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by golemotron 1y ago
More businesses than the authors can imagine work this way. They really ought to sit down and have a coffee with some salespeople.
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by golemotron 1y ago
If you know enough cognitive science, you have a choice. You either say that they "know" or that humans don't. It's like the critique "it's only matching patterns." Wait until you realize how the brain wor
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by golemotron 1y ago
The idea that Congress can set up agencies that are outside the control of the Executive needs to be revisited. It leads to rogue, unaccountable bureaucracy.
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by golemotron 2y ago
Nothing to worry about. Anti-Natalism is self-extinguishing.
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by golemotron 2y ago
No, I just think that the space can be cleared up with legislation. It's a weird world where works created with a prompt are not creative enough for protection but pictures taken by randomly pointing smartphone cameras (which use signi
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by golemotron 2y ago
No truer words have been said.
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by golemotron 2y ago
This is clearly a case where we need new legislation. The US Copyright Act needed to be amended to cover photography. Prior to that photos were not copyrightable. It seems like we are on the same trajectory now. The real problem is that Con
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by golemotron 2y ago
We only get to complain about these things because ride service is ubiquitous and easy now. With taxis, it wasn't.
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by golemotron 2y ago
What was the plan for fixing taxi service?
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by golemotron 2y ago
Uber is not a great case for your argument. They made the world safer and enabled transportation for people who would otherwise not have it. No one, literally no one, who has spent any time in taxis wants to go back to them. I can't te
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by golemotron 2y ago
Isn't ending the filibuster a one-way trip also? I can imagine doing it temporarily, but once the precedent has been set, it's over, isn't it?
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by golemotron 2y ago
Thiel and Masters make the case eloquently in Zero to One.
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by golemotron 2y ago
The problem is deeper than that. When a physical space is raided, its scope is obvious. Digital spaces don't have that characteristic. There can always be hidden indexes.
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by golemotron 2y ago
The real issue is that technology has rendered office raiding useless. People are welcome to explore alternatives.
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by golemotron 2y ago
The alternative, giving them a password that gives them read/write access to sensitive systems, would be insane. Subpoena for particular data.
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by golemotron 2y ago
The fact that someone tried is significant. We've had 50+ years of not trying.
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by golemotron 2y ago
Nietzsche called it 'Ressentiment'
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by golemotron 2y ago
That's a very 'Star Trek' view of human nature. History shows that whenever we solve problems we create new ones. When material scarcity is solved, we'll move to other forms of scarcity. In fact, it is already happening.
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by golemotron 2y ago
It might be turnabout. The settlers of Aus were exiles from England.
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by golemotron 2y ago
I can't believe that no one there didn't anticipate the blowback. It could just have been a way for Satya to put the feature in front of their business customers. They'd likely want that feature even if consumers reject it.
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by golemotron 2y ago
Ask the stock holders.
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by golemotron 2y ago
Pulling the lever isn't designing the lever. Sometimes reality designs the lever and you have no choice but to make a choice.
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by golemotron 2y ago
The Trolley Problem is not constrained to human design. The author pretends that it is. Their reaction to the issue with self-driving cars illustrates this.
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by golemotron 2y ago
I stopped reading when the author stated that The Trolley Problem is problematic because it 'has bad choice architecture.' Not everything possible in human experience is designed.
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by golemotron 2y ago
Elon is a ressentiment magnet. It's the price of success today.
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by golemotron 2y ago
I wonder what the equivalent is for musicians who work without scores? Getting into the feel and emotional direction of the music you are playing?
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by golemotron 2y ago
> Each of these transitions caused big problems. None of these problems have ever been completely solved. But each time we found mitigations that limit the impact of any misuse. This a problem with all technology. The mitigations are lik
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by golemotron 2y ago
I'm not buying it. It's just hysteria. Evil doesn't come from opportunity. If it did, we would have far higher rates of mayhem than we do. Read a 1950s chemistry book or murder mystery. Or, <shudder> a 1980s spy movie.
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by golemotron 2y ago
> This ain’t a joke. Yes it is. Libraries and the internet have made finding 'harmful" instructions trivial for decades, if not centuries.
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by golemotron 3y ago
I've never been about to figure out what the word should means.

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