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by powera 4y ago
Of all the people to be concerned about mass surveillance, I'm not sure why "an encyclopedia anyone can edit" would be the group to have standing here.
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Contra LessWrong on AGI(newslettr.com)
2 points by powera 4y ago|0 comments
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by powera 4y ago
Link is broken (just points to Youtube homepage, not whatever the video is).
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by powera 4y ago
Isn't this more-or-less what the GNU Project and Apache are?
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by powera 4y ago
What a joke. He says "There is no thinking moral agent inside.", but then, after a few examples of asking ChatGPT to write dialogue for the devil, concludes "some serious darkness still lies within". First, being capable
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by powera 4y ago
"They" refers to the pilots. And, while a complicated technical problem is likely to not be the pilot's fault, after a certain degree of refusing to cooperate with the investigation, it becomes their fault. Also, onemileatati
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by powera 4y ago
It has been 14 years tomorrow since the last catastrophic incident (Colgan Air Flight 3407) from a major US airline. I am worried people are starting to get sloppy.
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by powera 4y ago
They nearly had a crash, and they are trying to cover up what happened. I think it is reasonable to assume they are "bad pilots" in this situation until there is more information.
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by powera 4y ago
This is the type of BS that leads people to hate unions. In a very narrow sense, it is good strategy to object to anything that isn't included in the current negotiated contract, and to demand "concessions" for adding things.
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by powera 4y ago
A program "that has served people well" ... yet is both optically and legally the same as "Gemini Earn", which has currently lost everybody's money. When dealing with creative villains, the lazy approach is sometime
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by powera 4y ago
Their robots.txt page gives a 404 error.
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by powera 4y ago
It doesn't cost $145k to die, it costs $145k to have 24-7 in-house medical support for a year. And somebody has to pay the medical support staff. The sense that "this is necessary so it should be free" is not unique to th
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by powera 4y ago
Nope. * The attitude "$2000 is a blip" is why electric cars are expensive. * People without home electricity (or who live in dense urban areas without parking) are not the market for the car at this time. There is no reason to ma
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by powera 4y ago
Too many scare quotes, too little in the way of facts. And, ultimately, purely political. Downvoted.
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by powera 4y ago
... reading about Elon Musk is more popular than reading about sex.
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by powera 4y ago
Well, actually, it's not "ad-free". There are fairly regular job ads for YCombinator companies on the home page.
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by powera 4y ago
{{citation needed}} This is quite shoddy and misleading work, but it does confirm your priors. For one specific example, while Sakharov is called "the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb", I can't possibly believe the Soviets
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by powera 4y ago
(July 2022)
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by powera 4y ago
It is possible to verify that a user is a specific human. It is not possible to verify that a user is a vague-but-unique human. Between bots, account farming, etc. it is simply not possible any more. Legal and other requirements may prev
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by powera 4y ago
I think the concept that "the purpose of a union is to prevent layoffs from ever occurring" is harmful to the movement. If that is why you want to join a union, you will be disappointed.
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by powera 4y ago
Title is misleading. There used to be a thing called the phone book that would tell you where people sleep as well.
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by powera 4y ago
No it didn't. From the article: "I would say what we really achieved is to show the viability of quantum computers for non-trivial research questions in our field." They go on to say they demonstrated the ability to test a si
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by powera 4y ago
I have no real doubt that Musk's tweets were illegal, given his position. However, I'm not sure what damages are being claimed. If you bought Tesla stock in 2018, the stock price would have gone up by a factor of 10 over the next
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by powera 4y ago
Some customers are more hassle than they are worth. Clearly Coinbase has some business customers, and they have responded to this guy multiple times. They have no obligation to keep responding to someone who isn't even a customer yet,
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by powera 4y ago
I'm on Coinbase's side. From their point of view, this story reads like "I am trying to launder money". Why not just use a payment method with a settlement period, instead of insisting on using a (new) debit card?
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by powera 4y ago
I agree. Sometimes it seems like every "pop" song has enough similarities to something from the past 70 years that there will be copyright issues. Which means that copyright is broken, at least in terms of what can be ignored as
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by powera 4y ago
I have found that DEI efforts tend to recommend "hire more DEI staff" frequently, but otherwise accomplish little or nothing towards their stated objectives.
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by powera 4y ago
The data in the abstract doesn't actually provide evidence for the conclusions in the title. Once again, Elsevier delenda est.
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Twitter rival ‘T2’ raises its first outside funding(techcrunch.com)
6 points by powera 4y ago|0 comments
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by powera 4y ago
I know that LG closed a plant in Alabama last year: https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/02/lg-to-exit-sol... However, First Solar announced last year they would be opening a plant in Alabama: https:/&

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