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by epups 4y ago
Interesting piece and data. Again and again it seems that a lot of economic issues boil down to the housing market.
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by epups 4y ago
I don't think the problem with Tesla's autopilot is its name, but rather the misleading promises that were made by Musk. What is the definition of AI that "the public" uses, and where did you find it?
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by epups 4y ago
Expectation: this will lead to better accuracy and refinement for LLM's. Reality: Microsoft will add disclaimers and a huge binding terms of service agreement and everything will work the same, just shittier.
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by epups 4y ago
Would you be happier if every answer from ChatGPT had a huge disclaimer on it?
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by epups 4y ago
ChatGPT is an AI by any definition I know about. Perhaps you're thinking of AGI.
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by epups 4y ago
What about helping correct the grammar and style of an article? Writing out boring code? Creating a test for code you already have? These are all tasks that have important economic consequences. AI is not half-bad at them, it is actually ap
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by epups 4y ago
This is excellent. Snappy and pretty, two qualities that often elude BI apps.
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by epups 4y ago
Humans did not stop learning to count after the calculator was invented.
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by epups 4y ago
If that was true, why don't Meta and all the others simply hire people from those countries, like they offshored production? In some cases they even set up physical offices there to try to do exactly as you say. Yet they keep coming ba
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by epups 4y ago
Japan did not have forced lock downs. And they already had plenty of recluses before. The rest of what you say is only very loosely connected to covid, if at all. Perhaps you should put your hand up and say you are wrong?
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by epups 4y ago
Midjourney is banning Xi Jinping satire everywhere, also outside China.
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by epups 4y ago
Unfortunately things are not so simple. You can find satire of Xi Jinping on TikTok right now: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh?l... , but not on Midjourney anymore. So, ironically, banning Tik
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by epups 4y ago
Turns out China can pressure content on apps outside China as well, making the TikTok brouhaha even more pointless.
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by epups 4y ago
We are talking past each other. You are claiming that cardiovascular diseases and other factors are more important to the US having a lower life expectancy than all these other countries. But not in the age range that is the main thrust of
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by epups 4y ago
I'm sorry but you are the one who doesn't get it. Your data does not show the most important point which is the difference in deaths in people between 5 and 40 years old. In this age range, we are already past the child mortality
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by epups 4y ago
It doesn't matter that most people die of cancer or heart diseases, as these are old people and these are also prevalent in other countries. When someone dies at 25 from a drug overdose, however, age expectancy is greatly reduced as mo
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by epups 4y ago
So you provide a source that is 2x larger than the estimate from the other guy but over 10x smaller than yours, and you accuse him of lying with numbers? The fact that they spent a lot of money to clean the area just proves they thought thi
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by epups 4y ago
If nuclear power was invented today, it would have been considered a breakthrough capable of changing the course of climate change dramatically. Since it exists for long and people formed an emotional reaction to incidents that were not tha
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by epups 4y ago
We have had very few nuclear hazards in the past, with very limited impact as shown in this article. Nuclear plants that were really old rarely failed as well, before we added all this regulatory overhead. Weird how something "borderli
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by epups 4y ago
If this is true, are you also concerned about the algorithms controlled by American billionaires? I think that's a national security risk as well.
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by epups 4y ago
For almost every product out there, a "better" version is available that is not the most common one. This is simple economics: the improvements you describe are not free, which is why they are not mass produced. If people judged t
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by epups 4y ago
> Sure, maybe its just nostalgia, but there were plenty of trends and aesthetics from my younger years that are just nowhere to be found. Why? Because when people renovate, they go with the aesthetic de jure, what's available and wh
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by epups 4y ago
I would dare say that 99.99999% of keyboard users expect a similar layout. Sure, it converged out of conformity and familiarity, but so what? This is part of the added value to me, I can learn to type in a particular layout and I'm goo
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by epups 4y ago
I don't think we should conflate ubiquity with superiority, but it is easy to see how the latter often leads to the former. Perhaps Western movies are indeed considered very good, even by people from other cultures, which is why they d
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by epups 4y ago
Yeah I agree. Part of growing up is recognising patterns everywhere, including art. I don't doubt the process of making everything more average is there, but it's hard to ascertain that when every observer is biased.
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by epups 4y ago
How would you differentiate "true" convergence, where everyone agrees a certain idea is superior, vs what you seem to describe here, a sort of imposition of ideas?
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by epups 4y ago
I see, so America should block and filter content its government judges to be adversarial. Shall we call it the great freedom firewall?
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by epups 4y ago
>As suspicious as the US federal government is, I don't think what those companies do is as tightly coupled with the government as TikTok and China. They have backdoors to all major tech companies, they actively try to control disco
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by epups 4y ago
Would you say the same of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and defend the right of the rest if the world to ban them?
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by epups 4y ago
Says who?

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