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by miscPerson 6y ago
It could be a sustainability thing: If you butcher an animal, you have X lbs of meat now. Maybe you don’t need all of that immediately just to survive. If you only need Y < X to feed yourself, you can sell the excess and buy a new animal
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Traffic regularly goes above the speed limit without mass arrests — or any arrests at all.
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by miscPerson 6y ago
It’s not a false dichotomy — it’s pointing out a differing standard in conduct based on race, which is racism. It’s also pointing out that the fundamental choice in what’s acceptable or not is dumb: someone who made a mistake while young an
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by miscPerson 6y ago
A repentant CEO is gone, but unrepentant gangsters are still celebrities. Social justice!
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by miscPerson 6y ago
For a $1B endowment, Mr Musk could fund 20 seed rounds a year — personally. Mr Musk won’t put 2.5% of his money where his mouth is. If he genuinely thought there was a problem to fix, he’d fund a demonstration of the solution. The US govern
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Where do you intend to shop that treats their warehouse staff better?
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by miscPerson 6y ago
The CDC says we’re slightly under expected deaths in the US, including COVID cases. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Okay — but is the AI overconfident in choices more or less often than a human?
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by miscPerson 6y ago
I’m genuinely unsure what point you’re trying to make. Can you explain what a made up quote has in common with repeating a quote from the CEO of a famously data driven company on problems with data models?
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by miscPerson 6y ago
“The thing I have noticed is that when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There is something wrong with the way that you are measuring it.” — Jeff Bezos Trusting your eyes over people with replication rate
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Who would you suggest online shopping from instead — perhaps that treats their employees better?
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Not just because manager quality can’t be guaranteed, but because when you have 10,000+ employees, the odds that some are fired and subsequently make a false discrimination claim are high — and you need a lot to deal with that. Look at how
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Your comment comes across as partisan, rather than factual. As an example, major news networks blatantly lied about the Covington kid because it fit their ideology. Major news networks are untrustworthy, you just happen to support the nar
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by miscPerson 6y ago
In fact, that’s the argument for capitalism: All of these systems suck, so let’s favor people who can lead voluntary large tribes over the politically connected, such as the politburo.
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by miscPerson 6y ago
I only really know about the company-sci touching parts, but — Mathematics didn’t have a strong notion of proof until the late 1800s/early 1900s. Contradictory “proofs” in calculus created a need for a more rigorous system of reasoning
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Someone can reasonably be called an artist if, having listened to thousands of hours of music and training to replicate it, can create a new piece using a request from a patron — “make me a song that reminds me of my youth in Saxony” or wha
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by miscPerson 6y ago
That would be fine, if it offered once. VS Code pops up three notification windows every time I open a .py despite me having closed them literally hundreds of times now. Apparently it’s smarter than me, and just knows I need its plugins and
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Amazon isn’t taking over the global economy. For instance, in retail, Walmart does substantially more business — via brick and mortar stores — and is rapidly growing online.
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by miscPerson 6y ago
This is what keeps me going to physical stores for certain goods: they’re liable for counterfeits.
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by miscPerson 6y ago
What if you send back modified terms? “@Disney #MayThe4th This tweet enters into Disney’s offered contract, except that Disney agrees to pay $100,000 for the license to optionally publish this Tweet and to include it in Tweet analysis corpu
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Why is anyone surprised? Quarantine is harmful, and only useful if we’re preventing something worse. That’s probably the case, broadly — but the policies in other countries raise questions about US policies. This is compounded by the arbitr
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Would you mind elaborating just a little? This sounds like an interesting idea.
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by miscPerson 6y ago
You’re viewing people as defined by their membership in a race, which is a deeply racist worldview. Let’s judge people on the content of their character and not color of their skin: Why should a poor Asian student from a troubled neighborho
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Just because a robot can do the same job doesn’t make an activity dehumanizing - you seem to merely be justifying a negative view. You’re also ignoring that the point of pointing and calling is precisely to keep you from responding robotica
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Why would safely and efficiently performing your job be dehumanizing? I legitimately don’t see how it’s more dehumanizing than say, speech guidelines at retail or standards for how to use a tool in construction. I pointed and called in a da
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by miscPerson 6y ago
I’m curious, what is that context? ...why is it “problematic” for an underrepresented group (such as in Harvard admissions), to rally around a claim it’s okay to be them? Have you ever considered that if you need to do a lot of explaining,
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Copenhagen requires an extraneous assumption — which may turn out to have practical implications. At the very least, we know it isn’t parsimonious, though that wasn’t clear until after it was developed (and the philosophical inclination to
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Potential infinities are just saying, you don’t have an infinity in your hand — you just have a recipe for arbitrarily large numbers (or arbitrary accuracy on real numbers, etc). Eg, the “natural numbers” are a recipe to make as many as you
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by miscPerson 6y ago
It’s also very carefully worded. > More than 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies run Microsoft Azure. For example, I worked at a large media company and we had a couple Azure services spun up related to our email service. But the bulk wa
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by miscPerson 6y ago
As someone who also works on physics models in their spare time — the computational hurdles are real. Best of luck!

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