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by netcan 5y ago
Possibly, but this is a DeepMind result. They've had enough non trivial successes to earn some credibility. Even if it is hype, more understandable than most overhyped PR headlines.
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by netcan 5y ago
Well... DeepMind is focused on very abstract research and publication. There aren't many projects of this scale operating with these goals. Waymo's goals, for example, probably focus less on abstract research and publication. They
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by netcan 5y ago
Swings, maybe. There's room for forecasting at larger or smaller intervals, even if swings are unforecastable. That said, I don't think most big financial events are black swan events in some sense but not others. Financial black
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by netcan 5y ago
Careful, dragons be there. Day trading securities is a smaller problem than macroeconomic forecasting, probably... but down this path lies Asimov's psychohistory. It's basically forecasting history.
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by netcan 5y ago
>>The difficulty of objective fact-checking doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. To use that logic, we should also not have judges or a legal system. The limitations of objective fact-checking means we need to understand where w
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by netcan 5y ago
>> what's needed is teaching people good epistemological hygiene. What's needed of who? I agree that epistemological hygiene is good, but how is FB supposed to tackle this. Even the education system may have trouble, and eve
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by netcan 5y ago
> the writer conflates a bunch of things - they wants the algorithms to be open, transparent and opt-in. While that would be nice, I don’t think that’s required to eliminate misinformation (nor will it solve it) "Required" migh
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by netcan 5y ago
Albert Einstein wasn't alone. He was engaged with a scientific community, through papers, publications and such. He used maths developed by others. The scientific method actually calls for multiple people, even if only for objective PO
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by netcan 5y ago
..ran around explaining how everything could be understood as transaction costs at work, in much the same way neoclassicals thought their marginal price dynamics explained everything. oops
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by netcan 5y ago
More revenue, yes. That was my point. Revenue rises, and everything else grows with it regardless of need. Whether or not the marginal junior data scientist is a net win for the company.... I suspect not at a company like FB. Efficiency is
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by netcan 5y ago
I'm not sure that I understand the point correctly, but if I do... One of the point Dawkins' used his original meme concept to demonstrate is that a meme may not be beneficial to the person or culture carrying it. The meme just
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by netcan 5y ago
Good point, but is " supply chain optimization to ensure that computers get to their datacenters fast " a task that is not required at 2012 FB-scale, or is it an optimisation that FB just didn't have the scale for in 2012. Th
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by netcan 5y ago
It's a great little piece, commenting on both the hope and the worry in a single lark. We live in interesting times. The potential is huge, in both directions.
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by netcan 5y ago
I disagree... " 10 brand new things launched/acquired " is not a measurable quantity. You could tally up the employees that worked at these companies pre acquisition... but to total is a lot bigger. There's also the fa
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by netcan 5y ago
Possibly. I've had this conversation a few times and I find it mostly unresolveable. There's no useful measure of FB's efficiency, what 10X more FB means... so we can't externally measure the claim. Whether or not someon
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by netcan 5y ago
IMO, the (archeological) designation of "ceremonial" applies to all these. Distinctions between religion, politics, culture and such are often only visible once you are culturally fluent. Roman Temples tended to have all these rol
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by netcan 5y ago
>> what is new about what FB is doing currently? You'd find the same sort of answers at FB that you'd find at citibank. They have regulatory challenges, content moderation challenges. Corporate structure challenges left over
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by netcan 5y ago
I agree with you on amazon, but I think the author does have a point. Take FB as an example. FB have 60k employees, 12X the 2012 IPO number. It also costs 12X to run facebook today. They don't do that much more today than in 2012.
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by netcan 5y ago
Ronald Coase won the nobel prize in economics for his "transaction costs" solution to the "why do firms even exist" question. A lot of economics is about asking a question the right way. He started with "if markets
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by netcan 5y ago
It's interesting how much "ceremonial" buildings are important to architectural advancement. Pyramids, towers, temples, churches, cathedrals, palaces. It's a historical oddity, when factories, shipyards, skyscrapers and
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by netcan 5y ago
IDK... There's a strong strain of "cat-pictureiness" to the internet... always has been. Most of us indulge in it, in one sense or another. If people are christian, and they're in vapid cat picture mode... these sites mi
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by netcan 5y ago
Kind of agree, but I think it should be twitter, not FB. Twitter is inherently more "revolutionary" in aesthetics. Lots of politics, shrill arguments and such. It's also popular among journalists, politicians, and such. It re
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by netcan 5y ago
>Don't think the payload has anything to do with cultural issues. Careful getting stuck in a frame where only a single antipattern exists. First, profit and narrow political stuff is a pretty broad area. Second, religion or culture
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by netcan 5y ago
It's a little odd that the article focuses on "american" christianity. Don't these pages have global audiences? A lot of the "truth crisis" of online media relates to online media usage of the "invisible h
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by netcan 5y ago
Amazing. I want one.
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by netcan 5y ago
I totally agree about DMCA and internet-copyright, and the analogy to patents here. That said, IDK if AI-invented patents really pose a challenge. It might be a philosophical challenge to the idea of patents, but that doesn't necessari
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by netcan 5y ago
Bitcoin wanted to be the world's currency, with a techno goldbug understanding of what money is. That shades a lot of what we think of as crypto. There are a lot of different versions of the idea though. A lot of variety exists in cryp
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by netcan 5y ago
Intellectual property is a total mess. IP has tumbled, stumbled and bumbled to its current state by way of haphazard precedents and half assed legislation. To the extent that it's intentionally tweaked (designed is too strong a word),
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by netcan 5y ago
"Censorship" is part of a whole here, and it's not obvious what to call that whole. This is a complex of censorship, data gathering, personalization and such. A few months ago microsoft accidentally turned on some china setti
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by netcan 5y ago
Underrated comment. If you break down what most vendors and consultants do, in terms of either dollars or hours, you'll usually find that they mostly do sales, PR, client relationship, etc. Projects are designed and managed to make the

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