jasonhansel

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by jasonhansel 3y ago
I'm not sure how less banking regulation would improve that situation. Likewise with AI.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
How can banking be regulated without a single global authority? Or will they propose some single global authority with exclusive access to capital to police the regulation? Governments will advance banking as fast as possible for their own
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Unions get a large number of legal protections that aren't available otherwise.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
The original LLMs?
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Betty Crocker, the ten million dollar lie(youtube.com)
3 points by jasonhansel 3y ago|0 comments
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
The vast majority of people in jail before trial are not suspected of shooting anyone. Many are low-level offenders waiting in jail for months despite still having the presumption of innocence. Often the time they spend in jail before trial
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
That study says that the risk factor is red meat consumption, not seed oils: > The typical American and Northern European diet is high in omega-6 FAs, with the average person having an omega-6 to omega-3 FA intake ratio between 15:1 and
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Even when he was at Vice he had a long history of espousing racist views. This isn't something new.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
So...if we have ChatGPT replace the doctor, as suggested, how would that be an improvement? I'm not sure how having a computer say "take some antibiotics and I'll bill your insurance company $500, see ya" would be any be
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Fires set by firefighters a long-standing problem, experts say (2016)(cbc.ca)
5 points by jasonhansel 3y ago|0 comments
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
IMHO part of the issue is that Postgres was built on the assumption that snapshot isolation would be widely used. I don't think this has proven to be the case. Snapshot isolation isn't as robust and straightforward as strict seria
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
> that's up to the parents more than it is to the school. The reality is that some parents simply do not have the time and resources to provide this sort of support. The purpose of our educational system is to educate kids, not to s
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
It wasn't the article per se, it was the comments section below it.
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
Yeah, I understand passing a law that is intentionally designed to apply to only one company. But it's odd for a law to just name the company.
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Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence (1967)(americanrhetoric.com)
2 points by jasonhansel 4y ago|0 comments
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
I'm rather surprised that you can write a law calling out one particular company by name and applying solely to that one company, as the Montana bill does. How common is this?
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
Let's just say he's extremely controversial: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2337379...
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Five Things About Deterring Crime(nij.ojp.gov)
3 points by jasonhansel 4y ago|1 comments
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
An excellent case of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
> And if they tried, they would hobble the companies involved. Well, yeah, that's the point of regulation: to limit corporate behavior. There are plenty of other highly-regulated industries in the US; why shouldn't AI be one of
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
If unelected CEOs have more power than the democratically elected government, we aren't in a democracy. That's the problem.
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
Why would cropping alter the file in-place? That would presumably leave the image corrupted if (say) your phone died during the cropping process; it would seem much better to save the cropped image separately and then overwrite the original
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
The issue is that most "underground" groups do not have access to top researchers or experienced engineers; those tend to be public figures, or people who want to become public figures. Furthermore, complete secrecy requires tig
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
Interesting which "groups" they care about (e.g. mainstream political parties).
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
I posted this in part because it explains why I think attempts to regulate AI (including the recently-proposed moratorium) have a decent chance of working. They won't prevent dangerous misuse of AI technology altogether, but they can s
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Book review: Barriers to Bioweapons(eukaryotewritesblog.com)
70 points by jasonhansel 4y ago|15 comments
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
The problem isn't that websites should have more text; it's that they should have more content, using things other than whitespace to establish a visual hierarchy.
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
I believe locking customers in to proprietary services is called "going full IBM."
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
Honestly, I wish websites here were more information-dense. Many sites seem to have gone all-in on adding as much whitespace as possible, making them much harder to use on (say) smaller laptops.
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by jasonhansel 4y ago
I agree with the general point that there is, at present, far too much uncertainty to understand the long-term effects of LLMs. It will be somewhere on the scale between "semi-useful toy," "ends white-collar work as we know i

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