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by jefftk 3y ago
> Those of you defending youtube on this, have you actually tried watching anything on the site without ad blockers? That's how I normally watch YouTube. It's fine? The ads are mostly skippable after a few seconds. If I was
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by jefftk 3y ago
I don't see how taking 5min to start playing a video saves you much on bandwidth? I see how you save by accepting somewhat longer start times, and more variance, but even with the delay you're still paying to transfer the same nu
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by jefftk 3y ago
Sponsored videos?
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by jefftk 3y ago
With (2) they'd need to charge for this tier in proportion to viewership, no? An amount that makes sense for someone with 100 subs is going to be really different than for someone with 100M.
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by jefftk 3y ago
> the rest is a scam Etherium is a scam?
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by jefftk 3y ago
For nukes I agree, and that's the main reason I'm less worried about nukes. But for bio it's mostly a matter of knowledge and not resources: for all the parts that do need resources there are commercial services, in a way
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by jefftk 3y ago
The two people I cited at the end are examples of philosophers who think a lifeless world is preferable to the status quo and to futures we are likely to get. These aren't arguments for why someone might hold the belief, but evidence t
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by jefftk 3y ago
Most people think continued existence of humanity is good, which includes environmentalists. But there are some people who either think (a) avoiding suffering is overwhelmingly important, to the extent that a universe without life is ideal
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by jefftk 3y ago
Are you sure? Lots of kids are watched by nannies and this doesn't seem to have worse outcomes than daycares (though confounded by richer people having nannies).
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by jefftk 3y ago
Which is very worrying! That's part of why I left big tech to work on detecting novel pandemics. [1] Luckily, the people capable of killing everyone seem not to have wanted to so far. But if the bar keeps lowering, at some point it w
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by jefftk 3y ago
> There is really no way around it We could have a culture where it's typical for people who stay home with their kids to additionally be paid to watch the kids of another family.
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by jefftk 3y ago
AI can make a lot of other risks worse. For example, say someone asks GPT5 (or decensored Llama-5) how to kill everyone and it patiently and expertly walks them through how to create a global pandemic.
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by jefftk 3y ago
It depends. For example, if each day you generate a random nonce and use it to salt that day's PII (and don't store the nonce) then you cannot later determine (a) did person A visit on day N or (b) is visitor X on day N the same
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by jefftk 3y ago
Which one is fancier?
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by jefftk 3y ago
I do think you need the discussion of distributions and variance: for all I know the 200m tends to be won by fractions of a second and there are millions of people just a second slower than Bolt.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Say you get a lognormal by combining five gaussian-distributed factors (as in the past). Then you condition on four of those factors. The remaining factor, and hence your overall result, will be gaussian. Now, maybe in real life there are f
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by jefftk 3y ago
> What surprises me is the refineries didn't tell the light aviation industry they weren't going to make leaded gas anymore. You can just add lead to unleaded gas (which was legal until 1996 in the US), so even if you could c
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by jefftk 3y ago
It looks to me like any device with at least 300 horizontal CSS pixels can see your whole nav bar, which should be nearly everyone. On the other hand, hamburger menus typically have a lot more entries than this, enough that a horizontal men
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by jefftk 3y ago
People very occasionally retain earlier memories, especially of really strong experiences. Childhood amnesia isn't 100% consistent. It's also possible you were in a stroller despite being a bit older; this is something I see a lot
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A Post Mortem on the Gino Case(theorgplumber.com)
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by jefftk 3y ago
Are we still talking about Convoy?
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by jefftk 3y ago
Have you seen anything suggesting the employees are not getting their final paychecks? All I've seen is them not getting severance .
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by jefftk 3y ago
Your source is talking about unpaid wages (legally mandatory), but severance is additional (legally optional) payments the company chooses to make to support former employees.
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by jefftk 3y ago
If you look at this from a computers ("everything is discrete eventually") perspective, U(0,1) is less random than U(0,1000) because U(0,1000) != 1000 U(0,1). For example, if you're using a fixed-point encoding that allocate
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by jefftk 3y ago
> only about 50 companies met that expectation out of the 4,000 or so that went through their program. That’s 1.25% ... All those 4,000 kids who went into YC also thought they were visionaries, and where are they now? They’re all in the
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by jefftk 3y ago
A related option to allow entry based on a code, if you don't want to replace your lock, is to put a combination key lock box (sometimes called a "realtor box") somewhere near the door. We have one of these and have been ver
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by jefftk 3y ago
If we're assuming unforgeable moral-method pins I don't think we should expect intuitions generated in this sort of thought experiment to be a good guide to what we should actually think or do.
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by jefftk 3y ago
How does the utilitarian know this? Any morality needs to take into account our uncertainty about claims other people make.
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I don't see why the utilitarian should trust a mugger's promises of secrecy or non-replicability though?
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by jefftk 3y ago
Good point, I phrased it poorly. Because of the effects of the specific action, I think an act utilitarian should still refuse to be mugged in this case. The policy I was describing is just a mental shortcut, a part of adapting morality to

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