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by dmreedy 4y ago
Indeed; I've been trying to describe these models as being consummate bullshitters. Or consummate improvisers, if you want to be kinder. Since its core task model is "autocomplete", it's less "trying to answer a que
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by dmreedy 4y ago
I would posit you might be conflating "capability" and "impact" in a manner that elides the many distinctions.
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by dmreedy 4y ago
It mostly sublimated sometime around 2008
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by dmreedy 4y ago
I understand why there is a law in place to make it illegal to strike. But your logic would suggest to me that what instead would be needed is a law or set of laws preventing the situation from getting so bad that it would come to such a th
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by dmreedy 4y ago
I fail to see the nuance. I don't really think it's supposed to be "good for anyone". It's not supposed to be comfortable and civilized and concessionary. It's not supposed to preserve the status quo because th
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by dmreedy 4y ago
I pray that you never have to encounter the wrong end of a System
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by dmreedy 4y ago
Yeah, I don't mean to decry their effectiveness, only what they demand of the user in order to render that effectiveness. They were the gold standard up until relatively recently, and saved a lot of lives. The modern programs of a comb
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by dmreedy 4y ago
I think a part of the trick here too is that this report does not appear to discriminate between Type 1 (where insulin is required , and the amount required varies significantly and often increases with age) and Type 2 (where insulin, if i
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by dmreedy 4y ago
This is the more modern insulin analog, insulin aspart (sold branded as "Novolog"). It is fast acting, and has a different treatment approach than traditional human "regular" insulin. Using it incorrectly or recklessly d
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by dmreedy 4y ago
You are allowed to buy generic/affordable "older" varieties of insulin. It can be got at Walmart for $25 per vial. It is a "regular insulin" as opposed to the more modern insulin analogs; a functional but inferior t
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by dmreedy 4y ago
I like this one. The variant I'm familiar with is a little more open-ended, but I think about a lot. "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never quite sure"
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by dmreedy 4y ago
I fully understand the narrative of the Free Market. The question isn't what it does; the question is how, and at what cost. It works to what end? For whom? Certainly for some individuals, but does it work for them by the rules of it
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by dmreedy 4y ago
You're not wrong! There's plenty of ways to constrain the hypothesis-space of the future. They do tend to be very bad at accounting for rapidly changing contexts. But beyond that, I think the conversation here is around output b
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by dmreedy 4y ago
And if the work you did is not "valuable", at the end of it, it is by definition not smart? Or does some smart work go unrewarded? And by complement then, does some un-smart work get rewarded? If I flip a coin and say, "it wi
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by dmreedy 4y ago
They're all false gods. Chicago economics are just as much of a demiurge as any model that includes "just" or distributional reward. It mostly comes down to whom god favors. Do you believe that most hard workers don't
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by dmreedy 4y ago
I believe I choose my words carefully. You are correct that nothing is guaranteed. Now reconcile that with your position. What is "smart work" in light of risk?
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by dmreedy 4y ago
I feel the trick with this heuristic is that it is only measurable post hoc. It could be argued that things don't have value until they exist[0], which takes work. And plenty of things aren't valuable, until they are. So in that l
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by dmreedy 4y ago
Speaking as someone whose life has been saved several times by a Dexcom G6 (for whatever role they had in that one), and is looking forward to the Dexcom G7 (which they seem to have a larger role in), I'm pretty grateful for their big
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by dmreedy 4y ago
I think there's a whole lot of truth in this, but I'd also like to try to provide a complementary position, for the balance. There is a kind of depth can come from focus, but this is a narrow kind of depth, one that can't que
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by dmreedy 4y ago
If you haven't already, and without too many spoilers further than some (non-comedic) resonance with your comment, Charles Sheffield's Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a worthy read.
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by dmreedy 4y ago
There's one source that usually comes up in such discussions, When Prophecy Fails ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails ). It's difficult to respect it completely as a controlled act of science,
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by dmreedy 4y ago
By the same logic one might say that Gamestop was one of the biggest players in brick-and-mortar retail for a few minutes there.
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by dmreedy 4y ago
This is an interesting frame, to me. Like consulting an oracle; the priesthood must know how to ask the right question, to ensure accurate and irony-free prophecy. Seems to me to be part of some kind of duality in models of epistemology; kn
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by dmreedy 6y ago
Man, I feel like the Blaster Beam almost deserves a discussion of its own. That thing is wild (link from the article) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj4f5z6nRhs
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by dmreedy 6y ago
It never occurred to me that the Great Red Spot would be shrinking. It's logical that storm systems are dynamic (and finite) things, but I find it striking that in another hundred years, people may never think of Jupiter as having such
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by dmreedy 6y ago
I've been thinking a lot lately about a line from the movie Master and Commander , a euology (though perhaps not much 'eu' about it) for a dead character. "The simple truth is, not all of us become the men we once hoped
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Kenning(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dmreedy 6y ago
Absolutely it's how language works for all fields! That's why it's important to examine these kinds of things as metaphors; it at once conveys that there's probably some 'meta-meaning' going on modeling discuss
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by dmreedy 6y ago
There is a distinction between necessary complexity and "busy beaver" artificial complexity. And it turns out that there's a pretty compelling mapping between energy and information and fundamental complexity. There's
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by dmreedy 7y ago
My guess would be because it's how a lot of essential workers get to work.

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