landryraccoon

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by landryraccoon 3y ago
I agree, and I’m profoundly disappointed that people are celebrating the infliction of such misery on a younger generation. If the food in your fridge or the clothes in your closet were suddenly drastically more expensive and you could make
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
If your phone and your laptop were suddenly worth twice as much would you also be celebrating? I am struggling to find the right words to express how wrong your view is to me. Housing is a basic human need like food and clothing. How can yo
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
The suggested approach simply doesn’t work, because human calendars simply don’t work that way. If the state of Indiana decides this year to change when they set their clocks forward and back, and you stored your appointment datetime as a t
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
It’s not just a matter of trust. Locale specific datetimes in the future are simply not computable to a point on a number line in the general case. Some locales have date changes that must be determined by the local government every single
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
It’s preferable that the burden fall on the ISP than on the consumer imho. The ISP should be free to boldly call out on the billing statement that those fees are government mandated, if they choose to.
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
Agreed. As a kid I vividly remember waking up in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm thinking that it had finally happened, the Soviets must have launched and the world was ending. I can’t really feel that scared about killer robo
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
A 3 year old still takes 3 years to train. Even a state of the art image recognition model takes way less time than that.
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
> Don’t many/most state of the art models take many months to train on far more data than humans need for similar tasks? Humans generally need 18 years of pre training followed by 4-6 years of fine tuning before they can “one-shot”
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
If legality is stopping them then you have nothing to fear. They can’t legally hack your computer for visiting their public site either.
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
I just don’t get how the risk/reward works out in their favor. The uproar if their malfeasance is detected is far more than the value of any information they would gain. Wouldn’t it be far simpler and more direct for them to go to Goog
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
You don’t think that China and Russia are thoroughly analyzing everything posted on the CIA site?
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
Really? I would think the opposite. Anything posted on the CIA website will be thoroughly analyzed by state agencies that are well funded and well equipped to find shenanigans. If the CIA were really doing something to US citizens via somet
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
We’ve already been to space, so it has happened with current physics. I suppose the question is where do you want to go and how much luggage do you want to take with you?
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
That makes perfect sense to me. McDonalds obviously made the game in the hope that it will sell more hamburgers. If you buy a hamburger, their strategy worked, which means they (and other companies that are watching) have a reason to do sim
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
> A decade later, participation in elite circles like media, academia, and politics is based on how convincingly one can be seen to parrot obvious untruths, not because anyone believes them at all, but because it signals status to be ab
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
This technology has tremendous potential for good. It’s not all nefarious. People who are paralyzed or suffering from neurodegenerative diseases might have a chance of regaining independence. New treatments for mental health diseases could
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
Good food I can see as a luxury. How is exercise a luxury though? It seems like going for a walk or a run is available to almost everyone. If anything it seems like those on the lower income level would be forced to be outside doing physica
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I still don’t get it. If MRIs lead to unnecessary biopsies, then don’t do the biopsy. What exactly does the data show? If doing a test leads to an unnecessary biopsy, how can it be the test’s fault? Tests aren’t moral agents. The MRI machin
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
This is a really weird claim to me. It can’t be about the MRI itself, it must be about the surrounding politics or legal environment. How can it ever be bad to have more objective data? Having a test result to ignore is still strictly bette
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
> the "personhood" of what people generally find to be implausible bullshit generators If this was the dividing line for personhood, many human beings wouldn't qualify as people.
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
So I need to ask the obvious question, why does it make sense to play this game “to win”? Throughout human history, humans have been making up shibboleths to distinguish the in group from the out group. You can use skin color, linguistic ac
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
That part of the movie actually makes perfect sense to me. In the real world, the vast majority of people are quick to misinterpret scientific findings to reinforce their own biases. Gattaca is the story of a world where the "Others&qu
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
> You really think in <10 years We have no idea how AI models will be in 10 years. At the speed the industry is moving is true AGI possible in 10 years? I think it would be beyond arrogant to rule out that possibility. I would think t
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I assume this is because they bundle their streaming service with Amazon Prime? I use it maybe once a year compared to considerably more often for Netflix.
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
I can't disagree more with this take. The benefits and salaries that Twitter employees get are just the free market at work. Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple don't pay big bucks and give huge perks because they're liberal,
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
> (homicides are up like 60% compared to the pre-BLM days). Where are you getting this statistic? A quick google search doesn’t show any such surge in the murder rate in the United States. 60% is a very large increase. I would expect thi
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
That argument doesn’t make sense to me. If someone has acknowledged that they will cheat when there are NO stakes, why does that make it less likely they will cheat if something is on the line? If anything someone who is already known to ch
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
You don’t have the Byzantine generals problem with a centralized database. Whatever the database says is authoritative.
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
Couldn’t that have been done equally well with a centralized ledger? Lots of games have “high stakes pvp”, such as eve online. They don’t have a blockchain, and yet you can still steal stuff permanently from other players if that’s how you
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by landryraccoon 4y ago
Is the argument then that scans are intrinsically error prone, as in the noise level is so high that even a team of highly trained radiologists can’t accurately determine if cancer is present from a scan?

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