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by maeil 4y ago
For big companies, that on-prem solution is coming sooner rather than later. For small companies, plenty of them (likely the large majority) will be very willing to take the "risk" for the save in labour costs.
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by maeil 4y ago
Soon inference for big LLMs will be ran locally, without leaving any kind of logs which can't trivially be erased.
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by maeil 4y ago
> Deployed at scale for any kind of influence operation (advertising or otherwise) it is kind of terrifying to think about. Ironically this kind of influence operation may be the only realistic way to prevent earth from becoming uninhabi
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by maeil 4y ago
> humans will have to build entirely new technologies to replace the old World Wide Web, with real-world identity checks to enable access to it, and so on "Entirely new technologies"? In plenty of countries the exact world wide
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by maeil 4y ago
In the US, sure, but e.g. German courts may look at it differently.
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by maeil 4y ago
I definitely think your theory has merit, but it only applies in certain cases. Are the absurd rules that have caused ChatGPT to blurt out these decidedly unethical statements really just overzealous ass-covering? It seems more like they&#x
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by maeil 4y ago
I'd say they do. Look at the number of conservative groups that sprang up against Trump. I haven't heard of any left-leaning groups forming against the extreme end of the "culture war" that leans left, e.g. the one that
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by maeil 4y ago
Devil's Advocate - in 1954, South Korea was at least as poor as most of Sub-Saharan Africa, if not poorer.
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by maeil 4y ago
That's some bubble you live in, even in the US there's certain regions and industries where some of those words are almost encouraged (so much for "literally anywhere"), let alone the "Western world". Whatever
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by maeil 4y ago
Not sure how this is a compromise by any means as it still means abiding by some arbiter to decide who gets to be a country and who doesn't. Outsourcing the arbitration to the ISO doesn't make much of a difference.
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by maeil 4y ago
> France, Germany, Italy, etc know that if they voice concerns their exports will be subjected to “additional inspections” by the shameless CCP who acts with international impunity. Then so be it, let those inspections come. 1930's
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by maeil 4y ago
Taiwan is well-run. Norway does well, it's easy to point to their resource wealth but plenty of other countries have similar yet aren't run nearly as well.
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by maeil 4y ago
> But I don’t seek out sales people unless I desperately need what they have already. In case you don't because you prefer to do the research yourself, I'm sure that holds for the large majority of HN users, including me. But w
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by maeil 4y ago
I'd love to exchange thoughts with you on this. You've pretty much written down what I've been thinking for a while now and intend to do. If you're up for it I'll give you my email. > If I don't have any uni
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by maeil 4y ago
> If something has a low barrier to entry, like his idea, then it's absolutely 100% guaranteed that someone else has tried it Most founders of succesful businesses Ive met - especially ones who weren't absolutely outstanding ta
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by maeil 4y ago
Ironically enough one of the costliest lessons actually learned during the pandemic has been that The Lancet simply can't be trusted.
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by maeil 4y ago
> A doctor letting a patient dictate the course of assessment and determination of illness outside the "standards of care" is at best a potential waste of time and money, and at worst a malpractice claim waiting to happen (&quo
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by maeil 4y ago
Indeed, pretty much all such cases of individuals being prosecuted that I can think of are ones where the act is illegal regardless of it taking place as part of the company, i.e. not a concept that purely relates to corporations and has no
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by maeil 4y ago
It's rather simple. > Corporations are bound by fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit This can be thought of as a myth, at least in the way it's usually talked about in online discourse. Leaders have enormous leeway in in
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by maeil 4y ago
The Lancet is the most ironic example you could've named, given the enormity of the error they made in February 2020 publishing the Daszak letter. This act was the single biggest instigator of the exact issue you're talking about:
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by maeil 4y ago
Wikipedia says > The nicotine causes the receptors to release nitric oxide, which slows sensory inhibition causing a suppression of a subsequent stimuli It seems unlikely that nicotine is the only discovered substance that causes this ef
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by maeil 4y ago
What are you suggesting they would use such a central watchlist for? It's not like they're going to deny service to those who have "amazon" in their email address. And what kind of centralization are you talking about? S
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by maeil 4y ago
This factor is almost irrelevant (outside of the very long term which is impossible to predict) for several reasons. 2021 is an outlier with excess Covid deaths and also Covid restrictions (particularly strict in Korea) massively leading pe
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by maeil 4y ago
There are few measures by which Korea is still an emerging country and by many other measures it's more developed than many other OECD countries. The status of Korea 40 years ago doesn't change its current reality and how it co
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by maeil 4y ago
> morgage in SK is very very difficult to get - most people early in life not qualifying for one This is the same in the large majority of other wealthy countries. The difference is that in Korea the pressure for a newly married couple t
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by maeil 4y ago
> The opposite happens when real estate prices go down as they have been for the past 6-12 months. I'm really nitpicking here but overall they've barely gone down over that period. Certain types of real estate may have gone dow
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by maeil 4y ago
They're not though. Your comment says > people who are bad at it likely just aren't trying very hard. which rather ignores the differences in how people's brains work. The person you're replying to says they're d
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by maeil 4y ago
They never will be held responsible because the public does not support doing so. It only supports working inside the existing system of law, which has not and will not hold them accountable. Anything outside of this system is deemed morall
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by maeil 4y ago
And yet, thanks to the decisive victory of the lawful end of the morality axis, the only actions the public supports are those working within the system. There is no amount of (theoretical or not) fuck-up that warrants putting the fear of g
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by maeil 4y ago
Not a great example since this really is purely a Korean thing not seen elsewhere. Afaik Brazil had similar issues for very long but they've finally been fixed in the last few years (maybe a Brazil-based user can chime in).

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