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5mo ago
Cancelling yhe subscription does both. You can't cancel if you're not subscribed.
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5mo ago
> I am not cynical enough to believe that Anthropic's warnings are pure marketing hype. It doesn't really have to be dishonest, he could really believe it. I do believe, however, that it is incredibly wrong and is functioning a
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5mo ago
Staying alive in dangerous situations.
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5mo ago
> The fact that without that exemption, gun manufacturers would be liable for all manner of things. I get why one would think that but I don't think it's actually true. I think the "exception" is actually there becaus
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5mo ago
> The dots on the screen form a picture. The point is that each hire is an individual decision. If I were painting a picture I might use a lot of different colors but if you ask me to pick my favorite color 5000 times, I'll say the
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> models only get better. Or stall. Acceleration has been slowing significantly and gains seem to be tied to huge memory footprints.
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> But you’re saying representation is pointless because people can enter fields they don’t see themselves represented in and I am saying i think representation is a (positive) side effect not the goal. What I actually think that I haven&
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5mo ago
> Representation matters, but not nearly as much as the opposite side of things - who gets opportunities. You're acting like these things aren't intertwined. You can't adjust the lever of representation without affecting w
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5mo ago
You're comparing the sum of those European countries to the US. Scientists have two easy avenues if they are currently in the US, the US or their home country. Immigration to work in a foreign nation is not always easy and takes time.
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> The best of the best involves people from underrepresented groups If there are no martian biologists because of systemic discrimination, why would the best if the best biologists include a martian. The argument defeats itself. I don&#x
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> Police unions aren’t labor unions I'd really like to know what kind of tangled logic it requires to believe that. Regardless, police unions aren't the only example of unions who have worked against the benefit of everyone els
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> but also improve the final product by not having underpaid stressed staff with high turn-over. We'll see. It's not like police unions are making life better for citizens. Unions are there for one reason, the union members. Th
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> Who would have guessed that turning social human constructions into businesses that 'have to make profits' could result in such deaths!? What are these "social human constructions"?
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What makes that system rare is that there's a buyer who knows the business available. The new owner needs to understand the industry and convince the bank that they know how to run it as a successful business. PE do their homework on t
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5mo ago
I see the healthcare system's bloat as a symptom, not a cause of the expense. It's kind of like the university system. It's a (mostly) privately run industry that gets massive injections of cash from the government because of
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5mo ago
The chart there is certainly worrying but it lacks a per 1000 column (but does include it in this quote, "The rates of pedestrian crash deaths per 100,000 people are highest for people ages 20 and over."). Population is up but les
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But what percentage of cars on the street had it. I understand it existed but not even disc brakes were nearly as ubiquitous as they are today, let alone electronics control of them.
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> 40 years ago a 5 or 6 year old mostly had to contend with sedans with hoods lower than 30 inches > Vehicles with hood heights of more than 40 inches and blunt front ends angled at greater than 65 degrees were 44 percent more likely
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> as evidenced by the literal millions of people who are paying quite a lot to use them, who speak glowingly of them and would 'never go back'. Anecdotes from sunk cost users aren't evidence.
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This water usage meme needs to die. Although, it is nice to have an indicator for people who believe whatever they told without trivial verification.
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That's not what model legislation is. That can be an example of model legislation but, broadly, model legislation is created by an organization for use as an example for multiple different legislatures (usually states). Everyone from t
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Law enforcement doesn't typically talk about ongoing investigations.
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That's because it's a meaningless, populist trope. There is zero helpful information, solution or context which depends on the specific issue at hand.
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It's the LLM version of "You're holding it wrong."
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> the quality of the output is the quality of your guidance I wish you just started with the copout.
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The US is the best place you _can_ immigrate to (at least until a few days ago) from a lot of different perspectives. Poor people from the countries you mentioned won't be let into the countries with strong safety nets so, you can comp
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> I went back to Australia for the first time in 10 years, and even the guy stacking shelves at a liquor store ... owned his own home Australia is having the exact same situation with housing as most of the cities in the US right now and
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> It's quite trivial to determine whether or not this is e.g. transformer-based AI. The people who are being marketed to with the AI term don't have any idea what that mean and AI, as a marketing term (the only way it's ev
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> It’s definitely not the best place in the world to live for quality of life, on basically any metric. I guess these immigrants must be stupid.
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> So we’re essentially turning away someone who is building up our country. They're not being turned away. There's a requirement to be in the country for 5 years with a green card before citizenship. It seems to me that they ar
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