3. Buyers generally won't reject a car for having features they don't care about, but they'll frequently reject a car for lacking a feature they deem important. 4. Buyers have different preferences. Yup. I
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Making of (by Claudia Romeo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJKIA2sAE38
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The subsequent article "So you want to PRINT a PDF" is stuck in a queue somewhere. Well, I say 'stuck' - it actually got timed out of the queue, but that doesn't raise an error so no one knows about it.
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Or even a Plausible Deniability system - you can't buy these games with currency, you have to use tokens. Here's a token store where you can buy tokens with your currency.
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Writing as a person who wants the future to be a better place, the number one pass time of progressives is complaining about other progressives. The number two pass time is complaining about conservatives. Anyway, my complaint is that a lot
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There are many ways to explain or understand the US election(s) of 2024. One way to understand the election is a rejection of complexity - political complexity, social complexity, scientific complexity, economic complexity, moral complexity
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For myself, it means that I should have some patience and humility. Of course, I don't participate in women's sports anyway, so that should be pretty easy for me.
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in soil, not air.
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The problem with slippery slopes is that the world is made of them. You can't leave the slippery slope, at BEST you can choose which slope you're sliding down. Another way to think of this is 'long tail risk'. Some subse
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It depends on context. If you're working from a document that is otherwise correct, and you come across a mistake like this, it's worth checking. In casual language, sure, whatever.
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in-band notice or out-of-band?
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Professor of Upstairs Neighboring. https://youtu.be/8s9TjRz01fo?t=1128
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NASA wants space to feel non-militarized. US Service Personnel don't follow the civilian process for Customs, so making astronauts actually follow the civilian process reinforces the non-militarized feeling for space.
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Following this line of thought - this is may be the exact analogy that NASA wanted to counteract.
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> Anything Musk says is simply not trustworthy. I have a boss who speaks in "future tense" - they say how they think things WILL work. In my boss' case it's not lying, it's how their brain works. If you ask caref
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Also yes. It appears that 'alignment' may be very difficult to define.
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Unfortunately, while generated images still have an uncanny valley, generated text has blown straight past the uncanny valley. Also unfortunately, it is much MUCH easier to get a. emotional validation on your own terms from a LLM than it is
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Oh dear, he's already at it with this one too
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The researcher's purported threat model mainly consists of professional bike racing. Basic trolling is not precluded, or perhaps a targeted attack on an individual person.
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Yes, I am using the word 'rationality' somewhat informally.
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I have come to believe that there is no such thing as 'true rationality' in the universe. There are true events and true facts, but rationality is a shared framework for communication. Rationality exists between people. People alw
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Excuses and explanations can feel the same. I do not intend this to be an excuse, but a partial explanation. Before the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, there was a feeling of a possibility of peace in some form; in this context, those laws
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Sometimes I imagine that I am a time traveling space alien so I can get a bit of emotional distance from what's going on. I imagine that I can leave this time and place [technically, I am leaving this time and place, but no faster than
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Google Street view of the facility: https://maps.app.goo.gl/6ssyJfjVn1fUGaG2A
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> The other option besides blame is shared responsibility and humility, but it feels like people are not very good at thinking that way right now.
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Whatever policy we pursue, whatever decision we make, is not forever (at a society level). When people die, we change policy. When people feel like they cannot get the treatment they need, we change policy. Unfortunately, this is very compl
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With Vera Rubin's Large Synoptic Survey Telescope coming online, we'll likely see many more of these. It seems like it would be very difficult to physically intercept any large percentage; what is the next best alternative to phys
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Forget about alignment, we're stuck on "satisfying answers to difficult questions". But to be fair, so are humans.

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