paimapi

11 ms·

211.
by paimapi 2mo ago
a significant portion of police training literally teaches them to fear your regular citizen. they're taught that anybody may be armed and they face the chance of death at every traffic stop and are shown dashcam footage of the worst i
212.
by paimapi 2mo ago
I think the point we disagree on is the idea that accountability by a singular department is an indication that it's sufficient for vendor to avoid regulatory action. in terms of privacy protections, the strategy should be defense in d
213.
by paimapi 2mo ago
they're both grounded in fearmongering that's led to cultural panics and utilize the rhetoric of 'protecting children' as the sell https://www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journal/wp-content/upl...
214.
by paimapi 2mo ago
it depends on whether or not there's someone who sees it as a crusade (rare), sees it as a way to get political clout (very common) and/or is getting a lot of lobbying money (extremely common [1]). see, for eg, the anti-trans bill
215.
by paimapi 2mo ago
it's also possible that we're only seeing a few select departments fire their officers. there are no laws around this as far as I'm aware so enforcement is purely departmental policy. how many sheriff's offices and polic
216.
by paimapi 2mo ago
my partner is a psychiatrist (that's the one with an MD) in our household we treat all overly broad, trendy statements like this one with a huge grain of salt the difference between rates of diagnosed major depressive disorder (MDD) vs
217.
by paimapi 2mo ago
leadership as a category functions on low-to-minimal subject matter expertise. you don't want c-suite merging code into production, they should be handling the business interests and direction based on their training and general, high-
218.
by paimapi 2mo ago
there was an engineering director at my previous company (and who was former Amazon) who wrote his first PR with Claude it had 30k lines of diff and was a complete refactor of how one of our core features worked the staff eng he tagged to c
219.
by paimapi 2mo ago
"74% of executives said they had more confidence in AI’s advice than in that of colleagues or friends, and 44% said they would defer to its reasoning over their own insights" it's sad that c-suite believes the advice given by
220.
by paimapi 2mo ago
this is true and the knock-on effect of this is that other states with intrepid AGs and consumer protection bureaus now have a case law example to cite in their arguments the hope is that if other AGs pursue these measures that they do thei
221.
by paimapi 2mo ago
my state power commission just passed a plan to build out 9.5 gigawatts of daily production that will be purely generated by gas turbines [1]. this is at the behest of paid lobbyists for the energy sector and commissioners who, according to
222.
by paimapi 2mo ago
a therapist should, if they follow their training, not be a sycophant whatsoever. CBT, for eg, is a multi-step process including Socratic self-dialogue, reframing practices, etc to guide the person towards the development of insight and hea
223.
by paimapi 2mo ago
the Native Americans were highly literate, they just didn't record granular details to ledgers because they didn't have strictly hierarchical institutions that utilized this data for controlling their population there is so much e
224.
by paimapi 2mo ago
there are recorded incidents: https://project1492.org/small-pox-blankets/ the controversy is mostly around whether or not it was a systemic, pervasive form of biological warfare. the evidence base is fairly small but n
225.
by paimapi 2mo ago
is it bad that while this does look like a really cool method to explain a complex topic, my instinct on reading mic-droppy, RLHF AI prose is to be dismissive? there's just something about the persistent mic drops and this-not-that wri