kieselguhr_kid

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by kieselguhr_kid 2y ago
The Conversation is probably my favorite as well, but I always enjoyed Enemy of the State (1998) a lot. It has the same paranoid vibes as some of his work in the 70s, but with the subtlety replaced with sensational action. He was great in t
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
It strikes me as incurious to dismiss an entire field of thought because there were errors in a mathematical manuscript, especially when you clearly don't understand the fundamental concepts (I don't mean this as a dig. You just h
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
What you're getting at vis-a-vis highly skilled labor is known in Marxist economics as the labor reduction problem, and it's complicated (enough so that I wouldn't do it justice trying to elaborate the approaches in the time
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
It's a lot easier to argue against Marx than against Marxism, just as it's a lot easier to argue against Darwin than evolution. Marxism as a school of thought has evolved quite a bit since Marx, who any non-crank would admit was w
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
Marx discusses how skill (and factors like machinery, etc) factors into value in Capital vol 1. The idea isn't that any labor on any endeavor creates value at a constant rate across all individuals and all time.
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
Can you help us out by articulating what you think value is, and how it's derived?
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
Ok, everyone except the Poles then.
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
26 million Soviet citizens died saving them too, so by this weird argument shouldn't everyone in Europe leave NATO and embrace communism?
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
There's no such thing as neutral and you shouldn't treat any journalists as such. I don't know if their viewpoint is relevant here though; the question is about their ability to verify a factual assertion.
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
> In his introduction to an edition of Metamorphosis, the novelist Adam Thirlwell suggests that we have misunderstood Kafka much as Magarshack said we had misunderstood Chekhov, and that Kafka is much more playful than we have hitherto g
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
Without appropriate regulations you're just building more AirBNBs. A little less flippantly, just adopting this YIMBY line without thinking through regulating the market to ensure houses are for human habitation will not address the un
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
communist party of pugs
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
This reads more like yellow peril hyperbole than reasoned arguments. The CCP is deeply unpopular in the US, and most US institutions are engaged in a demonization campaign against China. TikTok is horrible and toxic. It should be banned, or
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
Neither China nor Russia strike me as the main forces eroding US democracy (or whatever passes for democracy here), and the interference goes both ways. The idea that TikTok could drive the erosion of democratic processes in the US strikes
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
Setting aside the far more malevolent impact of American power, China has no way to use my data to oppress me. The US does, and routinely uses social media data against its own citizens and people abroad.
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by kieselguhr_kid 3y ago
Someone help me understand why I should care more about the Chinese government having my data than my own. My own government actually has power over me.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Claiming that Allende was destroying democracy is totally ahistorical.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I'm not sure training these models on code and documentation will make that much of a difference. These models struggle significantly with subtlety, relevance, and correctness. It also doesn't have a theory of its own knowledge or
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Your last question hints at another question we also need to explore: do or will humans apply the same level of scrutiny to automatic outputs than they do to human ones? I find we tend to treat them as more authoritative. Are we more likely
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
When I was new, I saw one of my more experienced colleagues ask a few questions that together saved the company more than $1 mil each year. ChatGPT might be a threat to automate some low-level tasks or help eliminate bugs, but it is nowhere
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
This kind of thing is technically illegal, but happens all the time. We should definitely expect to see lots of tactics that are technically illegal as companies fight back against this unionization push. But it does mean giving up direct c
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I'm a nonexpert and don't have time to develop expertise, even lay expertise, in this field. What I want to see before I get excited about fusion iss a practical application of the technology. I'd like to see it power somethi
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Have you worked with a reputable outside auditor? You don't just provide numbers and illustrate your methodology for obtaining them, you have to essentially reconstruct your entire revenue and finance system with them, provide ongoing
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Some version of this would make sense to me.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
The idea behind the lack of regulation is that the impact is contained to the investors. It's obvious that in sufficiently large cases, that's not true. If these actors are able to do damage to entire sectors, they should have to
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Yes, but the total lack of corporate governance that contributed to it is totally legal, and could have possibly prevented the fraud and theft.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
There are likely other charges that they could face. I don't think this rises to the level of embezzlement (although IANAL), but the missing customer deposits, lack of strict segregation between Alameda and FTX, and the use of company
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I don't know if it will happen, but a potentially good outcome here would be some regulation on the business practices of sufficiently large private companies in order to ensure they meet some basic level of corporate governance. Maybe
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
If you aren't born rich, breaking out of the working class, even the top tier of it, requires significant effort and enormous luck. It's usually time and effort wasted in pursuit of something no one should want. However, if you dr
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Before I had kids, whenever I was tired at work, someone would say "you think that's bad? Wait til you have kids." I would roll my eyes and assume it was either hyperbole or that it was a mildly more intense version of what I

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