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by ethbr1 3mo ago
Are you talking about the actions of governors and their state health departments? Or communications? It was unclear what your gripe was.
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Turn that around: you're asking for someone to make something understandable to you despite your not having the background to make an informed decision. That process, by definition, in the perfect case, includes someone summarizing&#x2
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Yes. That's the entire multi-stage FDA approval process, including in EUA cases.
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
Yes and ... It's important, if one is able, to also push towards supporting a regulatory process that allows vaccines to be researched, productized, tested, approved, and covered by insurers. All of which the current US administration
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
> I'm sure the government could acquire a bunch of GPUs and make it happen, if for some reason we had to, but it's easier to do outside of the government. That would be the right way of doing this, if the government were inte
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
The difference is that military procurement (a) isn't sold to the general public (try buying a machine gun) and (b) doesn't provide an opportunity to surveil and control the population (no citizens are also using F-35s to search h
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
That's exactly the end run here. Taxes depend on laws (however imperfect and full of loopholes) that are equally applied across all corporations. Government equity/profit stakes are exactly the opposite: negotiated per corporation
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Morals only matter when they restrain someone from doing something beneficial to themselves. Absent a stake in the outcome, it's just virtue signaling. And when Google was forced to choose between juicing ad revenue and its morals, it
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
Agreed. Kooks aren't kooks because they're old. They're kooks because they live in information bubbles that reinforce their batshit ideas. And we've let Google / Meta do a fine job of poisoning the next generation&#
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
The problem with the recent (Tuesday) Supreme Court overturning of Humphreys Executor^ is that it makes Congressionally-intended independent regulatory agencies (read: FDA) much more behold-to and controllable-by any current President. Whic
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Which clinical trial are you referring to for which vaccine?
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Hence things like the US FDA's major statement / CCN standards: https://www.fda.gov/media/184312/download Providing accurate-in-effect summarized information is a difficult balance to strike. Ultimately
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
Part of it is the monkey/typewriter problem. Not saying this about parent, but am absolutely saying it about the vaccine skeptic community in general. If the barrier to asking a question is zero (i.e. someone without a high school biol
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So, as the quip goes, junior level reasoning.
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> And if we can't tell bot from human, why would bots choose to pay rather than just use the public endpoints we serve to our customers? Assuming technical indistinguishability, the only solution is what was originally proposed fo
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
Good to hear. I think web servers monetizing any user identifiers possible should be assumed by this point in the web's evolution, and precluded to the extent possible at the protocol level. No one is going to say "Oh, we'v
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
Imho, you're getting wrapped up around the wrong perspective axis. Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, etc. know they illegally obtained all the material they initially trained on. So claiming any kind of right against anyone else training on t
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
Requiring two incentive-misaligned parties to mutually agree to effect a serious outcome was one of the Constitution's more durable controls.
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
> that training on [lawfully obtained] copyrighted works falls under fair use Fixed that for you.
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Distillation usage still burnishes usage numbers for IPO... If anything, Anthropic is incentivized to track but do nothing until equity lock up expires.
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The benefit of vesting a power in the executive is unity of purpose (regardless of what administration is in power). The benefit of Congress is slowing and deliberating over knee-jerk decisions. Having the President initiate and Congress ap
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
Imho, the missing component here (in both the EU and US) is an individual right to access covered services. Where "access" is specifically defined as full functionality on a device of an individual's choice, and offers safe
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https://web.archive.org/web/20051029045942/http://www.unc.ed...
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(Mullvad reply content copied here) >> Mullvad is a political company fighting for free speech, free information and privacy, with two equal co-founders, co-owners and co-CEOs who fundamentally disagree on many issues. Daniel's
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by ethbr1 3mo ago
I think the slide towards control rather than freedom on the internet is more subtle than that. 1. Increased centralization (FAANG et al.) 2. Larger tech entities willing (and able) to strike deals with government in exchange for fa
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By 2006, you already had Google, Amazon, and Facebook outpacing their competition. Apple was riding iPod success and just about to launch the iPhone. Imho, that's well into the re-centralization of the internet and tech landscape. Rewi
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I would question whether that holds in the practical LLM automation space. Can you think of any real life examples where an LLM is likely to be used? I think in practice what you're saying is there are problems where there exist effici
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> Again the problem is not dictation, or LLMs. The problem is humans ignoring their responsibility to check the output of a machine. 100%. Also, management. I wish someone would go ahead and coin an AI version of Amdahl's law that
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I'm not running cross country anymore, so that's about 10 miles less a week on my knees. ;)
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The internet in 1986 and 1996 was nothing like 2006. 2006 is on the other side of the event horizon of "Don't be evil."

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