not_wyoming

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by not_wyoming 1mo ago
I don't think this is a difficult question. The US has a history of civil product liability cases - see tobacco companies (Philip Morris), the Ford Pinto, the recent Meta cases, and the cases against character.ai. From Investopedia [1]
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by not_wyoming 1mo ago
Even better!
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by not_wyoming 1mo ago
I agree. Software engineers are approaching a level of societal impact that it would be appropriate to start thinking about professional ethics systems similar to Canada's Iron Ring ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
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by not_wyoming 1mo ago
My original comment was more about the quality of discourse in this thread being...somewhat lacking. I'd hope that an ethics course would at least equip CS grads to have a more substantive debate about these sorts of topics. I agree th
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by not_wyoming 1mo ago
Interesting. I don't know. Do you have specific sources you're thinking of?
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by not_wyoming 1mo ago
> My university had over 4 for the cyber students What program? Or if you'd rather stay anonymous, can you share the curriculum somehow? I'm very curious about what a CS program of study looks like with that many ethics courses
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by not_wyoming 1mo ago
This entire thread is such a strong case for why all undergrad CS programs should have a core requirement of at least one ethics course.
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by not_wyoming 5mo ago
I actually did this - I plugged The Verge article into Claude and got the following critique of what biases are there: > The article accurately cites real Gallup data but selectively omits findings that complicate its "backlash&quot
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by not_wyoming 5mo ago
> The cool thing about the current generation of AI tools is how easy it is to uncover bias or an agenda in an article like this. This is only true if you assume that an AI tool is itself unbiased. I'm not sure how anyone can earnes
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by not_wyoming 5mo ago
To my mind, "if we don't say this is dangerously powerful, we will not be able to hire the talent we need to build this product" is the supply-side version of "if we do say this is dangerously powerful, it will make
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by not_wyoming 9mo ago
The "natural cycle" argument is one of the most common points around climate change denial. It's also one of the most commonly debunked. See the following: UN - https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story
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by not_wyoming 1y ago
Path ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(social_network) was ten years too early.
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by not_wyoming 1y ago
That would mean poaching lol
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by not_wyoming 1y ago
Um, what ? Baking has been a major hobby for 15 years. I know the dangers of raw egg and flour but licking the bowl/beaters/spoons is still a major highlight of many of my recipes. And, of course, there's always raw cookie d
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
Relatedly, I've read a couple of neat articles on using mine shafts as gravity batteries: https://bigthink.com/the-future/coal-mines-gravity-battery-e... Major footnote here that I'm wayyyy out of my wheelh
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
Are you contending that's what happened here? This is not a leading question, I genuinely do not know and am trying to learn more.
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
/r/angryupvote :)
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
In the US, reporting true things is literally never considered slander [0][1][2]. The legal system has recognized truth as a wholly adequate defense to claims of defamation (which includes slander) dating back to 1734 [3] - before the Const
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
Retirement
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
This line of questioning is often brought up in response to pay gap conversations. Universal trends do not explain individual data points, but in general, studies do seem to indicate that pay gaps are real. https://www.epi.org&#x
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
Juiciest update I’ve ever gotten to share: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/technology/google-antitru...
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
The air travel industry has also seen some of the most significant government regulation in the form of blocking mergers (ie monopolistic, anticompetitive behavior) - meaning that competition in the airline space is due to regulation, not f
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
It would certainly be strange if I were concerned.
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
> Monopolies are entirely consistent with free market economics. This is a fair critique. I'm approaching this from an admittedly American perspective in which "free market" colloquially implies competition - but I recogni
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
If you check citations, you'd find the sentence preceding my excerpt on barriers to entry: "Because barriers to entry protect incumbent firms and restrict competition in a market, they can contribute to distortionary prices and ar
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
Still 15 minutes fixing something that wasn't broken instead of generating revenue or cutting costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edit - and another 10 defending the decision on HackerNews forums
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
> Small businesses somehow are more inventivized to do this than institutional investors? Because the margins are not sufficient to attract the large businesses? Yes. When Joe is buying a couple homes, he doesn't have to pay for HR,
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
> There is nothing preventing search companies paying the same $60 Million to license content. Yes, actually, there is - having $60m to throw around. "Barriers to entry often cause or aid the existence of monopolies and oligopolies&
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
> Institutional housing ownership in the US is not a material contributor to housing price inflation This statement and citation fail to account for the impact of AirBnB and other STR market-makers on the housing market. I strongly suspe
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by not_wyoming 2y ago
> we're a civic tech lab Obviously not the point of your post, but say more? This sounds like it could be pretty cool!

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