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by patmcc 4y ago
It's neat to see a "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest" combined with a drastic misunderstanding (oh whose end, I have no idea).
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by patmcc 4y ago
>>Violating a court order at the instruction of your employer's lawyer doesn't give you a free pass. What was the specific court order? I see it generally referenced in the brief but don't know the whole story. Were emp
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>>>The game theory behind AGI research is identical to that of nuclear weapons development... Nuclear powers have not been able to reliably suppress others from creating nuclear weapons. Why would we think the first AGI will suppre
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by patmcc 4y ago
>>It may not be rational, but I want to at least be able to think that some person at the company actually understands my issue, the importance of it, and cares. This is really interesting. I think this might be another "oops, I
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by patmcc 4y ago
>But whether or not the entity on the phone is a human absolutely affects how they perform their job Except now you're back to where I was, talking about outcomes. I had a very minor issue with my ISP today - they sent me an email t
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by patmcc 4y ago
If someone said "I want to talk to an American " or "a woman " or "a $race person" yah I'd consider that (at my absolute most charitable) "silly" in that context. I think there's a value
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by patmcc 4y ago
Is that what we mean by thinking ? Imagine you interact with a program that can answer any question you have, explains itself well, seems perfectly intelligent. But then you get to read the source code and it's just petabytes of if&#x
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by patmcc 4y ago
What kind of swimming does a submarine do? edit: it's a glib joke, but we should think more about what makes a 'mind'. I highly recommend people check out the Children of Time series (sci-fi novels) as an enjoyable way to do
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by patmcc 4y ago
I care a lot more about outcomes than whether the person I'm talking to is "real" or not. If my bill gets corrected by an AI but not a person? I'll take the AI. Think of the classic "is 0.002 cents the same as 0.002
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The thing I hate about this kind of question is there seems to be no expectation that a candidate will try to dig into the requirements. What's the function going to be used for? Are we talking about strings of length 32 or strings of
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by patmcc 4y ago
Legal - "If users can render ads invisible we can't claim they're seeing them, and we can't charge people for them." Accounting - "We want to charge for ads, that's where all the money comes from." Le
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by patmcc 4y ago
That's an interesting idea; surely it can go both ways though. Inventing the veil in a society where women must stay home moves things in one direction, doing it in a society where women roam free is another. I hope we're still at
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by patmcc 4y ago
I do appreciate it, especially those safety features. My concern is around the kind of power imbalances within families that make it very difficult for it to actually be used in mature ways. The 'bubbles' feature sounds great, exc
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by patmcc 4y ago
I'm not worried about people giving their location data to their family, I'm worried about people that require it from others in their family. This is going to be mostly used by people who want to know where their kid is every m
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by patmcc 4y ago
This assumes that "track the location of your child/spouse/whatever 24/7" is a useful and positive feature that someone with good intentions would make. I think that's on the spectrum from misguided to abusive,
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by patmcc 4y ago
It's possible; there really have to be two pieces for it all to come crashing down. The first is rising interest rates leaving people unable to pay, and the other is prices falling enough that mortgages would be underwater. I think the
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by patmcc 4y ago
>>>I can't sell my insurance to someone else unless I hand them my money but I cant see why i'd do that as it wouldn't make any sense and its certainly not an arbitrage opportunity as the OP suggested. It's not
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by patmcc 4y ago
No, not really (the law says they "may" provide support to the deposit insurance fund), but even if it was, the province can't mint money, so that could only get so far.
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by patmcc 4y ago
About the same, in that the vast majority of Canadians perceive both to be incredibly safe. Which they probably are, the biggest risk would be a huge housing crash, which the government has a lot of incentive to prevent.
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by patmcc 4y ago
I agree completely. I will say the Canadian banking system (as well as credit unions, which are regulated differently) is generally quite healthy and stable, I don't think it's imminent risk of collapse. But I would certainly not
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by patmcc 4y ago
Fun fact: credit unions in my province (BC, Canada) insure 100% of deposits, with no limit. See https://www.bcfsa.ca/public-resources/credit-union-deposit-i... This, thankfully, has never been tested in a significant w
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by patmcc 4y ago
If you ever want to suddenly hear a lot of racism, ask any European about the Romani. I've literally heard many people, after stridently arguing against racism and discrimination, say "oh well gypsies are different, they actuall
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by patmcc 4y ago
LIDAR has some issues in rain and snow, and can't read road markings or signs (or make out colours). And it's pretty expensive currently. A combination of LIDAR and cameras is likely what'll end up working best, they compleme
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by patmcc 4y ago
Oh, bullshit. The same judges who "want legislators to be responsible" for deciding abortion laws also explicitly don't want legislators deciding campaign finance and firearm laws. It's political. It's always been p
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by patmcc 4y ago
>>>During that period you will maintain access to any of your public images. What did this mean in that case? That the images will continue to exist but the maintainers cannot update them? They'll just become orphaned?
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by patmcc 4y ago
This will depend a lot on your contract (if you have one) and your local employment laws. If Amazon tries this with. workers in Vancouver (Canada), for example, severance would likely be required.
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by patmcc 4y ago
If this happens to anyone - look up the laws of your jurisdiction in regards to "constructive dismissal". Being required to go back into an office after being fully remote for 3 years may well qualify, and then (as far as employme
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by patmcc 4y ago
I do understand that, but it's a very pernicious problem, and the idea that "innocent until proven guilty" is just some legal idea we eye-roll at and don't actually believe is at the root of it. It should not be just a m
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>>>They're not technically innocent. Nor are they technically guilty. Their status is in question. They are technically innocent. That is the central assumption in any good justice system. >>>But your last sentence
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by patmcc 4y ago
Yah I should have clarified - 'bail should be granted' meaning people being released without cash bail - a promise to appear, holding passports, maybe other restrictions, I think those are pretty reasonable.

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