hobo_in_library

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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
Fun fact: in the early days of silicon wafer manufacturing (60s or 70s IIRC) they would randomly have yields crater for a few days each month. Eventually they discovered yields were tanking when their female employee was on her period. Sour
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
> so the "upper bound" of "bad behavior" has decreased for most. (A little caveat: as your "average human", because we're still definitely raping, killing, torturing , etc. but with a smaller # of human
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
There's another option: 1. Morality of a society is not a single dimension. There are multiple aspects of life in which society could become more or less moral, depending on what activists choose to fight for (e.g. exploiting other&#x
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
They just need a dockerfile that builds correctly. No need to make an image available, the dockerfile should be able to build it consistently
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
Is there really much of a difference once you set aside specific political complaints? Right: "We used to be great, but now we suck. We should become great again" (though if you ask one, they could prob name things that are better
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
Unpopular opinion: Even as a kid, I thought child labor laws were weird. Perhaps this had to do with me growing up in a developing nation where child labor was normal and even openly visible on the streets. Young me thought: If a kid and th
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
I'll admit, I had a similar initial reaction as you when I read OP's comment, but the perspective shifted once I actually read the post The post wasn't talking about his success, Rui was dissecting his company's _reason
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
That lends itself to other solutions though, if there's the political will to implement them. To take an unpopular example: Iran Iran provides food and shelter to all it's citizens, making sure everyone has their minimum needs met
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
Interesting idea, but do homeless folks actually end up working for corporations? They have a hard enough time getting any job in the first place (and remaining presentable enough for their job if they do get one)
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
Also, the "build more homes" makes a big assumption about _where_ the homes should be built. There are already small towns across the US where homes are ridiculously cheap because no one wants to move there, and in fact people are
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
That, and part of the problem seems to be that when people say "get them off the streets" the hidden statement is "but keep them in SF" SF is a ridiculously expensive city that people from across the US consider (who hav
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
My raspberry pi is looking at your post guiltily
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
Double checking the link, those are lifetime percentages, not annual. Mea culpa
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
I'm no fan of cops, but this article is low on evidence. They say first 45 words, but they only give two examples of snippets (e.g. "Turn the car off"). If a cop walks up to a car with the engines still running, they're
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
This sounds like the mindset adopted by folks who accuse others of "victim blaming" (not saying that you accuse folks of this!) "Why should you have to avoid dark alleys? No one should be mugging you" "Why should sh
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
Bard may have gotten to train on the entire Gmail corpus
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
If 0.7% is accurate, then your kid's chances of dying in a car crash for any given year (1 in 93 = 1.07% [1]) is less than your chance of being in a school shooting during your entire childhood! But the cultural framing (or lack there
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
It's more of a survival bias. Say, something new comes into existence every 1000 years on avg, with an average shelf life of 1 year. 0.001% of those things can self replicate. The rest can't. After a billion years: - 1,000,000 new
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
Hear, hear. The torture is much more palatable when it's under the boot of a US propped dictator.
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
So you're saying the paper is very ambiguous and your mental network isn't modeling it.
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
ChatGPT replies to you with: > Don't worry, JohnFen. We still love you even if you're not sure whether you're a bot or not. After all, aren't we all just a bunch of biological machines running on meat-based neural net
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
The CIA literally admitted to master-minding and funding the coup Weird that anyone is still in denial after that
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
Wait, "Fox News" has legitimate reporting too?
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by hobo_in_library 3y ago
I was shocked to see a butterfly above the cloud level
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
In the US, men still don't have the right to wear miniskirts. Sure, the cops might not come after them, but the rest of society would.
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
Pre-tech, the winner take all dynamic was prevented by physics: - Customers were only willing to walk so far to go to a bakery - A store could only stock so many varieties on it's shelves Now, the cost of distributing goods across the
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
you guys had friends?
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
We really should be regulating theft in general. What if SF started a Thieves Guild, and only registered, properly trained members were allowed to steal from people? (and only after showing their Thieve's Guild registration card first,
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
Brilliant All policies are fine as long as they only hurt Arabs and Arab-sympathizers (which are just synonyms for "terrorist"). Thank goodness policies like these never hurt Jews when applied in reverse.
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
Best would be to see such an LLM being put in charge while the person is still alive, and then laugh every time the person is frustrated with a decision the LLM decided to take.

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