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> doesn't mean that having an ethical frame of reference isn't important. I can't emphasize how strongly I agree with you. My intent was only to point at how difficult the problem is, maybe the hardest problem in AGI or it
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For comparison: Do human beings have a frame of reference to apply "Do no evil" in a manner that makes sense to everyone? Do corporations have a frame of reference to apply "Do no evil" in a manner that makes sense to so
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"A loss of X dollars is always the responsibility of an executive whose financial responsibility exceeds X dollars." - Weinberg’s 'First Principle of Financial Management' and 'Second Rule of Failure Prevention’ - &
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I hadn't really listened to them until I read 'Our Band Could Be Your Life', Azerrad, one of the books mentioned in the article. Now I'm a fan.
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Hi, throwayayes_2. I still don't have a spare laptop. Even if I did, shipping from the US to Indonesia would be a challenge. I am hoping someone reading here who's closer to you and who has a spare laptop can help you.
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> And contrary to reason, all the advanced social benefits somehow end up being a vine strangling your ability to compete than the ideal that frees you from worrying about basic needs in pursuit of higher goals. It's like the AI al
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GPT-4 for president! GPT-4 in 2024!
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Related: "I think youngsters need to start thinking about the kind of world they are going to leave for me and Keith Richards (79)." - Willie Nelson (89)
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I was a kid reading 'Popular Electronics' in the mid 70's in a rural Florida high school. I did an English class presentation on transistors, mentioning Moore's Law. My electronics never got past the Radio Shack 150-in-1
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'Unlocking financial opportunity: Software-enabled revenues to evolve to high single-digit billion EUR figure by end of decade;' Does this mean MB owners will have to pay subscription fees to unlock, eg., heated seats, in their ve
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Look around at the scout troops near you; it is possible that a scout is building a trail bridge for their Eagle scout project. Volunteer with the troop and you've got your class.
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I have many great memories involving Burt Bacharach songs, but this is my favorite one... Preamble: I think Karen Carpenter was my first crush. She had an amazing voice that caught my attention and my interest from the first time I heard he
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There are many factors involved in employee assessment of employer suitability. Steve Blank has observed [0] that when top employees recognize that when an employer moves to assessing them from a purely financial perspective, it's time
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> I've been working in the field professionally for 22+ years and I've never had a manager that had any technical skills. None of them could even begin to do my job Technical skills may or may not be required, but understanding
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> I used to joke that Data Scientists exist not to uncover insights or provide analysis, but merely to provide factoids that confirm senior management's prior beliefs. So, a synonym for 'consultant?' :)
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Jerry Weinberg pitched the concept of 'egoless programming' [0] with the suggestion that it is possible to not take reviews of your code personally, with examples from his experience. Weinberg is careful to address the problem of
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'Home Cooking with Jacques Pepin' https://www.youtube.com/c/HomeCookingwithJacquesP%C3%A9pin
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I've been reading 'The Path To Power', the first volume of Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson. While in college, LBJ developed what sounds to me like a comparable bag of tricks to influence student government outc
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> new equipment, treatments, raises, maintenance, inflation, etc Much of these are expenses. Other organizations have ways of distinguishing between what's needed and what's extra, why do you think hospitals have nothing extra?
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I've got a friend who works at a big non-profit hospital. There's a budget term of art, 'Revenue in excess of expenses,' into which flows a large amount of money that would be called profit elsewhere. I haven't foun
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I've got a friend who's a trucker, I'm going to run this article by him.
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10 PRINT "TRS-80!" 20 GOTO 10 ... a variation of what I might've typed on the TRS-80 Model I on display at the Radio Shack at the mall back in the day. I owned one at one point, but had a hard time saving and restoring files
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> - Never price at the top of the market. It's better to be 100% busy at 80% of the fee structure, than it is to be 50% busy, at 125% of the base rate. I tend to favor this line of thinking most of the time. But sometimes I'd r
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Now there's a line I've not heard in a very long time. Thanks for the callback. I'm fairly certain this is from Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Nine Billion Names of God", partly used as inspiration for 200
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> Control systems often last decades, longer than most employees. ... > I've recently worked on a control system that is at least 30 years old. I've met many people who are much more than 30 years old :) And I've worked
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> You become confident by taking on challenges, repeatedly coming out on top, and providing your brain undeniable evidence you are who you say you are. Yes... and also failing and learning how to take care of yourself, rethink things, an
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In many years I haven't seen a better study of the issues in measuring anyone's performance than 'Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations', Robert Austin. One key difference is between informational metrics (
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> I don’t know where we took the wrong turn within the past decade but we desperately need to correct this mistake. I don't know if these ideas are worse technically or politically, or both, but what comes to mind are these alternat
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Florida native here. Can confirm. Been around the block with all things Buffett for a long time. Favorite memory: I've heard 'The Sauce Boss', a much smaller Florida institution, plays Margaritaville as a blues number (think
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Would you believe Jimmy Buffett has made more money than Bruce Springsteen and is well on his way to being a billionaire? I love his early albums, but he really hit his stride as a businessman, merchandising the 'Margaritaville'&#

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