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I've been writing for decades with the belief I was training a future AI and used to say that the Turing test wasn't mysterious at all because it was a solved problem in economics in the form of an indifference curve that showed
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ghost jobs are analogous to (the now illegal practice) of spoofing trades in equity markets, where they exist to manipulate the market to get an information edge about price and availability of the commodity (talent). even though I think it
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What we absolutely shouldn't be providing to insurers is tech that gives them an arbitrage over customers, whereby the risk asymmetry makes their product valueless. Even today most insurance is a scam to meet a "compliance" n
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as mentioned, it could influence the culture in a positive way.
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biodegradable office furniture should be more of a thing. open source furniture design for an office and having staff contribute to building it could influence the culture in a positive way.
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weird that this obscure story has been on my mind a lot lately as a way of describing the effects of depression. in the zeitgeist perhaps. The essential version of the story is quoted at the end: > There was a merchant in Baghdad who se
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I would seriously consider building my next startup using AT, but how does bluesky solve the problem of building your castle in another man's kingdom? if I do something controversial or using regulatory arbitrage, I'm interested i
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social media platforms are an arm of state. as much as i distrust this government and its motives, there is every reason to treat the company as a front for CCP policy. that said, banning their operations appears to remove any legal leverag
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it reads a bit like this prof learned welding to diminish the dignity of the men who do it for a living. It reminds me of that old Pulp lyric, "and when roaches climb the walls, you can call your dad and stop it all." where in thi
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funny and smart.
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It's actually an interesting exchange as from my perspective, the people who are worried about disinformation are what I would call totalitaritized, where the idea of many-truths and subjectivity is a proxy for there being no truth at
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it will be my emotional support flamethrower.
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they were the vox populi. a lot of it was garbage, but having a mental filter for it is what set a bar. humor is a more reliable signal for truth than official consensus any day. I think they captured something essential. while you are prob
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4chan, reddit, and HN because they were humanity's only honest repositories. linkedin might be useful as our species' first attempt to create a simulation and to generate a a set of things people in an economy do. we could probabl
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there's a plausible incentive where a generation of models gets trained up to provide what most people will want, and then destroying the "old" internet behind it to prevent things like regime-derailing memes to ever happen a
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the obvious consequence of electric vehicles is live configurable filters and patches for performance tuning. I want an ADSR for my accelerator in different modes. give me an EQ for acceleration and braking, along with a feedback cycle for
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what a relief it will be to be released from doing manual tasks for a living and to be able to finally engage every waking moment in an all against all struggle for power.
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most people in tech don't get what Excel is imo. start with the idea that it's a fully featured virtual machine that uses a different interface metaphor than a command line or windowing. it's useful to think of it as an abstr
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shame that these guys are just myths now. while I haven't read Sacks, the description reminds me of writers like plimpton, hemmingway, and thompson, who were the protagonists of their own stories and writing to capture an essence that
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thank you, they are of an era, but read something by W. Sommerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, Robertson Davies, P.G. Wodehouse, the economist and weekend FT newspaper columnists. add Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis, Stephen Fry, Julian Barnes,
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It's long for today's attention, but negotiation guides are fairly consistent maps of a territory. They teach you it is a way to relate and a perspective to start from. It's a way to protagonize yourself instead of competing
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it really does. I use a scythe for clearing high grass that I got from lee valley and hoped it would be a fun lawnmower alternative, but it was less satisfying than I had hoped. Maybe next season I'll get good at it, or buy a few more
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the opposite of psychological safety isn't being challenged or being chirped at or risking insult, it's the manipulative environments with a zero sum attrition games where everyone tries to align while the narratives shift. can&#x
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we talk about super-human intelligence a lot with AI, but it seems like a black box of things we can't imagine because they're also super-human. I don't think that's very smart, given we can already reason pretty well ab
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Original source: https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/41-billion-world-ban...
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The world bank used to just pay off autocrats under the guise of indebting their countries for "infrastructure," and for policy concessions to foreign extractive industries. Activists complained until they had control, and have cl
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After decades of liking his work, I learned one of his little preludes recently and now he's just freddy the disconsolate schmaltzmeister to me. the discovery seems too late, nobody is going to be that maudlin again.
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and yet...
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I was one of those security/privacy people in the 00's who declined to join facebook or do any of the social media stuff. Feels like it was the right call. Meta was the best possible company name for the social media machine, bec
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AI should have no rights at all. equivocating between programs and beings is not empathetic, it just shows profound contempt for actual beings. imo the main reason some people fear AI is they see their own spiritual void reflected by it. th

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