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by mcphage 2mo ago
Interview 1,000 people about: 1. Are you a cat person or a dog person? 2. How do you feel about AI agents? And then determine which answers have a higher correlation.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
Is he? He comes across as an overbearing, bossy boor. Do you have to be the right kind of person to find him funny or something?
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> It should be globally a standard check to verify incoming documents and to determine their validity. Part of that process is bringing in expert witnesses and I don't think ChatGPT qualifies.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
Not even a gorillion
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> Medicaid expansion was a big part of the ACA. Well see, first you narrowly define the ACA to be "everything that didn't help"...
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by mcphage 2mo ago
1. Save the cheerleader, save the world. 2. We clearly did not save the world. 3. Ergo, we did not save the cheerleader. It’s Modus Tollens, and this just plain sucks. She was a great actress.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> How about acknowledgement that there was a reason these people got elected and the addressing of grievances that brought that about. How about acknowledgement of the tremendous damage that their decision made and addressing the grievan
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by mcphage 2mo ago
I don’t either, but he does.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
Ah, okay, then that makes sense. Thanks :-)
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by mcphage 2mo ago
I get that, but if this was actually a chance to beat him, wouldn’t that have been better?
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> All of the major parties except for Reform withdrew their candidates in protest of Farage. This doesn't make sense. If they wanted to protest Farage, wouldn't they be better off running a serious candidate against him?
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> to become competitive in the space. In the rocket ship space?
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> What constitutes a "meaningful" difference? Well, replacing the sun with the moon constitutes a meaningful difference. Let’s start there and work our way down.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> You can do horrifying and amazing things with Excel. Samsung’s Austin fab, at least circa 2020-ish, was generating machine labels with it. Generating machine labels seems useful, but I don't think that feels particularly horrifyin
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> insisting, among other things, that it double- and triple-check all citations and references to make sure not only that the referenced papers existed but also that they actually said what the paper Claude wrote claimed they said So you
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> AI has gotten so good, people are trying to pass AI work off as “100% human-powered.” I’m not sure the company in this article qualifies—it seemed immediately obvious that it wasn’t real.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
Just to share, from that list, this one is a classic: https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mi...
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by mcphage 2mo ago
You’re probably right. The nazis, if given the opportunity to use this technology to root out dissidents, would probably just say “no thanks, we’re already so good at killing, we don’t need to bother with this new technology.”
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by mcphage 2mo ago
Yep, that is what every collaborator tells themselves to justify their actions. “Oh, it’s not like I made any difference, they were already going to kill all those people.”
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> It's a shame that today's "technologists" are eager to ignore the political axis of technology if it means they get to talk about ESP or Von Neumann machines. It's like I'm watching the field progress in r
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> It's not nazis with brain scanners. Why not? Where do you suppose the nazis would go, once they got ahold of some brain scanners?
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> Their argument against BCI is that it will be used in government-mandated purity tests to forcibly rally their subjects. But that's a political objective Then why did you start this thread by complaining that technologists ignore
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> It's a shame that today's "technologists" are eager to ignore the political axis of technology if it means they get to talk about ESP Your comment reads to me like a criticism of lesswrong, but the linked article is
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> nobody wants books anymore I don't really think that's true.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
There are non-destructive automated scanners.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> Well, and the Apple Car. How is the Apple Car a stain on his legacy? They worked on something, and decided not to do it. Who cares? Apple’s management of the App Store has ruined mobile apps. Nobody gives a shit about the car.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> Yet, lo and behold, we survived! This is called survivorship bias. Sure, we survived—but that’s because you’re not including all of the bored people who died of reading instruction labels.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> The only thing Fable was given was a clean of copy of the Ancient Greek. …and all of its training data.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> I'm sure there's a plaintext essay that can explain this just as well if the RCT style was distracting. Not distracting, just felt like a missed opportunity. A factory simulation that you could watch the different ingredients
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by mcphage 2mo ago
It's neat, but I'm not entirely sure what the animations contribute. What's neat about games like RollerCoaster Tycoon is watching this entire map full of things happening without needing to be controlled, but this doesn&#x2

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