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by htss2013 3y ago
Or maybe it will become more scarce and "valuable" due to behavioral changes. Eg, if having a bunch of photos of a person is tantamount to having a bunch of porn out there of them, maybe people will become much more protective of
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It's amazing that people take hopelessly confounded studies like this and infer anything from them. Yes the study says they tried to remove confounders. But if people could effectively remove confounders, there'd be no need for ra
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Isn't it amazing that you can become the richest person in the world by building companies that lose money? By lose money I mean all money ever put into the company versus profits made. The idea of creating a profitless company that s
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I wish this was true but I and other family members had rock bottom low vitamin D levels in lab tests. We supplemented until it rose to normal levels. None of us noticed any perceptible difference. Suppodedly this will prevent problems but
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Not necessarily. It defaults to a civil matter, but if a DA thinks that the employer knowingly defrauded employees, they could prosecute them criminally. It's pure prosecutorial discretion. But prosexutors have limited resources and do
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Falsifying scientific research involving hundreds of millions of dollars is serious crime too, and yet the president of Stanford and researchers at Duke are where they are. I have no idea what goes on at META or any other public company. I
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The fact that these were published in 2018, implying before then it was never really studied, is sort of crazy. The cost of biannual dentist visits for life is huge across the entire population. I would have thought there was strong evidenc
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by htss2013 3y ago
>Someone has no regard for their own wellbeing, why should taxpayers be forced to foot the bill for their care? Ethically, due to having their minds hijacked by addiction and/or mental illness, it is as if they're reduced to be
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Can you help me understand what you mean by spiritual? I confess I have no direct experience with anything I've ever had the impulse to call "spiritual". This makes me wonder if I think the word means something different than
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If we discovered alien planets filled with different "countries" and had some constraints on the time we could spend visiting each one for observation, wouldn't we likely choose the most militarily and economically powerful o
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Or perhaps the metrics are more engineered than we realize? It is the more parsimonious explanation.
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How are those companies insulated from the same economic pressures that caused the big tech layoffs? Maybe rising borrowing costs will be slower to affect consumer discretionary companies, but they will, arguably more than monopolistic big
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Every 2nd and 3rd tier place that stalls on economic development in certain industries plays this game. Texas, Florida, Estonia, Canada, etc. It doesn't matter. It's always the same playbook: - Announce government incentives to lu
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>Now clearly mentally ill people - who needed help - were turned away unless they were clearly "a danger to themselves and others". People talk as if this standard is the source of problems, but it's a fine standard. We ju
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Except the average US mortgage holder buys and sells a house every 7 years. For the first 7 years the amortization schedule means you're paying almost all interest and building very little equity. You're also paying realtor fees a
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>Having these skills would give most people an edge in whatever line of work you are in. Yes, and you can probably learn 80% of those skills yourself without having to spend years and a small fortune on a formal degree in journalism.
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Mind expanding on the lack of data for cleanings? I got busy, then pandemic, next thing I know it's been like 7 years since I've seen a dentist. No problems or discomfort whatsoever. It occurred to me that bi annual cleanings are
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by htss2013 3y ago
Maybe it has something to do with protein folding, since apparently scientists do not understand the physical mechanisms that translate a given DNA sequence into a given 3D shape. They best they can do is infer probabilistic patterns using
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Copyright doesn't apply when it comes to fair use, and one of the major factors of fair use is if your use deprived the copyright owner of sales. Good luck arguing that any of the books in question lost sales because an AI was trained
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There's no way to peacefully convince like 20 countries whose budgets all rely on selling fossil fuels to stop selling them, and the same goes for the countless buyers whose livelihoods depend on using them. Are you going to mandate th
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I dont see how LLMs using many experts means it's very different from AGI. Why would anyone assume that human AGI isn't based on multiple models running in a similar architecture? At minimum humans are operating with a left and ri
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Why would you strip driverless cars instead of other cars? If anything the driverless ones probably have more counter measures and monitoring.
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Your criteria for a good business includes barriers to competition and low capital requirements that make venture capital unnecessary.
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Even if you can't sue Chinese manufacturers violating patents, very few products are bought directly from China then shipped to the USA. There are USA middlemen and retailers involved. Why couldn't a patent holder go after the USA
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>The thought that humans might be the only life in the universe to me seems like the 21st century equivalent of believing earth is the center of the universe. Or it's an acknowledgment of the posterior data that has arisen over the
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The reason they push you up is pretty transparent and it's not to get a pay off on their investment. It's because they have a really hard time externally hiring and retaining senior people in X job. They can recruit and churn thro
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You could say the same about people having the ability to make wire transfers or international transfers. They're largely irreversible after some period. Every kind transaction becomes irreversible eventually. No one has solved the eld
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Yes, exactly. It's not that adding money to your hobby per se makes you not enjoy it. It's that when you have to make money from a hobby, you lose agency over how you practice the hobby. It turns out the freedom to practice the ho
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It's amazing that society still puts so much stock into these types of impossibly confounded studies. Ok, so they found that people who are top earners are no more satisfied with their jobs than bottom earners. Might this be because to
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The problem with the quarterly profit motive is that it's not voluntary for the US electorate. If Americans could vote on their preferred time intervals to manage towards, they wouldn't pick quarterly. Quarterly screws the overwhe

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