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by georgemcbay 5d ago
In the US we were well on the way to substantial national bans on these types of junk fees under the Biden administration's CFPB, Khan's FTC, etc and then Trump reversed everything a few months into his current term. Being ripped
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by georgemcbay 5d ago
> But it's simply not true. my mom broke her back last year and before we realized that her back was broken, we saw an urgent care doctor, same day, within 30mins (I don't recall the exact timescale now, but it was pretty much
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by georgemcbay 5d ago
> It baffles me how shortsighted the policymaking here is. Like, what did they expect to happen? As someone who is myself 'old af' by tech standards (I'll be 53 very soon) the main problem is that the policymakers are all
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by georgemcbay 5d ago
> The United States has both market forces and massive access problems. It boggles my mind when I still occasionally hear people speaking out against all forms of single payer healthcare in the US saying they don't want to have to w
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by georgemcbay 5d ago
> If the business is a hospital? I'd expand that to any type of business that has effectively inelastic demand through the ability to hold people emotionally hostage. So, for example, in addition to hospitals also include veterinari
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by georgemcbay 6d ago
> I hope that’s just because you haven’t had a reason to grieve… Either way, hope you are well! Thanks, stranger. I'm old enough that I have experienced significant grief a few times in my life. Given our mortality, we should welcom
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by georgemcbay 6d ago
> Do whales grieve? Just as much as any human that isn't me, as far as I can tell from all available evidence. So, yes, I absolutely believe they grieve, just like I believe humans who aren't me grieve.
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by georgemcbay 6d ago
> do you feel like LLMs are specifically getting better at planning? When harnessed, yes. They still suck at it, but they are getting significantly better over a relatively short time. And you don't have to look very far in any dir
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by georgemcbay 6d ago
Nope. They can pretend to, of course, and use the language of grief, but if you can't feel the cold bottomless pit that has bored through your gut then you aren't really grieving.
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by georgemcbay 6d ago
Blows my mind that so many people just have this hardened internalized idea that we're somehow significantly different than any other animal. Sure, we've got them beat on language and planning, but we're currently in the proc
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by georgemcbay 6d ago
I can still hear it as well. I can also still hear "First there was Menace... Now, Psygnosis presents... a DMA Design game... Blood Money. (there's a whole lot more coming...)". DMA had very good sound design for the time.
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by georgemcbay 6d ago
> For a while there in the early 1990s, there seemed to be good reason to believe that Lemmings was on its way to becoming one of gaming’s perennial franchises. Developed by DMA Design of Dundee, Scotland, the original Lemmings game took
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by georgemcbay 7d ago
> The current administration doesn't believe in climate change / global warming Sure they do. None of the Greenland stuff (or most of the Canada stuff) makes sense unless they believe in these things. We assume that if they be
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by georgemcbay 7d ago
> Guess how electrical engineers feel about the term "transformers". There is more to this story than meets the eye.
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by georgemcbay 8d ago
> What reason is there for the company to employ the meat proxy? The company can just run the LLM in a loop and lay off the employee. There's no point at which this methodology will work for the employee. Company is pleased! Cost s
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by georgemcbay 9d ago
People checking in code they've never looked at. People employee-referring other people who they've never worked with, and don't even know at all on a personal level. Ya'll are fucking crazy.
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by georgemcbay 9d ago
Some more feedback for author, if reading this. > Yudkowsky's most viral idea, the one that infects the most people and spreads the farthest, is that AI, if we continue to develop it, will inevitably 1) achieve superintelligence (&q
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by georgemcbay 9d ago
> Do you really believe that once competition to serve top 10% get really fierce, no company will try to capture the remaining 90%? They'd try it if we weren't living in an age of persistent supply chain problems across every i
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by georgemcbay 9d ago
> Overall the consumer segment is completely neglected, companies don't care about end users in the current market conditions. Mirroring trends throughout the entire economy (not just RAM and other inputs for AI). Everyone is chasin
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by georgemcbay 9d ago
I've had Apple approve app submissions within 24 hours. It certainly hasn't been the norm (on average for me it takes more than 1 day, but less than 2), but I've had it happen occasionally over the past couple of years.
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by georgemcbay 11d ago
> I can't tell if Khan is being realistic when she says laws against “unfair or deceptive [acts]” or “unfair methods of competition” apply to AI labs. Her 2-sentence justifications aren't enough to convince me. As I read it, he
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by georgemcbay 11d ago
Lina Khan is a woman. Not that it is particularly relevant here, but just letting you know.
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by georgemcbay 11d ago
> Imagine if supermarkets had to list the price of a loaf of bread outside because it kept changing so often. I don't think they'll post bread prices outside when the hyper inflation starts, they'll just use e-ink digital
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by georgemcbay 11d ago
> Adams is no longer in a workplace he can satirize He's also not in a place where he can draw cartoons, what with being dead and all.
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by georgemcbay 12d ago
> If the AI wanted to wipe humans out it would have to have a sizable fleet of capable robots, as keeping the lights on over time is not just about calling APIs. Given experience with current AI, it isn't too difficult for me to ima
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by georgemcbay 12d ago
> I wish AI could do my chores. Laundry, folding clothes, dishes, cleaning... That would be nice. Sorry, AI only does the fun stuff. Off to the silica sand mines with you and the rest of the meat bags to keep the AI well fed.
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by georgemcbay 12d ago
> I'm people, how can I do it? Vote (well-informed of the candidate's policies) in every election you can, even the local ones that seem of little consequence. Convince others to vote. Make demands of your elected representativ
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by georgemcbay 12d ago
> Trump will 100% ignore the defense reserve. I'd love to see someone try to refute this as the obvious outcome given every decision Trump has made, especially in his second term where he has far less sane babysitters around him. Th
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by georgemcbay 13d ago
If you or I hacked Hugging Face in the way OpenAI's agents did, we'd be up on CFAA charges promptly with zero regard for whether we did the hack on our own or agents running on our home systems got out of control. So I guess the d
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by georgemcbay 14d ago
This cartoon is from 2012: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995 14 years later and the most politically powerful person in the world spends a lot of time yapping about "clean coal" and the evil of windwil

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