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by pmichaud 2y ago
Setting aside the obvious dystopian next steps, I think the main problem with automated traffic law enforcement is that our laws are quite bad in the sense that they rely on enforcement being loose and somewhat subjective to even work at al
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by pmichaud 2y ago
You’re not wrong, but crows definitely recognize individual people.
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by pmichaud 2y ago
I _think_ (hope?) that the person you're replying to was being sarcastic.
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by pmichaud 2y ago
I hope this works for people with one eye. There are dozens of us—dozens!
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by pmichaud 2y ago
I feel the same. I did it once and had a big experience, but I just can my talk myself into believing it’s safe.
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by pmichaud 2y ago
I'm not so sure. This generalizes, plus "nicely formatted markup" is a big assumption in the brave new world of modern web apps. I guess it's probably pretty reliable to look for visible text strings, but there's so
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by pmichaud 3y ago
I'm not an expert here but my understanding is that most generational wealth is gone by the third generation anyway. Even if you outlawed inheritance entirely it seems like it wouldn't make a huge marginal difference?
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by pmichaud 3y ago
We are the unbroken line of billions of years of life, and today we're still alive, unbroken. May it always be so.
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by pmichaud 3y ago
Even though it’s not strictly true, checking for recent updates is an excellent heuristic. I don’t know the real numbers, but I feel confident that in the overwhelming majority of cases, no recent activity means “abandoned”, not “complete a
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by pmichaud 3y ago
There are browser extensions that let you do it, but yes, I agree, 2x isn't enough.
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by pmichaud 3y ago
Love this. My version is wanting to know what problem I would face on my own that would lead me to independently generate the solution I'm about to learn. That gives me motivation and context for the information so I can form a complet
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by pmichaud 3y ago
It probably varies per profession and industry, but in my experience the degree isn't often a good signal for screening, except possibly, in some cases, as a negative correlation.
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by pmichaud 3y ago
Wow, where do you source these things? I’m interested in similar!
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by pmichaud 3y ago
> It's hard to fault modern historians too much if they're simply trusting the old records to be accurate. Basically the entire job of a historian is to determine the credibility of old sources, so they can interpret all the da
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by pmichaud 3y ago
I don't understand the hostility?
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by pmichaud 3y ago
I think this is a chicken/egg dilemma, because if you could peek into an alternate universe where every journalist was a fully qualified professional in a STEM field, suddenly the power dynamics in the whole industry would shift becaus
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by pmichaud 3y ago
I'm interested if you have specific options you think are better and/or cheaper.
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by pmichaud 3y ago
I think Michael Levin is one of the most exciting scientists alive. Love his work!
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by pmichaud 3y ago
I don't think it shows this. I think it shows that companies expect unions to be a huge pain in the ass that they would go out of their way to avoid (even illegally), but it doesn't follow that unions are therefore effective at th
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by pmichaud 3y ago
I use services, but they are not a random grab-bag of methods. What do you even have in mind when you say this?
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by pmichaud 3y ago
Ask a lot of people what their problems are, and when a pattern emerges, try to solve it for them.
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AI Existential Risk Open Letter(safe.ai)
1 points by pmichaud 3y ago|0 comments
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by pmichaud 3y ago
A different possibility is that we stop trying to find "the best" candidates (which, by the way we're measuring with metrics that have been Goodharted well beyond relevance). What if this (and maybe everything else) worked vi
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by pmichaud 3y ago
I think your examples are great, and you're right, but I also think you're ignoring the specific context of the actual quote. This is a psychologist talking about people in our culture dealing with social issues. So yeah, I think
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by pmichaud 3y ago
It's obviously an n-dimensional space. I know a lot of the people that Sasha knows, so I can guess some of the people he was talking about here, and it's more like Jared Leto and his handful of weird groupies who are in a deeply u
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by pmichaud 3y ago
I feel like if you’re involved in a red queen race of VPNs and filtering, your kid is probably old enough to see whatever they are trying to see?
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by pmichaud 3y ago
This is a pretty serious misunderstanding of the claim you're responding to. It's not that scientists in general agree about everything in general. It's that certain hot button issues become politicized in such a way that pre
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by pmichaud 4y ago
It's not about mothers in law being bad, it's social tech to regulate / suppress the relationship between men and their mothers in law, for whatever reason.
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by pmichaud 4y ago
It's called the ChatGPT API by OpenAI, and free users (ie almost everyone using the system) can only use GPT-3.5. There is no option for them to use GPT-4, which is behind a paywall and a waitlist (maybe the waitlist is done now, I hav
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Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down(time.com)
219 points by pmichaud 4y ago|404 comments

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