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by hdhdhsjsbdh 8mo ago
Acidified oceans, poisonous air, and frequent multibillion dollar extreme weather events are a small price to pay for a purely hypothetical $2,400 off my next car, which I am forced to own because the same companies that lobby against clima
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 8mo ago
The US seems culturally ill-equipped to deal with this reality. We have encouraged several generations of people to channel all of their talents into maximizing their individual income, regardless of externalities or impact to their communi
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 9mo ago
Here’s the difference between US and Europe: in US tech, productivity gains due to AI will lead to lower employment and higher expectations for the remaining employees. Salaries will remain the same and any increases in profit will of cours
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 9mo ago
I think they should. Let’s kick off some meaningful economic growth in Europe and provide a counter to the increasingly hegemonic, anti-human US tech oligarchs that have reaped all of the financial rewards of algorithmic radicalization and
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 9mo ago
Maybe having an endless runway isn’t such a good thing; when you don’t have real constraints at play, you can afford to waste more time on ego and drama.
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 11mo ago
As time goes on, tech seems to become increasingly detached from the lifestyles of normal people. AI friends, automated gift-giving, sunglasses you can talk to. Nobody wants this — it doesn’t meet people where they’re at and resolve real fr
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 1y ago
Interesting that this thread mostly consists of people sharing vibe-coded projects they themselves made, not people sharing other people’s projects that they’ve found useful. The latter would provide higher confidence that the project is ac
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 1y ago
Her parents know someone at the Atlantic, and she needs publications to pad out her Harvard application :)
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 1y ago
How uninspired are we that the best we can hope for is to be served popcorn by robots? I look forward to a future where the mentally ill in Los Angeles don’t live in tents by ditches; where blue collar migrant workers aren’t snatched off th
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 1y ago
That would be a very difficult study to design. How do you know with 100% certainty that any given post is AI-generated? If the account is tagged as a bot, then you aren’t measuring the effect of manipulation from comments presented as real
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 1y ago
Bit of a motte and bailey. Stitching living people into a human centipede is blatantly, obviously wrong and has no scientific merit. Understanding the effects of AI-driven manipulation is, on the other hand, obviously incredibly relevant an
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 1y ago
As far as IRB violations go, this seems pretty tame to me. Why get so mad at these researchers—who are acting in full transparency by disclosing the study—when nefarious actors (and indeed the platforms themselves!) are engaged in the same
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 2y ago
Pretty cool that the EO cites a stat from the National Assessment of Educational Progress as evidence of the department’s failings, without acknowledging of course that the NAEP is administered by the Department of Education. I’m sure the p
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 2y ago
Evidence can probably be given one way or another whether or not DEI impacts performance of an operation (my hypothesis is that it doesn’t and it’s just another boogeyman). All it takes is research. Though even if it’s rigorously demonstrat
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 2y ago
You’re just downright uninformed then. See, e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathoey Perhaps you consider it a fad because increasing visibility in Western culture/resulting culture war pushback has just now b
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 2y ago
Beyond its immediate appeal to the (somewhat cringy imo) “uncensored model” crowd, this has immediate practical use for improving data synthesis. I have had several experiences trying to create synthetic data for harmless or benign tasks, o
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 2y ago
Fair point! 30 min is probably not enough. When I was able to maintain a routine similar to your own, the baseline was indeed better (and the days without were much worse). Best of luck in finding/maintaining the right balance for you.
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 2y ago
I commute solely by cycling every weekday (15 min each way, with some hills) and I’m still depressed. Must be more to the puzzle than that!
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3y ago
That a rule-based system is able to outperform a generalist model on a highly-specialized task is not exactly surprising. What is missing from the discussion (and this is no fault of the paper—this isn’t their focus) is how much cost and ef
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3y ago
In the past year or so, arxiv has become more of an advertising platform than a scientific resource. The title of this “paper” makes that quite clear: their company URL is right there!
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3y ago
I’m on Bluesky and tried to get my friends on there too, but without much luck. I don’t find myself using it often. In my opinion, the problem with Bluesky is that it assumes people want old Twitter/social media back. Beyond their prot
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3y ago
Probably the myopic and philosophically illiterate tech worshippers that would bring such a thing into existence in the first place.
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3y ago
> Isn’t this current affair a public meltdown? It certainly is, which is why I mention the swing of the pendulum in the other direction (shortly after your quoted sentence) :)
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3y ago
> Becker believed that when companies have a big profit cushion … they have the latitude to indulge the personal biases of their managers … At Google in the 2020s, it means creating AI apps that refuse to draw White people in Hitler’s ar
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3y ago
There seems to be a false dichotomy here, where you either 1. go to school or 2. start a business fresh out of high school. At this age, a person’s frontal cortex has not even finished developing, and yet we culturally treat the moment as a
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3y ago
Why should someone’s present self be defined by things entirely out of their control (e.g. childhood trauma)? You seem to assume that “obnoxious people” and “traumatic backstories” go hand-in-hand; on the contrary, some of the most obnoxiou
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3y ago
This interview style seems bound to create a psychologically enmeshed workplace with no healthy boundaries. Or a workplace full of people with charming, easily-shared backstories and nuclear families but no yucky problems. Would not want to
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3y ago
Funny how much these invisible hand types rely on unfalsifiable claims to make their point. “Would have happened anyway, 100% positive of this”. Oh for sure dude. The burden of proof always seems to fall on people who live in reality.
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3y ago
Why can something so simple and unobjectionable happen in other places but not the US? Your knee-jerk response is the same as my own, but I wonder to what extent the apathy/cynicism has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by hdhdhsjsbdh 3y ago
Do you really think it is convenient being homeless? The majority of people who are homeless have experienced levels of abuse, often beginning at a very young age, that are unimaginable to your average “well-adjusted” person. How high funct

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