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by derbOac 7mo ago
IIRC the third moment defines a maxent distribution under certain conditions and with a fourth moment it becomes undefined? It's been awhile though. If I'm remembering it correctly it's interesting to think about the ramifica
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by derbOac 7mo ago
I generally share the same perspective but the article provides a good rationale for doing otherwise.
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How Iranians are evading internet blocks to contact family abroad(bbc.com)
4 points by derbOac 7mo ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 7mo ago
The thing about arts and AI is that it's one place where the stochastic parrot criticism has never really stopped being accurate to me. I think backlash against the stochastic parrot idea has always been based on a bit of a strawman —
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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles(heise.de)
30 points by derbOac 7mo ago|2 comments
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by derbOac 7mo ago
It's a kind of Trojan horse propaganda in my opinion. Users get used to the argument with TikTok and then apply it to other platforms. Put it this way: why wouldn't those same arguments apply to any platform (if you believed them)
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by derbOac 7mo ago
I agree that there's a lack of awareness of what happens in other countries with ID, but I think it is also a different situation in the US. States in the US in a lot of ways are more comparable to countries in the EU. It's not ex
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by derbOac 7mo ago
That's a good point, although I think it depends on how you define "power". I think in a lot of ethical discourse, power is defined more broadly in terms of who has more leverage in a situation. It doesn't have to corres
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by derbOac 7mo ago
I agree with the fundamentals of what you're saying. I don't mean to suggest that corruption should only be cast in terms of lack of competency, or that there aren't other issues of importance. But I also think sometimes th
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by derbOac 8mo ago
The rationalization aspect of their model can't be overstated enough in my opinion. It never starts with something clearly unethical; it starts with something more complicated. Something that is uncomfortable and morally suboptimal, bu
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by derbOac 8mo ago
I enjoyed this paper, and there's innumerable things that could be said about ingroup-outgroup dynamics and corruption. In my personal experiences with corruption with organizations, ingroup membership often becomes increasingly narrow
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by derbOac 8mo ago
I think this is one reason it is important to cast unethical behavior in terms of lack of competency — that someone has to break the rules to get ahead because they're not competent enough to do things fairly or ethically. Empathy, whi
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Cancer mortality and proximity to nuclear power plants in the United States(nature.com)
5 points by derbOac 8mo ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 8mo ago
My guess is this will garner attention for use of AI — that's where my attention went as well initially. But there's another layer to this, which is whether a grant should be terminated just because it pertains to DEI, regardless
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by derbOac 8mo ago
I think it's questionable whether the censorship has ceased. It's just done less transparently and blamed on "the algorithm". There's an article about it now on the front page of HN. Not disagreeing with the need of
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by derbOac 8mo ago
It seems like the right time to advocate for open standards in things like banking.
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by derbOac 8mo ago
There's confidently hallucinated citations, which makes it bad writing either way.
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by derbOac 8mo ago
I agree that government restrictions usually help if they're implemented well, but part of the issue is the government is benefiting from this kind of thing. Also, most people don't actually need something like Amazon. Not to mi
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by derbOac 8mo ago
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-06-1... https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/19/gallup-crime-p... There's always the question of where exactl
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by derbOac 8mo ago
Would that account for the trapezoidal shape of the one restricted area?
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by derbOac 8mo ago
The link between compsci and math is pretty obvious and foundational, but I think there's been studies (out of Carnegie Mellon?) showing that logical reasoning is more predictive of compsci performance academically speaking than math a
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by derbOac 8mo ago
Yeah I saw this blowback coming, but two wrongs (to the extent you see the first as a wrong) don't make a right. There's no reason to be hindering availability of safe and effective vaccines because a previous administration made
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Russian spy satellites have intercepted EU communications satellites(arstechnica.com)
5 points by derbOac 8mo ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 8mo ago
Yeah this paper came across to me basically as "if you ignore environmental causes of death, the heritability of death goes up"... which seems kind of circular.
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by derbOac 8mo ago
What's funny is you could read that statement as being an argument for or against walled gardens, depending on what kind of social engineering is being referred to.
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by derbOac 8mo ago
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/tech/iceblock-apple-removed-t...
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by derbOac 8mo ago
It's all tempered by them ultimately controlling what you can put on your phone though. As was demonstrated in LA, it's starting to have significant civil rights consequences.
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by derbOac 8mo ago
Maybe? For years the highest selling EV was the Leaf. I agree Tesla kind of increased the desirability of EVs at least in the US, but I'm not convinced it wouldn't have happened anyway. It's a hard question to answer, because
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by derbOac 8mo ago
It's not a Motte and Bailey fallacy at all; it's a statement of a belief about what should be expected if something is to be allowed as a matter of public health and safety implications. They're saying that Tesla should be he
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by derbOac 9mo ago
My impression is that Apple as a corporation is really sensitive to their public image. I happen to believe that some corporations are actually highly sensitive to dollar losses but I also think what Apple worries about is a kind of downstr

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