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by jmugan 4y ago
Is that what AmEx is for? I've always wondered in all honesty. I had a similar experience with non-AmEx. Got double billed by a hotel and the credit card company initially didn't have my back. I had to go back and forth with them
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by jmugan 4y ago
"Elite colleges are eliminating standardized tests before they eliminate legacy admissions. Tells you all you need to know."
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by jmugan 4y ago
There's supply and demand, but there's also cost and risk. I wonder if landlords have raised rents because they now more heavily weigh the possibility that the tenant might not pay.
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by jmugan 4y ago
Those boundaries are pretty stressful.
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by jmugan 4y ago
I'm no fan of Trump, but that clip with the Germans laughing is quite a time capsule.
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by jmugan 4y ago
I agree but worry that could derail this good legislation.
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by jmugan 4y ago
Not sure. I pay for GitHub just because I like it.
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by jmugan 4y ago
If they would turn off the advertisements and let me control my feed and notifications, it might pay. I'd be mad about it, but I might pay.
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by jmugan 4y ago
My understanding is that you can't "show and meet with" them unless you are already a significant donor.
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by jmugan 4y ago
Yeah, this is what I was looking for. In the past, Google searches have showed up with nothing. There wasn't a good way to hire someone for a small amount of work. Bookmarked!
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by jmugan 4y ago
Everybody talks like they have a lawyer just sitting outside on their patio and all they have to do is give them a couple hundred bucks to look over a document here and there. How does one find a lawyer that will work piecemeal like that?
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by jmugan 4y ago
Sorry, I meant to say that it hurts. That's the dynamics of the world I'm talking about.
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by jmugan 4y ago
Right. Those are tied via evolution to the dynamics of the physical world. We can simulate the physical world and learn from that, but there needs to be a there there. Language assumes the listener already has that understanding.
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by jmugan 4y ago
Language is a representation medium for the world, it isn't the world itself. When we talk, we only say what can't be inferred because we assume the listener has a basic understanding of the dynamics of the world (e.g., if I push
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by jmugan 4y ago
Sure, but what happens when you touch a hot stove?
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by jmugan 4y ago
I think we will see AGI. But for the AI to be robust, it has to interact with the world, even if it is a simulated one. We need to build an AI that knows what a toddler knows before we can build one that understands wikipedia.
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by jmugan 4y ago
The reinforcement learning was on giving the right answer, not on interacting with the world. But there is movement in the right direction with https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/12/rt-1-robotics-transformer-... and o
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by jmugan 4y ago
It's because ChatGPT's knowledge doesn't come through interaction with the world. Words mean things to us because they point to world interactions. I saw a demo where ChatGPT could create a VM. It could be trained to interact
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by jmugan 4y ago
Resort fees at hotels may not be the ultimate evil, but they're close.
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by jmugan 4y ago
Wouldn't that just continue to expand a bad practice? If drivers got tips, Amazon would lower their wages, and we'd just have another domain where we have to make extra decisions.
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by jmugan 4y ago
I'd had bad service lately at a lot of places that require tips.
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by jmugan 4y ago
I'd much rather pay one (higher) price than to have to negotiate an individual transaction with each person who works at the place.
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by jmugan 4y ago
They are both free market dynamics.
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by jmugan 4y ago
That is hilarious.
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by jmugan 4y ago
This all sounds good, but to me it highlights the downside of not enforcing laws. If you force people to hire private security, it's going to be hard to ensure that they are all nice and reasonable. Also, it's just a bad way to li
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by jmugan 4y ago
It starts out strong, identifying bullshitters on the left and right, but if Obama and Pinker are bullshitters, I'm not sure the label has much meaning. Which is a shame, because I too have been surprised at how little the truth seems
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by jmugan 4y ago
I don't know, I've had pretty bad service recently at places where you tip. I still top 20% out of guilt, but it might be that service in general is poorer now.
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by jmugan 4y ago
I was just thinking about that scene the other day as I had initially gone in to fix a small bug but ended up staying for a chain of fixes.
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by jmugan 4y ago
Out of Austin, Southwest is the only airline for many direct flights.
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by jmugan 4y ago
It's hot, but 115-degree summers is an exaggeration. The high is usually around 100 degrees (still too hot, of course). I do much prefer the weather in California.

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