jmcgough

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by jmcgough 7mo ago
Not sure he's "on the outs", he on Shopify's board. Sidekiq's solo dev (Mike Perham) has for many years made a generous donation to Ruby Central. He informed them that he didn't want his money to be spent platf
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by jmcgough 7mo ago
https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/ Read the above, but tl;dr is that Shopify executed a hostile takeover of Ruby Central for its own benefit, at the expense of long-term maintainers and the general commu
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by jmcgough 7mo ago
If you don't have a CS background, you might see intelligent-appearing responses to your queries and assume that this is actual intelligence. It's like a lifetime of Hollywood sci-fi has primed them for this type of thinking, I&#x
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by jmcgough 7mo ago
I thought it was the avocado toast that was keeping us from owning a house.
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by jmcgough 7mo ago
What's sad is how effective this is. Religious groups figured out a few years ago that anti-porn groups accomplish nothing, but if you start an anti-trafficking group you can restrict porn access.
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by jmcgough 7mo ago
LLMs are not "thinking" machines. The tech is not capable of that, as much as people want to think that reinforcement learning will lead to sentience.
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by jmcgough 7mo ago
Read this as "antiemetics" (anti-nausea meds like Zofran) and was very confused for a moment.
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by jmcgough 7mo ago
Okay, I've learned a bit more about this - the motivation is COPPA fines, which cost Youtube $170M in 2019, Epic Games $275M in 2022, etc. Meta is in the middle of a huge multi-state lawsuit (33 attorney generals), so they have a lot o
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by jmcgough 7mo ago
Arguably better for everyone. Too much focus on short-term profits can harm long-term growth.
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by jmcgough 7mo ago
I'm fairly skeptical of the findings, as the majority of the research and writing was done by Claude Opus. I'd be more likely to believe groups like AIPAC are behind this - they have poured a lot of money into online censorship le
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by jmcgough 7mo ago
I think Jesse Singal is an awful person, but Jay responded appropriately there.
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by jmcgough 7mo ago
So excited for this - have been dying to play it for at least a decade. Now if we can just get a fan translation of London Seirei Tanteidan (PS1 RPG set in victorian England).
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
These are all largely unrelated technologies; how would they help us upload consciousness? We can't even map the human brain with complete accuracy.
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
No one wins in a protracted war.
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
China has 4x our population and emits 1/3 less per capita. They've also been flat or falling for the last 21 months. US emissions rose by 2.4% last year. Furthermore, because carbon emissions stay trapped in the atmosphere for hun
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
The top three emissions sources are industry, electricity, and transportation. There have been important federal and state-wide attempts to address these, but Trump guts regulation every time he's in office. Chevron is dead, SCOTUS rep
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
Soon, we'll have millions of climate change refugees, battles over resources, regular once-in-a-century storms, more wars. We're close to the point where we'll be too busy thrashing to address the root cause.
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
Over the past century, the US has produced more cumulative carbon emissions than any other country, and it's not even close. China is in the middle of a massive expansion in wind, solar, and electric vehicles. The US is burning even mo
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
Ask this again in 40 years. The people we're losing are early career researchers, so this is really a generational loss of talent that we've created. Brain drains can become self-perpetuating once they start.
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
The US government is now more authoritarian than the Chinese government. Half of what you've been told is propaganda, like the "social credit score" story. In China they put people to death for corruption, here they just get
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
It's really not about this - it's that for decades we've been able to draw top global talent to the US. We've cut research funding so heavy that we can't even support post docs who are American citizens now. My frie
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
PE ratios will suddenly matter again when we get hit with the next recession.
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
Would be nice if we had a functioning legislative body that did more than pass a single "give billionaires more tax breaks" bill each term.
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
This is a problem with our science funding system. We really discourage pure research, so everything needs to be justified in terms of saving lives or helping to cure cancer. He'll make a good academic someday.
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
The bar is really low for patient behavior. Tbh I find anyone not screaming at me to be pleasant in comparison.
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
Nowhere in the article does it say that communities can't change. Communities are living, breathing organisms.
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
PACs and dark money have been a disaster for this country
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
AI comment, AI article, AI research. This feels like someone asked their AI assistant to do all of this as some kind of experiment.
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by jmcgough 8mo ago
I felt the same way reading the linked webpage. Reads like minimally edited LLM output, which makes me question how much effort was put into the research itself. Was the research all LLM too? How much of the paper was LLM?
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by jmcgough 9mo ago
I don't think a healthy society has anything close to our level of wealth concentration, but even if he's made mistakes, he's saved many millions of lives. Compare that to Elon Musk, who uses his Musk Foundation as a tax shel

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