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by p0pcult 4y ago
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-bus-drivers-white-customers-fr... You can pretend all you want that white people dont receive preferential treatment, but neither research nor the historical record show evidence for tha
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by p0pcult 4y ago
I am not super worried that a superhuman AGI will yeet humanity with that intent. I am more worried that a much more naive AI will do something "accidental" like hallucinate incoming nukes from, say, a flock of birds, and send a
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by p0pcult 4y ago
One of my (dual ivy) co-workers (dual state school) always liked to point out that we both ended up at the same place, doing the same job, to playfully troll me. Your point is spot on.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Yale, Columbia, Community College and a State school here. I've also taught college courses at an extension school of a public university. The population differences are real. They're like normal distributions where the mean of
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by p0pcult 4y ago
> I am still considered privileged and white. When you have no circle, no network, no money, when no one in your family went to college, everything is more difficult. Now imagine being a Black person with no circle, no network, no money,
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Correct
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by p0pcult 4y ago
You can't be a huge hater if you are profiting off of him, or building a business on him.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Donald Trump, though I don't like him, gets a pass as he was in fact the president. It would be weird to have Obama there but not Trump.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
It's verbal jazz, or literary expressionism. Riffs and tone poems. Look for recurring themes and symbols. We aren't taught (in American schools, anyway) a lot of how to ingest these genres of media. Hence the refrains (about ab
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Parisians overwhelmingly vote to expel e-scooters from their streets(npr.org)
49 points by p0pcult 4y ago|2 comments
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Go to the local gym and work on actual social networking. Peloton is just goofy.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Yes, I outlined several specific proposals for ways to curb police overreach and power. Perhaps you missed them among all of your caterwauling?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Do you have a substantial counterpoint, or did my tone offend you?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Sir/Madam, the discussion has started. You are still discussing procedural details. Do you have anything of substance to add?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
"To what degree should we defund the police? And how else might we limit their power?" are perfectly germane ways forward with a discussion. I'll start: qualified immunity. Make police carry malpractice insurance. No more civ
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by p0pcult 4y ago
they're junkies. they come around because they're junkies. doesn't matter if you have good stuff or bad stuff. they're addicted. dying just ends revenue streams.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
They've converged because manufacturers kowtow to the maximum likelihood sale, not because we think they're nice. Of course, some people think they are nice. And yeah, maybe in a choice discrimination/maxDiff study, I woul
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by p0pcult 4y ago
ChatGPT to the rescue
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Yeah so i suppose it is the [checks notes] Democrats who are throwing molotovs at church signs over Drag Story Hour. TIL https://fox8.com/news/church-to-host-drag-story-hour-vandali...
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Ah yes, the evils of [checks notes] empiricism.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
actually, this is the way. force their hand.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Not everyone is trying to be an unethical jerkwad.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
The police are an arm of the state, and have virtually unlimited power to dispense violence, even in seemingly illegal circumstances. There is no power theoretically greater than state power in the USA; the enforcement arm of the state doe
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by p0pcult 4y ago
The requirements to use them, where they exist, are not.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
With enough accurate data (and time, as these toxins aren't really fast acting) you could get to causality with the right kind of statistical analysis. Typically, counterfactual analysis and some DAGs.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Telling us what not to eat? Orrrrr, more accurately, is the government forbidding the use of toxins in food? Go ahead, munch on some uranium if you like. That's on you. What's not OK is some company putting it in my food.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
That's certainly one take. They probably shouldn't be able to regulate seatbelt use, or forbid pollutants. The free market will take care of it, right?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
What do you expect to happen, the local Sheriff gets to enforce whatever "laws" s/he can make up, so long as they aren't explicitly approved activities?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
My HOA would argue otherwise. It exists specifically to prevent housing prices from falling due to certain local factors.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
No, neither of those groups do things to impact the value of the crypto in a way akin to managing or directing a company.

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