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by nickff 2y ago
The problem is that this seems like DAAS (deception as a service), possibly even fraud.
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by nickff 2y ago
I think it’s more that some people are excited by the prospects of further progress in this area, and are afraid that cases like this will stunt the progress (if successful).
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by nickff 2y ago
> "And LLMs are the only way to deliver the product, unless you dial it back to one or two hand-crafted characters instead of the wide range of available characters that give the service its name. I'm not sure they can change t
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by nickff 2y ago
I think the suggestion of violence is actually on page 31 (paragraph 103), though it's not a directive. It does seem a bit wild to me that companies are betting their existence on relatively unpredictable algorithms, and I don't t
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by nickff 2y ago
Why is the burden of proof on me? You’re the one justifying a murder! Also, I wouldn’t have to prove than increasing healthcare spending to 100% of GDP would be optimal, just proving that there is some incremental gain by spending a tiny bi
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by nickff 2y ago
This analogy is already a stretch (I didn’t come up with it, was just responding to someone else), and you’re torturing it beyond reason.
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by nickff 2y ago
How can you simultaneously contend that United’s denials of coverage are responsible for killing people, and also contend that increasing healthcare spending wouldn’t save people?
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by nickff 2y ago
What if the lifeboat skipper picks up many people, but decides that picking up more would endanger the lifeboat itself? Asimov’s rules don’t work; that’s the whole point.
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by nickff 2y ago
Every healthcare system (even single-payer) denies some care to some people; they do this because of limited resources, fraud risk, etc. Do government healthcare ministers and other administrators responsible for single-payer systems deserv
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by nickff 2y ago
You think this CEO had more 'mens rea' than a city police chief (or the other examples I listed)? The police chief is literally responsible for purchasing guns, distributing them to officers, and telling the latter to use the form
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by nickff 2y ago
If your definition of responsibility is so broad, wouldn't every Head of Government for every country be deserving of assassination? Even more broadly, every police chief in every large city, along with all military officers, most mayo
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by nickff 2y ago
This phrase: "responsible for so many deaths" is doing a lot of work in your post. What is your theory of responsibility? Is it legal or ethical, and if it is the latter (as I would suspect), what framework and criteria is it eval
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by nickff 2y ago
It seems that it's not as clear to me, so could you please explain how one should evaluate those criteria?
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by nickff 2y ago
That may be true; what are you basing this view on? How do you evaluate those three criteria?
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by nickff 2y ago
If there is to be some control on healthcare spending, and/or policing of fraud, someone must approve and decline payment for services. This is the function currently fulfilled by the insurance companies. You can eliminate the companie
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by nickff 2y ago
Example of rationing in Canada (posting because I saw the article yesterday): https://ca.news.yahoo.com/halifax-woman-waited-3-years-10000...
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by nickff 2y ago
> "In 2022, the British government spent £3.5k ($4.4k) per person per year on healthcare. The US spent $13k per person per year in 2022, of which $6.2k was government (national+state+local)[2]. The UK government spends less per pers
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by nickff 2y ago
There could be an incentive to produce even more 'terrible books' with a shorter or more expensive copyright window.
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by nickff 2y ago
How is this a coup? It doesn't seem to fall under Wikipedia or any other definition I can find. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat#:~:text=A%2... . Do you consider Justin Trudeau's invocation of
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by nickff 2y ago
"Despite the name, it would not be a federal executive department, which would require an act of Congress to create, instead it will serve as an advisory body operating outside of government. According to CBS News, it may operate under
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by nickff 2y ago
Braking is usually much quicker than accelerating, for almost all vehicles (because brakes can absorb much more energy than engines can output). For this reason, I suspect most particulates are caused by breaking.
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by nickff 2y ago
I am not a die-hard supporter of IP protection laws, but your examples are classic survivorship bias, as well as falling victim to the broken windows fallacy.
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by nickff 2y ago
I agree that Google has a lot of inertia in both search and search advertising. That still doesn’t answer why there aren’t more well-capitalized companies trying to win the search market. I suspect (but am not sure that) the answer is the m
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by nickff 2y ago
How is search a network effects business? It seems to me that each additional user would contribute less than the previous one, as opposed to Metcalfe's law (where each additional user adds more value than the last). How would paying t
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by nickff 2y ago
I am not sure that web search is a monopolistic market, though it seems that Google is the dominant player. Google itself wasn't the first player, and managed to capture a large market share from established incumbents. Why do you thin
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by nickff 2y ago
It seems like high-quality search is a very difficult task, largely due to their adversarial relationship with ‘spammers’. If someone else can do a better job, I’m sure their service will quickly capture the market.
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by nickff 2y ago
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 (and was responsible for many civilian deaths, including shooting down an airliner), if we count from then, it has taken the ICC a very long time indeed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In
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by nickff 2y ago
Not grandparent, but where are you getting 9? I get 16 from the Wiki: Tajikistan Turkmenistan Iran Uzbekistan Kazakhstan Armenia Kyrgyzstan Belarus China United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia North Korea Vietnam Azerbaijan Mongolia Turkmenistan
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by nickff 2y ago
They could, but such a withdrawal would be distinct from NATO membership.
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by nickff 2y ago
According to some at the DoJ, there are usually individuals liable for these sorts of violations: https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/826721/dl

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