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by jsrozner 3mo ago
This piece fails to understand that, in general, ethics depends on what side you are on. In hindsight, the winner's notion of right and wrong usually dominates. If ethics mattered, the colonists wouldn't have taken America or slav
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by jsrozner 3mo ago
It looks like you can get ~10-20% efficiency gain from these kinds of wings. https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/11/18/175391/folding-w... That's a meaningful improvement but not that big. Perha
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by jsrozner 3mo ago
Meanwhile, what AI did to arxiv: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981206
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by jsrozner 3mo ago
If as a primary school student you had needed to reverify every fact /experiment that was presented in your textbooks, you would not have gotten very far. Trust is very important to human progress.
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by jsrozner 3mo ago
I reviewed for ACL (big NLP conf) and another similar conference recently. Lots of crap (though there always has been). One superficially well-written paper was likely AI-plagiarized (i.e. the AI sampled an idea from prior work and rewrote
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by jsrozner 3mo ago
Has anyone here actually looked at the Shai Ben David (SBD) result? I did a final grad project on it recently for a class on incompleteness. In my view it's not really that interesting. For learnability to be undecidable, the cardinali
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by jsrozner 3mo ago
Yes, it is very clearly AI written or substantially AI assisted. "Claude, write about Godel's incompleteness thms with respect to AI" And it's annoying that comments like yours get downvoted. Maybe HN should have a &quot
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by jsrozner 3mo ago
And then a million private equity, venture capitalists, management consultants, and other aspiring grifters cried out in terror. Hopefully they stay silenced.
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by jsrozner 3mo ago
You’re right and wrong: today’s economy is often negative sum from total utility perspective. It hurts society and the person but it helps Mark Suckerberg and Scam Altman and the private equity firms. It’s positive sum from a wealth-weighte
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by jsrozner 4mo ago
or, you know, lobbying and oligarchy. great at changing outcomes even when the folks agree.
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by jsrozner 4mo ago
Following the overturning of Roe v Wade, it is clear that the US needs privacy enshrined in the Constitution. For example, it is absurd to imagine a state government trying to distinguish between an abortion and a miscarriage in order to po
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by jsrozner 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/DqPNZ
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by jsrozner 4mo ago
> How can technology be used to make our society freer and more equal, and to augment human agency rather than diminish it? The past 20 years of surveillance capitalism and the general deployment of technology against consumers should
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by jsrozner 4mo ago
META should pay a 20B fine for this one.
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by jsrozner 4mo ago
This is absurd. You're just asking for reasonable control over data that ostensibly belongs to you. Moreover, this minimum functionality was resolved years ago with RSS. That you'd be willing to pay so much reflects how well every
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by jsrozner 4mo ago
By law, the English king could do what he pleased to. Somehow most folks still think the American Revolution was just.
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by jsrozner 4mo ago
Public transit and public places will continue to decline in cleanliness and quality for as long as the rich suck resources out of local municipalities. They do the same things with public schools (pulling educated teachers to teach in priv
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by jsrozner 4mo ago
This is not true. If a king has all the money, then whatever the king wants is what society builds. The use of resources by tech companies to build self-driving cars uses resources for things that might otherwise have gone to some other app
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by jsrozner 4mo ago
One of the authors of the linked article ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617 ) is a computer scientist not an economist. Just bc something is published in arxiv economics does not make it written by an economist.
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by jsrozner 4mo ago
I'll take "A waste of the world's resources for $200k, Alex" *600k, sorry
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by jsrozner 5mo ago
Stop thinking about taxes as a way to fund the government. Money in the long run can buy anything, including political influence. There are no regulations that can effectively preclude this. (And empirically, America over the past 40 years
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by jsrozner 5mo ago
Yeah maybe we should just stop doing that and invest in public transit infrastructure instead.
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by jsrozner 5mo ago
Rankings not all consistent: - private military 6 but defense 39; - surveillance tech 7, data brokers 9, but facial recognition 14, social media 17, advertising 34; - polluters 3 but coal 26, oil 30, mining 37; - scam 5 but clickb
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by jsrozner 5mo ago
By making jokes about the physiognomy, we encourage future applications of eugenics to avoid this unappealing one. This is the right choice as long as the market votes in favor of this post. There, I used Andreeson's ideas so you can u
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by jsrozner 5mo ago
I personally think this is stupid (e.g., the new interface for selecting functions). The interface on original 84 was better. I still have mine from 15 years ago. I still use it.
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by jsrozner 6mo ago
the US can't build bullet trains because they'd serve the average person and there's no money in serving the average person
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by jsrozner 6mo ago
"and i also wrote this using claude" -- can we just include that at this point?
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by jsrozner 7mo ago
Idk but the analogies in the piece strike as AI generated. I don't think the new yorker is using AI to write pieces, so maybe the author has just been ingesting too much slop
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by jsrozner 8mo ago
"full extent of the information...including any IP masking services" This suggests that Google aggregates derived information based on how a user uses Google (i.e. VPN info). The fact that derived info was also potentially pas
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by jsrozner 8mo ago
My entire point is that the failures you point out in public transportation are due at root to the wealth inequality: Wealth inequality produces a negative feedback loop that destroys public infrastructure. Rich people want their own meth

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