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by jsrozner 2mo ago
In times of substantial technological change, laws tend to lag substantially behind what is actually needed. And in times of substantial inequality, they lag yet further.
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
First definition of ambition in merriam webster is "an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power." Ambition is basically definitionally antisocial. A desire to accumulate power is tantamount to a desire to accumulate wealth. Most way
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
This is the inevitable result of wealth concentration. The wealthy will spend their money buying up whatever resources they want. Today, most things are for sale, and they're all fungible. Solving this problem in any durable fashion re
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
Is the misspelling of "reel" -> "real" in the first sentence a sign that this was written by a human or a trick to make me think it was written by a human? I think it is the former.
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
Most laws are designed to accomplish specific objectives. For example, there might be laws about whether you can collect certain kinds of data, for the sake of privacy or protecting some attribute. As technology improves, however, it may be
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
For the most part, any time one person in the economy saves money, another person loses money. So, what about all the insurance company, private equity, and hospital system profits that would be eroded by a system that better serves individ
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
Sure the same flight number can sometimes be used on distinct flights (especially when one plane completes multiple segments successively), but the flights should generally not be operating simultaneously, and definitely not in the same loc
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
This seems decidedly like something AA's flight database should catch and prevent. Has AA been vibe coding or is this just an edge case that had never been tested before?
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Planes With Same Call Sign at PHX – one departing, one arriving(nytimes.com)
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
The funny thing about imprecision (e.g., in poetry) is that it allows for varying downstream interpretations. I wonder if there's some pressure to use "poetic" language so that the model does not overly commit itself to somet
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
You can imagine that as people get used to working with Claude, they defer to its judgement. So the people choosing which RL path is better may say "yes, Claude, that was a good refactor!" because it did something hard that it may
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
I agree, and yet it is reasonable to ask if these notions of "context" (sorry!) - namely feelings, external world, body, senses, etc - are somehow distinct from an LLM's notions of context. Today they certainly capture diffe
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
"She says a more beneficial approach for consumers would be highly detailed disclosures during the sign-up process that lay out what’s going to be stored in your 'permanent record' and how that data will be used to make speci
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
Highly anti social people (flock executives, mark zuckerberg, other surveillance capitalists, etc.) should simply be expelled from society to a separate island to fight each other for scarce resources.
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
Yeah...so I'm having difficulty conceptualizing your result. If you were publishing this I feel like it would be an important distinction to make. Are the goals different, or should the original paper have done something more similar t
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
The original MRL paper ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.13147 ) reported an SVD baseline, which showed comparable performance (Table 1, top-1 accuracy) at d>=256, but much degraded performance at lower dims (d \in {8,32,6
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
As a thought experiment: In-person testing or oral defense approaches work until we get implants. If people have implants, what then? Demand that the implant be turned off? Demand that the implant's data connection be turned off? In t
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
I'm sympathetic to the idea: we should have an open, publicly queryable citation graph. Google scholar could very easily offer this at marginal cost near zero, but they won't.
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
Idk if we're automating humans out of the publishing loop as much as rapidly automating the production of crap. I had a very similar experience reviewing for EMNLP recently. We are nowhere near AI being able to judge the quality of res
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
Things come to be only when the people with MONEY demand them. If you have no money your demand doesn't exist. A society this unequal serves only the rich (whether that's people or companies).
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
i don't understand why this was downvoted
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
Hypocrisy is the name of the game in SillyCon valley. Push YouTube autoplay slop on kids globally, but no ipads for children of the tech elite. Computer-based instruction for public schools, but 2:1 teacher:student ratios in the local priva
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
Does this still work on new chrome versions?
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
"I like being manipulated by people who want to extract maximal value from me"
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
Cookie banners are just a kind of ad. If you're at the site, the demand you have for the content on the site is probably close to inelastic (especially on services websites). The site exploits its effective monopoly on the content to r
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by jsrozner 2mo ago
This. No cookies should be cross-site visible, ever, unless I explicitly choose for them to be.
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by jsrozner 3mo ago
I realize it might have come across like I was advocating something akin to nihilism, or as you put, "might makes right." It's the opposite. I'm saying that so far, caring about ethics--especially over the past couple de
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by jsrozner 3mo ago
Right, but even careful reading cannot validate the experimental setup.
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by jsrozner 3mo ago
I'm tongue-in-cheek asking how/if AI is going to find the advances that lead to exponential improvements in transportation
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by jsrozner 3mo ago
Right I'm definitely not advocating that one should adhere to the values of the winners of the last 20-40 years. I'm saying that if you're winning today (as measured in money/power), then by most objective notions of mor

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