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by elefanten 1y ago
The capitalization makes it a Tesla reference, which has notoriously been promising that as an un-managed consumer capability for years, while it is not yet launched even now.
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by elefanten 1y ago
This is feeling like a retread of climate change messaging. Serious problem requiring serious thought (even without “AI doom” as the scenario, just the political economic and social disruptions suffice) but being most loudly championed via
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by elefanten 1y ago
The third one is the only correct way to interpret the title.
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by elefanten 1y ago
Plenty of room for equivocation with words like "endorse", so depends what you mean by it. I mean, literally in the first video he makes the standard argument that terrorist designations are politicized but you have to "look
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by elefanten 1y ago
Fair enough and sorry for the snark. Certainly it's worth aiming for, but I don't think the standard here is that every claim has to be cited. A better version of my post would be to point out that it took 3 seconds to get some in
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by elefanten 1y ago
Or just implement vastly more automated ticketing systems. They are standard in many countries. They could be implemented with limited-purview privacy preserving architectures where that aligns with expectations and values. But people speed
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by elefanten 1y ago
As others in the thread mention, these are problems of political economy that no person or mega corp or even nation state can solve. So, continuing to also work on other things is both rational and morally sound. Progress in one area unlock
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by elefanten 1y ago
Does it though? Maybe in absolute terms it spends "a lot" of thought on these things, but in relative terms it borders on nothing. Measure it by VC dollars invested and what actual orgs at tech companies are assigned to. It's
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by elefanten 1y ago
Putting aside the nebulous notion "contribution to hard science"... She became famous for adopting a strain of strident and problematic activism, using it to attack her colleagues and making claims just as wild as some of the ones
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by elefanten 2y ago
Various parts of their corporate structure and previous business/financial relationships are tied to the notion of “AGI” being achieved — which is poorly defined and likely to become a semantic/legal debate more than a scientific
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by elefanten 2y ago
And as advertisers get declining human views on their ads, the value of the business model will dwindle until it needs to be replaced by other forms of revenue. Content that can't shift business models and requires revenue to continue
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by elefanten 2y ago
I didn’t take that to be his point. I assume he says “economically efficient” because he means their strongest skillsets don’t have (m)any other uses and they wouldn’t be realizing their potential by leaving those skills unused. He probably
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by elefanten 2y ago
GGP referenced US accusations against China
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by elefanten 2y ago
“When the only tool you have is a hammer…” Stoller’s their tool of choice, pun entirely intended
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by elefanten 2y ago
This is a pretty wild claim, you're gonna need better evidence than strident rhetorical posturing to back that one up.
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by elefanten 2y ago
Yeah, I agree, this is a cool demonstration of growing capabilities in quantitative social sciences, probably soon leading to analyses that have been imagined for a long time but not (easily) possible until recently. It'll take time to
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by elefanten 2y ago
Concluding "who's worse" wasn't the point of this paper, it was to implement some automated analysis based on old social science models. But, I'm surprised you conclude what you do because the high level findings se
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by elefanten 2y ago
You presume too much about which “us” I represent here. But the posted piece is a (deeply polemic) piece about a policy intending to warn the international community about CCP influence ops. And your take is “woah, let’s look out for Americ
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by elefanten 2y ago
Thoughtful and insightful reflection, thanks for sharing. I think that interplay between personal sense-making, personal strengths and the addictive/rewarding aspects of belonging to a specialized/esoteric community are a very com
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by elefanten 2y ago
Fair point, though the post is written in gender neutral language, perhaps to shield privacy. In that context, “child” is probably the most natural word to use?
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by elefanten 2y ago
Holy hell... "2 - "Cookie cutter" - make it easier to add monetization to other Google O&O properties While some O&O properties are already monetized, many others are still just thinking about it (e.g. Google Now), or
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by elefanten 2y ago
First time I’ve seen such a hand-wringing and apologetic attempt to celebrate Vannevar Bush. Despite openly observing the hindsight-based view of consternation, this author skips any deeper consideration of contextualizing Bush to the stat
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by elefanten 2y ago
Interesting to hide behind the defense you’re just stating facts while being so imprecise about everything else you’re saying. Some vague, associative geographic vibes you experience are totally irrelevant to the detailed discussion of what
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by elefanten 2y ago
Assuming this is the case, is there some kind of meaningful penalty for a contractor blowing up an entire mission like that? I mean... beyond just not getting another contract?
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by elefanten 2y ago
The competitive, zero-sum conquests of two empires were very real, as were the sphere of influence negotiations. But that’s not the point either way. As I’m reading gp, the point is that if the leaders of the international order want to pre
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by elefanten 2y ago
You should take a breath and make your complete argument somewhere all at once. Your reactive fragmented answers up and down the tree of comments are still terminally unintelligible, as of this comment.
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by elefanten 2y ago
Was sugar consumption halving every year for over a decade? Whatever the mechanism (seemingly up for debate), a halving post-tax is an outsized change.
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by elefanten 2y ago
In many cases, you need to understand the concepts to conceive of applying them beneficially to a problem at hand, whether you apply them or outsource the application.
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by elefanten 2y ago
Assuming this is sarcastic, it will never be realistic to pursue less bloodshed by allowing bloodthirsty conquerors to go about their business without opposition. So, yes, unironically: slava ukraini
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by elefanten 2y ago
> their rareness convinces certain kinds of (shithead) people that they "must" A complementary strategy is to relentlessly name and shame the backward cultures that compose this shitheadedness. So say it with me: Chinese* tradi

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