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by lisasays 3y ago
Okay then - I agree with you that wording in the article seems rather shifty on this point. Like the way they start off in the title using neutral language, but then throughout the article they do seem to be spinning in such a way that it
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by lisasays 3y ago
Yet the tech to do that didn't exist at the time. Right. Long and short of it is, even though a lot of people were talking about "bots" at the time, they weren't really thinking too much about what that meant, technic
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by lisasays 3y ago
https://archive.ph/oYpP6
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by lisasays 3y ago
Yeah it was late, sorry. If you don't mind: which comment are you referring to? (Seems we have a different top by now).
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by lisasays 3y ago
This being of course exactly the mindset the current mainstream interview process was designed to create. As a feature, not a bug.
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by lisasays 3y ago
Ironically, this line of critique is itself ... a misinformation play of sorts: Where were they when US media was waging an industrial-scale misinformation campaign about non-existent Russian AI bots on Twitter? The ones who were supposedl
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by lisasays 3y ago
https://archive.ph/Ji7IR Recent discussion of Google's PaLM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30908941
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by lisasays 3y ago
https://archive.md/rHvRT
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‘Everything is gone’: entire Indian villages burned in ethnic violence(theguardian.com)
35 points by lisasays 3y ago|29 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
A better way of putting it would be: NYC finance workers didn't have the backbone to resist RTO like SF tech workers did.
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by lisasays 3y ago
https://archive.md/LUcsa
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‘Panic’ in Parts of Occupied Ukraine Amid Russian Evacuation Orders(nytimes.com)
6 points by lisasays 3y ago|1 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Lemme give the paper a closer read + get back to you on this.
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by lisasays 3y ago
As cynical as we can count on these people to be - they're also smart enough to recognize that continually whoring themselves out to the highest bidder can, apart from undermining Stanford's integrity (which they obviously don&#x2
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by lisasays 3y ago
I actually find it very reassuring that we still have no fucking clue as to what's going on - even on such a basic level.
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by lisasays 3y ago
I'll save everyone a click: yes, this is a case of 'correlation != causation'. The authors (whose freshman stats classes were presumably as good as yours) were evidently well aware of this distinction - which is why they to
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by lisasays 3y ago
Good catch. I scanned for it but missed it.
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by lisasays 3y ago
If you have a doorman recognizing your face and letting you in vs a camera doing the same thing seems pretty much like the same thing to me So you're trusting your cheap-ass landlord to install an additional system layer reliably let
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by lisasays 3y ago
They'll just refuse to rent to anyone who doesn't agree to the data collection. Fortunately they won't "just" be allowed to do that. Tenant law is quite robust in NYC, and most likely such requirements (or even as
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by lisasays 3y ago
Indeed - what a crock of shit. And another reason not to trust GitLab.
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by lisasays 3y ago
https://archive.md/Qakjh
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by lisasays 3y ago
The state of the art in facial recognition technology has been superhumanly accurate That's SOA and in controlled circumstances you're talking about. Not real-life FR using cheap cameras, with bad lighting, against shitty lookup
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by lisasays 3y ago
No, it will lead to a saturation level (or S-curve). There are biological limits to potency - probably about the level of where we are now, in fact.
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by lisasays 3y ago
I think recreational cannabis users are well aware of potency. The general, non-using public I (and the commenter above) were talking about.
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by lisasays 3y ago
Original journal article (apparently not linked to in the Bloomberg piece): Association between cannabis use disorder and schizophrenia stronger in young males than in females (May 4 2023) https://www.cambridge.org/core&#x
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by lisasays 3y ago
What we have now isn't what we the general public aimed to legalize I don't think the general public knows (or cares) much about potency, actually. Also, they were plenty aware that legalization wouldn't stop a certain segm
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NYC considers facial recognition ban for businesses, landlords after MSG debacle(gothamist.com)
19 points by lisasays 3y ago|5 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
OK - so to what extent was this actually AI-generated?
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Landmark settlement expands dental coverage for New Yorkers with Medicaid(gothamist.com)
5 points by lisasays 3y ago|0 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Some BIPOC people have been socialized to care for the egos of White people, to express their emotions only in ways that are palatable to White audiences, and to tread lightly around “White fragility” (White people’s discomfort and defensi

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