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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Very substantial, to the extent that the dataset was made up. The original data obtained from the insurer showed no effect. The more interesting thing though is why he chose to investigate this question in the first place and why he chose t
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
If you read papers in the less reputable parts of science (public health, epidemiology...) you'll quickly notice citations going to papers that contradict the cited claim, or which are about something totally different, or that don&#x2
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Ariely tried to frame both his assistant and the insurance company he got the data from. The insurers provided the same data to a journalist who found there had been very substantial alterations made. The assistant showed that the Excel met
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Incentives that work are easy. Do research in corporate labs. That's all it takes. Now there is an incentive to do work that replicates (because it is intended to be used to build useful things), there are people responsible for detect
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It's not called fraud in climatology and yes it is how "science" functions. There are no universal standards in academia. Climatological norms involve heavy processing of thermometer readings to "clean" them in vari
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Who were these "populist politicians" exactly? I don't remember any of them ever talking about university research. It'd actually be great to have some politicians who ridicule frivolous academic research. It's not
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> where did you get the idea that you needed a TV license to stream, or do anything other than watch live TV? You're arguing with a straw man. I've never said you need to pay the license if you only watch Netflix. I've s
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
"Live TV" includes streamed live TV and "broadcast TV" is always considered to be licensable. You can avoid the license fee only if you watch exclusively internet streamers like Netflix which aren't TV channels. W
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Most of those authors are drive-by fixers. Go scroll through the commits list and look at the affiliations of those who are doing the regular work. But watch out, a few of them list OpenJS Foundation but actually work for Microsoft. The Chr
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
What can go wrong with a single VM? Billing explosions in the cloud are always to do with auto-scaling services that go wrong. Plus, in that case your alternative is fighting Microsoft, Google or Amazon.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
From the UK government website: https://www.gov.uk/find-licences/tv-licence "You need a TV Licence to watch or record programmes on a TV, computer or other device as they're broadcast, and to watch on-demand
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> if you don’t have to pay for it ... the BBC isn’t funded through taxes, the consumer has choice ... just don’t pay for it. watch something else ... vote with your feet like you can do with any other streaming service You keep talking
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
HTML is a bad replacement for a proper UI toolkit, that's the appeal. There are so many problems that good UI toolkits and languages solve that HTML just ignores and always will. But, Chrome gets a massive budget, web apps are easy to
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
License fee evasion is one of the top traffic sources in the British court system, the idea that it's done "on the honour system" is mendacious. There are people in prison right now for not paying it. The BBC is at its most f
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Foundations don't really do maintenance on products. Electron is maintained by a few people at Slack at one or two at Microsoft. Of course if you count the Chromium codebase then it is indeed "Google's framework" and the
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Virology poses a far greater threat to the world than AI(spectator.co.uk)
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> the BBC has never really had a sustained drop in content quality The article is about a Netflix sci-fi show. The BBC just point blank refuses to make those despite the enormous popularity of the genre; the history of BBC sci-fi is so
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FWIW that was a pretty strained relationship and iirc Eric had to frequently recuse himself during any discussion of the iPhone which eventually made his membership untenable.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Not necessarily! Facebook has done great with its unfireable CEO. The FB board would certainly have fired him several times over by now if it could, and yet they'd have been wrong every time. And the Google cofounders would certainly h
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Sure, what if the SEC did that. Except they didn't and we know this because they've very clearly refused to issue any decisions for a decade+ now.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
That guy is another AI doomer though, and those people all seem to be quite slippery themselves. Supposedly Sam lied to him about other people, but there's no further detail provided and nobody seems willing to get concrete about any t
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
These same companies are noticeably silent over the outpouring of support for Hamas on TikTok and other platforms, or when #KillAllMen was trending on old Twitter. > that trash ... is defined ideologically, it's the point being made
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I think you've not been paying attention then. Journalists love doxxing their ideological enemies: - Scott Alexander - Richard Hanania - LibsOfTikTok (can't remember her real name) And that's just in, like, the last 18 mont
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No, their defense is that Media Matters was passing this off to advertisers as representative of what normal Twitter users were seeing. I don't know much about US law specifically, but in most countries if a third party (usually but no
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Right, it was the case. Is it still? It's nearly the end of 2023, I see three papers with his name on them this year and they're all last-place names (i.e. minor contributions) https://scholar.google.com/citations?
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Starting to wonder if the non-profit corporate form is actually worth allowing at all. There's just so much manipulative or flat out crazy behavior coming from that sector in recent years, of the stuff that'd be slapped down by th
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
That tweet isn't about him so I don't follow. "Any OpenAI researcher" may or may not apply to him after this weekend's events.
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This is the guy who supposedly burned some wooden effigy at an offsite, saying it represented unaligned AI? The same guy who signed off on a letter accusing Altman of being a liar, and has now signed a letter saying he wants Altman to come
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
No, that's backwards. Remember that these guys are all convinced that AI is too dangerous to be made public at all. The whole beef that led to them blowing up the company was feeling like OpenAI was productizing and making it available
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> he is possibly the most desireable AI researcher on planet earth was There are lots of people doing excellent research on the market right now, especially with the epic brain drain being experienced by Google. And remember that OpenA

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