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by derivagral 3y ago
> Do not do this, its not a personal device. Agreed, but I knew many devs in my career who mix personal stuff into work hardware. Maybe its just spotify/pandora, maybe some HR thing they needed their personal gmail to make it easier
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by derivagral 3y ago
> if such an impostor has no consciousness or sentience, then it can be abused without concern Consider that to enable such abuse, all it takes is to "other" another sentient person. This is not a new problem for humans in AI (
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by derivagral 3y ago
> the relative value of housing should decrease Can you go into this? Sort of sounds like more money chasing a static supply, which is a situation where I wouldn't expect a decrease.
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by derivagral 3y ago
Renaissance has a very effective legal dept. I'm sure their math stuff is also great, but I was struck a bit reading an old story about the other side of one of their lawsuits/investments regarding a small town. Part of the busine
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by derivagral 3y ago
what about an org that issues them as e.g. season tickets, and makes a market for them?
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by derivagral 3y ago
> Either you’re born an artist or you’re not With the DNA companies selling out lately, this kind of world view feels like the prequel to Gattaca. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
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by derivagral 3y ago
Having personally known an athlete competing for Olympics (personal circumstances got in the way), he would constantly denigrate his genetics while still performing at the highest level worldwide. The drive and work ethic was very high, and
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by derivagral 3y ago
After going through something like this[0], it seems similar to what we do in tech. Try the fancy new thing! Don't worry that the creators aren't particularly qualified and mostly want to sell you stuff. Hard to disentangle good c
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by derivagral 3y ago
Not sure how formatting will go, from desktop twitter: Craig Murray - @CraigMurrayOrg To be entirely plain. I have always viscerally opposed war. I have dedicated my life to conflict resolution and reconciliation. But in the coming Gaza gen
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by derivagral 3y ago
Worked in warehouses for trucking as a kid. Sometimes I miss it... other times I remember that the warehouses were never climate controlled, the vans never had functional AC either, and my teenage sleep habits combined with that early commu
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by derivagral 3y ago
IMO, yes - because governments then either compel or buy this data from the private sector.
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by derivagral 3y ago
There's something funny about realizing that we're the paperclip AI everyone's afraid of.
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by derivagral 3y ago
This tool sort of exists for web ads, though I think people started getting account actions or something from G. https://adnauseam.io/
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by derivagral 3y ago
Not true for me. Also https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by derivagral 3y ago
Partner went to a top10 MBA program. This was not the takeaway or remotely close to the summary. Very popular meme though.
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by derivagral 3y ago
> That's not nothing Any thoughts on how most ignored the "software engineer" from Google and his thoughts on their AI? [0] I know personally I tended to ignore it and let it get buried. However, in this sort of context I
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by derivagral 3y ago
The tl;dr that I recall is that the current 3.5 sacrifices some things for efficiency. The older 3.5 that's being phased out (but I think is still accessible in the UI) was the original one which I assume was too expensive or risky to
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by derivagral 4y ago
Depends on the phrasing. I've had to sign a (legal contract) "release of claims" to get what's commonly called a "severance package", which legally for unemployment are separate things. An actual "severanc
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by derivagral 4y ago
> totalitarian and fascist societies A few books helped me frame this stuff far better than I was able to before. This was the one I started with[0]. Framing isn't a fix or a prevention, but it has helped me to adjust actions and ex
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by derivagral 4y ago
> you can't query it automatically Considering the more interesting applications would likely have barcodes, couldn't this be done with modern recognition and tagging?
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by derivagral 4y ago
Activity on other sites related to finance/coding is similar (seekingalpha likes, for example) and I've gotten organic inbound requests for work periodically scraping such info into... Excel.
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by derivagral 4y ago
I've gotten templated recruiting emails with this bug. I wonder if an AI would spit this out, or something weirder as the name.
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by derivagral 4y ago
SVB did not put their deposits only in tbonds. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/svb-mbs-sales-m...
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by derivagral 4y ago
As a child, I remember a "~30m" cartoon might run until :27 or :56 until credits, etc. As a teen, I remember the shows would end around :23 or :24. When it came out I enjoyed twitch, but now it feels worse than TV. Now I don'
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by derivagral 4y ago
Depends on the game and the distribution. Skill games tend to have major outliers at the tails; sometimes modern matchmaking (DOTA2,others) uses group rating to balance, or sometimes (magic:the gathering) your best players maintain >65%
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by derivagral 4y ago
I took GP as more about data processing than dualism. A language model can take language and process it into probable chains, but the point is more along the line of needing to also simulate the full body experience, not just some text. The
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by derivagral 4y ago
>In hindsight we can determine what actions were not right, since they didn't produce the right, good results. Disagree, to the extent that you need to discount results against available information, processing ability, and alternat
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by derivagral 4y ago
I've updated the quote, thanks. The windows approach is putting in "recommended" rails and other unwanted defaults in places like the windows 10/11 menu that previously did not have such things. I don't believe they
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by derivagral 4y ago
Consider that some of those appearances aren't just for social circles but for job status. As someone in startup software (now remote!) my wardrobe choices are far broader than someone working in service who may be expected to wear and
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by derivagral 4y ago
I'm hoping they don't copy the Windows approach with advertising, but it is in their 10k. Not broken out so a bit harder to tell, but something to watch. https://investor.apple.com/sec-filings/sec-filings-deta

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